Boxing: Guerrero vows to be ‘100 percent ready’
Robert Guerrero has a note in the upper-right corner of his Twitter feed that lists Floyd Mayweather Jr. as 43-1.
Son’s college campus tours are making me feel old
It's time for that annual rite of passage - college tours. Yes, my son - who was in kindergarten when I started writing this column - is now old enough to tour college campuses. This is strange to me because in my day, we didn't tour any campuses. We just filled out an application for any college we felt would ignore our hideous math scores … oh, wait. Maybe that was just me.
Church takes different approach to choosing leader
Of course, every religious institution has its own method of choosing its leadership. The news recently guided us through the ancient process by which Francis I became Pope, leader of the Roman Catholic Church's one billion members.
Marty: With space it’s go baby, go
I was watching the terrific series “Moon Machines” on the Science Channel. It’s about the Apollo Program that put man on the Moon July 20, 1969. Much was human interest – vignettes showing who did it and how. They ranged from engineers at MIT designing inertial guidance systems, to the “LOL” system of computer programming. LOL stood for the “Little Old Ladies,” the operators, almost all mature women, who physically wove wires and doughnut-shaped magnets to program computer memory. The show eventually got to the Saturn V, the 6.2-million-pound, 363-foot high, 3 million part, behemoth multi-staged rocket system used to propel Apollo. As they ran the launch films, I found myself talking to the TV – feeling the same feelings and saying the same thing I said during launches more than 40 years ago. “Go baby, go!”
MLB: Giants’ Tejada wheezing toward the finish of his career
His legs are heavy, his bat slow, and the sunlight has left his
Homeless Coalition joins 12 days of giving
The Homeless Coalition of San Benito county opened its temporary winter shelter on Nov. 1. The shelter staff have had a maximum of 14 clients staying the night, but the numbers tend to grow as the evenings turn colder and rainier.
