Vector Control 2007
As author of ‘Vector Control,’ the question I hear most often is, “Will you ever get back with Liza?” That seems an odd sort of question and is probably the reason I don’t get you people. Apparently, you don’t always get me or “Vector,” because the other question I hear a lot [...]

Anyone who thinks an NFL stadium would be a cash machine for Long Beach has played football too long without a helmet

Building a stadium for a National Football League team on the land around the Queen Mary makes sense for all the wrong reasons—not just the insulting ones mentioned in three stories the Press-Telegram devoted [...]

Marcus Turner creates a football tradition and young men who dream—and work—at Cabrillo High

PHOTO by RUSS ROCA
They’re playing Marcus Turner’s song again.
The UCLA fight song screams from trumpets and other spit-tinted instruments announcing another touchdown, and Turner, who starred at UCLA in the 1980s, can’t be happy about it. Today, Marcus Turner is the head [...]

Thoughts on losing, winning and overcoming my inner USC fan
“I can’t go in there.”
I say this from where I sit on the driver’s seat inside my car, to my friend reclining on the passenger side, staring at the neighborhood Albertsons as we pass it in the parking lot. I say this because it’s Saturday, Game [...]

FRI OCT. 5: FIRST GERALD, THEN OLIVER
Tues | Oct 2 In an effort to save old growth trees from the wood chipper, the Long Beach City Council votes 7-0 to look into creating “meandering sidewalks.” Older trees are many times cut down because they break up sidewalks due to their tendency to have enlarged roots—also, [...]

A sports story in five easy lessons

LONG-GONE 49ER
When Boise State running back Ian Johnson took the ball on a Statue of Liberty play, swept left, and ran into the end zone for the two-point conversion that beat Oklahoma in the Fiesta Bowl, it not only capped the best, most exciting college football game of last [...]