Sports journalists, and obsessive fans of professional sports, tend to be the most rabidly and unintelligently leftist people I've encountered outside of academia.
That rule doesn't uniformly apply to fans of collegiate and high school sports to the same degree, for some reason.
"Sports journalists, and obsessive fans of professional sports, tend to be the most rabidly and unintelligently leftist people I've encountered outside of academia." ESPN headquarters are in Bristol, CT and San Francisco.
Does that give you an hint as to why?