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Feb.10.2010
    It is sometimes hard for people who live in California to imagine that at one time the Golden State was considered the Prairies, the Hinterlands...
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Feb.11.2010
Note to the President: Colonel is pronounced "Ker-nel," not "Caul-a-nell."   Col. Charles T. Travers passed away of old age in...
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Feb.12.2010
  If hard work is a factor, UCLA is in very good hands with Lavin, Saia and Spencer.   Coach Pete Hayward used to get up in the middle of the night...
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Feb.14.2010
              It was just perfect. Alex Rodriguez emerging from the Texas Rangers’ clubhouse after Friday night’s 13-1 win over Oakland with Andres...
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Feb.15.2010
  Respect for ones' elders. This is an important quality to have, because those who came before us can teach us through experience and acquired...
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Feb.17.2010
    Funny thing about some of these centipedes. For dedicated athletes, they sure do like to drink. “We run on chili peppers, Bud, Coors, and shots...
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Feb.18.2010
  Since 1991, De La Salle High School of Concord has established the most dominant prep football dynasty in this nation’s history. In the 1970s,...
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Feb.19.2010
  Change, as they say, is good. Changed seemed to be a good thing in the winter of 1957-58 for Roy Campanella, the club’s star catcher since 1949....
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Feb.19.2010
My 2009 book, "Dodgers Past & Present," can be viewed in the new blockbuster "Valentine's Day." Shirley MacLaine presents it...
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Feb.19.2010
Bryan Arguello, the Century League MVP in 1999 who had a kick return for a touchdown last week, returned the opening kickoff 80 yards for a touchdown...
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Aug.22.2011
     Slower than a snail crawling across the street, slower than watching the last traces of ketchup pour out of a bottle, there...
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Jan.09.2009
12:41pm... Happy 2009! How was everyone's New Years Eve? Mine was pretty drunk. I even managed to bang a pot when the ball dropped, so top that! ...
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Sep.02.2009
   I get some very stupid things in my email from time to time, but today I received one that I thought hit the nail right on the head. Therefore,...
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Nov.05.2010
There are few Pulitzer-prize-winning novels I enjoy.  I don't like hopeless, helpless endings.  Reality provides enough of those. Life takes eager,...
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Sep.01.2010
The sun comes early and stays late.  The possibilities unfold, the light of the morning slipping past closed eyes, past your need to sleep.  Another...
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Sep.20.2008
I stopped at an atm to deposit my babysitting check from watching BabyJ this week and was surprised to see the acct had a positive balance when I...
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Sep.20.2008
We chose this apartment solely because of accessibility. Last year, when KidThree was shot, we were living in an apartment that was up three steps...
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Feb.02.2009
Back in the dark ages, before man had harnessed fire, I was a cute eighteen-year-old in the Navy, stationed at Great Lakes Naval Base north of...
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Feb.19.2009
Last night KidThree got word from a friend--unhappy people across the causeway are trying to find out where we live, and KidThree has received two...
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Mar.23.2009
What a bloody weekend--those four Oakland cops shot, and in Sacramento, four young men.  Three of the Oakland cops have died and the fourth is brain...
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