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STARTING POINTS: A magical victory at Staples … no, seriously

POINT ONE: Last night’s Lakers game had all the making of a classic. Wild 20-point swings both ways. Coaches wringing their hands as the final seconds wound down. Kobe had the fourth-quarter snarl...

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STARTING POINTS: My tune has changed on Alabama-Notre Dame game

Well, it’s nice to be back with my daily sports blog after a little holiday hiatus. Remember the idea is to start your work day with some quick thoughts about the hot topics in sports, and to get your...

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STARTING POINTS: Tying a bow on bowl season

My inkling that Notre Dame would be up to the task in last night’s game proved to be, shall we say, wrong. I think I confused “up to the task” with “out to the woodshed.” FIRST POINT: SEC and everybody...

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STARTING POINTS: Hall of Fame; Lakers’ latest; Musburger’s gaffe

Another steroid-free edition of Starting Points where the only performance-enhancing drug is Diet Coke. FIRST POINT: Getting the Hall call At 11 a.m. this morning, the Major League muckety-mucks will...

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One of those slimy days in sports

There are times when being part of the sport world is tremendous fun. And there are days when you feel like you need to take a shower to get the slime off. Today is one of the slimy days. A group of...

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STARTING POINTS: Greatest receiver debate not really a debate … yet

Well, it was Super Bowl Media Day on Tuesday — an event, that used to be useful to the media, but now is just an embarrassing parade of clowns. It came and went with all the uselessness we’ve come to...

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DirecTV could drop NFL Sunday Ticket after 2014

Could every game of the NFL season be available to cable TV subscribers in a couple of seasons? Don’t be surprised if that’s the case after the 2014 NFL season. Since 1994, DirecTV’s NFL Sunday Ticket...

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Former 49ers lineman Kwame Harris comes out, but needs to stay out in the public

I’ve covered sports for 27 years, and when I first started, it was always weird to me that there were no openly gay athletes. Just look at the number of professional football, baseball or basketball...

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Desert natives wrap up spring football

With spring football winding down on college campuses around the country, we checked in with several college football writers with knowledge of FBS players from the desert to bring you an update on...

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TDS 2013 NFL Mock Draft

Every year the number of NFL mock drafts on the Internet seems to grow. It’s an inexact science, with so much uncertainty and suspense attached that it almost seems silly attempting to accurately...

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