Yesterday’s match-up against the Tigers at Louisiana State University was a much-anticipated and crucial game in Alabama’s quest for a national college football championship. They don’t call Tiger Stadium “Death Valley” for nothing as it’s one of the toughest places in the college football landscape for visiting teams to win. Throughout the course of the …
Sorry. Gotta rave about college football for a moment — and rant once again about how the L.A. Times is always so quick to snarkily discount Alabama’s success. This morning columnist Chris Dufresne had this to say about Coach Nick Saban’s undefeated Crimson Tide being atop the national polls: Saban sympathizers and [Texas Tech Coach …
Here in the city of anglez, membership has its privileges on all sorts of levels — one of them being preferred access to the variety of municipal pay tennis facilities (8) and golf courses (10). It doesn’t come free, of course. There’s an annual fee attached to each; $15 for swatters of the fuzzy ball …
It’s a curse these mobile phones. They enable normally (or at least one can hope) mild-mannered considerate people to become knuckle-dragging mega dopes at the push of a button. A subset of these slathering droolsacks has been proliferating for years, namely those that find themselves with their phones at televised sporting events, wherein they’re in …
So I golfed this morning with Joseph Mailander at the nine-hole Roosevelt golf course in Griffith Park — one of my favorites. It was a beautiful day and it was great to see him and I was very much appreciative of his willingness to suffer my lack of skills given my golf this day was …
I can imagine something akin to Abbott & Costello’s “Who’s On First” sketch when telling someone where we went for breakfast this morning. “What’s it’s name?” “It’s Local.” “Right. But what’s it called?” “The Local place?” “Yes!” “It’s Local.” “Gah!” Previously the Eastside Mercantile shop, Susan and I have been anticipating Local’s opening for weeks, …
Forgive me if I come off sound all golf-instructory (for the real deal go see Al Crawford at the Griffith Park driving range), but while hitting your woods well out of the driving range teebox may be more sexy and satisfying, a good drive on the golf course doesn’t mean diddlus squatumus if you can’t …