So ubiquitous, and acceptable, is sports gambling these days that Clay Travis offers free prop bets for March Madness games on The Clay Travis & Buck Sexton Show. And it’s not only the successor to the great Rush Limbaugh pushing…
As discussions of greatest-ever go, this one’s pretty clear-cut. There’s always room for debate — sports talk radio wouldn’t exist without it — but the best college football coach of all time (the GOAT) has to be the guy in…
Disney’s ESPN is in for a world of hurt in the coming years, and it’s not entirely clear how they can avoid the red. Still profitable, the network is nonetheless stuck, with shrinking revenue and a hostile outlook. While those…
NBA superteams have had a rough couple of weeks. James Harden, high-scoring guard for the Brooklyn Nets, got his reported wish and was offloaded to the Philadelphia 76ers and away from the basketball eminences surrounding him in Brooklyn — Kyrie…
I guess I’ll start off 2022 by assuming the role of Grumpy Old Man. But after enduring the binge of college football bowls over the past week while recovering from COVID, I have thoughts. And they aren’t very pleasant. Regular…
Overcoming my hard-earned animus towards the network, I muted the commercials and watched chunks of the ACC-Big 10 challenge on ESPN and its sister networks this past week. I trust basketball fans will understand why this long-suffering Purdue alum permitted…
We can all agree that USA Today is essentially America’s lowest common denominator newspaper, can we not? It isn’t that USA Today is completely fake news. It’s more like no news at all, or at least very little. And it’s…
Thanks to left-wing, racialist politics on the court as well as the three-point shot and the desultory game that has resulted from it, I long ago abandoned the NBA. Too bad. It provided some fine sports moments in the past….
ESPN honored a Stalin Peace Prize winner on Monday Night Football this week. This non sequitur preceded something that did follow as the network learned that its broadcast of the last-second, come-from-behind victory of the New England Patriots over the…
