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While boasting from the site of the Little League World Series that MLB remains fully committed to doing right on behalf of kids, Rob Manfred was unable to provide particulars because there are none.

From Giants camp come repetitive reports that WR Malik Nabers is primed to improve on last year, his superb rookie season!

Rob Manfred & Co., aka Null & Void, just allows it to keep falling apart, hoping plastering the ruins with some artificial fix mix as if no one will notice.

How would Rob Manfred fare if he took a lie detector test about whether he was satisfied with Tuesday’s edition of Major League Baseball's All-Star Game?

This is why we can't have nice things... It took years to reverse—and I'm not certain it's completely reversed yet—but the most absurd legal interference in sports—the legalization of unfair play, the opposite of sportsmanship—has finally reached a judicial conclusion

It’s an IQ test to gauge how ignorant the expert MLB TV instructors think you are.

Surely it wasn’t selected to make a point or to lament what the NBA has become, but it was, nonetheless, a picture worth a thousand 3-point heaves.

The broadcasters who express amazement at pitches clocking in at 100 mph also mention the significantly weakened condition of teams' pitching staffs due to arm injuries during that same broadcast

On Sunday, we tune into ESPN's "Sunday Night Baseball," a consistently over-the-top broadcast that spotlights teams from major TV markets—like the Yankees, Mets, Dodgers, and Cubs—and every Yankees-Red Sox matchup in the hope that Pedro Martinez might once more push Don Zimmer to the ground

I'm not sure about Owens' actions or lack thereof, but in the realm of sports, "60 Minutes" was so clearly biased that it continued without any sense of embarrassment. And I'm not even referring to those two "exclusive interview" failures where no tough questions were posed or permitted

I suppose he lasted years longer than the game plan allowed, a split-T formation vs. an empty backfield world, but there will be no Richard Neer starting Saturday morning at WFAN.

As all sports-related TV channels seem to be following the same strategy to take the sport out of sports, we ask ourselves: Who designed this strategy? Where are the studies and surveys that indicated to network executives that sports fans actually favor seeing the worst highlights from games, the most negative behaviors and personalities in their sports, and the rudest spectators to represent both the sports and what we appreciate when we watch?

Despite overwhelming evidence of NFL star Adrian Peterson's antisocial behavior—such as a one-year suspension from the NFL for physically abusing his 4-year-old son, an arrest for domestic violence against his wife, incidents involving the police to remove him from a club after closing, and playing for the Vikings the day after his 2-year-old son, whom he never met, was killed by his ex-wife's boyfriend—CBS decided to use its 2020 Thanksgiving Day NFL broadcast to portray Peterson as the epitome of philanthropy, tainting our holiday meal

Why is it that we frequently believe we could outperform the top-earning professionals we watch at work daily? TV broadcasts of live sports? Those with no experience could succeed where seasoned professionals often fall short. It happens over and over again

If necessity breeds invention, what will we do with all the creations left parentless?

Sure, the preferred way to explain the decay of fundamentals throughout big league baseball is to shrug, place your palms up and recite the incomplete thought, “Well, The Game has changed.”

Justice is served! Come and get it!

After you’ve hit your top customer in the head, what’s the most effective way to say sorry? That’s right, by kicking him in the groin afterward. It's the Rob Manfred/MLB approach to business

The hilarious radio team of the 1950s and ’60s, Bob and Ray — Bob Elliott and Ray Goulding — would present a satirical soap opera titled, “If Pain Persists.” Thus the NCAA Tournaments, men’s and women’s, can’t make claim to such an apropos surname. But it’s the thought that counts.

Consistently overlooked and undervalued former Division I coach Steve Lappas has a remarkable knack for engaging our attention with games

Whoopi Goldberg first revealed herself to sports fans to be a bad, sustaining TV joke on ABC/Disney-owned “The View” in 2010.

What does it tell us that LeBron James, one of the all-time greats — some argue the greatest in basketball history — makes for such a self-entitled, blind-to-facts compromise of the good senses that he has become impossible for thoughtful adults to root for?

Flipping through my weekly stack of notes, they’re yet again loaded with absurdities and unintended but nonetheless institutionalized farce.

As things that make noise at night, we have the recently finished and very appealing 4 Nations in-NHL-season ice hockey tournament

Come across any good stats lately? Probably not, but we've got some troubling ones