The Sports Curmudgeon®

What is the biggest news related to March Madness so far? Is it that the chalk absolutely dominated the first day? Is it that Duke went out in the first round? Is it that three of the opening day losers couldn’t score 50 points? I don’t think so. Those may be interesting side notes, but [...]

The first thing you need to do this morning is to look at today’s date. Good. Now, go calculate the area of a circle… Or go bake a lemon chiffon pie… The NFL free agent season has been surprising in terms of the lavish contracts bestowed on free agents in this year of a steep [...]

Bob Molinaro writes an entertaining sports column in The Virginian-Pilot; last week, while covering the ACC Tournament in Tampa, he wrote that the ACC Tournament belongs in North Carolina. He’s right. There are certain sporting events that one properly associates with venues. The Triple Crown races don’t meander around the country; the FA Cup Finals [...]

Back when I was in college – but after Sir Isaac Newton had stopped teaching physics – there was a popular Bob Dylan song where each of his marginally intelligible refrains ended with the line: “For the times, they are a-changin’.” Well, times certainly did change from the early 1960s through the late 1960s and [...]

The Sacramento Kings have “excused Ron Artest from participating in team-related activities for an indefinite period” while things get sorted out over Artest’s arrest earlier this week. He’s still getting paid but he’s also under investigation for an incident where a woman called “911” from Artest’s home and claimed she was being assaulted. Police found [...]