You will be pleased to know that the Dodgers stand foursquare against fans nearly being beaten to death at Dodger Stadium. It’s a bold and brave move, but Frank McCourt’s team is the one to take it. Yes, that was sarcasm. Can’t help it when the subject is the owner of the Dodgers and the […]

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This was an issue before I fled the country. Actually, it has been an issue for about 10 years now. Going to a game at Dodger Stadium can be just … plain … dangerous. It appears that two men dressed in Dodgers apparel attacked a Giants fan after the game on Opening Day and beat […]

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Former colleague Michelle Gardner sent me a link to the latest from our favorite ballplayer, David Eckstein. Eck, you may recall, was the little guy who made the most from a baseball career with the fewest natural gifts. Undersized, not very fast, almost no power as a hitter, a guy with a strange throwing motion […]

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It’s liberating, really. After four-plus decades of fandom only partially damaged by journalistic interaction with snotty and dopey players (and Tommy Lasorda), I swore off the Dodgers a year ago. To me, they’re just another team. It’s Frank McCourt. As long as he or his ex-wife are running the franchise, I want no part of […]

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Yes, this is about fantasy baseball. Feel free to tune it out immediately. I don’t write about any of this often. Fantasy ball is like fantasies of all sorts; probably we should keep them to ourselves. But if you have the slightest interest in which players this 29-year-old league considers the most valuable … read […]

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I looked this up the other day. Athletes who died young, during what should have been their playing careers, but who did not die violently or in an accident. I thought I might have to research this sport by sport, but someone is even more morbid than I am, and they compiled a list and […]

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Going on 17 months now that we have been out of California — and out of the United States. I feel as if I have kept fairly good track of several American sports. Others, however, I hardly realize I haven’t been paying any attention until I blunder into some online story and realize that I […]

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Many of us in North America, in particular, have no expertise in various major sports competitions in other parts of the world. But we have a vague idea of them. The Copa Libertadores is big in South America. The UEFA Champions League is huge in Europe. So is the Euro Cup. The specifics may be […]

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This feels like a depressing movie we’ve seen before. We know how it’s going to turn out, and it won’t a happy ending. Milton Bradley is in trouble with the authorities again.

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Maybe I’m missing something, over here in Abu Dhabi. The Dodgers actually had a good season? They did things right? They were an organization to admire, to emulate? I thought the team finished fourth in a five-team division, with a losing record, and was hamstrung by the bitter divorce of the team’s co-owners and didn’t […]

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