Greetings from the sports desk located somewhere below decks of the Good Pirate Ship RedState. Sammy the Shark and Karl the Kraken are hard at work preparing to monitor the election returns diligently …
Oh, who are they trying to kid? They’re watching hockey, which, unlike the NBA, is not taking Election Day off.
Anyway, in news of a sport other than hockey, the NFL keeps trundling along as it reaches the more-or-less halfway point of the season. Thus far, all the usual clichés aside about how there’s still plenty of season left and variations thereof, things seem set for a Super Bowl clash between the Kansas City Chiefs for what seems like the 37th time in the past three seasons and the Detroit Lions for the first time in … well, ever.
With the Dallas Cowboys sinking into irrelevance this year — will Jerry Jones ever fire his incompetent general…