The situation will be reversed in a couple of months, when Abu Dhabi will be in the midst of three months or so when it will be a haven for Europeans desperate for warmth and sun. But even in October, France has the more temperament climate. Let weather.com tell the tale.

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Baseball’s divisional series have become somewhat dreary. Somebody overwhelms somebody else, and it usually is based on the winner having three good starting pitchers. Consider the stat I saw today:

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I’m not sure I’ve ever met a sports journalist who wasn’t something of a numbers freak. Scores, statistics, streaks … it’s as if the entire fraternity (and the much smaller sorority) comes to the profession with digits already dancing in their heads. So it isn’t any stranger than usual for someone who has worked in […]

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After three days of looking,  in the Languedoc region of France, at 12 houses, despising most of them, being “OK” with two and fine with one (that we can’t afford), I’ve been rethinking the whole concept of HGTV’s “House Hunters.” To wit:

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Rather a lost day. Well, apart from the scenery, which was rolling and green and a constant pleasure to scan. But if the idea was to find a place in Languedoc we could invest in … Have to concede we really didn’t make any progress. I suppose those things happen, when house-hunting. I’ve heard people […]

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This got a little weird. So, we’re out cruising around the Languedoc countryside, going from ville to ville, already feeling like unwitting participants in the HGTV show “House Hunters International” … when the second agent we meet is … someone who has appeared as an agent twice before — on the actual show. Anushka, is […]

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We began the day in northern Europe. We ended it on the Mediterranean. And we never crossed a border. That’s what happens when you climb on the TGV (fast train) at Gare de Lyon in Paris and climb off at Beziers, a few hundred yards from what the Romans once called Mare Nostrum. Hard to […]

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The best part of having two baseball teams in the Los Angeles market? Usually one of them will be pretty good. Didn’t work out that way for greater L.A. this year. And that doesn’t happen very often.

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This must seem a bit over the top by now. Well, it does for me, too, and I have the benefit of knowing how it happened. Three visits to Paris in 13 months and change. To recap:

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I no longer recall what made me mull this topic. Maybe I was thinking of the new facilities in the Big Three sports in the U.S., and how many of them I have not seen. Which in a roundabout way led me to consider how many stadiums and arena I have been in that 1) […]

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