The Urban Curmudgeon
growls from Manhattan
The Trump debate goes on and on, proving that the media are just another bunch of whores working their individual street corners. It’s not going to stop anytime soon mainly because there isn’t any reason for it to stop. The media loves
I’m a big sports fan, especially football but the huge noise that was made a few months back and is now being renewed over the off field and on field behavior of professional football players has gotten so blown out of
Being as it’s New Years Day, and all the bowl action is taking up most of the viewing space on the tube, I thought that this was an apt subject to explore. There’s been a lot of noise made lately about
Joe Nocera in the New York Times has attacked the NCAA with accusations on various levels against that not so august body. Nocera’s most vociferous complaint, however, that the colleges make huge amounts of money on the play of student athletes and
Well, here we are again, the end of a college football season and once more no legitimate champion. No, you say, Auburn beat Oregon in the battle of the undefeated. That produced a champion. Oh yeah, what about the other undefeated team,
Well the story that has kept the nations breath bated has finally been resolved and hopefully left the headlines, leaving fans and ownerships across the country feeling cheated and abused. All except slick Pat Reilly in Miami. And why are they all
Today’s rant is about college sports in general and college football in particular so if you have no interest in sports this is the time to hit delete. Before I get off on today’s topic, though, I want to extend a mea