Is Jeff Zucker running NBC Sports too? That's the only way to explain how the once venerable department has become a total mockery. After seemingly mortgaging the network to carry Olympic telecasts for the next umpteen years, NBC has quietly watched the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball slip away to other networks, and now the AP reports that NBC has lost the Belmont Stakes too. Has it come to this? NBC can't even hold onto horse racing? Exactly what is there left to air on NBC Sports outside of golf, racing and... figure skating? I suppose there's college football, but what happens the other nine months of the year? There's always Pro Croquet or the National Badminton League! Maybe NBC should do some more cross-promotion and introduce Trump Lacrosse.

I guess what annoying about all this is that NBC Sports is actually a pretty solid operation. Watching the NBA in the hands of ABC is a joke. CBS's coverage of football is fine -- if you like annoying commentary and not having instant replays. It's hard to watch a once glorious network completely devolve, but I guess these things happen. And hey, at least it's no ABC.