I read this morning about Rush Limbaugh's resignation from ESPN's football preview program (a step before they fired him). Apparently the main problem was his assertion that Donovan McNabb was receiving excessive praise because he was a black playing quarterback, a kind of affirmative action program.

Whatever you might think about affirmative action, it does not apply in sports competitions in areas like football, baseball, tennis, and so on: when you have to compete, either you measure up or you don't. (There's room for disagreement in "judgment" sports like boxing or gymnastics, where prejudice of some sort could show up.) McNabb was MVP one year and close for two others, if I remember correctly.

Sports programs should hire people who a) know the sport, and b) aren't public embarrassments. I'm not sure what Rush Limbaugh's area of expertise is, but it ain't sports.