I was about to suggest that it’s interesting, what moments you remember in a three-decade career. Then I considered that we’re talking about a middle-of-the-lineup Angels hitter being shot dead on the streets of Gary, Indiana, and, yes, that probably ought to make for a memorable moment. Doesn’t happen every day. Anyway, that quote came […]

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The Angels don’t have to play all the regulars every day, these final 11 days of the season. But they should play enough of them, often enough, that they have a real shot at winning 100 games. A couple of good reasons to aim high:

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I don’t dwell on the National Football League. It’s gone. It seems a bad idea for the NFL to leave open the Los Angeles market for 14 seasons (and counting), but, yeah, whatever. Anyway, I just happened to bump into recent stories about L.A.’s former NFL teams — the Rams and Raiders. And collectively, well, […]

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I’d like to see Women’s Professional Soccer — the new women’s pro soccer league — survive. I really would. I’m just not optimistic it will. Not after the crash-and-burn of the Women’s United Soccer Association (WUSA), which opened in 2001 and shut down in 2003, after all of three seasons. All but invisible to date, […]

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Just finished a one-hour media conference call with the four “disgraced” U.S. Olympic cyclists who were excoriated by the U.S. Olympic Committee for wearing protective masks when arriving at the Beijing airport last month, and then threatened with expulsion from the Summer Games if they didn’t apologize, muy pronto. An apology that was not written […]

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It’s out there, now. Theirs for the taking. USC is the overwhelming No. 1 in the latest polls, picking up all but a handful of first-place votes in the AP (61 of 64) and coaches’ (57 of 61) polls. After crushing Ohio State, the Trojans clearly have convinced everyone they are serious players in the […]

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By me, of course. Not Andruw Jones. Nothing he did this season would bring to mind the word “blast” — at least not used in its slugging context. My, oh, my, what a dog. What a barking hound. What a self-inflicted wound the Dodgers dealt themselves, when they signed this grinning, useless, delusional and scandalously […]

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That Ohio State drive I mentioned below in an item below? The one for the field goal? Turns out that was the Buckeyes’ high-water mark. After that it was all USC. With extreme prejudice. The Trojans handled Ohio State like Florida and LSU did in the last two national-title games. Except even more decisively.

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It’s a little weasel-wordy, but it’s clear: The U.S. Olympic Committee is asking the forgiveness of the four cyclists it bullied into a false and unnecessary confession of sins to the Chinese people, etc., a few days before the start of the Beijing Olympics. I suppose this will do. It’s rare to see a big […]

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Especially if it’s Ohio State. If a big-name school from one of the serious conferences finishes 11-1 … you have to like its chances of getting to the BCS title game. So the loser of USC-Ohio State … most certainly isn’t dead. For starters, if the loser goes 11-1 — its one loss will be […]

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