The post removal issue has been reported to admin.
In the mean time, sports talk belongs at OT. For me, OT stuff does is no big deal when we don't have much posting at all right now, but others prefer not be bothered with clicking thru them to find an EDIG relevant topic to participate in.
Everyone has their own tolerance level with this sort of thing and that's the way it is.
There's a happy medium and I think everyone does a great job on this board.
No big deal IMO.