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If you can count on anything, it's that those in the sports media are little different from their hard-news counterparts: routinely left-leaning.

As to Bill-of-Rights Bob Costas, consider this: Newsies enjoy cred (often unjustly) as serious, thoughtful and well-read. The widespread image of the jockojourno tribe is not nearly as flattering (sometimes unjustly).

I would suggest that the Costasites of the sports media want to be taken seriously as thinkers, not just as walking encyclopaedias of athletic stats.

I take Costas and his ilk seriously as writers and commentators. A good sportswriter is a damn good writer, period. An articulate commentator like Costas is also gifted.

But outside athletics I wouldn't pay attention to many of their opinions. My hunch is their familiarity with the latest MLB labor agreement is going to be vastly greater than their conversance with the Constitution.