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McAFEE, STEPHEN A. PRIME EXAMPLES OF WHAT TV SPORTS TALK HAS BECOME ... AND IT'S NOT GOOD

  Thoughts While Thinking … Tell the truth … the airwaves have become polluted with  pregame and talk shows that (a) dare to be different;  and/or (b) continue the same old, same old to the point of  being predictable and, therefore, snooze-inducing BOR  … ING! Being different, unfortunately, doesn’t mean being good  yet some networks have gambled (wasted?) big bucks on  such attention-grabbing yappers as  STEPHEN A.  SMITH  and former all-pro kicker  PAT McAFEE . Tuned in to College Game Day Saturday (Nov. 1), and  there was loudmouth McAfee, as usual, making a racket  … but shirt off, showing nothing but skin waist up. What was that all about?  Click!   Checked back later, and the West Virginia U., alumnus  was looking respectable (sort of) wearing dark shirt and  sport coat … but still talking 13 words to the dozen and  acting like he was in charge. You could only imagine  what other paneli...
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WOW! ARE TIMES CHANGING, OR WHAT?

Catching up: SO THE GIANTS hired  TONY VITELLO  away from  Tennessee, the University of, and now your Washington  Nationals will name  BLAKE BUTERA , who has no  major-league managerial experience. Heck, he’s only 33  years old, Finally, at last, what took them so long? Teams are wising  up and not settling for retreads. Of course, if Vitello, 47, and/or Butera (said to be MLB’s  youngest skipper in 50 yeras) doesn’t succeed, it will be  back to the same old, same old. Count on it, HERE, WE THINK sports are important … but nothing  like, say Louisiana … where the governor takes the hiring  and firing of coaches personally. JEFF LANDRY , who had a role in Sunday’s ouster of  LSU football’s  BRIAN KELLY , made it clear  Wednesday athletic director  SCOTT WOODWARD  would have nothing to do with coming up with a high- profile replacement. “ I’d rather have President [ DONALD ]  T RUMP  pick  ...
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FROM KORN FERRY ... TO BYE-BYE BRIAN ... TO REAVES HAS SOME PUNCH LEFT, AFTER ALL

  I give up. What the heck is Korn Ferry, which is the title  sponsor for the professional golf tournament that will  replace the Dominion Energy Classic here starting next  fall? The Korn Ferry Tour, scheduled for the Federal Club over  the next four years, is (in baseball terminology) triple-A  competition that qualifies 20 players annually for the  PGA (major league) Tour. The first … Korn Ferry Tour  Championship Presented by Virginia’s Richmond Region  … will be held Oct. 5-11 at the Glen Allen course  designed by late, great Arnold Palmer … and will be the  final stop in 2026. The Dominion Classic, a mainstay on the PGA’s  Champions circuit, lasted 10 years and was such a  success, not to mention a favorite of the contestants, it  could have gone another 10 years, if not more, at Country  Club of Virginia’s James River course. However, CCV’s large golf-playing membership didn’t  appreciate having to tu...
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