If I published something that needed a sports column, the one I'd try to syndicate would be Dave Zirin's Edge of Sports. For a topic that I thought was completely worthless, bread-&-circus pabulum, this guy really cuts to the ignored social issues in sports and manages to be hilarious in the process.

For example, Whiteblindness, the Olympics and Racism at ESPN: "Comparing Gumbel to Limbaugh is like comparing apples to an obese drug addict."