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. […]
Eclipse for football at community colleges?
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 […]
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 […]
Walkoffs nice, but wins better
In my youth I had a crummy old car that sputtered and stalled at intersections … and sometimes ran as smooth as a gravy sandwich. Was it the carburetor? The air filter? […]
Trades both terrific and terrible
The LA-OC sports world is excited about the Rams trading to get superstar defensive end Myles Garrett from the Cleveland Browns. Brown, in case you haven’t heard, has been five times an […]
Mike Trout in Dodger Blue?
Where have you gone, Joe DiMaggio? Where has the old Mike Trout gone? Or, more to the point, where should he go? Mr. Trout has been one of the great baseball players […]
Angels best hope: a new big A
In the news business, the “title” of a regularly occurring event is called a “standing head.” So the topic of “What’s Wrong With the Angels?”might be similarly labeled. I mean, the Halos […]
