The Dodgers are playing a softball-style defense. Center fielder Andruw Jones is playing directly behind second base, giving the Dodgers five infielders, basically. Don’t know if Jones can pick up a ground ball or turn a doubleplay. He hasn’t had to so far, and it’s the bottom of the third. The Boston defense? More typical, […]

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The Dodgers were hoping for a crowd of 115,000 — the biggest ever to see a baseball game. The record of some 114,000 apparently was set in Australia during the 1956 Olympics. The place is stuffed with people, including thousands milling around the east end of the stadium floor, where that bank of bleachers sits […]

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A half-dozen Dodgers veterans from the early days in Los Angeles, men who played in the Coliseum, got together for a fairly informal press conference an hour before the stadium, using the cramped room under the stands where Pete Carroll does his postgame stuff. They were asked their favorite Coliseum memory, and several guys had […]

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I’m not sure all the fans are gonna get in the stadium. I’m not sure they even sold as many tickets as the Dodgers said they did. But this Coliseum game … is a great, great idea, and if you couldn’t be here, I hope you watched at least part of it on TV.

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I’ve decided to do a series of mini-bios on people with whom I worked during my 31-plus years at the San Bernardino Sun. Me and that newspaper … it’s about the past, not the present or future, and we had some fun (or at least memorable) times, and I worked with some interesting, even bizarre […]

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The Lakers lost at home to another bad team, 114-111 to the Memphis Grizzlies. That’s two consecutive defeats at Staples Center to NBA bottom-feeders (they lost to Charlotte on Wednesday), and if it’s not time to panic … we can see it from here. Kobe Bryant scored 53, but the rest of the Lakers didn’t […]

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