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It’s been about two weeks since I drove by Levi’s Stadium for the first time. My vision was impaired by a blurry car window and concrete fences petulantly guarding the San Francisco 49ers’ new home, but I could see the massive white logo crawling into the corner of my eye.
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I leaped up off the living room floor, wide-eyed in joyous disbelief at the sight of over 20,000 stunned BYU basketball fans plastered on the TV screen before me. It was Jan. 16, 2013, and former Saint Mary’s point guard Matthew Dellavedova had just nailed a double-clutch 40-foot basket to
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As Mark Tatum continued to open the envelopes that would determine the 2014 draft order, my heart raced faster and faster as the pool of available teams got smaller. The Lakers were slotted for the No. 6 pick, but thanks to a screwed-up lottery system to prevent tanking (tell that
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At the top of my well-worn Daily Cal inbox rests a short email from three years ago. It is from a former sports editor on my first-ever feature article on a women’s tennis player — an article that took about 10 hours to write and 10 more hours to edit.
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Instead of Mother Goose and Cinderella, my bedtime stories mostly consisted of Randy Johnson and Will Clark. I love baseball because the strategy is fascinating and because failing seven times out of ten is bizarrely acceptable — but mostly because it’s the foundation of my relationship with my dad. Going
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Michael Sam coming out should not be headline news. But, for today at least, it needs to be.
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When I was young, my sister and I used to chant, “2, 4, 6, 8, who do we appreciate? Sisters! Sisters! Yeah!” The cheer, which we heard after a soccer game, was an easy way to get our parents to ooh and ahh over how cute we were. Still, it
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It’s the most devastating moment of my eight-year-old life. I’m sitting cross-legged and crying in front of my tiny TV in the living room. My mom tells me it’s bedtime, but I don’t want to believe. Game five of the 2001 American League Championship Series and we’re down 6-0 in
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The Richie Incognito-Jonathan Martin saga has exploded into a national story this week, eliciting strong reactions from NFL pundits and stay-at-home moms alike. And that’s to be expected when you combine a topic that has received as much attention recently as bullying has in America’s highest-profile professional sports league. But
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I could feel my heart stop. Eric Reid, the 49ers’ shiny first round pick out of LSU, was lying motionless on CenturyLink Field after a hard hit on Seattle wide receiver Sidney Rice. As I watched Reid dig his fists into the grass, I realized I was an awful person.
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