http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love Sports... Fri, 12 Mar 2010 17:33:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en News broke this week that ESPN, the NFL and a company called Andell Entertainment will join forces to make a movie about Vince Lombardi. The screenwriter for this undertaking will be the same guy who won an Oscar for Forrest Gump and who also wrote The Horse Whisperer. ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/03/12/hold-the-cinematographic-exuberance/ Yesterday, I wrote that it would be interesting to see if Jacksonville supported minor league football (the resurrected Arena League) because it does not support major league football (the NFL) very well. A former colleague and long-time reader who has retired to northern Florida sent me a link to ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/03/11/today-must-be-national-wtf-day/ The NCAA “Super Sleuths” struck again while I was away. They concluded their “investigation” into allegations that Rich Rodriguez had his Michigan football team practicing 24 hours a week instead of the NCAA maximum allowed 8 hours a week and the sleuths came to this conclusion: It was a clerical ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/03/10/can-michigan-football-players-tell-time/ In Sunday’s Philadelphia Inquirer, Stephen A. Smith’s column focused on the trouble in Allen Iverson’s life - - not merely as a basketball player whose career is on the wane. Smith says that without an intervention, Allen Iverson’s difficulties with alcohol and gambling will ruin his life and that ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/03/09/allen-iverson-in-crisis/ It seems as if lots of “stuff” happened while I was seeing Panama and the Panama Canal at a leisurely pace. I cannot even pretend that I am caught up on things yet but some events of the past week and a half call for comment. John Daly got mad ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/03/08/back-at-the-keyboard/ I will be off the air for the next couple of weeks. My long-suffering wife and I are flying south - - where it is warm - - with friends. We will be visiting Panama and spending three days of our trip on a small watercraft traversing the ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/02/23/admin-note-on-hiatus/ I do not know where you live; but for anyone reading this in the Mid-Atlantic region or the northeast part of the US, you probably have had enough of winter and are ready for spring. Even cross-country skiers have to have had enough of this nonsense by now… ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/02/23/a-harbinger-of-spring/ Bob Ford of the Philadelphia Inquirer hit this one out of the park... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/02/22/recommended-reading-14/ After the fact of the “Tiger Woods Apologia” on Friday, I feel no need to change anything I said on that subject last Thursday evening. However, there was one aftermath of his staged appearance that does need a comment. To the shock and horror of everyone at ESPN, ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/02/22/aftermath-of-the-tiger-woods-apologia/ In all of the rants I have done here, I do not think I have ever done this before. I must inform you that I am writing this late at night on the day before the date that you see at the top of this rant. I want ... http://sportscurmudgeon.com/blog/2010/02/19/tiger-woods-reemergence/