I was a Dodgers fan for nearly half a century. One of my earliest memories is lying on the floor in the living room of the family home in Long Beach and listening to Vin Scully call a game, through those enormous speakers my father rigged up. I was, maybe, 7. I have been a […]

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This was cheesy. A sellout wrapped in a semi-clever package. But still a sellout. Yesterday, April 1 … the espn.com home page seemed to have a new feature. Streaming across the upper half of the home page was a ticker sort of concept. Moving news, right to left. Like the cable news stations use across […]

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I will tell this anecdote again. I have used it on this blog at least once. Maybe twice. Thrice. It was the 2006 Olympics. At Torino. A gloomy, gray, soggy city trying to jumpstart its future after the Fiat plant closed up and left town. Actually, the media center was inside the old assembly line. […]

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One of the vanities of expatriates in the Electronic Age … is that we’re sure we know what’s going on back home. At least in the subjects we care about. Hey, we have wifi in the apartment! We know what’s going on! Sometimes, that isn’t quite true. Take, for example, Major League Baseball.

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A reality of blogging: It’s bloody difficult to do one item a day, every day, for two blogs. And hold a full-time job. Try it sometime, and a year later let me know how it’s going. The second blog is my quixotic World Cup Countdown blog. And part of that deal is a promise to […]

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Willie Davis was found dead in his home in Burbank today. “Three Dog,” as he was known by teammates and fans because he hit so many triples and because he wore No. 3. He was 69. Thinking back about him … he is one of those guys who gives you pause. Starting center fielder for […]

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Ah, the power of the internet. Way back on Feb. 3 … yes, all of seven days ago … I wrote an item on this blog asking the Los Angeles Times to fix the problem that kept me from being able to read any of their blogs. The “hook” to the story being that Steve […]

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My friend and former colleague Steve Dilbeck now blogs about the Dodgers for the Los Angeles Times. I would like to read Steve’s blog. I would also like to read a blog about the Dodgers. The trouble? None of the latimes.com blogs will load. Zero. Sports, politics, news. None can be called up. The people […]

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Have I written this before? If I haven’t … I should have. Thank you, Jose Canseco. Thank you for telling us what we didn’t want to hear about baseball and steroids. Thank you for never giving in, never going into a shell when fellow users were calling you names, like “delusional” … and said you […]

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It was a more eventful decade than my initial thoughts indicated. “Wow. I have to come up with 10 good sports events from the 0-somethings? I’m not sure I can do that.” Turns out, a few minutes of cross-referencing years and sports, and it’s no problem finding 10. The trick is limiting it to that […]

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