Sonics' sound grounded in garage
After career flying jets, Rob Lind pleased to be back on sax
Dryw Keltz 3 p.m., May 24
Sports
UCSD refuses to reveal Padres medical discounts
University spurns records act request for high-dollar sponsor data.
The San Diego Padres, perennial laggards on the playing field, are getting millions of dollars in cash and a secretive deal for discounted medical care from UCSD as part of a costly endorsement and promotional ...
St. Louis sues Rams and NFL over team's departure
Could San Diego sue? Doubtful. It had its chance.
St. Louis, St. Louis County, and the local Regional Convention and Sports Complex are suing the National Football League, 32 of its teams, and some owners individually over the departure of the Rams to Los ...
Baseball is different in Tijuana
“We know baseball games are too long, so we are there to help make the game more fun.”
Every pitch is a party at a Toros de Tijuana baseball game. At least that’s the atmosphere the team is trying to create. The Toros compete in Liga Mexicana de Beisbol, an international AAA affiliate ...
Hopping the last train for parts unknown
Hobos use the internet to get train schedules, use Google Earth to find the best catch-out spots.
"Ran into Tin Cup at the Four Mile. He rode in on the Union Pacific a couple days ago.” I laugh, “He’s still train-hopping? The man is a champion.” I have an old Nevada friend ...
Could Major League Soccer kick the city where it counts?
Hard to get more than 10,000 San Diegans per game
Fútbol? Football? Everybody chatters about the so-called plan for a soccer/football stadium and surrounding development in Mission Valley. Will taxpayers get fleeced? Why does San Diego State seem so queasy? Should we preserve Qualcomm Stadium ...
Dorms closest to the surf
Did you know colleges have surf teams?
In 1997, I returned to San Diego to work on a couple university projects; a new parking garage at USD and then the new Commons building at Point Loma Nazarene. The Point Loma job was ...
High school survivalists the Regrettes
With a Warner Brothers record deal, no regrets for these four teens
They’re too young to hold office and at least two of them can’t vote, but the Regrettes, four teens pushing back against conventional notions of beauty, status, and worth, have a Warner Brothers recording contract, ...
Downsize the NFL?
Maybe after the Super Bowl
Here’s a fun fact: the Los Angeles Chargers might sell out some games in 2017. They are likely to pull off this seemingly impossible feat by aiming small — as in 30,000 fans small. That’s ...
Gentler sports
In love with a Laser, the birth of racquetball, San Diego pickup basketball history, cricket at UCSD, Frisbee, and disc golf
SD’s Tennis Curse San Diego has played its own role. Great weather, ample facilities, and the region’s heavily middle-class economy depolarize tennis, blunting country club snobbery, and turning tennis instead into just another California outdoor ...
Modern Me scores a direct hit
Fallbrook indie rockers toss their disc into the 91X ring and hit Halloran
Adam Lamah is the frontman for Modern Me, a six-piece indie-rock band from Fallbrook that’s been compared to the 1975. In an attempt to get radio play for Modern Me’s new single, “Waters,” Lamah called ...
Beach volleyball — a San Diego thing
Find a 2x2 or 4x4 game at Mission Bay Park
One gray winter morning in 1997, about this time of year, I was working on the old Federal Building in Balboa Park. We were beginning the demo for the new Hall of Champions project. As ...
Like a dodgeball ninja
Deception and blood on the gym floor.
If you mention dodgeball to someone over 18 years of age the most likely response will be to either praise or denigrate the 2004 film of the same name starring Ben Stiller and Vince Vaughn. ...
Where is Joe Strummer when you need him?
San Diego songsmith Jon Kanis about to drop his new album, Fundamentalism Is the Only Way
Jon Kanis spent around two years working on his upcoming full-length, Fundamentalism Is the Only Way, co-producing with Christopher Hoffee (Atom Orr, Truckee Brothers) at Chaos Recorders in Escondido. “The album was conceived to be ...
Gold in the drought age
Sol Invictus rules
A heap of broken images, where the sun beats, And the dead tree gives no shelter, the cricket no relief, And the dry stone no sound of water. Only There is shadow under this red ...
The tale of Fastball John
Former Saint Augustine and Padres hurler remembers when...
In the spring of 1970, former baseball Hall of Fame pitcher Carl Hubbell came to Patrick Henry High School for a baseball game between the home team and Saint Augustine’s High. As a representative from ...
