I was back in print this morning, for The Californian, in Temecula.

I filed this before I did the blog item below. It’s similar, but not the same. I wrote the blog item from scratch, and in about 15 minutes.

Anyway, I just like to link to stuff, and here is where the column is on the North County Times website.

I didn’t get into the Tim Donaghy issue, the latest allegations from the disgraced former NBA ref.

Had the Lakers lost, I was going to do a “combo” lead suggesting it was a bad night for the NBA and a really bad night for the Lakers. Mentioning Donaghy.

But they won, so it seemed to make more sense to go with that, and winning in such an unsightly way, and let Donaghy’s rants fit in somewhere else in the coverage scheme.

More on this later … but I am not optimistic about the Lakers’ chances. Still. But I’m on the record, on this site, with that.