The Sports Curmudgeon®

My long-suffering wife and I are going to Australia and New Zealand later today. We will spend 5 weeks there and will return on 10 March. Yes, I will be watching the Super Bowl at a sports bar in Sydney, Australia; kickoff is 10:30 AM on Monday there. I suspect that I will be recovered [...]

Women’s Professional Soccer (WPS) has suspended operations for the 2012 season but says that the long-range plan is to play again in 2013. Here is a link to the press release that announces this suspension of operations. While the press release sounds as upbeat as is possible under the circumstances – – given the announcement [...]

Anyone who has read these rants for more than a little while has to realize that I enjoy reading Scott Ostler’s columns in the SF Chronicle and that I often use his wit and wisdom as a closing line. This morning, I finished reading a book he wrote called How To Cheat In Sports. It [...]

This is the time of year when fans of those NFL teams that stunk out the joint in the previous season work themselves into a frothy lather over draft picks and which player in the draft is “the key” to making the playoffs next year. The fact is that most of those squads are far [...]

Yesterday, I mentioned that the NFL stadium experience – – and potentially future stadium attendance – – is coming up against competition from staying at home and watching the game on high-def and/or 3-D television. Then last evening, I ran across a report about a group called Sports Fan Coalition, which has managed to get [...]