Newspapers have sports sections because lots of their readers are sports fans who like to read about sports. Like me.
The sports section sure beats the propaganda, um, er, "news" section.
That’s true, both observations. But while the sports sections may not be loaded with propaganda like other sections are, that’s a far cry from how they were born.
And for anybody who interpreted my posting as an anti-sports-section discussion, that was not my intent and I apologize. I’m focusing in on the birth of the sports section, to phrase it differently.