Let’s see … “hitting on a soft 20” probably will be the line that sticks in people’s heads. Though “goat on a staircase” … “yes, I sit to pee” … “lucky goiter” … and “Black Death Tour” have a chance to live in infamy, as well. Ah, yes, The Sun sports department reunion weekend, July […]

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May not get much posted today. I’m in Las Vegas for the Sun sports reunion.  We’ve got something like 14 former Sun sports staffers here on The Strip, and it’s a little wilder than I expected, frankly. Not that I’m contributing a whole lot to it. Might be able to catch up tomorrow or the […]

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First thing to know about Albert Bui: He named himself. If Albert wasn’t born in South Vietnam, his parents certainly hadn’t been in SoCal long when he appeared in this world. As he related the story, Young Albert liked watching the Bill Cosby cartoon show, and was amused by one particular character: Fat Albert. So […]

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Matt McHale was a near contemporary of mine. We got into sports journalism about the same time, and we left it within a week of each other, each laid off* by the L.A. News Group earlier this year. Matt died today in Connecticut. He had fallen ill in late May, three months or so after […]

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Maybe soccer wonks already know about this guy and his site. I found out just the other day, when he introduced himself via e-mail, and I’m actually quite excited about it. This guy Dave Brett (find his site here) has collected hundreds (thousands?) of recordings from matches pertaining, in the main, to U.S. soccer. Both […]

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This is starting to annoy me. The NBA franchise leaving Seattle for Oklahoma City is being treated by various and sundry observers as an injustice that borders on the criminal. OK, it’s not a nice thing. Leaving a city after 41 seasons. But do any of you recall any sort of nationwide condemnation and gnashing […]

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I take no pleasure in the cuts at the Los Angeles Times. Even though the Times was the main competition for most of my journalism career, and it’s a test to avoid the instinctive “what’s bad for them is good for me!” mind-set of days gone by. This was the newspaper derisively known as “The […]

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Who can predict who will be memorable? You work a few feet from a person for five years, believe you know a fair amount about them, they leave … and five years after that … it’s hard to remember their faces. Or three salient non-work facts about them. But sometimes people can be so unremarkable […]

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Kenneth Reich didn’t know me, but I knew of him. He was in the L.A. Times newsroom in the fall of 1975 when I was a wide-eyed intern there, and I saw him all the time in the run-up to (and coverage of) the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics. Practically nothing was a news story, before […]

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Jim Inghram may have been The Oddest Kid who worked in the sports department of The Sun in the 30 years from 1976-2006. And that’s covering some territory. He could tell you what was on all four corners of every intersection in just about any city he’d ever been in … but he couldn’t punctuate […]

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