Spurs – NBA

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It never gets old – it’s never taken for granted either… They are a unique bunch.

They’re celebrating again… a year after most people said they were done.  End of an era they said, after they were vanquished by the Dream Team.

Yes there’s lots of mileage on the San Antonio Spurs.  Tim Duncan-Manu Ginobli-Tony Parker have been together a long time.  But in that time they have won the NBA title four times.  Twice the franchise has come back when it appeared their time had come to be broken up.

They are a unique eclectic franchise, these guys from the Alamo City.

Greg Popovich, the reclusive – often-condiscending coach, now has five championship rings.  Not bad for a guy who cut his teeth at places like Cal Poly Pomona and the Air Force Academy.

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Tony Gwynn – Tuesday June 17th, 2014

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How do you define greatness…how do you quantify quality?

It has turned out to be a summer of sadness in our baseball town.  The Voice of Summer-Jerry Coleman was silenced.  The Smile of Summer-Mr-Padre Tony Gwynn has passed away.

Greatness in baseball is all about statistics, and Tony Gwynn’s numbers are staggering.  The (.338) career average.  The (.300) seasons 19X in a 20-year period.  The 3,141-hits.  The Silver Slugger Bats and Gold Glove trophies.

Quality of the person is there, not in the stat sheet, but in the heart of so many people who crossed paths with Tony Gwynn.

The 20-year Padres went into the Hall of Fame with another lifer-the Orioles Cal Ripken.  We may never see that again.

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Tony Gwynn

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BULLETIN….

San Diego Padres legend and icon, Hall of Famer, Tony Gwynn passed away early this morning at the age of 54, from complications from cancer and immune system problems.

His agent John Boggs confirmed the passing after a four month battle with setbacks to his immune system, after multiple surgeries for cancer of the mouth.

In a 20-year career, he hit (.338), with 3141-hits , 17th on the major league hit list.

He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in Cooperstown in 2007, and rebuilt the San Diego State Aztecs baseball program.

Tony Gwynn was quality as a ballplayer-class as a person.

World Cup 2014

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He’s going to do it his way…this will not work-at least not this summer.

The US World Cup soccer team, which captured the fancy of our country four years ago with its spirited comebacks, opens play today in Brazil when they play the Ghana Black Stars.

Jürgen Klinsmann is running the show and it is definitely his rules, his style, his roster, his opinions.  It’s all that counts.

And Landon Donovan no longer counts in the plans of Team USA.  The best player our country has ever had, the face of soccer and the growing MLS, will not be on the pitch this afternoon.  Thrown aside like a worn out soccer shoe with holes in it.  The coaches decision has left a huge hole in the roster, a hole in the American heart.

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Father’s Day

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A  weekend is upon us. For some, time off. For some, time to work. For many, a time to remember. For a few, a time to forget.

A weekend of hustle and bustle. Padres games. U.S. Open golf. NASCAR race. Yard work and picnics and phone calls.

Will you take time to think of days gone by? Your heritage? Your background? Your family? Your dad?

Father’s Day has many meanings to many men.

I wonder what it was like for him to grow up in the Depression. Bread lines, riots, despair.

I wonder what it was like to lose his father at the age of 15. Become the man of the house as a mid-teen.

I wonder what it was like to be a minor league pitcher in the 1930s, him wanting to be a St. Louis Cardinal, the disappointment of never getting to the show.

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