The Sports Curmudgeon®

Tell the truth. Other than hearing some of the marginal MLB players who made the list in the Mitchell Report, were you sufficiently surprised by anything you heard or read such that you even came close to whacking the palm of your hand on your forehead? Didn’t think so… Since I just alluded to baseball, [...]

Please note that I am writing this on the day that the “Mitchell Report” will finally become known to the public but that I am writing it and posting it prior to its release. The two main reasons that I am not going to wait to read about it before writing this essay are really [...]

With three weeks to play in the NFL season, three of the NFC Divisional races have already been decided; and the Tampa Bay Bucs have a comfortable if not insurmountable lead in the fourth. In the AFC, one divisional race is over; two races involve a team with a two game lead and three games [...]

I will be traveling starting later today until early next week. I will try to post something later this week. More than likely, I won’t be “on the air” until next Tuesday. Stay well.

I do not want to get into any arguments about the BCS. The BCS stinks; there isn’t a whole lot of debate possible around that point. At the same time, the BCS is better than the bowl system that used to exist where every conference champion of any importance was contractually bound to a major [...]