Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Preller ensures Tatis stays put with PadresJay ParisFebruary 24, 2021 February 24, 2021015 Since arriving two years ago with an enticing concoction of skill and swagger, Tatis’ popularity is unequaled among those in brown and gold.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Pandemic has Laver watching his beloved Australian Open from afarJay ParisFebruary 17, 2021 February 17, 20210131 Rod Laver is watching the Australian Open, which isn’t news. That he’s doing so in his longtime Carlsbad home is.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: K.C.’s Reid has a Chief fan in childhood chum PallasJay ParisFebruary 10, 2021 February 10, 2021077 If not for a pandemic, longtime Del Mar resident Ted Pallas was bound for Super Bowl 55.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Oceanside’s Mendoza is at home during Farmers Insurance OpenJay ParisFebruary 3, 2021 February 3, 2021085 “My locker was right next to Rory. I said ‘Hi’ to him but I’m thinking, ‘That is Rory McIlroy and this is crazy.' "
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Rivers brought touch of South to North CountyJay ParisJanuary 27, 2021 January 27, 20210138 The Alabama native was as country as a dirt road and he wore that persona as comfortably as the T-shirts he sported.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Schauffele is past COVID-19 and looking forward to FarmersJay ParisJanuary 12, 2021 January 12, 20210321 The Carmel Valley resident is on cloud nine just to be able to compete this month after his mid-December bout with the coronavirus.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: A contagious can-do spirit helps bring in new yearJay ParisJanuary 6, 2021 January 6, 202101043 After a year centered on what people can’t do, well, we can’t wait to meet Manny Barrera.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Preller seeks to plug holes with eye on new yearJay ParisDecember 22, 2020 December 22, 20200387 The Padres getting right was among the few things that went right in 2020.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Fox 5 TV anchor embraces written word in kids bookJay ParisDecember 17, 2020 December 17, 20200711 The book he started in 2006 is written for kids, and really, Andrew Luria is a big kid himself.
Columns Sports TalkSports Talk: Ex-Grizzlies making their Mission Hills coach proudJay ParisDecember 10, 2020 December 10, 20200433 Ohio State’s Chris Olave, a junior wide receiver, and Indiana’s Jack Tuttle, a sophomore quarterback, are shining in college.