Well, actually, 12 is how many I covered. So this list includes all of them. “Favorite” is a personal thing here. It has nothing to do with performances or where the U.S. finished in the medals standings. It’s a sort of amalgam of “interesting, memorable, scenic, decent housing, media center/local hospitality/internal transport.” Once you do […]

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Someone just threw Andruw Jones a life line. An injury. The Dodgers’ mega-bust center fielder, arguably the worst free-agent position-player signing in baseball history, apparently has torn cartilage in his right knee. “Gutty ‘Druw” said he will wait until Friday to see if the knee comes around. If it doesn’t he may go in for […]

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The Clippers are back to being the Clippers, which is why they are back in the NBA draft lottery tonight. They have a 7.6 percent chance of getting the No.1 pick and, in theory, Los Angeles sports fans ought to be rooting for them, because the No. 1 pick means Memphis point guard Derrick Rose […]

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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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One of the more miserable experiences a sports fan in Southern California can endure is day baseball when the sun is out. And cooking. Such as, oh, today or yesterday at Anaheim. Where the temps were pushing 100, the games were likely to last upwards of three hours and tens of thousands of people were […]

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It was a spasm of good fortune. For the newspaper, the section and for Mike Terry. It was the spring/summer of 1987. Bob Ritter was editor of The Sun. He called me into his office one afternoon and made me an offer I couldn’t refuse. Would I like to add Mike Terry to the sports […]

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This comes from one of my sources about comings and goings — well, goings, almost entirely — in the newsroom of the combined operations of the San Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley (Ontario) Daily Bulletin. Another solid middle-manager is on the way out of the Berdoo office, to be replaced by … anyone? The escapee […]

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I can’t NOT take the Metro Blue Line to Staples Center, can I? One of its Long Beach stations is about 150 yards from where I live. It has a stop on Pico, maybe 200 yards from the southeast corner of Staples. The train runs late, so even if I’m writing until 11:30, I can […]

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I’ve been blogging at this address for, oh, two whole months now, but … But almost nothing I have written here has gotten the attention that a post about O.J. Mayo and USC has in just a matter of days. I’m not sure what I could have written or posted, aside perhaps from video of […]

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