I was OCD before the phrase had been invented. “Obsessive-cumpulsive disorder” is, I believe, what OCD stands for. Let’s find a definition. Here’s one from medterms.com And this is just part of the definition. “A psychiatric disorder characterized by obsessive thoughts and compulsive actions, such as cleaning, checking, counting, or hoarding. Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), one […]

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Hong Kong is not a big sports town. People don’t seem to talk about sports much, and they certainly don’t have much on the local sports menu. A low-level soccer league everyone ignores. And we’re about done. Aside from a handful, a small handful of one-shot, bigger-picture events. Such as the JB Group Classic, a […]

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Guaranteed, this is not the first time someone has suggested that, if Karl Marx were alive today … he would be 190 years old, and doctors would be staring at him with mouths agape — like rubes at the carnival’s two-headed calf. As I was saying, if Karl Marx were alive today, he wouldn’t be […]

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Just heard this from the man himself. He was responding to my note wishing him good luck, because there were rumors around … But it was too late, he wrote back to me in a short note. Steve got a call last night from people in the L.A. Daily News office. He is out, and […]

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I’m not sure how many employees at what used to be the San Bernardino Sun-Ontario Bulletin-San Gabriel Valley Tribune were fired today, but it was more than one and … more than 10, even? A couple of things: 1. One of those fired was my friend and former colleague Doug Padilla. I can’t imagine Doug […]

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My ear isn’t exactly close to the ground on this one. Not while living on Hong Kong Island where college football is well behind badminton on the list of popular sports. But I have the Internet, and I can read blogs and news stories, and from what I’m seeing, something odd is going on out […]

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I’m looking for help here. Soccer is probably the biggest sport in China. And certainly in Hong Kong. Though the Chinese barely play the game, themselves. And pretty much ignore their worse-than-MLS domestic league. What they seem to prefer … is watching the English Premier League. Which is being shown almost 24-hours-a-day on English-language cable. […]

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This slays me. I just got done watching UCLA and Oregon in college basketball, on ESPN-Asia. A game that was at least 24 hours old. Well, at least I’ve seen the Bruins once. But the big bowl of the day? Which is going on right this minute? Texas and Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl? […]

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With Leah back in California, I’m on my own for dinner, on my nights off. Like tonight. I’ve never been one of those people who can do a restaurant alone, and I’m not ready for the fast food thing, and it’s basically not possible to cook in this apartment … So. So, I went up […]

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I am struck, today, by how far in the past my tenure with Gannett/MediaNews/L.A. News Group/San Bernardino Sun seems. It has been only nine months since those entities were huge in my life, but it seems like years. Probably because I’ve been through what seems to be a couple of major changes. Moving to Long […]

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