Clearly, God has been outlawed at ESPN.

This weekend, I was watching SportsCenter. The talking head was talking about the game winning shot by Lebron James that, judging by the media reaction, was the greatest shot ever shot on a basketball court in the history of the world. The talking head was reporting what one professional basketball player had tweeted right after the shot. (Man, is that journalism or what?).

The tweet started out, “OMG…”

The talking head read it as, “Oh my goodness…”

Everybody knows that OMG is short for Oh My God. But at ESPN, clearly the editorial policy reads like this: “For goodness sakes never say God. At ESPN, God is goodness, yes, but nothing more.”