Sports
A friend, who has been a serious chess player, recently emailed me, “I don’t know if you have any interest in covering professional chess, but something pretty epic is happening right now: a Westerner is …
Patrick Daugherty recalls August 1983 and the pick-up baseball game in Alaska that he played in which he could do no wrong.
A look at the Golden Nugget point spreads for pre-season college football, 117 days after the season got under way.
USC becomes another employer who has a hard time being satisfied with the coaching savvy of Lane Kiffin.
The Moscow Black Storm has offered Tim Tebow $1 million to play in two games.
Should footballers trust the NFL brain trust with their brains?
Team Oracle in the America’s Cup Challenge — the U.S. entry in the race — has been accused of cheating.
Now to Labor Day is high season for camping. Collect spouse, kids, dogs, pack up SUV, set course for somewhere in Cleveland National Forest, Palomar Mountain, or the sweat lodges of Anywhere, Imperial County. That’s …
Making a living as a professional athlete is for a very few. Making a good living is for a tiny percentage of the very few. Introducing Zeke Hindle (real name), 27, professional tennis player. Zeke …
The following conversation took place in Section 103 at Petco Park during the Padre’s 10-1 rout of the San Francisco Giants on Sunday, July 14. The conversants were Giants fans visiting from the Bay Area, …
Considering the field of competitors for the America’s Cup sailing challenge in the aftermath of a declaration that boats are unsafe because rudders aren’t long enough.
Back up, I think I might blog. Yup, here it comes… You see that beat-down Brazil put on Spain in the Federations Cup final? Madonna mia! Three nil’s the same as 19 to nothing in …
Not all San Diego competitors are failures! A rundown of teams that have posted winning seasons.
In my last post, which is to say my first post, I yammered on about synchronous TV, when the sports stars align over the old satellite dish and deliver three, four doozies in one frenzied …
The NFL of today will not exist in 20 years, says a retired player.