Eureka!

I'm your typical left-wing, foreign-car driving, NPR fan. I love screwing up Arbitron ratings when I tell them that I listen exclusively to NPR. I'm also a big sports fan. Every Friday you get John Feinstein or Frank DeFord to come on Morning Edition and talk a wee bit o' sports. I always enjoy these pieces--I only wish there was more. So, what if NPR produced a weekly sports show?

I'm not talking about the usual sports-talk, call-in drivel that we are all familiar with. No rockin' guitar music at the break, no super-echoey low-pitched introductions, no beer ads. What I'm talking about is a George Plimpton-like sports-talk show where intelligent fans discuss sports and the social and economic issues around sports. Better yet it would have guests that are only peripherally associated with sports, but can talk eloquently about the game. The usual interviews with athletes, coaches and managers tend to devolve into simple platitudes (see "Bull Durham" if you can't remember how the routine goes).

Honestly NPR doesn't need another guess-the-real-definition-of-this-obscure-word game-show (though I do like them). Let's put some fun back into the NPR weekends and talk about sports!