Don't Get Me Wrong, I Love Sports…
Over the weekend, I encountered e-mail gremlins. Some readers here have requested an e-mail notification when I post a new rant; that mailing list was one of the files corrupted by the gremlins. I have reconstituted it from memory – but my short term memory is not what it used to be.
Therefore, anyone who fell off the mail list who wants to be back on – – or anyone who wants to be added to the list anew – – just send me an e-mail at:
Sorry about that…
My writing schedule for next week will be sporadic. Family events will consume much of the time during the week.
My plan is to write on Monday morning and then see what happens after that. Sometimes plans work out; other times … not so much.
I should be back on normal schedule by the week of February 15.
Stay well, everyone.
I was out of the country over New Year’s and overlooked my annual reading of Gene Collier’s awarding of the “Trite Trophy” on the final Sunday of the calendar year – until today that is. Here is a link to his column in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.
It is definitely worth your time…
Scott Ostler has this column in today’s SF Chronicle. It is an open letter to Mark Davis regarding what happened to him and the Raiders at the recent NFL owners’ meeting and things that Mark Davis might do now to make amends with Raider fans who reside in Oakland.
I think this column should be read in its entirety; it is vintage Scott Ostler. Here is the link…
I will be off-the-air until January 6 or 7 in 2016. Please check in around then for more sports commentaries.
Happy New Year to everyone. I hope 2016 is a healthy and prosperous year for all.
Stay well…
There will be no rant tomorrow on Christmas Day. I will return to the air on Monday 28 December with the final rant of the year – the annual “Bad Ads” rant reviewing some of the bad TV commercials of the previous year.
Merry Christmas to those who celebrate Christmas. Happy Holidays to those who celebrate some other holiday at this time of the year.
For everyone, stay well…
My intention is to have both flavors of Mythical Picks on the street on Wednesday this week so as not to do any writing on Thanksgiving Day. Then again the road to perdition is paved with good intentions…
Nevertheless, the priority this week will be to get the Mythical Picks out early and put off until Friday any decision about posting something then.
In any event, Happy Thanksgiving, all…
I am off to Las Vegas for the weekend. The NFL and NCAA Mythical Picks are posted earlier in the week than usual. Scroll down to see them.
I’ll be back on the air next Tuesday.
Stay well, all…
I will be “off-the-air” for a while. If things go according to plan, I shall return to writing sometime during the week of 9 August.
Until then, stay well everyone…
Greetings from Red Lodge, MT after spending the last 4 days in Yellowstone Park and visiting with an old colleague who has retired to Emigrant, MT. If you have never visited Yellowstone Park, you simply have to put it on your list of things to do soon; if you have been to Yellowstone Park, you know how wonderful our national parks are and you need to make a note to visit at least one of them very soon. My only “complaint” is that I did not see any wolves or a grizzly bear. Oh well, I saw both of those species on my last visit to Yellowstone so I should not be too put off…
Actually, I am glad that American Pharoah won the Triple Crown. Perhaps now we will not have to read as much nonsensical hype about that feat in the next few years. To those folks who have been claiming for years that what horseracing needed was a “superstar Triple Crown winner” to put the sport back near the top of the sporting pyramid in the US, you got what you wished for. Good luck with horseracing returning to the upper echelons any time soon…
I read a report that Raiders’ QB, Derek Carr missed some workouts because of numbness in his fingers. Given the pounding that he took last year behind an offensive line that was only offensive in the sense of its collective body odor, it ought to be a plus that he only had numbness in a couple of fingers.
I read another report that the Dolphins had signed Ryan Tannehill to a long term deal that could be worth $96M. I have nothing against Tannehill; he is a good young QB who has played well and continues to hone his craft. However, I do have two questions:
If Ryan Tannehill is worth $96M, what are the Colts going to have to cough up when they have to sign Andrew Luck to his second contract?
If Ryan Tannehill is worth $96M, what are the Seahawks going to have to cough up when they have to sign Russell Wilson to his second contract?
Just asking…
I have to agree completely with Bob Molinaro on this comment he made in the Hampton Roads Virginian-Pilot recently:
“The late show: I suppose this item could wait, but the World Series doesn’t begin until Oct. 27, with a possible Game 7 set for Nov. 7. Baseball’s disregard for the calendar makes me wish a game or two would be snowed out.”
Finally, Greg Cote got to the bottom line immediately with this comment in the Miami Herald about two weeks ago:
“The Redskins, Texans and Bills are finalists to appear on this year’s HBO Hard Knocks, which answers the question, ‘Is that show still on?’”
But don’t get me wrong, I love sports………