Three weddings on three continents in 22 days. With not much in common aside from “pretty much everyone was happy”. Doesn’t make me an expert, but I’ve had cause/time to think about weddings. Today’s list: Ten observations about weddings, circa 2015. In no particular order.

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This is becoming a thing, isn’t it? The three-day wedding. We saw it last month in Greece. Sunday is the day-after brunch/lunch. Saturday is the event. And Friday?

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Not all of California is overrun, and we drove up the coast today to luxuriate in that part of it. The Central Coast, it is called. And it is spectacular. Rolling hills, green, when a drought is not going on. Home to hundreds of vineyards. About an hour north of Santa Barbara; about three hours […]

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Not a headline we could have written often over the past 30 years. The Los Angeles Clippers look to have been asleep at the switch as the Dallas Mavericks pursued center DeAndre Jordan and said he would sign a four-year, $80 million contract with them. The Clippers were pummeled by media, and even by one […]

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This is a new one for the UAE. An ambitious Chinese soccer club has barged in, made an enormous offer — about $22 million — for the forward who has been the Arabian  dominant scorer for four seasons … and is carrying him off. China soccer apparently is ready to spend some serious money, if […]

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I try to make one major-league baseball game per year. Not always do-able, when you live in Abu Dhabi. This one turned out well on several fronts … starting with the Maury Wills bobblehead doll we got upon entering the stadium.

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Great performance. Three goals by Carli Lloyd as the U.S. overwhelmed Japan in the final of the Fifa Women’s World Cup. Lloyd in this one reminded me a bit of Zinedine Zidane, also a midfielder and a No. 10, normally an organizer who turned scorer in the biggest of matches. (Zidane had two in the […]

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What would happen if we combined the two biggest secular American holidays? We found out. Not really by plan. And it was fabulous.

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Well, this is embarrassing. Not that the Los Angeles Clippers are strangers to embarrassment. The best team the Clippers have had, the team that fell one victory short of the Western Conference finals, just saw their third-best player, 7-foot center DeAndre Jordan, leave for the Dallas Mavericks. –For $20 million less than the Clippers presumably […]

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Day 1 in the Southern California visit and it seems like it always did, except more so. More people, more cars, more money needed to go grocery shopping. Looking at four lanes of traffic at a standstill on the southbound 5, and it’s not even noon, and it is hard to imagine I dealt with […]

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