I still believe Paul DePodesta was the best hire the Dodgers have made since the McCourts took over the team. As general manager, before the 2005 season. But they gave him only two years and ran him out of town when the 2005 Dodgers imploded. Several prominent local sports columnists helped grease the skids for […]

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This was the Russo-Japanese War of newspaper collisions. Little-noted beyond the immediate participants, but messy and decisive, all the same, concluding with one side crippled and the other enormously stronger and recognized as a major regional player for the first time. The Russo-Japanese War began in 1904 and ended with Russia humiliated and on its […]

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