It has taken me years to grasp this. Even though I know it to be true. I’m always stunned. “Wow, that guy is short.” “That girl is way shorter than I expected.” This applies to actors (the former couple of Edward Norton and Salma Hayek come to mind), and to athletes who aren’t pro basketball […]

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I never have liked motor sports. For a lot of reasons. The main one is this: It gets people killed. Scott Kalitta, a two-time Top Fuel champion, was killed during a qualifying Funny Car run in New Jersey on Saturday. You can read the news story here. Basically, you can’t put people in a fire […]

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This story is silly and semi-stupid but true, and I feel like relating it. So. I live in Long Beach, you may have noted, and it’s maybe 20 degrees cooler here than it is in the Inland Empire most summer days. (I remind myself of that, whenever I start to mewl about “it’s kinda hahhht […]

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I can understand how coming up with a decent “question of the day” can tax a person’s mind. Especially when he/she is referring to a team well under .500 and floundering like a gaffed tuna. But this one … Well, here is the Dodgers’ home page,” as of this writing, and you can’t help but […]

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Uh, don’t say that about me. I’m no Dodger. Actually, I used to know some Dodgers and the guys they have suiting up these days are no Dodgers. One of the myriad advertising campaigns the Dodgers organization has going on … is this thing on their web site entitled “We’re All Dodgers … What’s Your […]

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Russia 3, Holland 1 in the Euro quarterfinals. A disappointing outcome to those of us who appreciate Dutch skill on the attack. But a result that seemed to hinge on the Russians’ superior conditioning. Perhaps a function of age. And the way the game unfolded. And while it was easy to be annoyed with this […]

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Are we all Lakered-out? Probably not. As I may have mentioned somewhere else, I realized 6-7 years ago that there is no such thing as “too much Lakers news.” Anyway, the other day, I got into an off-the-blog discussion with a former colleague, Damian Secore, about where the team should go next. Think of it […]

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The Dodgers topped the Cincinnati Reds 7-4 today in what must have been a bittersweet game, for The Blue. Because that’s the last time the Dodgers get to play the Reds this season.

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Of all the sports events I haven’t covered that I would like to … the Euro Cup is in the top five. I’ve been lucky, and covered lots of things I had no expectation of being able to cover, when I got my first journalism job. The obvious big things, plus one-shot dates at the […]

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You saw it. It was a trainwreck. The Lakers played about 1.25 good games in the NBA Finals, if you cobble together a quarter in Game 2, a half in Game 4, a quarter in Game 5 … It concluded with Boston winning the best-of-seven series in six games, the last in an embarrassing 131-92 […]

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