The Sports Curmudgeon®

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 [...]

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 [...]

The Luddites were mainly textile workers in England who were actively antagonistic to the then new-fangled mechanical looms that appeared in the early stages of the Industrial Revolution. The Luddites rightfully recognized that mechanization was putting them out of work and they took matters into their own hands and sought to destroy those mechanical looms. [...]

Sportswriters and commentators like to say that sports are a microcosm of life and that they teach us some of the essential lessons of life. Such statements are usually self-serving. However, I do believe that the current hootdoodle created by Rashard Mendenhall’s tweets on the subject of Osama bin Laden’s death might be instructive about [...]

Despite the lockout and the legal wrangling with the NFLPA over labor laws in the US, the NFL will hold its annual draft this week. While I have gotten very tired of the press releases and the controlled leaks of information from the league and the players association regarding the heinous nature of the opposite [...]