On November 13, it was Paris. Today it was San Bernardino, California. The past few years, I have spent more time in Paris — where 129 were killed in terror attacks on November 13 — than in California. And we had stayed, the week before, in Paris, on the very street where people were killed […]

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I was thinking about the Beijing Olympics, and realized that the U.S. men’s basketball team had zero Clippers on it. But then, neither did the Vancouver Olympics. Have any Clippers on the U.S. team. Though clipper ships presumably sailed to Vancouver, but not Beijing, it being too far from the ocean. Hong Kong? Sure. But […]

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We live in a weird world, kids. And, I suppose, this tame blog is part of it. All blogs are. Random stuff, almost impossible to verify, that should be taken with a boulder of salt whenever “real issues” are being preached. A few lives ago, when I was still sports editor of the San Bernardino […]

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It’s hard to be a good guy and a good reporter. I’ve known more than a few good people, in journalism. But they tended not to be rise-to-the-top reporters or editors, and they often got stepped on during the career scramble. Because “good” held them back. I’ve known some very good journalists. But I don’t […]

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Remember this? The Seasons in The Sun series … in which I’m trying to write about one former sports co-worker for the 33 years (or parts of years) I spent at the San Bernardino Sun? By no means do all the interesting folks get in. There were too many. Especially during the periods when the […]

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What a handsome crew! Here is the group photo taken at the Sun Sports Reunion at the Paris Hotel in Las Vegas, July 20-21. Photo courtesy Gil Hulse, and taken by either Jean Leyva, Gayle Pollard or Cathy Bui. From left, top: Cindy Robinson, Mike Terry, Gil Hulse, Jim Schulte, Mike Davis, Steve Dilbeck, Nick […]

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First thing to know about Albert Bui: He named himself. If Albert wasn’t born in South Vietnam, his parents certainly hadn’t been in SoCal long when he appeared in this world. As he related the story, Young Albert liked watching the Bill Cosby cartoon show, and was amused by one particular character: Fat Albert. So […]

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Who can predict who will be memorable? You work a few feet from a person for five years, believe you know a fair amount about them, they leave … and five years after that … it’s hard to remember their faces. Or three salient non-work facts about them. But sometimes people can be so unremarkable […]

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Jim Inghram may have been The Oddest Kid who worked in the sports department of The Sun in the 30 years from 1976-2006. And that’s covering some territory. He could tell you what was on all four corners of every intersection in just about any city he’d ever been in … but he couldn’t punctuate […]

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Newsrooms seem to attract needlers and agitators. Sarcasm passes for everyday discourse. Maybe it comes from the cynicism that overtakes even the most idealistic of just-starting-out journalists. You may still have moments when you feel as if, “Hey, what I just wrote/edited is important.” But on the whole you spend your day sorting out lies, […]

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