For three-plus seasons, Allen Bradford’s decision to play football at USC looked as if it might have been a major mistake. He was recruited to play safety, or maybe linebacker … and got shifted to tailback late in the summer of 2006 when the position was hit by a rash of injuries. After spending most […]

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A real “man bites dog” story. News, that is. David T. Bristow, former San Bernardino Sun sports staffer, was sworn in Friday as a federal magistrate judge for the U.S. Central District Court. Yes. Our David Bristow, former Sun agate clerk and the guy who covered, home and road, the historic first season of the […]

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Services for Jim Long,  former San Bernardino Sun and Victorville Daily Press sports writer who died last week at age 46, will be held Friday, Oct. 9, his wife, Judith Pfeffer, said in an e-mail. Here is the information: “The graveside (outdoor) service celebrating the life of Jim Long will be at 2 p.m. Friday, […]

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I received word Thursday night that Jim Long, a former newspaper colleague, has died. He was only 46. He died at 6:02 p.m. at Kaiser Hospital in Fontana, according to his wife, Judith Pfeffer. He had been in failing health for the past two years. He suffered a stroke in October of 2007, worked hard […]

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From 1976 through 2007, I was all over high school football. Because I needed to be. And because I wanted to be. I’m going to guestimate that I saw more than 300 high school football games during my days running (or working for) the sports department of the San Bernardino Sun. Maybe 400. Lots and […]

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I bet on sports, basically, never. I’ve never placed a bet in Las Vegas. I haven’t spent one minute in/at a sports book. I don’t know a bookie. (Or, at least, I don’t think I know a bookie.) I can’t tell you what the point spread is on any game I’m not covering, and I […]

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A curious case, this one. A former journalism colleague of mine has been born again. But not in a religious sense. This person has turned back the hands of time … by inventing a birthday in 1970. Or 15-16 years after the real one.

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I dashed off an item late Monday night, after the Lakers lost Game 1 of their series with Houston. I was determined to catch the 12:07 a.m. Metrolink train back to Long Beach, along with several dozen of my best crazy and drug-addled homeless friends … And, yes, I made it, but only by a […]

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The meltdown in print journalism has produced an unfortunate side-effect: Diminished newsrooms largely populated by timid journalists. They might not be timid with sources. (Though I have to wonder.) What I am fairly certain of is that the print survivors are scared stiff of their managers, and what I believe was the healthy skepticism and […]

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Tony Jackson, Dodgers baseball writer, was laid off Thursday by the L.A. News Group. LANG getting rid of solid, veteran journalists is nothing new. It’s what Dean Singleton’s collection of imploding SoCal suburban newspapers have been doing for more than a year now. The L.A. Daily News, the San Gabriel Tribune, the Long Beach Press […]

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