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Nov.12.2012
"In Los Angeles he is a legend. You say Raymond, they say Lewis. You say Lewis, they say Raymond."--Bob Hopkins, former New York Knicks assistant...
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Nov.13.2012
The ghosts of Los Angeles.   With all due respect to Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame Stadium or Boston Garden, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum has...
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Nov.16.2012
Screenwriter and sportswriter Steven Travers treads easily between the inter-connected worlds of sports and entertainment. He went to Fred Dryer's...
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Nov.17.2012
  After O.J.: the "beat goes on"   1967-69 was a period of momentous change in America. The Vietnam War, in the minds of many, went from...
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Nov.17.2012
    Quarterback 1989 - 1990   Things are going well for me. I'm coaching young quarterbacks in Orange County. I do private lessons...
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Nov.17.2012
    O.J had sustained a slight injury but recovered in time for the UCLA game. In terms of college football games where everything was on...
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Nov.17.2012
In recent years, USC, UCLA and the Pac-10 have been deluded by a disturbing number of homegrown football players choosing out-of-state programs....
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Nov.18.2012
    Quarterback 1962 - 1964   I came out of Huntington Park High School and John McKay recruited me in his first year, but USC was...
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Nov.18.2012
He is to the game of football what Oppenheimer was to nuclear fission. In a crude jocks world, he is erudite, thoughtful, intellectual.   Within...
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Nov.19.2012
  For Trojan fans, it was not a game, it was a sighting. It was Fatima, Lourdes and the Burning Bush combined.   For Notre Dame coach Ara...
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Sep.20.2008
According to the news, we have Alaska to thank for the unseasonably cool and breezy weather we've been having this early June. So, Thank You, Alaska...
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Sep.20.2008
KidThree spent the night at her mother's to get her hair done. KidFour spent the night here but was firmly uncommunicative. What fun. Sleep, my most...
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Sep.21.2008
but that is what describes today, so Hump Day it is. Yesterday another trip to the gym, wonderful to do but wearing on this driver in the summer heat...
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Sep.21.2008
It is so long, so hot, and so bereft of holidays. Thirty-one days of heat, one after the other, in a line that disappears into the shimmering waves...
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Nov.01.2008
I've blogged before about the wedding that I don't particularly want to go to.  Yesterday, an invitation to the bridal shower arrived.  It was...
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Nov.16.2008
Well, I had thought I was supposed to work yesterday morning.  It was written on the calendar that I was, and the calendar usually knows all (but...
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Jan.20.2009
What can I say?  I am so totally buzzed.  We need this change.  It's going to be a long, hard road, but finally I feel like there is a real grown-up...
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May.01.2009
Dad did get one and couldn't wait to show it to me.  He loves it, having loaded it with classics for just a dollar or so each.  The prices he told me...
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May.11.2009
Work was interesting today.  I remembered to take in some leftover file folders from home, and a little plastic set of drawers for my desk, and a...
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Jun.23.2009
and the temperature's not even in the nineties yet. A young man was murdered. Other young men shot up a house to retaliate, killing a woman who had...
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Red Room Blogs banner photograph (at the top of the page) is of writer Ernest Hemingway with Lady Duff Twysden, Hadley Hemingway, and three unidentified people at a cafe in Pamplona, Spain, during the Fiesta of San Fermin in July 1925; photograph used courtesy of the Ernest Hemingway Collection, John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum, Boston.