As McSwain attrits, what's next for U-T?
More Chicago layoffs and “cognitive decline” in San Diego gnaw on tronc
Matt Potter 11 a.m., Sept. 19
Sports
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 ...
Will soccer save golf?
Yes, footgolf is angering also
Hole 5 at the Balboa Park Golf Course is a sloping nightmare. Option one is to drive your ball a bit to your left where it will (hopefully) come to a rest on the edge ...
Soma gets wet
After 30 years, the all-ages place opens up some beer space
After 30 years as an alcohol-free establishment, Soma, the all-ages rock venue that played a role in launching local bands Blink-182 and Pierce the Veil, just hosted its first show serving beer. Soma owner Len ...
Dick Enberg: the Call of Calls
Oh, my!
I’m from Northern California. Moved to Orange County in 1969 for graduate school. Didn’t think much of the region: mostly scrub, ragweed, and rabbit hills back then. But — the sportscasters! Vin Scully made Dodger ...
Small Culture in the famine spot
To remain solvent, like many musicians, Jerik Centeno does the computer-app taxi thing
Jerik Centeno of Small Culture moved to San Diego three years ago to pursue a career in audio production. “All through high school [in Kau’i] all I wanted to do was record and mix bands. ...
A look back at major league sports in San Diego
Stan Humphries' brain, Chargers vets, Nick Canepa’s “Sez Me” column
Why I Hate Football Working bars in New York, I had to keep the nightstick ready during Giants' games. I pried sports fans apart, called cops and ambulances. In Coronado years later, tending bar, a ...
Best of Sporting Box, 2005
12-day TV college and pro bowl jag, grunion, Tour de France, wheelchair sports, sportsman of the year - Barry Bonds
Fresh Start I've stepped out of the darkened cave — or, more precisely, have exited the animal den known in another life as my living room, to stroll in fresh air and reconnect my chakra ...
The Who. The Hits
Standing in ovation, the crowd bridged the (my) generation gap
Thirty-four years after their first farewell, mod-rockers the Who hit San Diego on their latest (rescheduled) swan song. With only two surviving members, this really could be the last time… Okay, it's not the classic ...
Sports celebs
San Diego's own: Florence Chadwick, Ted Williams, Archie Moore, Maureen Connolly, Bobby Riggs,Pancho Segura, SEALS spy for Koch, and a peek inside Padres' lockers
For more celebrities, click here. For author celebrities, click here. For thinker and artist celebrities, click here. For public figure and fraud celebrities, click here. Against the current Florence Chadwick in and out of the ...
Protest at Sports Arena Verizon store
Telecom union workers speak out against jobs being sent abroad
As many as 100 local telecom union workers converged on a Verizon Wireless storefront on Sports Arena Boulevard Thursday afternoon (May 5) in support of striking Verizon workers. The workers they're supporting, however, are call-center ...
The Shadows of Nasty City
Surf-punk four-piece outgrows hip-hop high school
If you go to Sweetwater High, chances are good you are into hip-hop. “That’s just what all the kids from National City are into,” says Andy Saldana, singer/guitarist of Los Shadows. “Our area is gangster ...
How to pick the NCAA winner
No need to study boring stats
The Box solves NCAA tournament’s bracketology.
Epic chokes from the history of modern sports
As in the NFL, as in San Diego Chargers, as in Philip Rivers
Now we come to Preventing Motor Skill Failure Through Hemisphere-Specific Priming: Cases From Choking Under Pressure. Authored by those impetuous funsters at Faculty of Sport Science, Technische Universität München, located in München, state of Bavaria, ...
Eighteen holes with Chris Berman
Doesn’t seem possible, but he hits the ball consistently
I’m standing in front of the Lodge at Pebble Beach. Here for the Pebble Beach National Pro-Am. It’s Tuesday. Players, those who are here, have today and tomorrow for practice rounds. The tournament goes off ...
