CSI without William Petersen. College basketball. I anticipated the former. I am a bit surprised by the latter.

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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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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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Maybe an American expat can buy some sort of cable package, here in Hong Kong, that gets you all the sports TV you might be able to see back at home. I haven’t found it yet. But I’m not totally disconnected from the goings on, via television. I saw two L.A. teams in action today, […]

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You might think an unranked team (say, Oregon State) pulling an upset of the nations’ top-ranked team (say, USC) would be a rarity. Turns out, it’s been done nine times in the past 20 years, so it’s not an event quite as rare as Halley’s Comet. Here is a link to the list of unrankeds […]

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Bad day for the Pac-10 Conference. BYU 59, UCLA 0 Maryland 35, No. 23 Cal 27 TCU 31, Stanford14. That’s most of the entire second-tier (after USC) of the Pac-10 going down to (perhaps) one decent team (BYU) and two middling programs (Maryland, TCU). Washington will be thrashed by Oklahoma later today. Then, on Friday, […]

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If you’re going to lose more than you win. If you’re not really very good. If you’re not going to get to a bowl. May as well do it the way the Bruins did. UCLA is being destroyed by BYU, in Provo, in a game more than a little reminiscent of last year’s 44-6, Week […]

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OK, I admit it. Twenty-four hours after railing against ESPN’s ad-choked college football replays (see item below) … I watched almost the entirety of another one. UCLA 27, Tennessee 24, in overtime. I saw that game, and wrote a column on it for the Temecula Californian. In this case, I was glad to see, once […]

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Well, it’s sorta my job. I’m not actually employed by anyone on a consistent basis, and I wonder if I ever will be, but that’s not the point here. (And I’m writing, so why don’t I just come to the point?) I’m still getting out occasionally, and perhaps the idea that it may not happen […]

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I assume they were going to shoot off fireworks no matter the final score. This being the end of the Labor Day weekend, and all.  And an inducement to come out and see a UCLA team that went 6-7 a year ago. Who knew the bombs bursting in air were the exclamation mark to UCLA’s […]

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