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LA Dodger Fan, Raider-Hater, Laker-Hater with Kobe but loved Showtime, Love the Angels with Mike Scioscia and the other ex-88 Dodgers, Fan of the UCLA Bruins and whoever is playing the Trojans, Former season-ticket holder with LA Rams, Kurt Warner fan, don't care about hockey anymore, into girls field hockey because 14 year old daughter is playing next year in 9th grade, into ASA girls Fast-pitch softball- 9 year old daughter is making All-Star team in first year of playing, love Tiger because he makes every other golfer way better or just crushes them on the 18th hole with 16' + putts to win, think Frisbee and skateboarding should be Olympic sports-glad Snowboarding is, wish I still lived at the beach so I could surf daily again, glad all the X-treme sports are huge so lunatics can make a living selling to the mainstream, I think bull-riders are the toughest athletes on earth, WWE is the best soap opera on TV - and the divas are pretty hot athletes, am amazed at big-wave riders-can you imagine riding a 30-60 foot wall of water?

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TEMPE, AZ - FEBRUARY 22: Pitch Nick Adenhart #90 of the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim poses during Photo Day on February 22, 2007 at Tempe Diablo Stadium in Tempe Arizona. (Photo by Stephen Dunn/Getty Images)

Drunk Driving: Are We Serious? Did Nick Adenhart Have To Die?

Published 7 months ago
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Favorite Athletes

Sharapova (way easier to look at than any male athelete)
Favorite Sports Teams

Dodgers, Angels, Boise State, Fresno State, Rutgers, UCLA Bruins and whoever is playing the Trojans,
Favorite Coaches

John Wooden, Gene Mauch, Mike Scioscia, Tommy, Pat Riley
All Time Sports Moment

Kirk Gibson's homer in Game One
Most Memorable Game Attended

1988 Dodgers-Mets playoff when I sat in first row and ripped into starter David Cone as he walked in from the bullpen and got shelled and the Dodgers won
Most Unbreakable Sports Record

The ones Tiger will set
Ruth or Mays?

Ruth- he did it while smokin, drinkin, and sluttin around! What an era!
Unitas or Montana?

Marinovich - Oh, I forgot, he went to SC and just got busted again. Bummer! Good meth, tho!
Jordan or Russell?

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar - isn't he coaching yet?
Gretzky or Orr?

Jesus saves! Gretzky gets the rebound - he shoots - he scores!!!
Pele or Maradona?

Madonna plays soccer? Wow!
Federer or Sampras?

Who cares? Venus or Serena could whip both of them!
Tiger or Nicklaus?

Different eras - each dominant in their own
Petty or Earnhardt?

Different Cars - Different Eras - Different Pressures - Both Great
Schumacher or Senna?

Danica - can't wait to see her kick some dude's butt for wrecking her
Pac 10, Big 12, Big 10, SEC, ACC, or Big East?

Pac 10 best ever -but love small Indie schools that womp big-$$ programs

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by J.C.
20 days ago

For the dozen or so of you wondering what it would take to drag JC off the IR and post something new, here is the answer:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/275645-jcs-dodger-line-drives-oct-20-dodgers-extend-gm-collettis-deal
by J.C.
3 months ago

Hi then, hello again! This is a celebration of the Bleachers on my milestone article. Hope you have a chance to give a look.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/224811-open-mic-reflections-on-my-ben-franklin-milestone

All the best!
by J.C.
3 months ago

Manny's Bobble Head night blast banishes bygone Dodger LF Baker's bunch

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/222616-jcs-dodger-line-drives-july-22-las-manny-chad-show-stifles-cincy
by J.C.
3 months ago

Greetings friends -

A "best of the rest" slide show picking through the photos that didn't make the final cut on my previous efforts. Hope you get a chance to stop by.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/219565-jcs-dodger-snapshots-junes-best-of-the-rest
by J.C.
4 months ago

Greetings baseball fans -

Having finally overcome the gremlins that delayed this slideshow, I am happy to present at last the photographic companion to my article about covering the Dodgers as a member of the working media.

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/214708-jcs-dodger-snapshots-june-27-images-from-the-press-box
by J.C.
4 months ago

After haunting the Dodger clubhouse and dugout on Tuesday, I have these reports to offer:

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/209792-jcs-dodger-dugout-whispers-june-30-torre-tidbits

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/209795-jcs-dodger-line-drives-june-30-stults-shows-up-in-la-clubhouse
by J. Michael
7 months ago

http://bleacherreport.com/articles/154219-masters-update-tiger-makes-the-cut
by J.C.
7 months ago

First, welcome to B/R - I'm glad you decided to pull up a chair in this particular corner of the web.

I am also honored to have been sitting next to you during your Most Memorial Game Attended. Remember those two loud-mouth Mets fans we send packing by the 5th inning? Great times indeed.

Staying true to your bruin roots though, when you tried to talk crap about one of my Memorial Attended games, you SCREWED UP!!! The phantom TD was against Michigan and at the other end of the field. In the Ohio St. game, White dove though the line into the end zone and NEVER lost the ball. Even noted bruin, domer and Wolverine fan Jim Bond, who was sitting next to me for that one, can testify to the purity of that play.

Sorry to see you've dropped hockey from the sports you follow. Though the way the Kings have been the last few years it's hard not to get discouraged. Check out the Canadians group - lots of great folks there.

Have to say I'm surprised Riley didn't make your list of coaches.

Now, keep your place and remember who your community leader is - same as your president of the half-yard society 8^D

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