May 2, 2008
I got to attend the Red Bull Air Race over San Diego Bay on Saturday, September 22, 2007, thanks to Larry and Judy Thrall and thanks especially to their friend Mary Ann Williams. Thanks again to Larry, he and I will be going...
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9:41 AM in
San Diego,
Sports
October 21, 2007
I have a letter to the editor on Page 2 of today's Union-Tribune Sports section. They changed a few words and dropped my last paragraph, but that's cool. Here's what I sent them: As the Colorado Rockies wait for their first visit to the...
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11:12 AM in
Sports
October 3, 2007
I got to attend the Red Bull Air Race over San Diego Bay on Saturday, September 22, thanks to Larry and Judy Thrall and thanks especially to their friend Mary Ann Williams. One of my photos is above. To see a gallery of...
September 16, 2007
One of my oldest loves is baseball, and this year's Major League division races are down to their final two weeks, so I have my annual case of Pennant Fever, baby! Saturday night I went to the Padres-Giants game at Petco Park with my...
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9:12 AM in
DMG's Photos,
Sports
October 11, 2005
My favorite sports teams had a miserable week... The Padres got swept by the Cardinals in 3, leaving me with a quartet of useless Game 4 tickets. St. Augustine High School lost to Servite. SDSU lost to UNLV. The Chargers lost to the Steelers....
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1:45 PM in
Sports
October 8, 2005
I just sent the following letter to the Sports department of The San Diego Union-Tribune: I am a 1972 graduate of San Diego State who worked as a statistician for the Aztecs football team in Don Coryell's penultimate year as Head Coach. I have...
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3:34 PM in
Sports
October 1, 2005
Woo Hoo!!! Go Padres!!! After 2 1/2 hours of pushing Redial with my left hand while working a mouse with my right hand, I finally got through by phone to the Padres ticket office and bought four tickets to the fourth National League baseball...
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11:54 AM in
Sports
January 9, 2005
While watching a replay late last night of the San Diego State basketball team's Mountain West Conference opener at Brigham Young University, I was thinking I wanted to write an article about three major sports losses in San Diego this past week. During the...
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7:35 PM in
San Diego,
Sports
December 19, 2004
Congratulations to the professional football team I've followed through thick and thin since 1961, the San Diego Chargers, who just beat the Browns 21-0 in snowy Cleveland to clinch their first AFC West Championship since 1994! The Bolts are back! Everybody click here and...
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1:21 PM in
Sports
November 23, 2004
Long-time San Diego favorite Jerry Coleman, famous for crying "Oh doctor!" after great plays, is one of nine present or former Padres broadcasters who are listed on the preliminary ballot for the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame's 2005 Ford C. Frick Award, which...
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12:35 PM in
San Diego,
Sports
September 19, 2004
I have tickets for two of this season's final Padres games at Petco Park, and I don't yet know who I'm going to take with me to either event. If you'd be interested in joining me for one of the games, please e-mail me...
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4:28 PM in
Sports
September 3, 2004
A month ago I bought tickets for the Padres-Rockies games tonight and tomorrow at Petco Park through the Padres web site. It's "Mr. Padre Weekend," honoring our team's great future Hall of Famer, Tony Gwynn! I took 137 San Diego Catholic School Alums to...
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12:45 PM in
Sports
July 30, 2004
I scored tickets for tonight's sold-out Padres-Dodgers game at an auction yesterday on the Marketplace page of the Padres web site! The auction was scheduled to end at 12:05 p.m. and I placed a bid at 11:36 a.m. At 11:53 someone outbid me by...
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12:06 PM in
Sports
May 22, 2004
I've heard only one possible nickname for Petco Park, new home of the San Diego Padres, and that's "Bark Park," which I loathe! I've therefore decided to call our magnificent new ballpark "The Pet"! If you haven't heard that one before, remember that you...
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3:03 PM in
Sports
April 25, 2004
I spent most of Saturday and parts of Sunday watching the National Football League hold its annual draft of college players on ESPN. I'm not even going to try to explain the Manning Mess! I'm just going to talk about the players the Chargers...
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11:10 PM in
Sports
April 24, 2004
Pat Tillman is dead. :( It was all over the news yesterday and will be there again today and tomorrow. He was killed during fighting in Afghanistan. I borrowed this picture of him from Associated Press. When I first heard about Tillman quitting the...
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4:20 AM in
In Memoriam,
Sports,
USA,
World