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As anyone who follows any major league sports can tell you, sports media is as left-wing, if not more horribly left-wing, as regular media. Most people watch sports to cheer on their favorite team and forget about things like politics for a while. But in recent years, it has been a never-ending parade of things such as BLM T-shirts, and not taking a stand to keep biological men out of women's sports. Party politics has also seeped into sports media. And it is not hard to figure out which side many in professional sports are cheering for. Man kicked out...

But at today's City Council meeting . . . it will become obvious that a pro soccer team will cost us much more than artificial turf. [ . . . ] The city will give team owners rent-free use of the Alamodome for 20 home games each year for five to 25 years. But before that, the city will provide $75,000 of the $100,000 campaign to sell at least 5,000 season tickets. [ . . . ] Under this deal, MLS will get half the rents collected for any other events in the city-owned facility, except for conventions, events that...

Clint Mathis is heading back to Major League Soccer one year after signing with German team Hannover 96.