Wed 18 Jun 2008
Tim Myer Local Content: In Defense of Phil Jackson and Ken Pulskamp
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My youngest son and I secured the opportunity to attend Game Four of the 2008 NBA finals, and witnessed the surreal debacle of the Lakers blowing a 24 point first quarter and 18 point halftime lead to lose to the Celtics by six points and put the Celtics on the cusp of their first NBA championship in 21 years. (more…)
The City of Santa Clarita will be holding a groundbreaking event for the fourth phase of its sports complex at 10:00 AM Thursday morning at the sports complex facility located at 20870 Centre Pointe Parkway in Santa Clarita.
Danica Patrick became the first woman to win a major auto race on Sunday, using successful fuel strategy to capture an IndyCar Series event in Motegi, Japan. She won the race by nearly six seconds over Helio Castroneves, the two-time Indianapolis 500 winner. 
The last baseball Barry Bonds hit out of the park sold for $376,612 on Saturday, the winning bid coming from a buyer who wanted to remain anonymous. There were a total of 13 bids on the baseball that was caught by Jameson Sutton last Sept. 5 during a Colorado Rockies game 
In Babe Ruth’s final public appearance in 1948 – with Ruth ravaged to the bone by cancer, pushing words through a body that no longer wanted to hang around or do anything – the great Sultan of Swat turned into a kind of Nostradamus for a sold-out cheering crowd in Yankee Stadium. Baseball is a great game, he told the crowd in a quivering voice, through amplifiers filling the stadium, BUT only as long as we remember that baseball must serve America’s children first. 