Here is the opening to my Tuesday column about the World Baseball Classic: SAN FRANCISCO -- We got beat on Monday night 4-1. By “we” I mean Team Netherlands. My team. I am being completely unprofessional, utterly derelict in my duty. I freely admit that. I rooted for the Netherlands [...]
Here is the opening to my Monday column about the WBC semifinal between Japan and Puerto Rico: SAN FRANCISCO -- Let's end the suspense right at the top. Puerto Rico defeated Japan 3-1 in the semifinals of the World Baseball Classic Sunday night at AT&T Park. OK, that's out of [...]
I am flying home from Arizona Tuesday, just as the weather down here is heating up. Here is the opening to my Tuesday column about the so-called World Baseball Classic: The World Baseball Classic is all wrong, and as far as I can tell, it isn’t so classic. It’s mostly [...]
Lowell Cohn, retired columnist for the Santa Rosa Press Democrat, covered sports for almost 40 years and never ran out of things to say.