Results tagged “California League” from The Sports Desk

Big-city natives like many of us in Los Angeles wonder if sports fans in smaller towns have as much fun.

After a stop in Stockton last week, on my way farther north for vacation, I decided I could enjoy sports if I lived there -- and I'd probably go to more games because with minor-league events come lower prices and less traffic.

We're publishing Art Spander's columns from the Masters this week. Art, the veteran San Francisco Bay Area columnist, has covered more than 40 Masters in a row. Which is nothin' compared to the fact the L.A. native has attended more than 50 Rose Bowls in a row.

With all that experience at Augusta to inform him, Art writes about the difference between past years and this year in the column he filed today: "The Masters was different from the rest, a place of excitement, a place where boldness was rewarded and the responding cheers bounded down the 10th fairway or along the 14th like a big drive from Tiger or in other years Jack or Arnie. Now, as Tiger Woods said, it’s U.S. Open light, or British Open West, golfers playing with care, golfers worrying the next shot might be the one which ruins their chances instead of raising their hopes."

Read the whole column on Friday to see why Art thinks the roar is gone from the Masters.

-- More recommended reading Friday: The Dodgers off-day feature about hot-hitting James Loney by our own Tony Jackson. You've got to like a story that mentions Elisabeth Shue (pictured, above right) before it mentions a baseball player (not pictured).

-- The Daily News' Rich Hammond points out a weird example of East Coast bias: The website for baseball's California League presents game schedules in eastern time. Tonight: Lake Elsinore Storm at Lancaster JetHawks, 10 p.m.