A MEMORIAL DAY REMEMBRANCE
Memorial Day weekend. Picnics, family, Padres games, the Indy 500, the NBA playoffs and the NHL playoffs, the Stanley Cup finals. Lots to see, experience and think about. Memorial Day weekend is a time to remember also. We see hometown heroes amongst us in San Diego. The Padres icon broadcaster, the late Jerry Coleman flew fighters and even landed upside down on a flight deck. The late Red Sox hero Ted Williams was a fighter pilot both in the Pacific and in Korea, survived two crashes, and...
NHL HOCKEY…ON A HEATER…
The NHL is on a heater. The TV ratings are on a heater. The hockey fans across the USA are on a heater. The Montreal Canadiens are on a heater. For those of us who have grown up following hockey, this is something special we are seeing. For...
PADRES-DODGERS…THAT WAS PRETTY INTENSE BASEBALL
So that was a really fun 3-days of baseball against the Dodgers. The early season fight for first place in the NL West. And just think, the Padres and Dodgers meet 10-more times this season. We have answers to some Padres questions. The...
INDY 500-THRILLER…NASCAR MOURNS..F1 WIN..PADRES LOSE-DODGERS WIN..SPURS STOMP OKC..BIG UPSET NHL
(Indy 500)..Closest finish in Indy car history..Won by (:002)...67-lead changes in race marred by crashes...cautions..2-rain delays..Race decided on 1-lap restart at end ..Felix Rosenqvist bold last lap pass edges David Malukas by 5-feet..Pato O'Ward 3rd ..Race was red-flagged by crash-fire Kyle Collet late in race-bunched field ..Rosenqvist-O'Ward-Marcus Armstrong all conserved fuel-till yellows came out ..Alex Rossi bad pit stop then blown engine ..Will Power blown engine ..Ed Carpenter-Ryan Hunter-Reay-Katherine Legge- hit wall ------- (Canadian Grand Prix)..Kimi Antonelli wins 4th race in a row in rainstorm...Teammate George Russell-running second had electrical problems...Lewis...
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Lee ‘Hacksaw’ Hamilton has built a national reputation as one of America’s top sports-talk show hosts. He has been named Talk Show Host of the Year seven times by the Southern California Sports Broadcasters Association. He has spent his last 26-years doing Sports-Talk Radio in San Diego, and was the first talk show host hired at the legendary 77,000-watt XTRA-Sports-690, and now at 50,000-watt Mighty 1090, hosts the San Diego Padres pre-postgame talk shows. .
He was the popular longtime Radio Voice of the San Diego Chargers, and also did NFL play-by-play for the Seattle Seahawks, and the Compass Media Networks, in addition to his college play-by-play work for the USC-Trojans, Arizona State Sun Devils, San Diego State Aztecs and the Ohio University Bobcats. His NFL play-by-play has been featured at the Pro Football Hall of Fame, in the Hall of Champions in San Diego, and for NFL-Films.
He broadcast the Super Bowl, the Rose Bowl, and the WHA-All Star games.
He has also worked for Sirius-XMs Home Plate Baseball Channel, and did talk shows for Fox Sports 570-KLAC in Los Angeles, and Fox Sports Radio’s network..
He spent 8-years doing hockey for the Cleveland Crusaders and Indianapolis Racers, and 8-years doing Minor League baseball for the Phoenix Giants and the Utica Blue Sox.
He worked at KTAR-Phoenix, 3WE-Radio in Cleveland, and began his career at WLGN-Logan, Ohio and WIBX-Utica, New York.
An accomplished writer, he was named ‘Columnist of the Year’ by the San Diego Press Club, and has written freelance sports columns for the San Diego Union Tribune, and the SDNN-San News Network website.
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