We keep hearing about our presumed longevity, as a population, and our extended health and vitality. And it leads to silly statements such as “40 is the new 30” and “50 is the new 40.” And so on. Perhaps 100 is the “new” 80, for all I know. Print journalism has not embraced that concept, […]

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Did you watch the now-canceled series named “Shark”? The one with James Woods? And did you notice the striking woman who played the district attorney? No? OK, perhaps you watch “Two and a Half Men” and remember the episode when the nebbishy Alan character (played by Jon Cryer) dated a woman who previously had dated […]

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I have never been unemployed, before this. Actually, I was employed long before I wanted to be. My father ran a gas station in the Belmont Shore area of Long Beach, and he thought it a grand idea to take his 12-year-old son to work with him on Saturday mornings so the kid could do […]

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There goes Andruw Jones, off to knee surgery on Tuesday and “6-8 weeks” off, an absence I believe will be considerably longer. He now has an acceptable excuse for doing nothing to make the Dodgers better. The man is hurt, see? Just a tough break. Not at all a function of a guy whose career […]

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I’ve been a Lakers fan for a long time. Since the middle 1960s, at the very latest. They tended to be on TV rather often, back then, in an era when sports-on-television was a luxury kids rarely missed. They won, a lot, even when they were something like fifth or sixth in the L.A. sports […]

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If you’re a Lakers fan going back into the 1960s, you wish only defeat and disaster for the Boston Celtics. They inflicted a lifetime’s worth of misery on the Lakers franchise in that decade; the Russell-Jones-Havlicek Celtics defeated the Lakers no fewer than six times in the NBA Finals between 1962 and 1969. And three […]

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How valuable was Cindy Robinson to a sports section? Well, I hired her five times, if that gives you any indication. Yes. Five. In violation of Gannett corporate policy at least a couple of times. (You get two bites of the apple in Gannett, unless you get special dispensation.) As far as I was concerned? […]

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Live long enough, and you pick up on some trends. If you’re paying even the slightest attention. You don’t have to be some sort of sage, doling out pearls of wisdom. Just a regular old person with his eyes open and his memory intact. And with that prelude, let’s get to the point of this […]

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After a run of dopey and self-destructive San Bernardino Sun newsroom personnel decisions, many of which have been chronicled here, they got some right this week. George Watson has been promoted to city editor, and the venerable Wes Hughes is being brought back to work on the city desk. Watson was perhaps the last city-side […]

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I’ve been reading the Los Angeles Times my entire adult life, and I’m fairly sure I’ve never seen anything weirder — and stupider — than what it has done on its sports section cover the past two days. Did someone kidnap Randy Harvey? He’s the sports editor there, last I heard, and I can’t believe […]

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