What’s hot in sports, right now, on the shores of the Arabian Gulf? I knew you were dying to know. And that is where this list comes in. This is a purely subjective list … based on following media coverage here in the United Arab Emirates, and on conversations with local residents (as well as […]

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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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That was the subject line on the e-mail I received yesterday from a friend of mine, David Lassen, and since he was working as a columnist in the print industry, it was hard to imagine “They got me” was going to be anything good. Maybe as the butt of a practical joke. You know, “Boy, […]

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I don’t often do this. Just link to someone/somebody and let it go at that. But this story and the nine-minute video that goes with it are worthy of it. (As if none of you aren’t looking at espn.com.) In the three decades I spent covering sports, including the 23 I spent as a sports […]

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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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I was thinking of a headline along the lines of “Not Missing Super Bowl Media Day,” but that could be misconstrued. As in, I didn’t miss it; I was there. When I meant “I am so not missing the mockery of a sham that is Media Day.” Look at your local newspaper tomorrow morning. Or […]

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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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A few weeks ago, I posted a lengthy bit of material from a person who commented on a Landon Donovan post. I thought it was so nicely done that I devoted most of a subsequent blog entry to the comment. The  material came from a blogger who goes by the screen name of 51NC3PONG. This […]

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Mostly, I just wanted to see how many “categories” I could have at the top of this item. Now let’s see if I actually mention something about all of them. Some interesting topics playing out in U.S. sports right now and, really, I’m aware of them. Not everyone back home seems to remember we do, […]

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Sometimes the answer to this question is just plain scary. When journalists talk among themselves about “what readers really want” … they almost always take the high road. Too high a road. Readers want incisive reporting and elegant writing, journalists say. They want global news. They want hard-hitting investigative journalism That Makes a Difference and […]

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