I’m relieved by Los Angeles’ win at Dallas Friday. Basketball coaches and chessplayers know the feeling when losses are devastating, while wins are just a relief. I’m glad Coach Roberts, who’s already fired on the Internet, didn’t lose a fourth game in a row. Internet sports forums are immeasurably worse than sports talk radio was, back in my day. Sports talk radio are screened by radio staff. If they get on the air, they can be flushed by a host who’s heard enough. Instead, it’s Dallas coach Koclanes who’s getting double secret fired on the Internet, though some think Koclanes …
Category: cat
Even travel is different now
The Los Angeles Sparks approved my credential request for Friday’s visit from Golden State, which was kind, considering I haven’t had anything nice to say about the league lately. (Atlanta is an interesting team. How’s that.) But how much time am I spending away from my needy cat, and who’ll see to His Highness’s demands? We were separated for about 12 hours once, and I think he was sure I’d been devoured by predators (though didn’t care beyond who would then play with him). In the old days, I would’ve taken my car on the slow route down the coast, …
Like I said
One of the troubles I have with blogging, I said, is that “good” stuff is set aside for inclusion in a book, while throwaway items go on FB or BlueSky, and there’s only rarely anything in between. Then I launched this blog because I needed someplace to cover the WNBA developments (Golden State gave me my first team since Sacramento folded, but Los Angeles hired my coach), and even chess (because I broke the chess blog). I also said I would post some crap, rather than think too much about where it belongs. So here’s a picture of today’s Amazon …