ALL Taking 'Ball Four,' 40 years later
Jerry Miller remembers going into a bookstore at the old Sherman Oaks Fashion Square as a teenager, grabbing acopy of Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" off the shelf, and wondering if he'd stumbled upon the...
View ArticleHOFFARTH: 40 years later, taking `Ball Four' remains a pastime
Jerry Miller remembers going into a bookstore at the old Sherman Oaks Fashion Square as a teenager, grabbing acopy of Jim Bouton's "Ball Four" off the shelf, and wondering if he'd stumbled upon the...
View ArticleMEDIA: Oh my! Enberg continues to embrace Padre time - At 75, legendary...
With the benefit of hindsight, health and the San Diego Padres' precarious fear of heights as they teeter atop the National League West heading into the last week of the regular season, the twinkle in...
View ArticleQUESTIONS: Hey, what's Bruin in Austin?
Would it make much of a mess if Austin, Texas, was a permanent trip on the UCLA football schedule at least once a year from now on? If Saturday's out-of-the-powder-blue, pistol-whipping triumph by the...
View ArticleQ-and-A: Meet Corey Pavin, golf's Captain America - UCLA graduate is the...
You can't make Corey Pavin blink. Don't even try.
View ArticleHOFFARTH: Secret rendevous with Zenyatta is just the ticket
Don't tell my wife, but I went behind her back on Saturday to see a younger woman. Quite surprisingly, it all fell into place pretty easy. Too perfect, you could say, for some haphazard horseplay.
View ArticleActor Connolly fits in with sportswriting crowd
For those in need of any more unsocial-networked, sports-related, star-struck moments at the movie quadtripleplex this weekend: Kevin Connolly, a viable "E" piece of the HBO "Entourage" acting...
View ArticleQUESTIONS: The name of the game is kickball
The name of the game in kickball is coming up with a name that's got some game. And isn't lame.
View ArticleHOFFARTH: It's time for Dodgers fans to take over ownership of team
And now for something completely serious: What's the game plan for us to buy the Dodgers? Is there anything out there we don't know that could prevent the citizenship of Los Angeles from getting its...
View ArticleMEDIA DAY: UCLA basketball looking to bounce back
The UCLA basketball team media day was held Thursday at Pauley Pavilion and, as always, hope springs eternal.
View ArticleMEDIA: Resurrecting John Lardner, through his own words
There's no doubt a better-crafted, lightly sanded, deftly buffed paragraph somewhere in John Lardner's body of work that better describes how he stacked up back in the day of Red Smith, W.C.
View ArticleQUESTIONS: A system on the down
Consider the resources as you question the process: A college athlete, while on scholarship but with no true income, a student but with little in common with a normal co-ed, given the opportunity to...
View ArticleALL Some Dodgers fans aren't buying this suggestion
These are the people who won't be sharing the owner's box with you someday at Dodger Stadium, even if this idea about fans organizing to buy the team away from the McCourts ever unites the city: qqq...
View ArticleQUESTIONS: Can we fill this column to capacity?
Spoiler alert: USC has yet to sell out all its available Coliseum seats - capacity is 93,607 - for tonight's nationally televised, prime-time contest featuring a squad everyone without a computer...
View ArticleSUNDAY Q-AND-A: Marion Jones tries to turn the page
If the truth can set Marion Jones free, she's about to find out. The most famous female athlete of the 1990 s won five medals at the 2000 Sydney Olympics - only to return them after an admittance of...
View ArticleHOFFARTH: Taking a trip down memorabilia lane
Now's as good a time as any to ask: How do you know when it's the right time to sell off some of your coolest sports memorabilia? "It's a really tough call," admitted Stephen Kolodny, a former Dodgers...
View ArticleHoffarth: Deciding when to collect on your collection
Now is as good a time as any to ask: How do you know when it's the right time to sell off some of your coolest sports memorabilia? "It's a really tough call," admitted Stephen Kolodny, a former...
View ArticleALL Kings enforcer Westgarth already knows how to psych his opponents out
Kevin Westgarth, the Kings' long-haired 26-year-old fourth-line right winger and first-line enforcer, says he majored in psychology at Princeton University "to find out more about what's wrong with...
View ArticleHOFFARTH: The 2010 Dubious Dozen of Sports Media - When we decide on what...
We blame everyone, and no one. Except, mostly, we blame ourselves for getting sucked into this perfect swarm.
View ArticleNew USC AD Haden thankful for the memories against Notre Dame
What's the only physical reminder of the USC-Notre Dame football rivalry in Trojans athletic director Pat Haden's new office? A photo on the wall, snapped of the Coliseum scoreboard after the 1974...
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