“NFL NOTEBOOK”
A day out from the NFL Draft and here are a few headlines to consider involving the West Coast teams we follow or hate: RAMS..Multiple choice question, drafting late in first round. Spend that pick on a QB for the future? Draft an OT-OG? Select a WR for depth and insurance policy for the Puka Nacua situation? They have done well in the draft in recent years. Need to get right player in early rounds. CHARGERS..Did not do enough in free agency with all the money...
“PADRES–NEW ERA AFTER GREAT ERA”
Lots of history, some good, some not so good involving the Padres. I guess we should feel very good about where we are at this hour. Guess we have to feel very good about where Peter Seidler took this franchise. Sure this is a great unknown at what...
“MY NOTEBOOK-MY OPINIONS”
Topics & Thoughts: LAKERS...Surprised by first night playoff win..Loss of Doncic-Reaves offset by last minute loss of Kevin Durant...Superb start by Luke Kennard (27P) and DeAndre Ayton (19P)..Big question-can they duplicate it again in Game...
Padres Shutout Rocks, Dodgers Lose 3 of 4, Lakers Surprise 2-0 Start
...(Baseball)... Angels...Autopsy report legendary OF-Garrett Anderson died of acute pancreatic disease that had gone untreated...Declined very quickly within last week-passing at age (53Y) Padres-W-Rockies (1-0)..Tuesday game..SD (16-7)..Won (14-of-16)..Colo (9-15) ..Randy Vasquez (7inn-0R-3H)..retired 12-in row ..Chase Dollander (6inn-1R-3H) ..Manny Machado bases loaded walk-only run game ..Only 12th (1-0) game in Coors Field history-Rockies home games ..Padres beat Rockies 5th in a row this year ..Padres starters thrown 17-shutout innings in a row-last 3-starts ..Padres move into 1st place tie with Dodgers San Diego-Colorado..Wednesday..Walker Buehler-vs- Tomas Sugano..Buehler-last...
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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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