There's a paradigm to life that I always follow; avoid things that cause significant pain. Because if you avoid pain, you avoid a worse fate; kicking the bucket. It's something that happens to all of us eventually, but we can avoid it for awhile if we do smart things. With that in mind, let me be the first to officially break the worst-kept "secret" in sports TV; ESPN's supposed classic sports channel has officially kicked that bucket today.

For years, we've seen the big four-letter monopoly trash a once-proud Classic channel with loads of trash that either aren't sports or aren't classic. Some programs that come to mind include (but are not limited to) car auctions, bull riding, pool, bowling, Kiana's exercise show, classic boxing that isn't classic, boxing that has been replayed 51,739