The Sports Curmudgeon®

Michael Crabtree’s surgery on his Achilles tendon has provided fodder for commentators with regard to the degree of damage that injury does to the San Francisco 49ers Super Bowl aspirations. The Niners are too good a team to think that this one injury will reduce them to a middling team; Crabtree’s contributions last season were [...]

You have probably read stories about how Redskins’ fans bought up all the items that Robert Griffin III and his fiancée had on their wedding registry list at Bed Bath and Beyond and sent those gifts to him. Some folks spring-loaded to be pissed off at just about anything have stirred up a minor kerfuffle [...]

Former NASCAR driver, Dick Trickle, died last week from what is described as a “self-inflicted gunshot wound”. His passing removes one of the great names from the sports cosmos. Greg Cote had this note in the Miami Herald yesterday: “Former NASCAR driver Dick Trickle died of an apparent suicide, effectively retiring one of the most [...]

As noted in a comment on yesterday’s rant, Carlos Zambrano will not be playing for the Long Island ducks in the Atlantic League; he signed a minor league contract with the Phillies yesterday and will be in “extended spring training” for “evaluation”. Zambrano is 32 years old; he has a career record of 132-91; he [...]

For those of you who believe that bad things happen in threes, here is corroborating “evidence”. A week ago, Titus Young found himself under arrest in California twice on the same day on two different charges. On Friday, Titus Young was in the hoosegow for the third time in a week. Here is the summary [...]