This is a true story and it happened a few years ago and it's about an unknown person and Ken Macha and me. Macha was between managing jobs -- it was after he left the A's and before he got the Brewers gig. I am partial to Macha, a standup guy. He came [...]
I wrote a column about the Oakland A's for tomorrow. I'm proud of this column, although it's not directly about sports -- I'm giving you a heads up, Neal. It's about art and the Oakland A's but that doesn't begin to explain it. In fact, I can't explain it, although [...]
This is a post about nudity. I have been covering pro sports for three decades so I'm used to male athletes getting undressed in front of me or getting dressed in front of me. It's part of the landscape like wallpaper. But Tuesday night I took my son Grant to [...]
Notice how I didn't use my name in the headline for this blog. On the other hand I used I three times already. This writer can't win for losing as he tries to satisfy the various literary critics who read the Zohn. In any event, I, he, me, won't be [...]
This is a Brett Favre update. There is no update. (Neal, I'm sorry. Please don't be sore at me.) It's just that Bristol Palin called off her engagement to Levi Johnston yet again and, I'm sure you'll agree she is a Favre-like on again off again clown. So I just [...]
In a shocking development which may alter civilization as we know it, Brett Favre has announced he may have changed his mind about retiring. This is the quickest turnaround in the Favre canon of turnarounds, if he actually turns around. Please stop the presses. Please tell the president and the [...]
I just read on the internet Brett Favre will retire. So, I have some questions. Does this really mean he is retiring? Or does it mean he will retire and unretire 100 times before the season starts? And if he retires will we pine and mope and wait for Brett to [...]
Brett Favre may or not play in 2010, which leads to a question: Do you really care?
This is not a sports post. Neal, you may want to turn back now. This is about the exclamation point and how it's making a comeback!!!! Until recently you almost never saw an exclamation point. The poor thing had fallen into disuse, no big loss to culture. Now it's coming [...]
I've been hanging around the house today waiting for Larry Ellison to buy the Warriors. So far he hasn't bought the Warriors. Which brings me to my oven. We have a very good Maytag double oven -- one on top and one on bottom. The top oven is the big honcho. [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.