This slays me. I just got done watching UCLA and Oregon in college basketball, on ESPN-Asia. A game that was at least 24 hours old. Well, at least I’ve seen the Bruins once. But the big bowl of the day? Which is going on right this minute? Texas and Ohio State in the Fiesta Bowl? […]

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So, yes, the cable operator on this side of the Pacific Ocean is, in fact,  showing some of the college bowl games. But at weird hours, and all over the dial. Right now, I’m watching the Cotton Bowl, about 12 hours later. A few days ago, I saw Iowa and South Carolina, in whatever bowl […]

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Oregon State 3, Pitt 0. That makes the formerly feeble Pac-10 a perfect 4-0 in bowl games this year. Including three victories over ranked teams. And three came over teams from three BCS conferences. Only USC is still out there, and the Trojans are favored to defeat Penn State in the Rose Bowl in about […]

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Apparently, no one in Asia cares about college football except me. And a few other cranks from America. We have reached a point in the year where the rest of the world is generating almost zero live sports. Pretty much everything is shut down. Making this, of course, a perfect time to show some college […]

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Most of you are not in Hong Kong. Most of you reading this are in the States, and have access to televisions, and have already seen this. But, the other day, I made such a fuss over USC and UCLA being able to wear their home jerseys for their game this year, that I feel […]

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We knew from the moment USC lost at Oregon State, that the Trojans’ had a very hard road ahead of them — almost certainly an impassible road ahead of them — to get to the BCS title game. And we wrote that, the night of Sept. 25. They had to win out and hope all […]

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They have sports channels over here, in Hong Kong. You get the basic cable package, and you get a half-dozen channels. Star Sports, Eurosport, a couple of channels labeled ESPN. But college football? Nope. Not live. Never. Not in the nearly two months I’ve been here and not seen this or that college football Game […]

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This is my first fall away from professional sports journalism since 1975. And even in 1975, I was covering sports at Long Beach State. That is, I was doing sports for 33 consecutive fall seasons. And the really weird thing is … I don’t much miss it.

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From the time I left Highland, almost a year ago, I began losing touch with the kids I had covered for years. That process accelerated in March when I was excused from the pages of the San Bernardino Sun, after 31-plus years, just after I had moved to Long Beach. And it really moved ahead […]

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It’s not over for John McCain or USC’s dreams of a BCS title game slot. But as the pundits would say, both have to fill an inside straight. With, like, two cards. Or in the Trojans’ case, maybe three cards. USC defeated Washington 56-0 on Saturday … and dropped two slots in the BCS rankings, […]

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