I began veering off into this topic in the previous post, about the Gannett-oriented blog (the one now on my blog roll). Then I decided the concept was worthy of its own post. Gannett vs. Singleton. Those of you who worked for both chains … what do you think? To me, it’s not an open-and-shut […]

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I worked for Gannett for 23 years, from 1976 until 1999, when the sale of The San Bernardino Sun (by Gannett, to Dean Singleton’s MediaNews) was completed. Looking back, I recall the Gannett Era as a time of something like opulence. Real money spent on real projects and real journalists. But that could be a […]

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Weird experience, today. I went “home” to the building where I spent 29 years as a working professional. To the 399 North D Street offices of the San Bernardino Sun. The Sun abandoned the site in October of 2005. And sold the whole-city-block property to a Korean-born businessman named Harry Hwang. The newspaper and its […]

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One of the weirder and, turns out, more cynical non-stories of the NBA playoffs is the hoo-ha surrounding the three-pointer Sasha Vujacic took — and made — in the last second of the Lakers’ 100-92 victory over the San Antonio Spurs in Game 5 on Thursday. Media people are still talking about it a day […]

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I believe Andruw Jones will go down as one of the great disasters in Dodgers personnel history. Right there with the Pedro Martinez for Delino DeShields trade. Maybe even above it; the Dodgers didn’t give Delino $36.5 million over two years. So, I’m already thinking in terms of a list of nicknames appropriate to immortalize […]

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Two news items last week seemed only tangentially related. Mike Piazza announced his retirement. Nomar Garciaparra went on the 60-day disabled list. Actually, those stories have more than a little in common. The careers of both men, perhaps the end of the careers of both men, speak to one of the biggest issues the Los […]

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Yeah, Derek Fisher landed on Brent Barry just before Barry hoisted a hopeless three-pointer at the buzzer in the lakers’ 91-89 victory. Should Fisher have been called for a foul? I know this argument is two days old now, but I’m going to weigh in.

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Jose Canseco leaves me feeling conflicted. He was/is a relentless, almost pathetic self-promoter. A guy out of control far too often. A tattle-tale and finger-pointer. As a ballplayer, he was a muscle-bound freak. If he wasn’t a complete creation of steroids, he wasn’t far off. He could run a little, before he got brittle (remember […]

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James Curran was the ultimate Sun sports department prodigy. He showed up pretty much fully formed, as a writer, at the age of 16. He could report, keep statistics and file on deadline when he walked in the door. When he was barely old enough to drive. He had spent some time at a weekly […]

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I’m a sucker for T-shirts and posters. If I had money to waste and the energy to fill out lots of order forms, and 500 days a year to wear a different T-shirt every day and unlimited wall space to put up posters only I and a few other sophomoric guys find funny, and if […]

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