Nowhere Near the Edge

Olympic athletes represent the pinnacle of human physical ability (except, perhaps, for curlers). "Faster, higher, stronger" is a...

Due to some technical glitch, I was without e-mail or Internet access for six hours yesterday. That was the day, of course, that I also left...

The sport of basketball, and especially its collegiate variant, is particularly vulnerable to influence by gamblers. Although it is a team g...

As the news industry turns its focus to economy's struggle to survive under its own weight and the intensified war in Afganistan, let...

File this under the category "Dog Bites Man": "Man on 'bad trip' found hugging tree in Santa Cruz." A 23 year ol...

As the eastern seaboard hunkers down under record snowfalls, Los Angeles is bidding farewell to its latest bout with crummy weather. The un...

Two months from now, we'll be on the biggest adventure of our lives. We will be taking a trip, over the kids' spring break, to carry...

It is common knowledge that elite athletes become so through a combination of God-given talent and sheer hard work. At the youth level, ther...

The biggest full moon of the year was last night, when the full moon phase coincided with the perigee of the moon's elliptical orbit aro...

Last weekend being a holiday weekend and the first break in the bad weather we had seen in more than a week, our basketball squad was down t...

History is a pretty big place, so it should not be surprising that any given day on the calendar will mark a variety of momentous occasions....

Welcome to the latest installment of my inexplicably long - running account of the saga of the demise of a middling automaker. Just as I t...

Nearly all of California (and Oregon, too) is coping with a series of major El Niño-type rainstorms this week. The first came through the B...

Following the holidays, basketball resumed for our men of "Ohio State." Once again, thanks to one superior athlete and a couple o...

According to an organization that apparently is tasked with the fascinating duty of recording on-time airport arrivals, the Oakland airport ...

On the Saturday that marks the end of the holiday season, before real life returns at full volume, this Saturday morning presents a conundru...

This afternoon of Christmas Eve, as ever more presents appeared under the boughs, Michael took to counting his gifts. Again. As he began t...

Thankfully, nobody was killed when an American Airlines jet skidded off the runway while landing in Jamaica in a rainstorm. The airline ha...

The California Emergency Management Agency has released maps detailing the effect on the California coastline of tsunamis generated by most...

After missing a week due to illness, Michael was back with his "Ohio State" teammates on the basketball court. They are an energe...