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May.25.2013
In the 1950s, film producer Edgar Scherick watched television and he saw the future. A big New York sports fan, he created the Wide World of Sports and the baseball Game of the Week for the American Broadcasting Company. Despite giving Howard Cosell his start in broadcasting, Sherick’s...
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May.24.2013
YANKEES/MOB PITCH
What if…?
In 1920, the New York Yankees became controlled by the Mafia? Ex-Congressman Jacob Rupert became the “front man” owner. Red Sox owner Harry Frazee is forced to sell Babe Ruth to the Yankees...
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May.22.2013
He grew up next to Steve Lavin in Marin, has worked the craft of acting all over the world, and now he is a heartthrob to millions of TV fans.
Bradley Cole, who grew up in Marin County and attended...
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May.21.2013
10 years ago, an unknown knocked out the invincible Mike Tyson in one of boxings greatest upsets.
Buster Douglas was a 43-1 longshot when he went up against "Iron Mike" Tyson 10 years ago in Tokyo, Japan. Tyson was 23 years old with...
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May.21.2013
“You've seen your birth, your life and death,” Jim Morrison wrote. “You might recall all of the rest. Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?"
“He’s led a big enough life for more than one movie,” says Moneyball screenwriter Aaron Sorkin of the late,...
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May.21.2013
Danny Sugarman was a 14-year old kid living in the L.A. suburb of Westchester, near LAX. He was troubled, and did not like his step-father. He read an ad or heard about a rock band in Hollywood that was hiring a teenager to answer mail, so he went for and got the job. The band was The Doors...
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May.20.2013
Volleyball duo of Johnson-Jordan and Buckner-Davis emerge from nowhere, will strut stuff in Sydney.
For women's U.S. Olympic beach volleyball player Jennifer Johnson-Jordan, the Sydney Olympics will be a rite of passage. Her father, Rafer Johnson (...
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May.19.2013
A bit of the past teamed with a bit of the future when former UCLA tennis star Justin Gimelstob teamed with ex-USC National Champion Rick Leach to defeat some local talent (Zach Fleischman/John Fruttero) in a first round doubles match at the Mercedes-Benz Cup on Tuesday, July...
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May.19.2013
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May.18.2013
In September, 1973, two Southern Californians participated in a Domed Sex Spectacular, and they even played a little tennis.
It really could have been a flirtatious weekend match at the LA Tennis Club, or on some public courts in Long Beach....
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May.17.2013
In 1972, a mild-mannered young man from Pasadena High and U.S.C. faced a Cold War Dracula on his Rumanian turf. Good vs. evil ensued. Good won.
The American gentleman
The U.S. was mired in...
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May.16.2013
Ice hockey, being a cold weather sport, experienced slow going in California. Remember Charlie Finley’s Seals up in Oakland? That franchise did not just move, they disintegrated.
The Los Angeles Kings had a few things going for them. Their owner...
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May.15.2013
My father, Donald Edgerly Travers is the youngest of three children. He is named after our famed ancestor Captain James H. Edgerly, who spied for Abe Lincoln. When I entered Redwood High School, my friend Pete Cooper began calling him “the Don.” He inter-changeably called me “Don” or “the...
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May.15.2013
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 so he could be at Sir Francis Drake High School, in the Marin County town of San Anselmo, by four o'...
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May.15.2013
With all due respect for the San Antonio Spurs, the NBA is breathing a happy sigh because the Finals feature the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics. The Spurs from the late 1990s to date are one of the greatest teams in pro hoops annals, but have not resonated beyond the most ardent of fans...
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Those who do not remember the past are condemned to re-live it.”
—George Santayana
About Steven
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Causes Steven Travers Supports
Conservative, Christian, USC, American patriotism
Steven’s Favorite Books
The Holy Bible; Plato’s Republic; Sun-tsu’s Art of War’ Machiavelli’s The Prince; William Shakesepeare’s Hamlet, Othello and Macbeth; Dostoeyevsky’s Brothers...