Millen BTN doc gripping

BIG TEN Network has done a sensitive yet straight-ahead job chronicling analyst Matt Millen, 60, as he continues to work — often short on breath — while awaiting a heart transplant. And Millen’s practical stoicism — “It’s weird, you’re waiting for someone to die so you can have their heart” — has been powerful.

The Indians canceled Sunday’s “Kids Run the Bases,” sponsored by the pediatric division of a Cleveland hospital, because their 1 p.m. game against Boston was switched for ESPN’s Sunday night horror show. And Rob Manfred claims kids are MLB’s top priority!

Apparently Nike doesn’t care that Colin Kaepernick has raised money for Assata’s Daughters, named to honor Assata Shakur, aka Joanne Chesimard, last known to be in Cuba and wanted for the 1973 murder/assassination of 34-year-old N.J. State Trooper Werner Foerster with his own service gun.

While analysts speak of the “RPO” — run-pass option — as an innovation, those familiar with QBs such as Otto Graham, then Fran Tarkenton and more recently Steve McNair know better.

Thad Mumford, among the first African-Americans to write and produce prime-time sitcoms, died last week at 67. As a Yankees batboy, Mumford was befriended and encouraged by late Post sportswriter Maury Allen. Thus a reporter in one of Mumford’s “M*A*S*H” episodes was named Maury Allen.