By MARK VINSON It isn’t easy being a sports fan these days. After all, you pour your heart and soul into rooting for your favorite teams and athletes, and what do you get in return? In the old days, it was simply the agony of defeat, those last-minute rallies that fell short, the late leads [...]
By TIM TROWER We have a nice local-kid-makes-good story in Saturday’s paper. It’s about Javier Torres, a former South Medford High student who recently made the Mexico Olympic boxing team. Torres has dual citizenship because both his parents were born in Mexico. During some background checking, I found stories by the late Randy Hammericksen and [...]
By MARK VINSON They could have chosen to go anywhere: the posh resorts of Southern California, the green clay of Florida, the enormous stadium in Flushing Meadow, N.Y. But when the United States Tennis Association realized it would be their turn to select the venue for the Davis Cup Final, they chose to come to [...]
