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PERSONAL SPORTS MEMORIES: Where I First Learned Baseball

REMEMBERANCES OF MY EARLIEST EXPERIENCES LEARNING AND PLAYING AMERICA’S TRADITIONAL AND NATIONAL PASTIME One In A Series After I had played my most recent game of pick-up softball with my group in West Los Angeles’ Mar Vista Park, Where without intending to brag or “toot my horn”, I did well in hitting two home runs in the first inning, As I rested in my bedroom, having just had a birthday…

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FORTY YEARS: Reuniting With My High School's Class of 1985

A familiar Samohi image that’s now gone: The History Building at the center of campus. Photo courtesy of smdp.com ANOTHER MILESTONE OCCASION FOR THE PEOPLE WHO GRADUATED FROM SANTA MONICA HIGH SCHOOL AT THE MIDWAY POINT OF THE 1980’s “I can’t believe it’s been forty years!” would be very easy to say to begin this post. But it would be far too much of a cliche. Particularly since – in stating…

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ANOTHER OFFICIAL BIRTHDAY COMMEMORATION

Photo courtesy of pinterest.com FIFTY-EIGHT YEARS AS OF JUNE 18TH. FIFTY-EIGHT TIMES AROUND THE SUN. Which incidentally is 696 months, 3,024 weeks, and 21,170 days, 508,080 hours, and 30,484,800 minutes breathing on this planet. There’s one thing that’s prevalent in my mind as I mark my birthday on June 18th; The fact that (yes, I know it’s a complete cliché, but I also know that it’s the…

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ANOTHER ANNUAL BIRTHDAY POST: Musings of Seeing Another Year

Image courtesy of amazon.com THOUGHTS REGARDING MY COMMEMORATION OF ANOTHER TRIP AROUND THE SUN – MY 58th 58 years. 696 months. 3,024 weeks. 21,170 days. 508,080 hours. 30,484,800 minutes. 1,829,320,000 seconds. 730 days until my sixtieth birthday. But I’ll cross that bridge when I get to that. Actually, When I consider these specifics as far what fifty-eight years looks like, It…

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COLLEGES CAN NOW PAY THEIR STUDENT-ATHLETES: My Reckonings About That

TWO OF THE BEST THAT SO CAL BASKETBALL HAS TO OFFER: UCLA’s Lauren Betts (left) and USC’s JuJu Watkins (right) FOUR YEARS AGO – IN 2021 – THE NCAA PASSED WHAT WAS ESSENTIALLY THE EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION FOR STUDENT-ATHLETES AS FAR AS MAKING MONEY WAS CONCERNED, WHEN A POLICY ALLOWING NAME, IMAGE, AND LIKENESS DEALS WAS AUTHORIZED. FOUR YEARS LATER, A JUDGE SIGNED OFF ON A $2.8 BILLION DEAL…

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OMAHA BOUND! UCLA Baseball Earns Its Sixth College World Series Berth

Bruins celebrating the moment their College World Series ticket was punched. Photo courtesy of x.com IN CASE YOU MISSED IT (sorry it’s a tiny bit late): FROM WORST TO FIRST! From 19 wins and a last place finish in their last season in the Pac-12 Conference to 47 wins and a co-championship in their first season in the Big Ten Conference! After what everyone considered a very sub-par season in…

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LA GENTE (The People) vs ICE IN LOS ANGELES: Where I Stand On This Issue

Protestors standing up to ICE and making themselves heard. Photo courtesy of nbcnews.com MY HUMBLE OPINION REGARDING THE PROTESTS AGAINST IMMIGRATION OFFICIALS IN MY HOMETOWN I’ll be honest, Until the firework throwing and the rock-throwing at the Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials who were arresting those who were considered illegal immigrants and the police that were sent to help…

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SOMETHING ABOUT MYSELF THAT I RECENTLY DISCOVERED

Except for the long blondish hair and the thin frame, this reminds me of how I feel too often… I WAS ON YOU TUBE THE OTHER DAY… When I saw and watched a video that revealed something very important about myself that I never really realized in so many words. It was a video that described ways in which someone would be emotionally immature; While I won’t list all the various factors, I found…

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SO CAL COLLEGE BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL IN THE POSTSEASON: My Peek and Update

