21 days ago- A little more than half a season in the Giants’ 2008 bank and I think it is worth posing this question: Are we watching the leftover year from the Barry Bonds era or the inaugural year of next era of Giants baseball?
28 days ago- In July 2006, I accompanied Harry Aleo, trainer Greg Gilchrist and Lost In The Fog to Florida. The 4-year-old colt was to be the heavy favorite in the featured race at Calder Park’s Summit of Speed.
33 days ago- He may stand four majors shy of the record he seeks in the record books, but Tiger Woods knocked Jack Nicklaus off one of my pedestals last week with that U.S. Open victory.
42 days ago- My greatest golfing experience came at Pebble Beach, the day after the 1992 U.S. Open, when the press was allowed to play the course under the conditions that Tom Kite had to endure in order to become an Open champion. It was humbling.
56 days ago- I’d been struggling to enjoy the NBA playoffs this spring and unable to put my finger on what was wrong. The games, in my opinion, lacked cohesion, lacked a focus, a strategy.
61 days ago- If 90 percent of success is just showing up, as Woody Allen has been credited with saying, then Omar Vizquel is poised to become the most successful major-league shortstop of all time. The title suits him.
77 days ago- It was the year of the first transatlantic phone call, the year when radio frequencies were regulated for the first time. Charles Lindbergh completed the first flight across the Atlantic Ocean from New York to Paris that year.
84 days ago- I have to give the Giants credit. I didn’t think they’d bring a single moment of baseball bliss to the Bay Area this season. Or next. Maybe not even in the one after that.
91 days ago- That rumble you’re feeling while reading today’s Examiner is none other than the NFL draft, a once-orderly process for replenishing the league’s rosters that has grown into a two-day, seismic media extravaganza that has blown off the Richter scale.