“Nick Canepa was right,” admits SDSU Head of Football Revenue Bill Dollar. “He wrote in the U-T that 'Colorado is the hottest Prime steak on the national grill. And it’s all because, against all the millions of …
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RETRACTION: Troy Scholder did not, in fact, say any of the things attributed to him below. That is why this story appeared in the Almost Factual News section of the San Diego Reader. However, it is …
Last week, the San Diego County Board of Supervisors declared a humanitarian crisis in response to the public concern over the number of migrants being dropped in San Diego County by U.S. Border Agents. “We …
At one point during the hearing, Commissioner Hart chastised a La Jolla resident who had risen to protest: “You still have the Children’s Pool. Well, for half the year, anyway. And you will note that …
Last week, outraged citizens of Coronado and Imperial Beach staged a protest over the steady influx of sewage slipping over the border from Tijuana and fouling the waters off the county’s southern beaches. They hoped …
“The numbers don’t lie,” says Padres spokesman Sidney Sorrow. “A recent Gallup Poll found that 41% of respondents said football was their favorite sport, while only 10% cited baseball. And famously, soccer is the number …
It seems that the South Bay’s recent boil water advisory was not connected to the sewage that has closed beaches and fouled the region for years now. But it was just one more reminder of …
In 1945, photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped a photo in New York’s Times Square of Navy sailor George Mendonsa grabbing nurse Greta Zimmer and kissing her in celebration of the announcement that Japan had surrendered to …
Homebuyers in the recently opened Wildgrove development in Vista were upset by the news that the Diocese of San Diego has filed a major use permit application for an adjacent property — formerly a succulent …
Psychology’s Bystander Effect Theory got a bit of a workout on August 5th, when TikTok user OnlyOneXBox posted a video showing a thief stealing a woman’s bicycle in broad daylight and walking off with it, …
“It’s a tricky thing, having a sports team named after a Catholic priest,” says Padres Director of Spiritual Assistance Jesus Ramirez. “You’re sort of putting all of your eggs in one basket, divine-intervention-wise. And then …