With the local baseball scene pretty much wrapped up – Angels battling for last in the AL West and the Dodgers stumbling a bit but almost certain to win the NL West […]
Busting some baseball myths
Who’s next? Will it be Kurt?
With about a quarter of the season yet to go, the Los Angeles Angels let go of a bunch of coaches and brought in a bunch of “new” ones this week. […]
More teams coming to MLB?
There have been rumblings in the board rooms lately of Major League Baseball owners and organizations. It’s been 1998 when the Arizona Diamondbacks and the Tampa Bay (Devil) Rays joined the big […]
Eclipse for football at community colleges?
Football may be bigger than ever these days, but not for community colleges. A combination of forces are making the fielding of a tackle football team for a two-year college increasingly problematical. […]
Cleaning house at the Big A
Is this a fire sale or a new leaf? When a new general manager takes over a foundering sports franchise such as the Los Angeles Angels, his first moves are always closely […]
A Dodger Dome? O’Malley?
Trivial Trivia Dept: OK, with the Dodgers running away with the NL West and the Angels buried in last place in the AL West and football still a few weeks away. there’s […]
Oh, take me out to the (Irvine ) Great Park baseball game
The Irvine Intercepters? The Irvine 405s? How about the Irvine Professors? The City of Irvine is considering a deal to host a minor league baseball team that – according to published reports […]
Getting on base is the key step
Ever since Billy Beane popularized what’s come to be called “Moneyball,” the close analysis of statistics has become the foremost aspect of baseball. I was looking at some season-to-date stats of our […]
Most valuable, most unlucky
You know, Mike Trout and I have a lot in common. No, I’m not pulling your leg. In fact, leg pulls are part of what I am mulling when I think about […]
Now, he’s a sucker for soccer
After years of grumbling about soccer, suggesting it was sort of … well … boring, I have finally decided that “world football” has its merits and am starting to enjoy the World […]
