This is the biggest night for Los Angeles college hoops in … I think it is safe to say “forever.” Both USC and UCLA have battled into the quarterfinals of the NCAA Tournament. That has never before happened. And not only that, they are playing in the same city tonight, in the same arena, one […]

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I have lived outside the United States for most of the past 12 years and I can vouch for this: Over that much time your sports interests mutate. Perhaps significantly. Some sports pretty much disappear from your mind. Thinking all high school sports; just can’t keep track of any of them, so I lost track […]

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I have three grandsons who attend school in Stuttgart, Germany. About eight hour’s drive from where we live, in the south of France. We would have driven up to Stuttgart a time or three this year — if not for the Covid pandemic, which has limited movement around Europe. Luckily, we live in a time […]

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Marvelous Marvin Hagler died this week at the age of 66, and he got a lot of things done in his sport and in his life : one of boxing’s greatest punchers and owner of the sport’s hardest chin; multi-year middleweight champion in the 1980s; actor in Italy; a ringside commentator in the UK … […]

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After a few decades during which Major League Baseball actively made its product less interesting, we may be seeing changes in game-thinking. MLB is tinkering with the ball, with the goal of “deadening” it a wee bit — and presumably making it slightly harder to hit home runs. The glut of home runs slugged the […]

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For much of my sports journalism career, being part of a good showing in the annual Associated Press Sports Editors competition was a big deal. Even now, in an era of shriveled and under-staffed newspapers, most sports editors want to see their sections make a mark. The APSE contest is the industry Oscars, after all. […]

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I have loathed the designated hitter rule from the start — which was in 1973, when Major League Baseball’s American League chose to make the DH baseball law. To its longstanding credit, the National League refused to follow the AL’s move, which was in keeping with the more traditional league’s status that has for a […]

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