Football has survived a lot of setbacks and obstacles over the years. Teddy Roosevelt threatened to outlaw it when it became too violent at the turn of the century. World War II […]
Football faces a 4th and long
Wild World: A slippery name game
Naming an athletic team can be tricky business, especially in today’s slippery sociopolitical atmosphere. You need a moniker that will appeal to the fans, connect – if possible – to the local […]
Tackling changes for football
American football, as it is played now, is the grandchild of the original “association football,” and may soon be headed back to its roots. Although games involving kicking spheroids have been around […]
The need for speed in baseball
Sports, like people, tend to be set in their ways. It takes some jarring event or movement to shake things up and get people – and athletic institutions – to accept change, […]
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. […]
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 […]
Will September look like July for Halos?
By Pete Zarustica There’s an old, old legend about the baseball season. It says that whoever’s first on the Fourth of July is likely to be the team that finishes the year […]
