“PADRES-ARE THEY REALLY A PLAYOFF TEAM?”
Call it Tropicana Field. Call it the Suncast Dome. Call it the Thunder Dome. Call it a 'House of Horrors' for the Padres. The Domed Stadium, its roof ripped off in a bad hurricane two years back, has been rebuilt. Looks-feels different. Still plays weird, with the lighting, the glare, the catwalks at the top of the roof. And it was all on exhibit in the Friday-Saturday-Sunday losses the Padres suffered at the hands of the 1st place Tampa Bay Rays. Bad defense. ...
“ARE YOU READY FOR SOME NFL FOOTBALL?”
Are you ready for some football? I am ready for real football. Glad the preseason is about to be over. The NFL obviously has to protect its stars so we have 3-games with virtually none of the starters playing. We get a combination of...
“THINKING OUT LOUD ABOUT PADRES-DODGERS-ANGELS”
Candid comments about sports stories everywhere: PADRES-TEAM FELICIANO...The resume of Jose and Kwanza off the sports fields is very impressive. What they have done in philanthropy is stunning, their involvement in communities is...
PADRES LOST WEEKEND..DODGERS PITCHING RED HOT..CHARGERS MAKE TWO TRADES..TOUGH ROSTER DECISIONS….NHL BIG ROSTER CUTS…USC OPENING WIN..LAKERS TRY ANOTHER NBA DEAL..NHL..GOLF..SOCCER
...(Baseball)... Padres-L-Tampa Bay (5-4)..Sunday..Friars (72-65)..Rays (82-54)..Tampa Bay sweep...Friars on (1-5) skid..Lost 8-of-14. ..Johnny DeLuca hits 2R-HR-Samod Taylor drops ball over the fence in 9th inning ..Xander Boegaerts error with bases loaded allows game tied in 11th ..Jorge Mateo RBI single with bases loaded wins game in 11th ..Padres get runners thrown out at 2nd-3rd base ..Fernando Tatis-Craig Stammen ejected for arguing 'running out of bases call' Padres-L-Tampa (7-6)-Saturday..Junior Caminero-Jon Aranda HRs..Rays score 3-runs on throwing error on Luis Regnifo injury. Padres-L-Tampa Bay (9-4)-Friday..Yandy Diaz-Ced Muillens HRs..Rays 5R-4th..Casey Mize self...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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