“MY NOTEBOOK-MY OPINIONS”
Topics & Thoughts: LAKERS...Surprised by first night playoff win..Loss of Doncic-Reaves offset by last minute loss of Kevin Durant...Superb start by Luke Kennard (27P) and DeAndre Ayton (19P)..Big question-can they duplicate it again in Game two on Tuesday...Lakers defense was everywhere holding Houston to (38%) shooting...Rockets play rugged defense but don't like their carelessness with basketball and the stupid fouls they take...Friday was just one game-one win..see what happens when...
“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...
1-Man’s Opinion on Sports-Wednesday “PADRES-HELP WANTED”
======== "PADRES--HELP WANTED" ======== It was just a couple of years ago, but it seems like ages ago. The years when the Padres got good and had frontline starting pitching that made them that way. A few years worth of quality starts. Four...
Sports News – 4/20/26
...(Baseball)... Padres-W-Angels (2-1)..Sunday...Friars (15-7)...Won 10-of-11...Won 13-of-15..Halos (11-12) ..Michael King grinds thru (5inn-0R-4W-6K)..Lowers ERA (2.28) ..Xander Bogaerts RBI single..Brice Johnson RBI single ..Mason Miller 8th save of season..(27K-in-11innings) this year ..Angels bullpen fails for 6th time this season in 12-losses Padres-W-Angels (4-1)-Sat..German Marquez (5.2inn-0R)..Mason Miller 7th save Padres-L-Angels (3-0)-Friday..Jose Soriano (5-0)..(0.28-ERA) Padres..Off Day-Monday..open series in Colorado-Tuesday Padres..Baseball stunned at potential sales price (3.9B) made by Jose E-Feliciano to buy the franchise from the Seidler Family..Feliciano would take on...
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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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