It's good to see someone else wonders why there are so many sportswriters at the heart of sitcoms, even though sports is hardly at the heart of their shows (with the exception of George Costanza playing Tony Kornheiser, and that shows epitomizes the word average). How many athletes do you see on many of these shows featuring sportswriters as the central figure?

I suppose if they were sports editors, they'd have to force them into an office. It is interesting to see how little we see of many of our site's writers in the office (even before the move), but in many cases, as long as you're set up in a home office, what's the need to commute in?

And now that I think of it, maybe that's why Sports Night was only slightly groundbreaking. Instead of having the sports folks at home, they're actually in an office and living out the same interpersonal relationships on a work level. In other words, it's a second family. You're now covering the "other" life of Ray Barone, George Owens or Oscar Madison -- although Sorkin found a way to make it seem more like a drama than a breezy sitcom.