Ask a Hipster — Advice you didn't know you needed
Big Screen — Movie commentary
Blurt — Music's inside track
Booze News — San Diego spirits
Classical Music — Immortal beauty
Classifieds — Free and easy
Close to Home — What it’s like on the street where you live
Cover Stories — Front-page features
Drinks All Around — Bartenders' drink recipes
Excerpts — Literary and spiritual excerpts
Feast! — Food & drink reviews
Feature Stories — Local news & stories
Fishing Report — What’s getting hooked from ship and shore
From the Archives — Spotlight on the past
Golden Dreams — Talk of the town
The Gonzo Report — Making the musical scene, or at least reporting from it
Letters — Our inbox
Movies@Home — Local movie buffs share favorites
Movie Reviews — Our critics' picks and pans
Musician Interviews — Up close with local artists
Neighborhood News from Stringers — Hyperlocal news
News Ticker — News & politics
Obermeyer — San Diego politics illustrated
Outdoors — Weekly changes in flora and fauna
Overheard in San Diego — Eavesdropping illustrated
Poetry — The old and the new
Reader Travel — Travel section built by travelers
Reading — The hunt for intellectuals
Roam-O-Rama — SoCal's best hiking/biking trails
San Diego Beer — Inside San Diego suds
SD on the QT — Almost factual news
Sheep and Goats — Places of worship
Special Issues — The best of
Street Style — San Diego streets have style
Surf Diego — Real stories from those braving the waves
Theater — On stage in San Diego this week
Tin Fork — Silver spoon alternative
Under the Radar — Matt Potter's undercover work
Unforgettable — Long-ago San Diego
Unreal Estate — San Diego's priciest pads
Your Week — Daily event picks
Rumor: NFL wants Chargers to return to San Diego
Don: It is not a good place for football, as the seats are too far away from the field. The Dolphins took care of that when the Marlins moved to their own (fully taxpayer funded) ballpark. The Dolphins changed seat pitch, and moved sideline seats closer to the field, while at the same time removing thousands of seats. The same thing would need to happen here, and being as there is no NFL team playing here anymore, even more seats would need to be removed (including the entire upper deck). And yes--there are many older college stadiums around, but they were built mainly for football. Not one college stadium was built with the intent to play baseball and football there. I would expect a similar remodel of the current SD stadium to cost more than the approximately $350 mil spent by the Dolphins to remodel their stadium.— October 3, 2017 11:24 p.m.
Rumor: NFL wants Chargers to return to San Diego
You were doing so well until you said, "...or watch football than San Diego Stadium."— October 3, 2017 4:42 p.m.
National football music
There is plenty of music out there that could be used for Dean $panos and his Carson Chargers--the theme from Looney Tunes cartoons comes to mind...— October 1, 2017 7:41 p.m.
Chargers', Rams' weak attendance Sunday
Interestingly, USC will start remodeling the Coliseum after this season, and two of the things they are doing is adding luxury suites and removing about 16,000 seats. Regarding attendance--the NFL has created this, by allowing two teams to move there. The Rams, and Rams alone, made much more sense (as the NFL was never going to let the Raiders move back there). And with the NFL having been gone from LA for over 20 years, you can expect lots of fans from visiting teams in both the Coliseum and StubHub Center for the foreseeable future. Season seat holders will sell tickets for individual games they don't really want to go to (which could be most of them) to fans of the visiting teams for a big markup over face value, allowing them to keep buying season seats year after year. Two of the reasons why there were always so many visiting team's fans at Chargers games here: 1) season seat holders sold their tickets for big bucks for certain games. 2) Ticket brokers (part of the alleged 25% Chargers fan base in Orange County) bought season seats and sold them to visiting fans.— September 19, 2017 2:17 p.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
Without a doubt, that land will get developed. The question is--just how it will be developed. And they wouldn't be selling parkland, but it is land that could become parkland. Perhaps it should be more parkland than anything else, but the city (and developers) will never go for that, in their never-ending quest of trying to obtain more revenue from developments for necessities such as infrastructure, but then not spending enough (or any) money on it.— September 17, 2017 4:19 p.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
The city isn't giving away the land. FMV will be paid for it, but part of the deal should be flood mitigation. And I highly doubt it would cost $1 billion, or anywhere near that much. Even FSI, in their plans, proposed parkland through part of that property, but you can bet that is the area that would flood long before any other parts of their proposed development did.— September 17, 2017 3:18 p.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
What's the reason that IKEA and Lowe's doesn't flood? They are right next to the stadium. They do not flood. That same mitigation could--and should--be done on the stadium site before any new development commences.— September 17, 2017 11:46 a.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
And that story shows the one time it flooded. Well done. And if they don't do some mitigation efforts, such as what has been done in many locations west of the stadium site, any new development on the stadium site will probably be damaged by flooding.— September 17, 2017 11:44 a.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
The stadium field? No. It has flooded once. The lot around it has flooded a number of times. If the river could be handled as it has been in other areas downstream (how many times has IKEA or Lowes been flooded since they have been there?), development of some sort should be fine on most of the stadium property.— September 16, 2017 2:57 p.m.
Rip down Qualcomm and build new stadium?
Don: With a student RED ID, the students get in free, according to the Aztecs website. And not just for football--all sports.— September 15, 2017 5:50 p.m.