On Thursday, the long-awaited conversation between James Harrison and the NFL regarding PED allegations made in an Al Jazeera America report finally happened. The meeting lasted about 45 minutes, at the Steelers’ training facility. Harrison — and Green Bay Packers Clay Matthews and Julius Peppers, also named in the report — have claimed the allegations
I had the opportunity to interview Tom House, the “throwing doctor” in Los Angeles. He’s worked with Tom Brady, Drew Brees, Nolan Ryan — and me.
On the football field there’s just about no one smoother than Cal quarterback Jared Goff. In the shotgun, he’s poised and confident, and he makes threading pin-point passes to his receivers in double coverage look easy — almost too easy. He stays cool and collected as 300-pound defensive linemen rush at him, and he easily
After losing his grandfather in middle school, Eloi Vasquez would raise his pointer fingers to the sky after scoring a goal in a soccer game and say, “That’s for you, Papa.” Now, after the UC Berkeley freshman’s death, his two younger brothers — who are both soccer players — will do the same for their
To start the game, nothing was going right for Cal men’s basketball player David Kravish — he couldn’t find the net. The senior missed, in a row, a layup, a jumper, another jumper, another layup, yet another layup and still another layup — his first six shots of the game. But the forward’s seventh shot,
As the clock started to wind down to zero, the tension at Haas Pavilion was palpable. The Cal men’s basketball team was down by three. Twenty seconds, 19 seconds, 18 seconds. And then, with 17 seconds left, the ball sailed over to sophomore guard Jordan Mathews in the right corner. During the timeout, he had
Bang. A boy on the streets knows he has to keep moving. He’s got to keep his head down as he makes his way along the concrete streets and past the dark buildings as he walks to school. The sound is nothing new. Only 12 years old, and he’s become numb. Bang. Just an elementary-school
The Cal football team did a lot of things right in the game Saturday. It just forgot one key part of the game plan: It forgot to knock on wood. At halftime, the game looked like it was over. The Bears led 28-6, and Arizona didn’t look like it was going to threaten the Bears.
Looking down over the twinkling city lights and the purple-velvet hills, I sat puzzled. I had seen people do this before, but, for the life of me, I couldn’t figure out what I was doing wrong. Clare tried it, too, but had as much luck as me. So, I did the only thing I could
The water sparkles. The clouds twinkle. The birds sing. The trees whisper. The mountains tower. The roofs welcome. I’ve discovered paradise, and it’s a called Lake Como. I don’t think I’ve ever been somewhere where it seems like the whole world has just stopped at a standstill. Where visitors are invited to pause to take
Today, my mouth had a religious experience. I had the most chocolatey, melt-in-your-mouth, cone of amazingness, which is known to normal folk as dark chocolate gelato. Why the heck don’t they make this stuff back home? I wanted to order a whole carton of the stuff and bring it back with me, but as I
Two days before our grandpa passed away, Clare and I were in the early stages of planning our trip. Because we knew our grandfather had limited time left — although, at the time, we didn’t know quite how limited — and because he had traveled quite a bit (especially after being stationed in Germany after
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