UCLA celebrating after their walk-off win vs Oregon in OKC. Photo courtesy of x.com WHAT’S CURRENTLY GOING ON AS THE POSTSEASON EXPLOITS OF UCLA’S, USC’S, AND UC IRVINE’S BASEBALL TEAMS AND UCLA’S SOFTBALL TEAM CONTINUE As such, The season has now officially ended for two of the four So Cal college teams that play on a diamond-shaped field in the spring as… UCLA’s softball team, while making…

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CROSSTOWN CUP: USC Beats UCLA In The Annual All Sports Rivalry Competition

Photo courtesy of usctrojans.com TROJANS WIN THE ANNUAL CROSSTOWN CUP OVER THEIR CROSSTOWN RIVALS FOR THE 14TH TIME Looking back, When the Trojans pulled off that trick play at the Rose Bowl and completed that comeback win over UCLA to win that Crosstown Rivalry Cash and take back the Victory Bell to paint it cardinal, Somehow – though there were many other sporting events to be played…

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SANCTOPIA: My Third Excerpt From My Upcoming Debut Novel

YES, I’M STILL WORKING ON IT. IN FACT, I’M IN THE MIDST OF DOING MY FINAL EDITING NOW, AS WELL AS RESEARCHING PLACES TO PUT TOGETHER MY HARD MANUSCRIPT AND WEBSITES TO SELF-PUBLISH THIS FIRST NOVEL OF MINE. AND YES, MY GOAL TO HAVE “SANCTOPIA” SELF-PUBLISHED AND IN YOUR HANDS BY MY BIRTHDAY REMAINS. In fact, I can officially announce that I have finished my final editing; Though I know it…

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SO CAL BASEBALL: A Dodgers & Angels Update

The Angels’ Jorge Soler (#12) congratulating Logan O’ Hoppe(#14) with Nolan Schanuel looking on during their series with the Dodgers. Photo courtesy of x.com CHECKING OUT SO CAL’S TWO MLB CLUBS AFTER THE SEASON’S FIRST TWO MONTHS LOS ANGELES DODGERS Current Record: 32-20, first place in the National League West, two games ahead of the San Francisco Giants Leading Hitters: Freddie Freeman, 1B…

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SO CAL SPORTS: Checking Out Our Women's Basketball and Soccer Teams

LAFC (in black) and the Galaxy (in white) battling during an El Trafico match. Photo courtesy from theviewfromavalon.com TAKING A LOOK AT MAJOR LEAGUE SOCCER’S LAFC AND THE GALAXY, THE NATIONAL WOMEN’S SOCCER LEAGUE’S ANGEL CITY FC, AND THE WNBA’S SPARKS AS THEIR SEASONS ARE FULLY UNDERWAY LOS ANGELES SPARKS Last Season’s Record: 8-32, worst record in the WNBA and the team’s worst record…

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MALCOLM X - 100 YEARS: A Commemoration

Photo courtesy of theangelera.com GIVING HOMAGE AND HONOR TO ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT BLACK MEN OF AFRICAN DESCENT IN HISTORY, AND ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT MEN AND LEADERS IN GENERAL, ON THE OCCASION OF HIS 100th BIRTHDAY To be honest, I can only think of two other African-Americans – Martin Luther King and Jackie Robinson, Whose impact on this country with regards to the Civil Rights…

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A BASEBALL & SOFTBALL DIAMOND ODYSSEY

CHECKING OUT BASEBALL AND SOFTBALL GAMES AT VARIOUS LEVELS AROUND LOS ANGELES’ WESTSIDE I hadn’t done this since 2018 – before the COVID-19 pandemic – when I went to see various baseball and softball games in the L.A. area, including at USC’s Dedeaux Field in addition to UCLA’s Jackie Robinson Stadium. But since the pandemic more or less died down with things in the sports universe pretty much…

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NATIONAL MEN'S VOLLEYBALL CHAMPS! Congrats To Long Beach State

KUDOS TO “THE BEACH” – LONG BEACH STATE’S MEN’S VOLLEYBALL TEAM – FOR WINNING THEIR FOURTH NCAA TITLE And it wasn’t even close, as they swept back-to-back defending champion UCLA in three sets in Columbus, OH and achieving revenge for the Bruins beating them for the crown last year; It’s “The Beach’s” first “natty” since 2019, when they beat UCLA at their home court, the Walter Pyramid in Long…