COLLEGE FOOTBALLMy beloved Bruins are up 31-3 at the half vs Hawaii’s Rainbow Warriors! I’m confident this will be a much better season than the last several. They’ve been doing it on the ground, though. This is fine except Dorian Robinson-Thompson needs to get some good throws in to boost his confidence with LSU coming into the Rose Bowl next week. The Bayou Bengals will be a hungry team following a losing season last year under former USC assistant Ed Orgeron…
BASEBALL The Dodgers are in pretty good shape, in my view. They lost to the Rockies yesterday and still trail the Giants by two games. But there’s over a month left and they play SF in some of them. My friend Paul Watson, a lifelong baseball fan who cut his teeth on the Crosley Field Reds, thinks baseball’s owners are trying to drag MLB back to where it was pre-free agency with the hordes of “analysts” they employ and having four pitchers each go two innings for most games. I think his argument might have merit. The late Marvin Miller often warned players towards the end of his tenure as MLBPA Executive Director that they would really like to do that and that the players should keep their guards up…
HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALLWhen I was in high school we would start no-pads conditioning next week, followed by over a week of two-a-days right after Labor Day. How things have changed. Here we are in the last week of August and SoCal schools have already started. The results? Don’t know yet. Friend Dave Freeman will give Jim and I an update at the VFW in a couple hours…
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