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May.09.2013
What’s in a name? I began thinking of my name – Travers – because on Thursday, May 24, the Examiner ran a piece, written by Dave Kindred of The Sporting News, that references events of May 18, 1912. Those events have personal resonance with me because of my name. Read on.
Earlier in that 1912...
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May.08.2013
The Examiner's new sports columnist, STEVEN TRAVERS, was previously a columnist for StreetZebra Magazine and wrote for the Los Angeles Times. This fifth-generation Californian was born in San Francisco and raised in Marin County. He played on Redwood High School's National Championship baseball...
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May.07.2013
Here are links to Steven Travers's appearances at USC/Annenberg:
http://annenberg.usc.edu/search.aspx?query=steven%20travers
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May.07.2013
San Diego natives transferring in is becoming a good habit at Troy.
Mark Prior was better at San Diego's University High than Barry Zito. Zito played there ahead of him, was a freshman All-American at U.C.-Santa Barbara, transferred to U.S.C., and...
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May.06.2013
After the French Revolution and Napoleon’s failed attempt to conquer the world, Europe was in turmoil. Germany and Austria stepped in, riding the whirlwind of the Industrial Revolution in what really became global competition with the United States and Great Britain. When the Model T was...
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May.06.2013
Caught up with Mike Gillespie while the Trojans' were taking infield practice prior to their March 7 6-5 win over UC Santa Barbara, which improved his fifth-ranked club to 12-3.
"Mark Prior is everything we expected him to be," said Gillespie, who said the...
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May.05.2013
In its January 19, 1997 issue, Baseball America magazine named Louisiana State the “Team of the ‘90s.” Baseball America listed the top 100 college baseball programs based upon a formula which encompasses the following categories: Winning percentage, NCAA regional appearances, College World...
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May.04.2013
The Call came at the end of the 1967 season.
“Hello, this is Darrell Royal.”
You have to understand a few things, about time and place and history…and about Texas.
1967 was, well, a different...
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May.03.2013
"…But the greatest farm club in the history of the Major Leagues…and the most consistent supplier of Major League talent the past 10 years is a franchise maintained at no cost to baseball. It finds and signs its own prospects, suits them up, develops them, refines them, weeds them out--and...
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May.03.2013
Check out this web site:
http://www.bestpsychologydegrees.com/beliefs/
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May.02.2013
Gene Bartow succeeded John Wooden at UCLA After following 11-time National Champion coach Rod Dedeaux at USC, Mike Gillespie knows how Bartow must have felt. In 1998, he coached his first National Championship team, and following a disappointing exit from the hunt for the National Championship in '...
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May.01.2013
The best managers in Bay Area baseball history? Bill Rigney, Dick Williams, Tony LaRussa, Dusty Baker, Mark Marquess…
Mark Marquess?!
Mark Marquess is "The Quiet Man" of college baseball. Like the John Wayne character in John...
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Apr.30.2013
John Wilson's life changed on September 30, 1996, the morning after his eighteenth birthday, when his estranged father, Jack, arrived at their Reseda home to stalk his wife, Cindy.
Cindy was not home. She had taken John's 17-year old sister, Wendy, and moved weeks earlier in order to...
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Apr.30.2013
Alexander the Great was said to be gay. The homosexual lobby recruited Michelangelo as one of their own, but his posthumous outing is debatable. Bill Clinton wanted them in the military, he just did not want anybody to know who they were.
The man who “comes out” in a major American...
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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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PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE (1994-2013)
POLITICAL COLUMNIST – WorldNetDaily, Washington, D.C.
SPORTS COLUMNIST - San...
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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...