A new weekly (we hope) column on the weird, wonderful and noteworthy on Planet Sports. What do you suppose the chances are of Major League Baseball and the players’ association coming to […]
Wild World: No fans, shaky minors
Pete: Who’s on your team, America?
We seem to be nearly as divided now as the country was in Civil War times, with little tolerance for The Other Guy in our vain insistence that “we” are the […]
Pete: Time to mix things up a bit?
Crisis begats change, and the coronavirus pandemic certainly qualifies as a crisis. We’re all affected to one extent or another, but sports are really taking it in the shorts, as we used […]
Pete Z: It has to be big, bad Jim Brown
A couple of weeks ago we declared old school Bill Russell to be the greatest basketball player ever, elbowing aside – get it? – modern hoop icons Michael Jordan and LeBron James. […]
NFL season is set for 2020 season
The NFL 2020 season – if there is a 2020 season – has been announced. For the Los Angeles Rams, the season will start on Sunday, Sept. 13 at the new SoFi […]
Pete: Bring us back our football!
We are so divided these days; as a nation we have even managed to polarize a virus. You can tell in these mad times how somebody stands on social distancing or masks […]
Who’s the GOAT in pro hoops?
Pete Zarustica is the new sports columnist for The Orange County Tribune. He was previously a sports writer for the late, lamented Garden Grove Journal, covering the Los Angeles Angels and Anaheim […]
Mahomes brings NFL title home to KC
Patrick Mahomes saved the best for last, leading the Kansas City Chiefs to a come-from-behind 31-20 win over the San Francisco 49ers in Super Bowl LIV on Sunday in Miami. After his […]
Packers, 49ers, Chiefs, Titans advance
The lineups are set for next week’s NFL Conference Championships. The Green Bay Packers (14-3) will travel to Santa Clara to play the San Francisco 49ers (14-3) in the NFC game, while […]
It was a very wild, wild card weekend
The “wild card” weekend for the NFL playoffs certainly did justice to the name as fans were treated to two overtime contests and two other games with the outcome still hanging in […]
