*But listed here for their potential amusement, because if I don’t make this connection, who will? It’s not like anyone is left in professional journalism in the Inland Empire who remembers anything that happened in San Bernardino sports before, like, 2001. OK, an entry in Just How Small the World of Lowlife BasketBallers is.

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This is weird behavior. What goes through the mind of someone who makes a point of harassing a jogger? What mental process deems it OK to treat a jogger with a sort of aggression so overt that it would be viewed as an invitation to fight, in almost any other circumstance? I don’t get harassed […]

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The subtitle also could be … “watching tennis while trying not to choke on the dust from the sandstorm.” I covered the final day of the BNP Paribas Open for the New York Times,  and for those of you who don’t trawl nyt.com, here is the game story I wrote. This Nadal kid … pretty […]

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The only male American player of any import (unless you count James Blake) is Andy Roddick, and he was hoping to win the BNP Paribas Open in Indian Wells. He had a heck of a gantlet to run, however: World No. 3 Novak Djokovic, world No. 1 Rafael Nadal, then world Nos. 2 or 4 […]

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I have a beach-ball-sized globe sitting on a shelf here at my desk, and I was looking at the Western Hemisphere the other day, and I noticed something I’d never seen before.

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It appears as if the perpetrators of the attack on the Sri Lanka cricket team — in broad daylight in downtown Lahore, Pakistan — won’t be found. They just hopped into motorized rickshaws (what a concept) and zipped away. Six Sri Lankan cricketers were wounded, as was a British coach. Six Pakistani policemen and two […]

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This is a story perhaps not getting as much attention domestically as it should. Terrorists attacked the Sri Lankan cricket team in Lahore, Pakistan, wounding six players and an English coach, and killing at least seven police and two bystanders. This is the first attack on an international sports team since Munich, 1972. This is […]

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Oh, my. This was rough. In any way you care to think of it. The crowd. The setting. The talent. The material. A friend of mine, who aspires to be a professional comedian, was to perform at a hotel in Norwalk. His impression was that the winner of an eight-comic competition would get a gig […]

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This isn’t sports, journalism or sports journalism, and generally I’ve tried to stick with one of those three. I don’t expect anyone to care what specific programming brands I follow avidly,  as of Feb. 14, 2009. But that’s where I’m going today. Starting with “30 Rock.”

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In the nearly five months I spent in China, going back to last August, I was most impressed by one characteristic: A capacity for hard work. And beyond the mere ability to work hard. The eagerness to work hard. The acceptance of hard work as the gateway to progress and prosperity. The drive to work […]

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