Howie Carr, columnist for the Boston Herald (Conservative tabloid), said that the other reporters used to call the sport columns the “toy department”. Still, it seems to me that injecting politics into sports is a losing business proposition. Sports is supposed to be a refuge from politics. When the St. George de Floyd/BLM hysteria was raging I essentially boycotted major league sports for two years. I am only just now slowly getting back in.
As far as getting back into pro sports, I was never into pro sports anyway. Where I live we love college football. The few times that a coach in the south blamed whites for everything under the sun, the fans revolted and the coach got the point and shut his political yap.
This happened even with Bama fans in 2020 with Nick Saban -- during a championship winning season. Saban and some of the players did a BLM march blaming whites for everything under the sun. So Bama fans revolted, made videos of shredding jerseys and burning season tickets and such and vowing never to go to another Bama game again. Words can't describe how momentous that was -- to most male Alabamians college football is second to only God and they were throwing that away. Saban got the point and he spent a couple of pre-game press conferences saying things like "black lives matter because ALL lives matter". It was his way of saying that he heard us. They quit doing the white-bashing political statements. And the fans came back to supporting Bama.
We'll see if new Bama coach DeBoer was given the memo.