The low-budget Brewers won the World Series – and exposed baseball’s biggest lie
Milwaukee’s first World Series championship is a rebuke to baseball’s oligarch class, whose insistence that small-market teams cannot compete has been laid bare as fictionFor the entirety of the 2026 baseball season, the overlords of the game have stood…
Everybody hates Pat: is a cabal of college kids really trying to bring down ESPN’s star meathead?
Pat McAfee’s reaction to a few mild jokes shows how the ubiquitous ESPN personality is happy to whip up a crowd into a hostile frenzy but is terrified of any criticismIt was all shaping up to be a golden year for Pat McAfee. The man who landed a…
Ernie Johnson, beloved host of Inside the NBA, to step away from show at end of season
70-year-old wants to spend more time with familyJohnson leaving after 37 years in roleErnie Johnson, the widely loved host of Inside the NBA, has announced he will step away at the end of the current season after 37 years in the role.Johnson made the…
Troy Aikman and Joe Buck: what next for the NFL’s $165m TV power couple as they head for a split?
The duo have carved out lucrative and successful careers as TV audiences elsewhere are falling. It seems they won’t be together for much longerTroy Aikman knew when it was time to go. His aching body made the decision for him when he ended his NFL career…