02.03.2016 Sports Sports Desk: Shedding tears for a coach who had many friends I’m really not good at goodbyes, but I’ll try my best. The first time I saw Phil Reed — I don’t know how many years ago — he was...
08.29.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Video is another creative form of sports storytelling “Let’s go to the videotape!” Back when I was a kid in the 1970s, that was the trademark phrase Warner Wolf used when he was the sportscaster for WABC-TV,...
08.12.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Goodbye summer. We hardly knew ye Being an old-fashioned sort, I still have and use one of those old-fashioned company-issued calendars that you pushpin onto a bulletin board.
07.13.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Early mornings are part of the deal for triathletes Despite not being a fan of a wake-up alarm going off at 4:30 a.m. on a Sunday morning (or any morning, for that matter), I really didn’t mind too...
07.06.2015 Sports Let’s hear it for the American women, World Cup champions SPORTS DESK/Bob Liepa A surge of patriotic fervor swept through me on Sunday. Sure, it was the day after the Fourth of July holiday, but that wasn’t the reason...
03.23.2015 Sports Bowling: Forget 300. How about an 821 from a 74-year-old? SPORTS DESK/Bob Liepa In bowling, 300 is unquestionably the sexy number. Dropping down 300 pins in one game is perfection. Even so, other numbers can be more desirable and...
01.04.2015 Sports Sports Desk: Spinella’s heart is in the right place The best in people can emerge during trying times. I have known Dave Spinella for a dozen years or so. I have seen him develop players, make them better,...
12.31.2014 Sports Sports Desk: Recalling a time when kids played their own games With a left turn, we were on Davis Street in Oceanside, and I had taken a drive back three decades in time. I was with my sisters and others...