I did an entry a month ago about some of the sports venues I have been in, and seen games in and filed stories from … that are gone. I had the Spectrum in Philadelphia on that list, but it was a bit premature. No longer. They got around to actually knocking down the building […]

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Not enough of us hit the “reset” buttons on our lives. Or we wait too long. Suzie Ahn, a former colleague of mine in the good old days of the San Bernardino Sun sports department, hit the button, and she didn’t wait too long. Suzie did what some of us talk about doing, but never […]

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The Asian Games are going on right this minute, in Guangzhou, China. They stage these every four years. Think of the Pan-Am Games and you’ve got the idea. A hemispheric gathering in which organizers are allowed to introduce sports with regional — but not global — appeal. Thus, we have men’s and women’s cricket on […]

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David Beckham has had rather a rough go of it in Los Angeles. He has been hurt, he has gone off to play chunks of years in Europe, he has been rather knocked around in the book “The Beckham Experiment” (the Landon Donovan comments). And then he suffered a ruptured Achilles’ tendon that took him […]

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Even 15 years ago, keeping track of a U.S. sports team from the other side of the world would have been a dicey proposition. The first sport-specific bloggers were just firing up. (This was even before Bill Simmons.) Not every newspaper paid close attention to its website. (I worked at a place where the managing […]

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I am loath to admit this, because I would love to say I’m a really observant guy, a person who notices the small things around him. It would fit perfectly well with my chosen profession, where “seeing and remembering as events unfold” is a particularly useful job skill. But it also seems as if “knowing […]

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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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I have made this argument before. Perhaps on this blog. I hope it’s new to some of you … those of you who are not baseball fans, and don’t already know this. The greatest suffering a sports fan can endure? The collapse of a baseball team. This is not the sudden shock of a shootout […]

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We are proud to say, here at oberjuerge.com, that we have been sounding the alarm on the owner(s) of the Dodgers for most of a year now. From the moment the divorce of Frank and Jamie McCourt picked up speed, it was clear to everyone, even those naifs who view life through Dodger Blue glasses, […]

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Historically,  the Sunday paper is the big one. In the Western world, anyway. Here in the UAE, Sunday actually is Monday. The first day of the work week. But let’s make believe it’s our biggest and best section of the week. What are our top 10 stories in the paper tomorrow? Let’s count them down.

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