I’ve become a sour old grump? You bet your tapped-out DraftKings credit card I have. I’ve devolved from my younger version. And if you don’t like it, turn the page. 

If you think what has happened to our sports — most of it by authoritative and greed-sickened design — is good for sports, hah! “Sports!” — there’s little here for you. 

Saturday afternoon, within five minutes of landing on ABC/ESPN’s Texas-Tennessee game, I went searching the remote for a DNR (Do Not Resuscitate) button. 

Chris Fowler and Kirk Herbstreit had already given notice that they too no longer speak clear, concise football English. Instead of simple tackled for a “loss” (adding the old-school, sense-based yards lost), Herbstreit went with the vague, longform “negative play” before resuming his, and so many others’, worn and empty “run downhill” expertise.