BASEBALL GREATNESS LEAVES US
How do you describe the greatest of all time, when there have been so many great managers in the history of baseball. John McGraw to Connie Mack. Casey Stengel to Walter Alston-Tom LaSorda. Tony LaRussa-Earl Weaver in the modern day class. We lost a legend on the weekend with the passing of Bobby Cox. A Hall of Famer, a legend not just as a manager, but a roster builder, and a people leader. His stats are enormous over the 3-different jobs he held, Atlanta, Toronto, Yankees. ...
“LIV GOLF-BAD IDEA-GONE BAD”
Money can buy you lots of things. Happiness. Luxury lifestyle. Recognition. It cannot guarantee you business success, especially if it is driven by greed. Just ask the Saudi Public Investment Fund, which went on a spending spree four years ago to...
“REMEMBERING #42”
Everyone wears #42 this week to salute the legendary Brooklyn Dodgers star Jackie Robinson. His influence in breaking baseball's color barrier. His influence too in politics, business, society. There are so many snapshots and a few videos of the...
PADRES OPEN 6-GAME ROAD TRIP…OHTANI SLUMP CONTINUES..BETTS RETURNS TO LA..CHARGERS SIGN FA-TE…LAKERS STRUGGLE WITH OKC…BYRON SCOTT RIPS LEBRON..
...(Baseball)... Padres-at-Milwaukee...Friars (24-16)..Brewers (22-16)...Matt Waldron (1-1) 7.17-ERA-vs-Brandon Sproat. Padres..Team batting average (.223)..27th in baseball...Team hitting (.209) vs starting pitchers..30th in baseball. Padres..Decision due on May 15th-on calling up P-Lucas Giolito..(4.76-ERA) in rehab outings in Class A-ball. Padres..Off day-Monday ------ Dodgers-Giants...Monday...LA (24-16)...SF (16-24)...LA on (9-12) skid ..Max Muncy solo HR-LA ..Roki Sasaki (5inn-3R-6H) LA-San Francisco..Yosh Yamamoto-vs-Adrian Houser Dodgers..Activate SS-Mookie Betts from DL-oblique injury Dodgers..Option Alex Freeland to AAA Dodgers..Move P-Edwin Diaz to 60-day DL Dodgers..Callup...
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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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