It’s time for the NBA All-Star break and …. zzz. I’m sorry, but does professional basketball seem to lack a certain electric attraction in the same way that other Big Four sports […]
Which ‘Babe’ was the greatest?
Much attention is focused these days on Shohei Ohtani, the two-way star for the Los Angeles Angels (for the time-being, anyway) who excels at the highest levels of major league baseball as […]
Is it The Babe or Shohei?
A quick look at the Wild Word of Sport. Not a Typo: To those of us soccer skeptics that still hang on, this bit of news: Tuesday’s Major League Soccer match between […]
Plays precious as a diamond
By Jim Tortolano/Orange County Tribune The young baseball season always brings not just a desire to look forward to what may come, but also a yearning to gaze back at classic moments […]
Ohtani’s very awesome week
By Greg Beacham/ AP Sports Writer ANAHEIM (AP) – On back-to-back nights during an otherwise ordinary June homestand for the Los Angeles Angels, Shohei Ohtani accomplished two feats that would each be […]
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 […]