text: Brilliant column. Kelly is right. Sports has long since not been about sports but about talking about sports and, further, the entertainment and self-indulgent entity it has become; a joke, really. Full disclosure I'm a retired journalist wrote similar stuff railing about these developments but this does not take away from Kelly's view. Sports has become a freak show given social media and such. For instance, defining moments of recent Stanley Cup final: PK Subban and Listerine. I mean seriously, people. Yet Subban knew exactly what he was doing, getting 'me' publicity he milked for 3-4 days with a complicit media (though he seemed to have missed that he pissed Crosby off and thereby essentially cost Predators the series). And so this is where we are with sports - FBI investigations into who stole Tom Brady's jersey (I mean federal funds wasted on that??) and on and on. It's a joke and I for one for the very most part don't play anymore. It's not worth my attention but for this comment