Any useful journalist who has been around newspapers for any length of time can tell you: It’s an avocation, not a vocation. We love(d) what we do. And we will allow huge tracts of our real lives to go to pieces to make sure the print product we worked for is as good as it […]

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I was operating from memory when I did a lengthy post on former San Bernardino Sun colleague Claude Anderson. The mass of information was correct, thank goodness, but a few facts were off a bit, and a few others I didn’t bring up at all because I didn’t know. Like how old he was when […]

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Matthew Kredell covered just about everything during his tenure with the Los Angeles Daily News. Even though he never was a full-time staffer. Something most of the rest of us didn’t know — because he seemed to be at a major L.A. event five days a week. Dodgers, Lakers, USC … and then the Kings, […]

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A lot of people who watched Kansas and Memphis play for the NCAA basketball championship last night probably assumed Calipari & Co. soon would be cutting down the nets when Memphis took a nine-point lead, at 60-51, with 2:12 to play.Or when the Tigers led by six, 62-56, with 1:39 to play. That game was […]

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Much has been written about the deep cuts in the L.A. Daily News newsroom, the subsequent ouster of ace editor Ron Kaye, and the gutting of the once-proud Long Beach Press-Telegram (essentially reduced to a bureau of the Torrance Daily Breeze). Bad stuff. But it turns out that life as a professional journalist is even […]

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I know Darren Collison a little bit. He is from Etiwanda High School in Rancho Cucamonga, and because he was a “local” guy to me as sports columnist for The Sun and Inland Valley Daily Bulletin, I often spent time with him after games, the past three UCLA basketball seasons. He’s a nice kid, well-spoken, […]

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Perhaps you saw my advertisement in the San Bernardino Sun this morning. Thanks for taking the time to look me up. Since nobody bothered to tell you what happened to me, my wife thought I should take out an ad in the paper. I thought it was worth the $83.40 investment to update The Sun’s […]

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The good news: Three straight trips to the Final Four. The bad news: Three consecutive ousters via butt-kicking. Time for UCLA coach Ben Howland to reconsider his approach to team-building. Because his Bruins are good enough to get close … but clearly not good enough to navigate past the truly elite teams.

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Austin Powers was a Johnny-come-lately. Jim Schulte was an International Man of Mystery a good 30 years before Michael Myers’ toothy British secret agent. Schulte may be the most memorable character out of The Sun sports department during my 31-plus years there. And character he was. Often, it was difficult to determine where the actor’s […]

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Well … I feel like it’s time I piped up here. And if y’all think he changed the course of your career/life … Anyway. We all want to pay tribute, we all want to commiserate, but mostly, I think we’d all like to see each other after all these years. I am proposing a Sun […]

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