Note: Originally published here in 2008, after the Beijing Olympics. Twelve was how many I covered, from start to finish, in my journalism career. So this list includes all of them. I was briefly onsite at London 2012, but covering three UAE soccer matches … we will leave that off this list. So, “favorite” is […]

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We decided last week we would try to catch a bit of the Tour de France, given that we had visitors from SoCal in town. And, happily, this was one of those random years when the guys who stake out the world’s greatest bike race … drew a line on a map that put the […]

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Strap yourself in for a wild ride of emotion. One that encompasses the five stages of grief — as well as an almost comedic lack of awareness.  It would be funny if it were not so damn stupid. Two weeks ago, we went looking for a place to kick out the jams — senior style. […]

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Every sports writer who had much of a run in the profession had one: The Credential Drawer! Where credentials from past events were tossed to prove that he or she actually did attend and write about the sports event named on the badge. Like, say, the 1980 Masters Tournament held April 10-13 … a golf […]

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On June 6, 1964, I was 9 years old and spending the night with my grandmother in Long Beach, California. My sleep-over with Grandmother Laura came with control of what appeared on television, which I very much appreciated. My tastes back then ran to roller-derby and wrestling, and even a little basketball. My grandmother, a […]

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Been a while since I had the nerve to hold myself to a ridiculous plan to report on a sports event, to spend X-number of hours on the road — or in the air, or both. This was back before I got old and my nerves frayed. I have written about several of my hare-brained […]

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Let’s see how this works. I am going to post to my blog in 10 minutes. And one minutes is nearly gone. People who do blogs in their spare time may not grasp how much time it takes to populate a blog. The scary part of it is that a blog has no deadline that […]

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The other day I was walking around the little French town where we live and thinking about things I covered during 40 years in sports journalism. I reflected on events I really enjoyed — just sorta free-associating. As often occurs in one of these reveries, eventually I shake my head and concede, “I got to […]

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Honestly, I do not enjoy dwelling on the failures of the Los Angeles Dodgers. They were the first sports team I followed, as a first- or second-grader. I have been watching them ever since, even from my six years in Abu Dhabi and our five years in France. That devotion may stem from growing up […]

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What a great time to be an Angels fan. A well-rounded team, a first World Series, one of the great comebacks in baseball history, leading to a championship. The key game was Game 6, at Anaheim Stadium, I filed a comment piece. Here it is, under the headline: “Angels create an instant classic; Commentary: Game […]

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