I mean, the NFL & co wants you checking on those sport scores. The weather is actual news.

Maybe past weather but the forecasts are mostly qualified guesses.

Not just that many sports have their own backings and beliefs which tend to skew towards whats popular at the time but also some questionable stuff at times. Fun fact the lighting of the bonfire at the Olympics was first done by Nazi Germany

Weather is hardly accurate news anymore. Witness the current cold snap in the US and the political hay made from it, not to mention the inaccurate "facts" and alarm used to frighten people and push them to support unrelated political projects. Hurricane coverage is another example. Hot and cold weather, etc...

Sports is hardly non-political if you wanna be that guy at Thanksgiving but there's a reason it's generally considered a "safe" topic for disagreement. I was making a joke but if you want to take it literally the scores themselves are actual facts that can be reported straight, and hence "news" in the sense most people use that word.

forget the politics, by the articles take (which I feel I miss agree with) sports scores are something I'm sure the NFL would like published, and can be seen as a form of advertising. Just kinda seems like it fits, you know?

Tell that to the guy who attempted to alter the projected map of a hurricane with a Sharpie and pretended that it was the meteorologists who got it wrong.