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Ryan Spilborghs is as American as apple pie and as unique as guava gelato.
“I might be the only Belgian-Guatemalan human being, besides my sister,” Spilborghs said, when asked whether any other Major League ballplayer had similar blood lines.
If the calendar did not state otherwise, I would have thought Saturday, October 6, was April Fools’ Day when the public address announcer said the final score of a football game across the town: Stanford 24, USC 23.
Santa Barbara was in a state of high excitement on October 27, 1927. First of all, it was Navy Day and the citizens were honoring the officers and crew of the battleship USS Colorado, which was anchored just offshore. The second reason was that two of the biggest baseball stars in the country, Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig, were in town on a barnstorming tour.
Note to self: Never mess with any Japanese-style fighters. After hearing knees pop, seeing tongues sliced in half, watching concrete blocks smashed on the groin of a man lying on a bed of nails, and witnessing 450-pound men pick up other men of similar stature by their belts and toss them out of the ring, I don’t think I’ll need a reminder anytime soon.
Saturday’s intra-squad scrimmage ended the basketballers training week at SBCC.
“We do not remember days,” wrote the Italian novelist Cesare Pavese. “We remember moments.”
Like any self-respecting 25-year-old, Virgil Vasquez is looking forward to having his own place to live this winter in Santa Barbara, free from the daily presence of his parents. But unlike most folks his age, Vasquez can throw a baseball more than 90 miles per hour with pinpoint accuracy and, for most of this past summer, he was earning a paycheck doing just that as a pitcher for the defending American League Champions, the Detroit Tigers.
Phil Womble’s screeching voice echoed through the corridor in the bowels of Angel Stadium.
A Goleta company may brand the Barry Bonds world record baseball with an asterisk.
The first month of the football season is a tough time for women’s soccer to come out of the shadows, even though the game is better than ever, better than it was eight years ago when Brandi Chastain displayed her abs.
