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The Blue Jays did everything they could to restore our faith in baseball
The Blue Jays may have been the easiest team to root for since Bugs Bunny played the Gas House Gorillas.
College basketball's mismatches are just senseless cruelty
There are times when visceral responses — those that instantly flow from the gut — outsmart the contemplative responses.
Sports media loves a gambling scandal — unless it can be ignored
Modern nod-and-repeat sports media are far more concerned with national rankings than gambling and NIL scandals.
These are the greedy bosses who knew gambling would ruin sports — and cashed in anyway
My outrage is aimed at those who bought in despite knowing better — a lot better.
Sports announcers won't stop talking — until it's an issue that matters
I guess this is how it’s going to be. Expect no better. Suffer it or leave it.
Sports media, college football can't stop burning money with absurd contracts
What’s in your wallet?
When it comes to MLB broadcasts, less of John Smoltz would be more
I know I’ve been down this path so often I’ve worn it to a highway, but in the fading light of sweet mercy, enough!
NBA shamelessly selling its soul to despotic regimes and communist China
The NBA has made it clear that it’s increasingly reliant on communist China for foreign TV revenue and business partnerships.
Sports broadcasts are steadfast in their refusal to just let us enjoy the game
We can shun but we can’t hide.
MLB would be much better served showcasing fundamentals over worthless self-aggrandizement
Why continue to treat baseball fans — or try to attract new ones — with images of rank public immodesty rather than with genuinely skillful baseball?
Here's how ESPN rewards its rare dalliance with honest analysis
No wonder ESPN's best baseball announcer, Sean McDonough, was assigned to the anticipated smallest-audience series — weekday afternoons.
Classless Ryder Cup fans — and their enablers — show how ugly our sports have become
American audiences — on site and those watching on NBC — are now encouraged — mandated — to do their worst to make the visiting side feel as uncomfortable, unwelcome...
In a city devoid of NFL wins, modesty plays second fiddle to acting like a jerk
Their wish is my command. They want extra attention for acting like jerks? Jerks on teams that are a total of 0-6, no less? They got it.
Star QB's thoughtless pit bull picture puts NFL's indecent garbage at the forefront
Is the Humane Society open Sundays?
On the field and in the stands, TV's MVPs are the worst of the worst
Sports telecasts reward the games' worst actors, players and fans alike, The Post's Phil Musnick writes.
Sports world continues to have no shortage of ridiculousness
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A change in outlook doesn't make sports' ugly reality any easier to swallow
Time for a change in disposition. A radical change. I no longer want to be what VP Spiro Agnew described as a “nattering nabob of negativism.”
It's truly laughable to think the NFL is putting its fans first
Under Goodell, just as he allowed long waiting lists for Jets and Giants season tickets to vanish overnight in pursuit of “good investment” PSLs, fans and patrons have become take-for-granted...
Slapdash racial branding of US Open dustup shows just how little we've learned
Ten days ago none of us outside the tennis world had even heard of them. Now we know all about them. Perhaps. But not likely.
Rutgers athletics is a multimillion-dollar money pit for no good reason
The athletic department debt since RU bought into the Big Ten, at last count, was in excess of $245 million. Thursday night, as seen on the Big Ten Network, RU,...