What is of value? What isn't pure junk food news? And yet this website--and all the others out there--are being filled with this nonsense 24/7. Guys like Skip Bayless are now making $5 million a year. I'm not jealous. I wouldn't want his job. I wouldn't want to have to live tweet an NBA--or any other leagues'--playoff game. I wouldn't want to sell my soul to write any of these articles or watch hours of sports to find these video clips.
Look, I get it. Sports is entertainment. I'm the one who's made that argument on more than one occassion (but apparently to some, it's not entertainment enough for the leagues and networks to manipulate those events like every single other entertainment entity is). But this sort of sports coverage is not just a time-suck, it's a mind-waster. It's distraction at it's highest level.
And that just may be the point of it.
I've often said that today's sporting events are publicized for the same reason the gladitorial games were held in Rome: to distract the populace. While the people play, the government gets away (with murder). I don't believe that's an exaggeration.
To go down the "conspiratorial" rabbit hole for a moment, a fan (Tom, to be exact) recently alerted me to the following little nugget about sports. Seems a Dr. Richard Day, who was supposedly tied to the Rockefeller family, gave a speech back in 1969 detailing, for lack of a better description, how the New World Order was going to alter America in the coming decades. You can read the details of the entire speech here, but what I focused on was this small part of it:
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