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Links open at The Sports Column- MIKE FOSS HELPED MY SHOW IN THE DAY — “AROUND THE HORN” — BUT WHAT IS HIS SON DOING TO ESPN?
If you wonder why Pat McAfee makes $60 million a year and slut-shames a college student, he is overseen by Foss, whose father helped our TV program attain fantastic ratings and never needed…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - THE END OF THE DODGERS, THE ABSENCE OF OHTANI — THIS IS HISTORY, THANKS TO MILWAUKEE
Not sure how many viewers will watch the Brewers play the American League champions, but they are putting away an all-time baseball team and an absent slugger who must weigh his future as a…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - HARD TO IMAGINE SIRIANNI, QUINN, HARBAUGH — AND MCVAY — COACHING THEIR TEAMS NEXT YEAR
Black Monday has early names, including two coaches whose teams lost killer games, along with Harbaugh and McVay, who are 2-8 in Los Angeles and won’t be competing in a Super Bowl at SoFi…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - IF THE BREWERS WIN, THE SPORT OF BASEBALL WILL HAVE NO MORE “GLORY DAYS” COME DEC. 1
The rise of manager Pat Murphy and the Milwaukee franchise should be a sensational story — as the Dodgers and Shohei Ohtani are silenced again in Game 2 — but a labor lockout only will grow…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - AN UNDERDOG ICON, PURDY IS THE EARLY MVP AND DISMISSES ALL MENTIONS OF MR. IRRELEVANT
This week, he becomes the No. 1 passer in NFL ratings — of all time, the numbers say — but he is driven to lead the 49ers to a Super Bowl championship with the immense help of veteran Mike…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - IF OHTANI KEEPS POPPING OUT IN THE EIGHTH, THE DODGERS WON’T BE WINNING THREE IN A ROW
His injuries are impacting baseball history — he has no home runs since Aug. 18 and is 3 for 16 with no extra-base hits in the postseason — and what if the Dodgers are down 2-0 to the Brewers tonight?
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - IT’S A WRETCHED TIME TO BE A CHICAGO FAN, WHEN DITKA WOULD HAVE CURSED A GREEN BAY BLOWOUT
Ben Johnson did not wear a BEARS sweater, which fires up fans who saw his team lose 31-7 — only hours after Mike Ditka died and the White Sox were throttled and days after the Cubs were…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - WE NEED NEW NICKNAMES FOR A MONSTER GAME: NOTRE DAME HOSTS MIAMI IN FOUR WEEKS
Texas beat Ohio State but lost to Oklahoma, meaning we’re through with Arch Manning and Steve Sarkisian, while Georgia ascends to No. …
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - THE POPE SHOULD IGNORE THE WHIFFING WHITE SOX, WHO BROKE THEIR OWN STRIKEOUT RECORD
They fanned 21 times Saturday night in losing 2-0 to Cleveland, which makes me ask why Jerry Reinsdorf doesn’t scram as an owner — but he won’t, because he will fight players for a friggin’ salary…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - KALSHI AND POLYMARKET ARE FILTHY — AND YET, AT AGE 41, LEBRON TAKES HIS $15 MILLION
Sport has another gambling crisis — prediction markets — and while the NFL is taking on President Trump, we see the NBA and MLB waffle as James joins other stars in bucking the very wise…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - MIKE DITKA WAS CHICAGO, EVEN WHEN HE DIDN’T RUN FOR OFFICE AND MADE WAY FOR OBAMA
He won the most fabled championship in the city’s history — which was bigger than Michael Jordan’s six titles — and if he ran for a U.S. …
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - AGAIN, THE WHITE SOX CRASH — WITHOUT A REAL PITCHING STAFF — AND MIGHT NEED OBAMA TO HURL
When Grant Taylor entered in the sixth inning and was bombarded, who didn’t share thoughts that a fun team didn’t belong in baseball’s final four and was padding a sick streak starting in 1906?
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - THE YANKEES LOSE — THANKS TO ANOTHER STUPID FAN — WHILE THE DODGERS PLAY THE UPSTART BREWERS
Some things never change in the baseball postseason, including a mope at Yankee Stadium who turned a two-run homer into a wretched double, while the Dodgers carry on to another NLCS in…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - DODGERS SURVIVE ANOTHER HOT PLAYOFF MOMENT, BOLSTERED BY — WHO ELSE? — YAMAMOTO
Just when the baseball world was ready to bury the champions, there was the pitching master who ranks among the greatest ever in October, helped by Kike Hernandez and Freddie Freeman in a 3-1…
Summary from publisher feedRead at The Sports Column → - IS ANYTHING WILDER IN SPORTS? IMAGINE AN ALCS APPEARANCE AFTER LOSING 121 GAMES
The White Sox, again relying on madman Grant Taylor, are up 2-0 in an AL Division Series and haven’t won a postseason series at home since 1906 — we are witnessing history that never seemed…
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