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  • ·  Talk show host in Los Angeles for 15 years.

    ·  Twice named “Los Angeles’ Best Sports-Talk Show Host” by the Los Angeles Daily News.

    ·  Covered every team in the L.A. area and did pre and post game shows for the Dodgers and UCLA sports.

    ·  Broke the story about Shaq coming to the Lakers in 1996 and also broke the story about UCLA basketball coach Jim Harrick getting fired in 1997. Both stories were picked up by CNN and the local CBS station sent crews for an interview.

    ·  Was a high school all-state basketball player, also played in college and was a high school coach for five years.

    ·  Was once picked up in the air by a playful Shaq and lifted over his head after I ripped him on the air one day.

    ·  Run the most successful sports website in Los Angeles, TheSportsgod.com, where I write a column every day, handicap games and have a staff of writers contributing once per week. It’s like picking up a sportspage every morning.

    ·  I’m best known for being opinionated and “bringing it” everyday, which has me in trouble most of the time. My motto is “It’s better to have an opinion and be wrong than not to have an opinion.”

    ·  I’ve been chased out of most local locker rooms by angry athletes after things I’ve said on the radio.

    ·  I once said on the air that new Monday Night Football sideline reporter Lisa Guerrero was “only in the business because she was pretty” and she actually found me one day at Staples Center and went off. She was furious and told me off for about five minutes. She demanded an apology and I told her I’d give ger one if she could point out one thing I said which wasn’t true. She stormed off, never to speak to me again. Somehow, my career managed to continue, despite that devastating setback!

    ·  My nickname is “The Sportsgod,” because of my supposed knowledge of sports and uncanny ability to predict games and the point spreads!

    ·  I immediately hang up on any caller who refers to a team as “us” or “we.” Whenever a caller says “We won,” I correct him and say, “No, THEY won. You watched.”

Categories

  • The View From The Beach February 5, 2010
    I laughed when I read Dave’s recent article about the huge all day coverage ESPN gave to the national high school national signing day. All these experts talk about these kids like they are the second coming of Adrian Peterson, when most are the second coming of Whitney Lewis. Who is Whitney Lewis, you ask? [...] […]
  • The View From the Beach February 1, 2010
    Last summer my daughter was graduating from high school and literally had her pick of schools, and was down to USC and Loyola Marymount, both great local schools with great academics. In the end, she felt more comfortable with the shorter drive to LMU (12 miles) and smaller campus, and, the extra funding she got [...] […]
  • The View From the Beach January 16, 2010
    Wow, before I could do any columns, there were so many things going on at USC, but now that they have settled down, where do I start? Well, let’s start with… A) Bye Bye Pete- Right after the Halloween Massacre known as the Oregon game, I went to a USC football [...] […]
  • View From the Obstructed Seats by Paul Cass March 5, 2010
    Great hockey game to end the 2010 Winter Olympics. That Team USA was not only in it to OT, but easily could have won, proves again two of the age-old truisms about the sport: (1) a hot goalie is the great equalizer; (2) a conditioned, committed hard-working team on which everyone knows and [...] […]
  • A View From the Obstructed Seats February 19, 2010
    I make no secret of my general disdain for women’s ice hockey. No biggie, especially in this country, since most people, including sports fans and even alleged sports “experts” like The Sportsgod, don’[t even give a rat’s patootie about MEN’s hockey, but that’s a cross I have to bear. I admit that I watch women’s [...] […]
  • A View From the Obstructed Seats February 12, 2010
    Here’s an interesting nugget I picked up from somewhere or other: Charlotte coach Larry “Gypsy Feet” Brown, who’s already itching to leave Charlotte for another job, and may use an impending sale of the team as an excuse to break yet another contract, is angling HARD for the team to move point guard D.J. [...] […]
  • A Great Day in the Pits October 18, 2009
    A Great Day in the Pits [...] […]
  • Throwing a First Pitch at a Baseball Game August 11, 2009
    60’6” separate you from your target. As many as 50,000 people in the stadium, and millions of television viewers, are all watching you. It is your chance to show the world that you have the same heat as the professionals, but you are only a slight miscue away from embarrassing yourself. It is enough to [...] […]
  • Albert Pujols’ Watch August 10, 2009
    By Seth Rubinroit Photo of Watch by Sam Rubinroit Photo of Pujols courtesy of Reactor Watch For years, all eyes have been on St. Louis Cardinals slugger Albert Pujols. But, everybody should also be watching his watch. Pujols has achieved unprecedented success on the baseball diamond. He is only 29, but he has already been the National League Rookie [...] […]

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