Results tagged “Bruce Springsteen” from The Sports Desk

News: NEW YORK (AP) -- Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band will perform at the 2009 Super Bowl halftime show in Tampa, Fla., the NFL and NBC announced Sunday night.

Comment: I've been to a couple of Super Bowls and a bunch of Bruce Springsteen concerts. May I suggest that from what I've seen, the Associated Press has the story inside-out. Bruce isn't playing at halftime of the Super Bowl, the Super Bowl is being played on either side of a Bruce show.

Does anybody still keep newspapers as mementos of historic news and sports events?

The Daily News will offer something like it on Sunday. The sports section in Sunday's paper will include a Kobe Bryant poster. The full-page, full-color photo is something to save to commemorate the Lakers' star winning his first Most Valuable Player award this week.

I grew up in a household that put notable newspapers away in a dresser drawer, including ones my parents held onto from World War II and the Kennedy assassinations. Unfortunately, it wasn't an airtight drawer. We ended up with some crumbly old newsprint.

Almost always, the fun is reading the other stuff in those papers, the minor news and the ads. Hey, look who led the Cal League in hitting that day! That's cool, but did you know sofas used to cost $8?

Maybe these days families keep printouts of news reports from the Web, or capture and save Web-page images, but that wouldn't be the same.

I know a lot of Bruce Springsteen fans and a lot of sportswriters and have always remarked at the two groups' huge overlap.

So in one way I wasn't surprised when it turned out that quite by chance, the man standing next to me at Tuesday's concert by Springsteen and the E Street Band at Honda Center in Anaheim was sportswriter Victor Chi, until recently the hockey writer for the San Jose Mercury News and now with The Sporting News. The surprise was that we talked on and off for three hours before each realized who the other was. We'd never met, although I've admired Victor's work and I think he knew my byline.

Why are so many sportswriters drawn to Springsteen's music and performances?