Karma rears its ugly head after all-about-me showboating

SATURDAY ON ESPN, Missouri at Kansas. KU’s K.J. Adams ends a Missouri breakaway with a block from behind. It was somewhat easy as the Mizzou man slowed, never saw him coming.

Still, Adams quit playing to thump his chest in self-approval then gave a sustained all-about-me mean mug to the adoring crowd. Meanwhile, Kansas played four on five on the offensive end.

But the ESPN duo, Tom Hart and Fran Fraschilla, the latter we know to be a straighter shooter, were too busy gushing their approval of Adams to note the flip-side. Again, it’s that kind of hollow, don’t-believe-what-you-see pandering that’s making sports insufferable among the right-minded.

➤ Showboaters lost at sea: Sunday, Chiefs WR

Rashee Rice caught a short pass then rose and did one of those tired allabout-me first-down gestures. Soon, Rice would fumble the ball to the Bills in Buffalo’s 20-17 win.

Same game, final play. Chiefs WR Kadarius Toney, a self-absorbed pain in the arse as a quickly expendable firstround Giants pick, caught a downfield lateral then did a Deion Sanders strut into the end zone. He’d won the game!

But the TD and the game were lost to Toney lining up beyond the line of scrimmage, an easy call to make and tough one to ignore despite Patrick Mahomes’ postgame tantrum.

➤ Mothers, don’t let your babies grow up to be court-stormers: Despite the clear, present and proven danger of courtstorming it continues to be practiced then approved by college basketball TV yahoos who don’t want to risk the ridicule of young, foolish emailers, bloggers and wise guypacked websites.

Earlier this month at the close of Northwestern’s four-point home win over No. 3 Purdue, students rushed the court, an act less spontaneous than obligatory as the game clock was stopped, the outcome no longer in doubt, well before the storming.

But they stormed anyway. Two sprinting males, presumably students, tripped and fell to the court, but quickly rose to avoid being trampled.

Soon, too, will come the day when an agitated visiting player coldcocks a court-stormer into the intensive care unit.