Whether it's the "Opie & Anthony" sex-in-church caper or a baseball-strike reporting blooper on national TV, when mistakes are made in broadcasting, nobody gets blamed.
An ominous cosmic force is working for the Harlem Little League team. Or against it. But definitely against the Florida State University football team.
Defenders say the FSU coach borrowed Todd Beamer's phrase "Let's Roll" with the greatest respect. So then why did he make a joke about it with reporters?
The Red Sox veteran accepted responsibility for his 1986 World Series gaffe, and he lives with a kind of grace now. Pete Rose and Ann Coulter, listen up.
Only this messed-up ex-national pastime could manage to take its premier fan event, the first genuinely exciting All-Star Game in years, and abandon it without an outcome.
Learning from Bill Buckner
How to remember Sept. 11 -- and how not to