sports analysis

Stop pretending the college football four-team playoff was about justice. It was a country club. Same cast, same endings, same excuses when outsiders knocked on the door. If your school did not have the logo or the history, you needed to be perfect and then some. One loss and your season was erased because the...

It is no longer about sports. It is about clicks. ESPN used to mean something. Real reporting. Real debate. Real context. Now it feels like a cable version of Twitter. Every show is hunting for the loudest take, the shortest clip, the biggest reaction. The goal is not to inform the fan. The goal is...