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Friday, April 20 2007 |
Driving through Los Angeles is always a gamble, but a mid-week visit to Santa Anita Park pays off. The weather is perfect, the traffic is light and the longshot Charmin Dot finishes nicely.
Also, a look at some weekend events including a benefit movie screening Sunday for the B-Rad Fund. A fellow athlete decides to help the recovery of injured Dos Pueblos running back Brad Ebner. |
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Wednesday, April 18 2007 |
Payton Jordan says "a great wife" was an important part of baseball legend's accomplishments.
"It takes a great wife to stand behind a man undergoing trial and tribulation," said Jordan, who witnessed Jackie Robinson's youthful athletic efforts in Pasadena, and is himself a man of considerable accomplishment.
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Monday, April 16 2007 |
You can tinker with the rules to create more scoring, but some things in sports never change. Lopsided victories lead to over-confidence, no matter how experienced are the players.
And so the Santa Barbara Breakers followed their impressive 135-105 thumping of the Seattle Mountaineers on Friday night with a 118-113 loss to the same team on Saturday night. |
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Friday, April 13 2007 |
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The UCSB women's coach praised Rutgers' response to the fired radio host's disparaging remarks.
"It would have been easy for them (Rutgers) to get down in the mud," said UCSB Coach Mark French. "Instead they handled it with class, intelligence and dignity. ... They weren't vindictive."
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Wednesday, April 11 2007 |
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It was one of those questions that pop up suddenly when you're talking about sports.
"Who are the best two teammates in NBA history?" Curt Pickering asked.
We started to plumb our memory banks, and the names came up -- Bob Cousy and Bill Russell; Jerry West and Elgin Baylor; Larry Bird and Kevin McHale; John Stockton and Karl Malone; Michael Jordan and Scottie Pippen; Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal.
Somehow, the definitive answer did not occur to us right away -- Earvin "Magic" Johnson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the master of the triple-double and the maestro of the skyhook. Together they won five NBA championships with the Lakers in the '80s. |
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Monday, April 09 2007 |
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SAN DIEGO -- In some ways, Opening Day is the best day to go to a ballgame. Your seat will not be sticky from melted ice cream or cotton candy. Your team will not yet be mired in futility. Opening Day is imbued with the promise of the dawn on a fresh spring morning. There was a palpable sense of optimism here Friday night as the San Diego Padres took the field for their 2007 home opener against the Colorado Rockies.
The Padres were coming off two consecutive National League West championships. Continued progress could only mean an NL pennant or a World Series title. |
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Friday, April 06 2007 |
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The beach volleyball legend will start his last season in Miami next week; his Santa Barbara hometown is off the schedule. |
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Wednesday, April 04 2007 |
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Karch Kiraly is the winningest volleyball player of all time, but that does not mean he would be successful as a coach. In fact, during an interview last year, Kiraly confessed that he was not well-suited to coach a team. *** Coming Friday: Part No. 2 *** |
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Monday, April 02 2007 |
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After the NCAA champion is crowned tonight in Atlanta, CBS will signal the end of the men's college basketball season by playing the appropriately sappy song "One Shining Moment." There will, of course, be more shining moments for sport's stars, like Ohio State's manchild Greg Oden. The NBA will keep them glowing with bling bling for years to come. The end will inevitably come, though, as sure as the sun will set on another glorious Santa Barbara day. |
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