The NY Times Sports section is a consistently amusing section of the paper, full of credulous reporting and thinly veiled homerism. The disconnect between the national ambitions of the rest of the paper, with barely any city coverage on Page One and proliferating lifestyle sections (House & Home, Thursday Styles, etc.), and the Sports section (relentlessly centered on New York) is a little jarring when you pull back to 30,000 feet to look at it. It would seem that the Sports section, like the City section, is left to its own devices by the powers that be. And where the City section has excelled, as in the Eliot Spitzer/Ashley Alexandra Dupre reporting, the Sports section has been almost irrelevant for many years.
A particularly lame exemplar of this section is Tyler Kepner, whose breathless reportage of the Greatness of All Things Yankee commences once again today with a turd of a story about Yankee Stadium.
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