Of course coarse Carton lands kids show

YOU CAN’T make this stuff up, continued:

Craig Carton — whose WFAN/CBS sports-talk career largely has been predicated on vulgarity, coarseness, excrement and flatulence “humor,” trash-talk, ad hominem put-downs and cheap sexual innuendo — has been hired to provide a “Sports For Kids” segment within a relaunch of the long-ago kids’ TV show “Wonderama!” Seriously.

At a recent home game, the 76ers gave out Tshirts depicting a Revo- lutionary War colonial dribbling a basketball among large lettering that read “Made In Phila.” The small tags on the inside read, “Made in Mexico.”

Last week, the instant the Kings traded De

Marcus Cousins to the Pelicans, TV and radio experts hollered that New Orleans had executed a “robbery!” Days later, no such claims were heard when Cousins — who has 110 technical fouls, 47 disqualifications and 11 ejections in less than seven seasons — was suspended for his 18th technical this season.

Does TV realize, or care, what it is doing/has done to basketball? And vice versa?

During the first half of last week’s Siena-Monmouth on ESPN2, Monmouth’s Pierre Sarr helped Siena’s Brett Bisping to his feet after they had collided. Sarr’s from Senegal, thus perhaps doesn’t yet know the do’s and don’ts of American sports “culture.”

Naturally, no chance that scene was included in the off-to-commercials reel of game clips at the end of the half. A kid chest-pounding? That was included, naturally.

The Big Ten Network, which runs spots about how the conference instills sportsmanship among its student-athletes, last week ran a promo that included only clips of players showboating, except one — it was of a visiting player taunting the crowd.