The Internet saved my life last week. I had to take a nice, long walk after game seven of the NBA Finals, and if not for the ability to access video clips of the post-game press conferences via the web, I don’t know where I’d be right now.
I’ll never forget the day I met former USC head football coach Pete Carroll. It was 1997, I was living in Boston, and my New England Patriots (coming off a Super Bowl loss and the departure of Bill Parcells) had just hired Carroll as our head coach.
Something you may not know about your occasionally cynical, slightly jaded, friendly neighborhood columnist is that I love the young people. Having done work with a local organization (which I’m sure would prefer to remain nameless) for the past few years, I’ve been lucky enough to form friendships
For the 12th time in our illustrious history, my Boston Celtics are about to meet the Los Angeles Lakers to decide this season’s NBA championship. With all the talk about renewing the playoff “rivalry” between the two franchises, I, as a lifelong Red Sox fan, finally understood why Yankees fans used
When I was a kid, my father used to drive us from Boston to a family house in Darlington, S.C. during school vacations. He thought the relaxed pace and small-town charm was a nice change from life in the big city where we lived, so my younger sister and I would spend a couple of weeks every year rid
Do you know how much crude oil and natural gas is leaking out of the well under the Deepwater Horizon oil rig that exploded and sunk in the Gulf of Mexico? If not, you’re in pretty good company.
A couple of months ago, I asked 600 people to join me in forming the New Energy Caucus within Santa Monicans for Renters’ Rights, the tenants advocacy organization turned political party that controls Santa Monica’s City Council, Rent Control Board, the Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District, a
From week to week, there are five basic topics that a columnist covers. In ascending order of importance they are sports, pop culture and the arts, local politics, national politics, and predictions.
Being a Boston Celtics fan living in the land of the purple and gold has its ups and downs. Beating the Lakers in the finals in 2008 with a series-clinching 40-point win was definitely an “up.
Readers of this column should know by now that I handicap the good speaking roles for black actors in the movies I pay to see. Generally speaking, I will pay to see a movie with a handicap of three or less if the story is compelling enough or if it stars actors I trust.
The first time I tried to park in Downtown San Francisco, I figured taking the car would be a piece of cake because of the rows of meters I saw lining the streets.
I love Major League Baseball because it has the best season in sports and I love the National Football League because it has the best day in sports, but I love basketball the most because it is by far the best sport.
