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All across the nation, fields are being readied, equipment is checked and repaired, and little boys dream of driving in the game winning run or making the diving catch to squelch the opposition’s rally. The return of the world’s premier sport is upon us, and once again the sweetest words in all athletics reverberate throughout the land: [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 6:06 PM UTC
The nation’s best college football team will not be playing in the vaunted BCS championship game on January 8th. Too bad. America’s football fans deserve to see USC in the big dance. However, because of the BCS’s peculiar ranking criteria, we’ll have to settle for Oklahoma/Florida. Yawn. A team the likes of this year’s Trojans comes along — I’m [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 4:44 PM UTC
The Boston Celtics won their 17th World Championship last night, crushing the Lakers in the process. The final score was 131 to 92, but the game wasn’t that close. During the series’ first 5 games Boston figured out how to stop Kobe Bryant and exploit the porous Lakers defense, resulting in last night’s blowout.
The Celtics are [...]
Baseball, like all sport, is about winning. That’s why a score is kept. Athletics for the fun of it is mere recreation, a fine thing in its own right, but not to be confused with competition whose goal is victory. Winning demands ones’ very best, never more so than when opponents are evenly matched. The athlete [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Current Affairs, Sports at 2:49 PM UTC
We Bruin football fans have grown accustomed to disappointment. For most of this century, UCLA’s teams have been characterized by inconsistency, punctuated by periods of outright ineptitude, all mercifully counter-balanced by occasional flights of heavenly accomplishment. Beating USC 13 to 9 last year comes to mind. But by and large, we true Bruins have settled into resolved despair, holding hope and [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 10:12 AM UTC
Karl Dorrell finally managed to get Pete Carroll and USC off the front page of the Sports section. Dorrell’s dismissal was a predictable yet sad event. Coach Dorrell, by all accounts, is a class act on and off the field, and UCLA’s football program is in much better shape than it was at [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 2:30 PM UTC
National and International track and field governing bodies have decided to make an example of Marion Jones, the former superstar female sprinter and long jumper. Ms. Jones admitted using steroids in 2000 and 2001. Revealing a more troublesome transgression, at least from a legal standpoint, she also confessed to lying to federal investigators [...]
It’s not hard to believe Barry Bonds took steroids. Changes in his physical appearance are difficult to explain apart from the use of illegal substances. Besides suddenly adding 30 to 40 pounds of muscle, Barry’s hat size went up three notches, growth not likely the result of improved diet and exercise alone. [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 5:14 PM UTC
Many young people have reluctantly listened as some oldster reminisced about the bad old days. Descriptions of long uphill walks to school or work, bad weather and scarce resources of all kinds inform many an octogenarian’s lectures. We boomers may have heard more than our share of these orations because many of our [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 2:01 PM UTC
It’s as old as the game itself. When an individual batter enjoys too much success, or when an entire team is pummeling opposing pitchers, the offended hurlers exercise what they apparently believe is their God-given right. They throw the ball at the batter! "Ha," they seem to be saying, "try to hit one [...]
Posted by Jerry Pomeroy as Sports at 1:02 PM UTC