The Sports Curmudgeon®

I am neither a psychologist nor an addict so forgive any impreciseness here with regard to the meaning of “enabling” in the context of assisting folks to continue on with less than constructive behaviors on their part. Enablers allow addicts/people with less than fully socialized behaviors to escape the consequences of their behaviors thereby making [...]

In a recent rant, I wondered aloud if the Raiders were paying out humongous amounts of money – and guaranteed money no less – to free agents because that is the only way that the free agents would agree to sign with the Raiders and play for a team that sure looks as if it [...]

Less than a month from now, the folks in the Washington DC area will be inundated with stories in the local papers about the glory of the new baseball stadium in town. Fans in other parts of the country will hear about it but won’t necessarily have it hammered down their throats for about a [...]

Five years ago, I called for a cap on the number of reporters who should be allowed to cover Spring Training and tried to define a set of trite story angles that the ones permitted to attend Spring Training need no longer foist upon us. Needless to say, this reporting cap is not in effect [...]

From here in the nerve center of Curmudgeon Central, I have issued and all-points bulletin to locate Al Gore. The opportunity for another lecture about global warming – which he will doggedly try to label as a “speech” – is out there waiting to be inflicted on us. The opportunity comes from Alaska and the [...]