• Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Mets’ Pete Alonso part of sports’ growing vulgarity problem

    Some wrongs are not difficult to right. As my friend Mark Morley says, “It’s not rocket surgery.” Yet, and for no good reasons, we inexorably sink lower, every day, by pathetic design. Meanwhile, the modern marketing and TV content rational has become, “It’s no worse than this” or “It’s no worse than that.” But what …
  • Another shameless network is exploiting the NBA’s worst

    Another shameless network is exploiting the NBA’s worst

    As Homer Simpson shouted when stuck in the bottom of a deep hole, “Dig up!” Throughout his NBA career, 1997-2014, Stephen Jackson was a load to endure. Fines, suspensions, criminal recklessness in a strip-club hassle, Twitter-issued physical threats. He played a leading role, and not as a peacemaker, in that infamous brawl with fans during …