What sports leagues' streaming greed is begging fans to do
April 4, 2026 | 1:36pmI only wished that Roger Goodell, Rob Manfred and their enabling gaggle of nodding, bottom-line and foresightless team owners had been seated well within hearing distance.
Tiger Woods has always been a fraud to anyone who cared to look
April 2, 2026 | 8:12pmWoods remains the most self-entitled, adult spoiled brat and media-pampered person in the history of sports.
MLB's disgusting elbow problem is only getting worse as one man's sensible ideas go ignored
March 28, 2026 | 2:47pmMy mind takes road trips with me.
MLB's Opening Day an ugly debacle corrupted by shameless greed
March 26, 2026 | 6:56pmReader Keith Marston is a gracious man, willing to provide even Rob Manfred with a silver-lined cloud to hide behind. Sure, he realizes that baseball’s Opening Day game — an...
They don't make 'em like Howie Rose anymore — and his retirement is a loss for broadcasting sanity
March 21, 2026 | 2:12pmNot that individual tastes should serve as a scientific meter, but for years I’ve received missives from Yankees fans who wished that Howie Rose was theirs.
March Madness has absolutely nothing to do with college anymore
March 19, 2026 | 9:29pmFind two things in this NCAA Tournament that have anything to do with our colleges as academic educational institutions that best serve America.
PGA Tour's dubious 'fifth major' is really just another con job
March 14, 2026 | 5:15pmSo the Players Championship, scheduled to end Sunday, is golf’s fifth major. Who says so? NBC, that’s who.
NBA's strip club night debacle exposes sports commissioners' PR hustles
March 12, 2026 | 8:14pmThe mere fact that an NBA team was confident it could produce and proceed with such a family-friendly enterprise on Adam Silver’s watch is evidence that Silver’s watch, even twice...
Sports are reaching once-unthinkable levels of insanity
March 7, 2026 | 1:35pmBeing a beneficent fellow, I to declare this Benefit of the Doubt Sunday.
Of course Adam Silver is leaving his players to clean up the NBA's shameless strip club mess
March 5, 2026 | 6:42pmWith the Hawks celebrating Atlanta strip club Magic City on Monday, NBA commissioner Adam Silver left it to one of his own players to say what needed to be said.
Yankees retiring CC Sabathia's number shows the sad state of our standard for greatness
February 28, 2026 | 2:00pmWas Sabathia an all-time great Yankee? No. He was an all-time pretty good pitcher whose ERA four times exceeded 4.70.
A new baseball season brings the same old insufferable viewer experience
February 26, 2026 | 7:17pmAnother season of telecasts — free TV, cable TV, pay-walled — is near and with no relief, no application of common sense in sight or hearing.
NBC's convoluted maze of Olympics coverage comes with one big undignified sell job
February 21, 2026 | 3:25pmI wish I held the patent on the patently absurd.
For Jesse Jackson's insidious sports hustle, race was always the winning answer
February 19, 2026 | 7:28pmJesse Jackson’s impact on sports, more intrusion than impact, never passed the keepin’-it-real stink test.
Everything in Roger Goodell's NFL is designed to make you feel sick
February 7, 2026 | 5:22pmExciting night. Can’t wait for pandering Roger Goodell’s latest halftime extravaganza.
The Super Bowl will offer no respite from the NFL's inanities
February 5, 2026 | 8:01pmAfter an exhaustive week of intense study at the Mel Kiper Jr. Institute of Cosmology & Beauty Supplies, my Super Bowl Key to the Game can now be revealed.
The madness of sports is never ending — maybe it's time to embrace it
January 31, 2026 | 2:42pmAfter careless reflection, you’re right: I’ve become far too negative. From now on, it’s sunshine, lollipops and pom-poms!
The ugly incident that really should keep Bill Belichick out of Hall of Fame
January 29, 2026 | 7:27pmI don’t vote for such awards. Never have, never will. But I wouldn’t have voted for Belichick.
Sports continues to spin toward self-destruction — just ask college QB getting sued by his own school
January 24, 2026 | 3:25pmThere is nothing so broken in our sports world that it couldn’t all be fixed with a well-placed nuclear warhead. Every day presents a lavish buffet of self-destruction and blind...
Refs deserve all the praise for getting it right in Bills-Broncos battle — yes, even when it got controversial
January 22, 2026 | 9:59pmThe officials and the officiating was superb. The NFL, even if by accident, got one — a big one — right.
