I have a beach-ball-sized globe sitting on a shelf here at my desk, and I was looking at the Western Hemisphere the other day, and I noticed something I’d never seen before.

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I’m a bobblehead maniac. And I know it’s not just me. I will see some random team play, for a bobblehead. I will endure sellout crowds, for a bobblehead. I love bobbleheads. They kill me. I can watch them wiggle for hours … even if the Chinese craftsmen didn’t quite do justice to whomever is […]

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I made the quick trip over to Carson this afternoon for a press conference featuring two of the three or four most important guys in U.S. soccer — Galaxy forward Landon Donovan and Galaxy coach/general manager Bruce Arena. (I mean, really, who else are straws that stir the soccer drink the way those guys do? […]

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I did a couple of items on choosing an English Premier League team. The first when I was in Hong Kong, trying to figure out which team I ought to prefer, if I was going to see EPL soccer six hours a day. Then a second item, last week, in which I revealed I hadn’t […]

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This is strange. I was just looking at nascar.com to see how the points standings are running, and I found this amazing link. If I didn’t know better, NASCAR’s own Web site is reporting something that could easily be construed as bad news! And illustrating it with a picture showing a half-empty grandstand. A happenstance […]

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College basketball teams and organizers ought to be alarmed. Today, I had a television choice between Big Ten basketball and a NASCAR race at Atlanta … and I opted for the gearheads. Which tells us something about the college hoops regular season.

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I don’t mind the concept. Organize the world’s baseball talent along national lines and have yourselves a soccer World Cup-style tournament. See who comes out at the end. Turns out, it’s just not really workable and certainly not very compelling. The issues with the WBC? Well, gee, let us enumerate the primary ones.

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It will take a while for the surviving media pundits in downtown Los Angeles to notice … but the last serious player in Inland Empire sports journalism — and one of the final 3-4 in the entire Greater L.A. market — has given up its claim of “major league” status in the past 24 hours. […]

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Same day the Dodgers re-introduce Manny Ramirez … individual tickets go on sale. Here is the release from the Dodgers.

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It seemed like a good idea, at the time. That is, more than two weeks ago. Dodgers vs. White Sox, “right next door” in Glendale, Ariz. Road trip! Here was the plan: Zoom over to the Dodgers’ new spring-training site in Arizona, see a game, zip right home. Over and back,  same day. Talk about […]

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