Scarcely a day goes by lately without hearing about more layoffs, buyouts and other dire financial developments in the newspaper industry. The business is getting chewed up by the Internet and other competitors for advertising dollars, and it's only a matter of time before some of the lesser publications become at risk of folding.

But I have a short-term solution to some of their problems on the expense side of the ledger: Quit publishing sports sections, which will save a ton in salary and newsprint.

Unfathomable, you say? Well, think again.

I've been looking closely at sports sections for the last week and all they seem to do is is re-run old stories. To wit:

 

The managers in baseball's All-Star Game more or less ran out of pitchers.

The Washington Redskins acquired a player who has one year (or less) of tread left on his tires.

Michelle Wie failed to complete the full 72 holes of a golf tournament.

Danica Patrick got into a confrontation with another driver on a weekend on which she did not win.

The last five MLS games of the week ended in ties, two of them of the scoreless variety.

Chris Evert looked graceful and lovely on grass.

And, Greg Norman attempted to play the final round of a golf major with both hands around his throat.

See, nothing new ever happens in sports.