The Sports Curmudgeon®

Having been off the air for 10 days, I missed the opportunity to make all of you aware of some important celebrations in the month of July. Everyone knows about July 4th and about Bastille Day, but one of the reasons you come here is to learn new things and presumably, these public service announcements [...]

Writing on Saturdays is abnormal for me, but my computer is going to be packed away later this day and so I have to write now or forever hold my peace. I don’t know when next I shall have access to the Internet for an uninterrupted time, so let me get some stuff out of [...]

With all the rain at Wimbledon, the tournament is humongously behind schedule in finishing matches. One count said there was a 63-match backlog as of Wednesday morning. That is bad for the tour organizers but it’s even worse for the British papers who feel compelled to have Wimbledon stories prominently displayed on a daily basis. [...]