Happy New Year! No, you don’t need to come to my house and check my calendars. It just so happens that I have my own fiscal year, which is divided into three […]
Have a Happy New Kind of Year
Ready for some football lite?
You might not have noticed it, but the 2020 college football season has started. The bizarrely named Guardian Credit Union FCS Kickoff in Montgomery, Alabama pitted Austin Peay against Central Arkansas on […]
Living in the “Ghost Season”
The baseball season has reached the point of what would be, in a non-Pandemic season, the All Star break. The Midsummer Classic has always been a glittering exhibition of the game’s finest talents. […]
Where will the children play?
The road to hell, it’s said, is paved with good intentions. In fact, it looks like everything including the road will soon be paved. A political issue this election year has become […]
Ex-FL is trying for strike three
Is the third time the charm? Remember the XFL with weird rules and strange nicknames on the back of uniforms? That was back in 2001 and it was an attempt to establish […]
Am’s View: Procrastinate now!
Have you ever put off doing a task simply because you just didn’t feel like doing it or thought to yourself, “I will do it tomorrow”? This seems to be the mantra […]
Dick Allen, the scarred star
Last Sunday Major League Baseball celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Negro National League, the first of seven different Negro Leagues formed between 1920 and 1960. Beyond such innovations […]
Retorts: Opportunity from crisis
Build it. Then see if you can make it better. Can’t tell you how many times I’ve done that, from Lincoln Logs (remember them?) to newspaper/website columns to efforts to assemble […]
Going off in different directions
We’re about one-third of the way through this special historic and weird 60-game 2020 MLB season, and local fans have reason to both rejoice and relapse. As you are probably aware, the […]
SAPD putting a stop to street races
By Bradley Zint The Santa Ana Police Department is working on a far-reaching new initiative to address illegal street racing, an activity known to kill pedestrians and disrupt neighborhoods in its wake. […]
