I am politically to the left of all your writers. Unlike them, I would not work for a subsidiary of Verizon. My credentials established, I am tired of their heavy focus on social issues. To paraphrase Brett Favre (ahem), this is the sports section. Social issues are not why the majority of your readers come to the sports section, as I'm sure you know. I assume you think that taking this tack differentiates you from other sports sites, and it does. I wish you would do it less, or not stretch as hard as, say, Wetzel did with Britt Reid to turn something obvious that's being handled by the book into something more. If you insist on sticking with this angle, though, I suggest tar-and-feathering at least a few targets that aren't all white-establishment types. One suggestion: Carlton Davis of the Bucs calling Asians "gooks." He tried to slide out of it, but I'd imagine one of your vigilantes could fairly easily call him on his racism. I think it would go some way to making the majority of your readers (who are apparently both reactionary and deranged) have not quite so easy a time branding your opinion writers as knee-jerk libs.

Best of luck regardless.

Shalise Manza Young, her article about Brett Farve is a Joke. She wrote a biased piece of $4!7 article. Yes it's an opinion and I like Farve and many other Football Loving fans feel politics are not to be part of sports. Why dont they help their struggling communities? Get involved, get parents to keep their kids off the streets and becoming welfare baby momas. It starts with the parents and role models. Yes the civil war was 160 years ago and yes there are still racists in this country so call them out, let everyone know who they are but while you are at it, clean up your own social issues in the home. Educate your children not to carry guns, not to sell drugs, not to assault, murder or hurt people. Not to run from the police is a good one too! Get all that under control and then there is room for dialog if this continues. By no means to we not need to educate and train cops better...yes we do but not defund them. Crime statistics dont lie !!! Either do welfare numbers!

What i am really tired of is how, when i bring up an article TO READ and there is a video, it starts to play immediately causing my speakers to start blasting noise at me. What is even worse, the articles that follow, their videos also start playing and the noise becomes unintelligible and vary abrasive. There have been times when I have had to turn off 3 or 4 of them before I can go back to the top to read the article I wanted. I do not experience this with other sites and the irritation is causing me to consider going elsewhere for my daily sports and news fix. REALLY REALLY ABRASIVE. THE LEAST YOU COULD DO IS LIMIT THE NOISE BY ACTIVATING ONLY THE VIDEOS WITHIN "FOCUS" .. that way I would only have to turn off one of them and not have to scroll down page after page. What is worse, many of the videos are not even related to the subject of the article that caught my attention... in my IT career, if i had designed an interface like this i would have been embarrassed and unworthy of my job.