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The Show must go on On Monday afternoon, I was looking for my transcript from Cal State Northridge - my alma mater. Deep in a drawer at the foot of my bed, I found something else. It was a picture of me, sitting on the 50-yard line at Aloha Stadium in Hawaii when I was a student at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. It was the beginning of my sportswriting career. A photographer from the Hawaii school newspaper - Ka Leo O' Hawaii, where I got my start - took the photograph. It was long before anybody had heard of Colt Brennan. I was ... |
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Finding home His wife sits in the faded peach-colored seats beyond Reese Field, clutching a pastel-colored fleece blanket. One of his five sons sits just below her. Another behind her. Yet another son stands just feet away from him on the baseball field. The lone daughter runs around the seats with some friends. A third son is on the other side of town, watching his team get ready. And the fifth son is in Arizona, wishing he were here. He said so, just the day before on the phone. This is the reason why 52-year-old Chris Bando gave up his former life ... |
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TPC Valencia tries to let secret out Some might argue that this is a football town. |
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A selfless athlete is rewarded The prep basketball season is well past us now, yet stories of selflessness are timeless. |
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The journey never ends Craig Leener is a former Signal Staff Writer. In the summer of 2006, Leener and his son, Zachary, traveled to every Major League Baseball stadium. Leener's weekly Signal column, 30 Ballparks in 63 Days, documented their journey. Two weeks ago, my son and I headed for Phoenix to take in some Cactus League Baseball and reconnect with the game after its winter slumber. I was looking for an epiphany. Instead, somewhere between the resilient Joshua trees lining Interstate 10 and the equally resilient guy hawking soft drinks at an Angels-Diamondbacks game at Tempe Diablo Stadium, the weekend getaway became an ... |
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The re-labeled Indians Hindsight is said to be 20/20. Looking back, maybe it was wrong to tout the Saugus High baseball team as the team to beat in 2008. Maybe it was wrong to mention things like Foothill League titles and even a CIF-Southern Section Division II title. But sometimes writers get jumpy. After all, Sports Illustrated had the Dodgers and Angeles meeting in the 2007 World Series in its 2007 Baseball Preview. The Dodgers, remember, finished in fourth place in their own division and the Angels were rolled by the eventual champion Boston Red Sox in the American League Division Series. But ... |
