The women are presented as evidence of inclusion and diversity when too often their presence is designed for publicity and tokenism. Then there are those hired and paraded — and often dressed — to attract the “young male demographic” as “hot babes” when the Internet now serves to satisfy prurient interests on demand.

How can a defense this good spend January at home? It hasn’t allowed a touchdown in three games.

That Newton eventually hands the ball to a kid in the stands excuses nothing. It’s more evidence that he knows kids are watching — and may choose to play like Cam!

Though Gonzaga and the University of Washington are both in Washington, a four-hour ride between them, the schools’ basketball teams made an 8,000-mile round trip to play each other on Thanksgiving eve at the Atlantis resort and casino in The Bahamas.

But not all the student-athletes were unable to be home for Thanksgiving. Given that six were recruited from outside the U.S., including Poland and Senega, it is unlikely those at their homes celebrate our Thanksgiving.

By the way, given that St. John’s roster includes two recruits from Italy and one each from Guinea, Mali, France and Spain, forget classes; it’s a wonder Chris Mullin can conduct practice in English.

And yet 32 NFL teams have taken the exact same view on Kaepernick: that his actions have disqualified him from employment.

Let’s not hear any more about this being about football-related considerations. Let’s not have another league official or owner of a franchise say that NFL teams do whatever they can to improve themselves and to win games.

He ambles over to a monitor just to the left of a matrix of 10 television screens — nine of which have been showing live, early games from the NFL’s Week 13 — to narrate a couple of scoring plays that had occurred moments earlier. “Speaking of two points, punt to [the Broncos’] Isaiah McKenzie, who fields inside the 5, for reasons that escape most people, and then loses the football.

That’s a safety. That’s two points for the other team — 35-9 [Dolphins]. How about seven for the other team? Jake Rudock in for the injured Matthew Stafford. He’s picked. He’s pick-sixed. That is Eric Weddle with his beard into the end zone, and the Ravens have hung 44 on the Lions. Back to the two-point try for the Jets.”

With that, the Red Zone Channel goes full screen from East Rutherford for the CBS broadcast with Ian Eagle and Dan Fouts. Now off-air, Siciliano stops at a podium to check Twitter on his laptop, then focuses his attention back to Jets-Chiefs.