Haderlein makes a big splash
I was down at the Rose Bowl Aquatics Center last Tuesday afternoon for the kick-off of the national diving championships when who should appear on the platform in jams-length trunks but ... Pasadena Councilman Steve Haderlein. It was some kind of promotion for the whole deal in which the vice mayor was pitted against a young man who actually competes in diving. First Steve did a flip off a low board; then the kid did a flip. Nicely executed by both. Then the kid got up on the 3-meter board and did something very complicated for Steve to emulate. Instead he with good cheer simply performed this swan dive ...