Sports broadcasts provide no escape for viewers looking to avoid insult

It’s easy to blame television for all that lays us low and then lower. That’s the problem: It’s much too easy. Like adding one bad idea to another bad idea to make two bad ideas.  Saturday, Disney’s ESPN and ABC wrapped up their annual mindless destruction of the Little League World Series with the Curacao-Nevada … Read more

ESPN gives Karl Ravech emotional send-off at Little League World Series during final broadcast

Karl Ravech got a proper goodbye on Sunday as he worked his final broadcast for ESPN, calling a Little League World Series championship game between Nevada and Curacao. The broadcaster had been laid off as part of a round of layoffs in July across the Walt Disney Company, which owns ESPN. Ravech remained on the … Read more

Dad calls out ‘hypocritical’ New Jersey Little League over son’s bat flip suspension — and here are the videos that back him

Dad calls out ‘hypocritical’ New Jersey Little League over son’s bat flip suspension — and here are the videos that back him

Hypocrisy: That’s the theme around a New Jersey Little Leaguer’s controversial suspension for flipping his bat after a home run. Suspended Haddonfield Little League star Marco Rocco’s father, Joe, called out Little League’s decision-makers for suddenly being anti-bat flipping after his 12-year-old son’s celebration landed him a suspension ahead of the New Jersey Little League … Read more