The NFL is considering expanding the playoffs to eight teams in each conference.
Bad idea.
Letting mediocre teams into the postseason will not increase the excitement of the regular season. There are always Week 17 games with playoff implications under the current format.
Teams that finish as No. 1 and 2 seeds should be rewarded with a bye week after a long season instead of facing a No. 8 or 7 seed.
The Jerry Joneses of the world would love expansion. Plus, more games equals more money.
But let’s not dilute the product.
Dan Le Batard won’t be voting in future elections for baseball’s Hall of Fame — either on his own or as proxy for Deadspin readers.
Le Batard was stripped for life of his Hall of Fame voting privileges Thursday, one day after it was revealed he filled out his ballot based on the results of a poll of Deadspin readers on who they felt belonged in Cooperstown.
“It was worth it,” Le Batard said Thursday. “I knew this would be the consequence. Hopefully, change is a consequence, too.”
Le Batard said he is bothered by “all the moralizing we do in sports in general.”
Senior IOC member Gian Franco Kasper says his comments about corruption in the Sochi Olympics are based on a common perception in Russia.
Kasper, the long-time president of the International Ski Federation, tells The Associated Press he stands by comments he made in a Swiss television interview.
The veteran Swiss official told state broadcaster SRF that one-third of the Sochi spending disappeared because of corruption. He said contracts were given to a “construction mafia” of businessmen closely linked to the Kremlin and President Vladimir Putin.
