Oh, we of little memory. Villanova hit a three-point shot as time expired to defeat North Carolina 77-74 in the championship game of the NCAA Tournament, and some are calling it the greatest final played. Hang on a minute. This one wasn’t even the greatest final involving Villanova.

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The Sun Baseball League is made up of 12 owners who have two things in common: They 1) once worked in the San Bernardino Sun sports department and they 2) love baseball. The first season was played in 1983 and the draft for the 34th season was held over five hours on Wednesday night (or, […]

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In the past few weeks, three former co-workers have reached out with worries/concerns/bad news about the status of their newspaper jobs, and I suppose the surprise here is … that it doesn’t happen more often. Two were asking for any insight or advice I might have about remaining employed in an industry that appears to […]

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Talking about the weekend that just passed. The one after the Super Bowl but before pitchers and catchers report. It is a weekend, in American sports, anyway, that has pretty much nothing that matters. Or it seems that way to me. A former colleague and I had a bit of a discussion on this — […]

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The New York Times has an interesting piece about three smart-alecks who cooperated on a newspaper hoax in 1941, convincing several newspapers (including The Times) to run the weekly scores of a make-believe college football team and its make-believe opponents. What the hoaxers did was simple: They called in the made-up score to the sports […]

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Much is being made about the brutal cold expected at the NFL playoffs game in Minneapolis on Sunday. The Minnesota Vikings versus the Seattle Seahawks at the University of Minnesota — with a forecast temperature at kickoff of 0 degrees Fahrenheit. That will make it one of the coldest games in NFL history, though the […]

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After six years and two months in Abu Dhabi, we leave the UAE for the final time today, headed for Los Angeles on flight EY171, Etihad’s 16-hour-plus nonstop to LAX. It was a fast six years, filled with challenges unimagined during previous incarnations as California journalists. Each of us added a significant stretch to our […]

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I had no inkling this would turn into one of the most uplifting nights of my life as a sports journalist. I knew that the Switzerland-based International Sports Press Association had teamed with Abu Dhabi Media to arrange for the first global competition meant to honor the best in sports journalism. What was not clear, […]

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As a sports editor, it is easy to wonder why various fields of endeavor cannot arrange their schedules so that they don’t overlap and dilute their audience — as well as the media recognition they might get that night or the next morning. Today, for instance, we had at least four events that could have […]

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What do Karachi, Shenzen, Lahore, Guangzhou and Lagos have in common? Each is a city of more than 10 million people. Each is ranked among the 16-most-populous cities in the world. And many North Americans know little or nothing about them.

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