As the Washington Nationals march to their first postseason in the post-Expos era, a conflict is brewing over whether fans should have to literally march home after extra-late-for-TV playoff games. Unlike civilized mass transit systems, the D.C. Metro shuts down at midnight and costs $29,500 an hour to run overtime. That should be pocket change for an MLB club selling Bryce Harper jerseys by the thousands, but the Nats refuse to pay, leaving fans who traveled in on mass transit stranded. (The club says the city of D.C. should foot the bill, despite other local teams such as the Capitals having deals with the city to keep the Metro open.) Now a D.C. councilmember says the Nationals' stinginess is MLB-imposed. Jack Evans told a local news program that MLB has a policy banning team…

As has been established, tomorrow is a day for much gluttony/sloth/greed/skinny ladies' head in the box: seven pretty outstanding college football games. And no, we're not referring to Syracuse-Illinois. We are actually offended that the game is on television. Of course, the biggest game is probably Notre Dame vs. Michigan, if just because it's Notre Dame vs. Michigan. And we'd like to thank The House Rock Built for illustrated one of the things we absolutely love about college football: The unabashed homerness of the local announcers. This bothers us, a little, when professional teams do it, if just because it seems more steeped in who is writing the paycheck that the tribal loyalties college football inspires. If you're a college football announcer in, say, …

data-mm-id=”_qgnnc5vuu”>Hardcore football fans pay a lot of money to watch every single snap of every single game via the Sunday Ticket package. Some even choose DirecTV as their network provider- exclusive home for the package – just to have it. And when it doesn't work, or is messed up, these same football diehards get angry and go on Twitter and complain about it. Today, they are specifically furious, and for good reason, with the streaming issues.Warning: These people are mad with a capital M.DirecTV just giving Amazon the rights to NFL Sunday Ticket with this terrible streaming. The worst it's been in YEARS!— My own worst enemy -_- (@Justaguy___) October 13, 2019@ATTHelp Sunday nfl ticket is down for me. Watching on Apple TV app. Been slow/not working all day and my in…

data-mm-id=”_m3enhm1xi”>The Los Angeles Chargers are playing in front of a hostile crowd at home again this week. As has been the case on a near-weekly basis since they moved to Los Angeles, the Chargers have welcomed a crowd consisting of more visiting fans than their own. Minnesota Vikings fans have completely taken over the stadium. Check out the atmosphere from today's game:I was wrong about Steelers game being most hostile home crowd of year. This appears to be it. Zeroes of Chargers fans. pic.twitter.com/nhrzk7ZZhQ— Marty Caswell (@MartyCaswell) December 15, 2019I count 6 non Vikings fans here pic.twitter.com/euRCBlRt1H— Alex Padilla (@alexpadilla86) December 15, 2019Vikings will definitely have the home field advantage crowd at @dignityhealthsp #Skol pic.twitter.com/KNk…

data-mm-id=”_wue3jcykm”>NBA players are about to move to Orlando for a few months. They are doing it during an incredibly tense time in American history. There is a global pandemic, a civil rights movement, and recession all at once. In the words of a very wise man – what a time to be alive.So the NBA players are prepared to make either a sacrifice and/or commitment for a number of reasons. They will be giving a distraction to fans going crazy without sports. They'll try to maximize their platform to deliver a message of societal change. And they're going to make money and help ensure the financial future of their league. If they pull this off, everybody involved has something to gain. Of course, the players aren't the only ones with something to gain or lose in the Disn…

data-mm-id=”_a30tdxxhq”>A little overnight Twitter beef brewed between long-time buddies LeBron James and Brian Windhorst over a story Windhorst wrote on ESPN. Going to the tape, it appears LeBron has a point. After James said he thinks he would have been a good teammate to Michael Jordan on Uninterrupted, Windhorst, who has covered James since high school and followed him from the Cavs to the Heat and back to the Cavs, wrote a story about it and posted the following tweet. As people compare and argue about their legacies, LeBron James says he's envisioned Michael Jordan as a teammate not an adversary: https://t.co/WAB4OJCQTM— Brian Windhorst (@WindhorstESPN) May 19, 2020James saw said tweet and wanted to set the record straight. I also would die to compete vs every single one o…

data-mm-id=”_w03ywmapb”>The NBA has finally expressed some concerns about Florida. With players scheduled to return to their home markets today in what will be the first step to get the ball rolling towards resuming the season on July 31st, ESPN is reporting that the league is starting to worry about the spiking cases in Florida. Via:”Florida added 4,049 new cases Saturday, which broke the previous single-day record of 3,822 set Friday. In all, the state has set records for single-day cases in seven of the past 10 days and is approaching 94,000 infections — becoming a national hot spot along with Texas and Arizona, states that are also seeing surging case numbers.”In addition to pandemic concerns, some are unsure if they should play because of worries they could distract from the Blac…

data-mm-id=”_8tivnrbzg”>The Detroit Lions were a trendy pick for national media pundits this year as a team that could surprisingly win 10-plus football teams and perhaps even steal a divisional crown from the three more skilled and accomplished squads in the division. This will inevitably prove to be a massive mistake. As always. For about 45 minutes of gameplay, the fatally doomed and hapless franchise looked halfway competent, building a 23-6 lead over Mitch Trubisky — the Lions of the quarterbacking world — and the Chicago Bears. Like a down-on-his-luck prospector desperately looking through bleary eyes to find glimpses of gold in his pan, people wanted to see something bright. If only for a fleeting moment. But it was, as it always is, sulfur-boiled pyrite. Twenty-one straight p…

data-mm-id=”_cxh4mgh6t”>At this point, calling for Adam Gase to be fired is too easy. All the stats, facts, and figures highlight a man with a proven track record of being totally unqualified to lead an organization into battle on any given Sunday. And yet Gase remains the head man in charge of the J-E-T-S, Jets, Jets, Jets for another week…and possibly the 10 weeks after that. It's a confounding decision by management to keep him in the building and left me with only one logical explanation for why they're doing it: to make Gase pay for accepting the job of Jets head coach the same way he's made them pay for offering it in the first place.Now, onto the stats…Gase has gone 7-15 as head coach of the Jets and is 30-40 in his career as a head coach including his three s…

data-mm-id=”_3zbn6ki49″>The NBA saw its second coach get canned mid-season today as the Atlanta Hawks announced they fired Lloyd Pierce. The Hawks came into the season hoping to fight for the playoffs and instead are 11th in a weak Eastern Conference, sitting at 14-20 on the year. It was a tough start to the campaign for Pierce, who has presided over some truly awful teams in Atlanta, going 63-120 in two years and change. On the surface, it seems a change was needed. A team can only be bad for so long. Pierce wasn't going to be the second coming of Brett Brown, who stuck by the Philadelphia 76ers when their teams were barely winning double-digit games on purpose, and was rewarded with three years as head coach of a playoff contender. The first two seasons in Atlanta, Pierce worked…