Sometimes I get ashamed for living in California. Mind you, that’s not very often, what with our low 60’s weather in the winter (and we complain for every degree of it), lack of obnoxious accents,...

Note: For commentary on the growing scandal over The Optimist's blog, as the title would suggest, please look at the last three paragraphs of this column. As I watched Oregon handily win the “Granddaddy...

Picture yourself 50 years into the future. As you drive your grandson to soccer practice in your hover car, he quizzically asks, “Pappy, what was the Big 12?” Despite your fading memory, aching back,...