The Sports Curmudgeon®

Last week, I did a rant headlined Bad Boys and that rant caused Rich, a long-term reader, to pose this question as a comment: “Speaking of bad boys, my beautiful wife Mary has just found a poster we picked up at a home run hitting extravaganza here in Las Vegas’ Cashman Field in year 2000. [...]

Readers here know that I view sports gambling as a fait accompli. I and a group of friends make an annual trek to Las Vegas every Fall simply because we can bet football, baseball, hockey and soccer games there. The “center of gravity” for the “East Coast contingent” of this trip is somewhere around Wilmington [...]

After tonight’s March Madness final game, I will have some suggestions for the folks in charge of the rules of the game to improve college basketball. However, before that final game, which I intend to watch and to enjoy just as I have every NCAA Tournament final game since 1954, there are a few issues [...]

When I was a kid, radio DJs would take calls and play requested songs. The accompanying patter would be something like this: “This moldy oldie goes out to Sally, Harry, TJ and all the junior class at Beaglebreath High…” I do not intend to turn these rants into a “request line” despite the fact that [...]

For those of you keeping score at home, the Mayans got it wrong. If demographers have it right, about 7 billion souls will accompany an intact Planet Earth as it continues its journey through this small corner of the universe. Nevertheless, there are various celebrities and sports figures who “shuffled off their mortal coil” during [...]