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Thursday Randomness

The NFL Draft starts tonight. Like the NCAA Basketball Tournament, it strikes me as ridiculous that the NFL draft continues to be elongated. Because the draft is not one day of...

When the Lakers Mortgaged Some of the Future…

Before last season, the Lakers were coming off their first post-Shaq championship. They seemed close to unbeatable. Kobe was great. Pau was a fantastic second option. Andrew Bynum was dominant at...

Destiny Eventually Comes to Fruition ……. Or Does It?

Round one of the NBA playoffs started in an unpredicted fashion, but the favorites eventually have come around. Well … for the most part. In the Western Conference, the eighth-seeded Memphis...

California Jets 2011

The tech and I headed out at dawn. California Jets was back. He was enthralled without coffee from the get-go. I wasn’t exactly. I didn’t quite know what he was so...

Kobe Bryant’s Angry Face

My Nana is nearing the age of eighty five. Her idea of good fun is a five minute jaunt through her elaborate garden filled with roses, azaleas, and any other bloom-of-the-earth...

What’s Really Going on at Dodger Stadium?

Like the Circle K in Bill and Ted’s Excellent Adventure, strange things are afoot at Dodger Stadium. In the glory of Matt Kemp’s game-winning walk-off homer on Sunday afternoon, a huge...

Welcome to Dodgertown, Jerry Sands

Newest Dodger Jerry Sands made his major league debut last night, Monday night, April 18th, versus the Atlanta Braves at Dodger Stadium. The 23 year-old, 6′ 4″, 220 lb right-handed throwing...

Matt Kemp Hits a Walk-Off and What a Great Sports Weekend!

Two weeks ago, I saw the Dodgers in Colorado. Three runs down to the Rockies, the whole team seemed to go numb. They quit having good at-bats. They seemed to go...

Brian Stow in a World of Stiegerwaldisms

Ranting to family and friends is one thing. Ranting to the world is another. Recently amidst the buzz of political push and pull, budget head and conservative Paul Ryan, Tweedle Dee’d...