Excuse me if this is a little dissjointed … I’m typing with one hand. The other is heavily wrapped because, yeah, my index finger is broken. How, you ask? Well, this is a little embarrassing … well, it’s really embarrassing, and inexcusable, but I broke it while I was punching the keyboard of my laptop. […]

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Well, it’s sorta my job. I’m not actually employed by anyone on a consistent basis, and I wonder if I ever will be, but that’s not the point here. (And I’m writing, so why don’t I just come to the point?) I’m still getting out occasionally, and perhaps the idea that it may not happen […]

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Nothing taxes sports journalists the way an Olympics does. Nothing. The Super Bowl, Final Four, World Series, World Cup … none of them compare. The Olympics lasts seemingly forever — three weeks, counting the run-up to Opening. It’s results, results, results everydamnday — no days off for travel, or rest, whatever. It’s enormous — 302 […]

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Just filed a piece on Chaunte Howard for the Press Enterprise. She is a Riverside North alumnus and had a shot at a medal tonight in the high jump before going out at 6 feet, 7 inches and finishing sixth. That story is here. The day before, I did a couple of stories. One on […]

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I think everyone in the profession has variations of these. (Well, probably everyone has job-specific nightmares of this sort.) But this one is real. I lost my computer power cord/adapter.

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It’s been an awful year for print journalism. Something like 8,000 journalists have lost their jobs this year, and it’s not even September yet. It’s a big number, but it’s hard to get your mind around. It reminds me of that Stalin quote, something about “one death is a tragedy; a million deaths is a […]

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I’ve covered the fortunes of several athletes at the Beijing Olympics now, but this was the first time I actually felt nervous for the kid I was watching — and writing about. You talk to the guy, you meet his mom and his wife and his high school coach, and it’s odd how you can […]

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This is all about me, and all about journalism. So it’s not entirely world-wide, no. But I am seriously impressed by the system Beijing organizers have come up with for handling security for credentialed journalists. What had become a tiresome and time-consuming hassle, since Munich and, especially, since 9/11 … has been streamlined quite cleverly […]

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Roy Rivenburg, a former Los Angeles Times staffer, has posted a laugh-out-loud parody of his paper’s website. Find it here or type it in yourself at notthelatimes.com At this writing, the site is slow to load … and I’m guessing it’s because it’s being looked at by so many people. This is just exquisite.

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Sort of a running joke, during The Sun sports reunion in Las Vegas, were expressions that seemed to strike someone as a good name for a band. They were coming about one-an-hour, there for a while. Some of those I remember … and feel free, homeboys and girls, to add more:

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