Category Archives: Topical Rants

An alternative viewpoint to be sure. Here I take the time to single out specific issues that just annoy me.

Deconstructing The NY Jets

January 16, 2012 – 11:29 am

Now that the kerfuffle over that story in the NY Daily News about how some of the Jets think Mark Sanchez is a less-than-perfect QB and/or teammate has died down, I think it might be instructive to look at the issues raised by the story as a lens into the team itself. On the logical [...]

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Boneheads – - NFL Variety

January 10, 2012 – 12:44 am

Perusing my clipboard document where I keep material for these rants, I think I have sufficient material to dedicate an entire rant today to a few NFL players who have been boneheads over the past weeks. I will not dwell on Washington Redskins’ starters, Fred Davis and Trent Williams, who failed three substance abuse tests [...]

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Meathead Of The Year – 2011

December 30, 2011 – 12:05 am

The headline here says it all. There are plenty of contenders for the disgrace of this label for 2011 but there can be only one Meathead of the Year (MOTY). Those who merit only a mention here and the lesser label of “Meathead” can take solace in the Biblical verse: “Many are called but few [...]

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The Year In Review – - 2011

December 29, 2011 – 8:49 am

As we sail through the 52nd week of 2011 and prepare ourselves for the arrival of 2012, many folks give thought as to ways in which they might become “better”. Some folks actually take those thoughts and turn them into actions. However, there are people who will not need to do any of that thinking [...]

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Bad Ads 2011

December 27, 2011 – 9:11 am

Watching lots of sports on TV is not exactly a tough way to spend one’s time; I do not want to make myself out to be some kind of martyr. There is one downside to that way of life however; it is a real downside and it is annoying. Watching lots of sports on TV [...]

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College Football Coaching Changes 2011

November 30, 2011 – 9:23 am

It is hardly unusual to see a whole bunch of college football coaches relieved of their duties at the end of a college football season based on under-achievement on the field. This year, the change processes started early with mid-season firings of Mike Locksley at New Mexico and Mike Stoops at Arizona. Then came a [...]

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A New NBA CBA In The Wings…

November 28, 2011 – 10:11 am

The sports event of the weekend has to be the handshake deal reached between the NBA and whatever the NBPA should be called now since it currently exists in a different form than it used to. If the players drop their legal actions and then the handshake deal wins ratification from the requisite numbers of [...]

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NBA Economics

November 23, 2011 – 9:27 am

In golf, they call it “going to school” when one player watches an opponent putt on a green to see how fast the green is and how the ball might break on a given trajectory. I wonder if the folks involved in the baseball labor negotiations – – the ones that just resulted in a [...]

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Penn State – Retrospective and Prospects

November 14, 2011 – 2:41 pm

Over the past week or so, I have had several lengthy e-mail exchanges with a reader who is an attorney. He said that he hoped that I would take time to reflect on the events at Penn State and to ruminate on what changes need to be made to prevent anything like this in the [...]

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Frank McCourt To Sell The Dodgers

November 7, 2011 – 12:10 am

I think I have mentioned this before, but I have a former colleague who is a historian. He has retired to Pismo Beach in California and has written two books, one on California political history in the 1930s, and another on Richard Nixon and his political rivals in California. He is an avid LA Dodgers [...]

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