If I could get rid of one thing in sports...

... it would be teams that use "Nation" to describe their fans, starting with the Red Sox and Raiders.

 

ridding ourselves of anyone that became a Red Sox fan during the 21st century would be nice.

 

-- the boston red sox
-- the new england patriots
-- the boston celtics
-- duke
-- kentucky basketball fans
-- kentucky basketball
-- 65 teams in the ncaa tourney
-- chris berman, tom jackson, stuart scott, suzyn waldman

 

Timeouts in basketball, at least a few of 'em. Let the players play.

 

Check that ... timeouts in all sports, but basketball and football in particular (though in football, I'm more averse to the TV timeouts than the actual ones they call on the sidelines).

 

Corporate naming rights
Stupid television executives
Too many playoff teams
Agents
In-game interviews

 

Fans of the Tar Heels can stay, but the ones who think it's spelled Tarheels must go.

 

The BS that is the BCS

 

So you're a Bruins fan KY?

 

It's a joke that a team can have its head up its ass for 90 percent of a game, and then either stall the beating it deserves or get a chance to win it by intentionally breaking rules at the very end.

 

"Cotton-Eyed Joe"

 

That's what gets me... it's intentionally breaking the rules to your advantage (and in most cases delaying the inevitable). There is supposed to be a penalty for breaking the rules.
If it's a 2-3-4 point game or whatever, I can at least live with it. I hate these idiots coaches who think they can come back from 12-15 with about 20 seconds on the clock. It's this crap that makes those 20 seconds last seven minutes.