Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. While Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken are still on their post-NHL All-Star Game vacation, the news never stops, even though those two lunkheads seemingly never start working around here.
While in the world of sports news, most of the attention at present focuses on whether Taylor Swift can make it from her upcoming concert in Tokyo on February 10 to Las Vegas on February 11 to catch her current boyfriend Travis Kelce in the Super Bowl — you may have heard they’re dating — there is actual off the field sports news to cover. It’s flown a bit under the radar thus far, but on February 6, ESPN (i.e., Disney), FOX Sports, and Warner Bros. Discovery announced their plans for a joint venture sports streaming channel to launch this fall. The as-yet-unnamed channel would provide a…