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Jon Weisman
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I work with the very nice people at the Dodgers. Author of Dodger books, with stops at LACMA, Variety and Showtime. Check out my new novel, The Catch! http://bit.ly/the-catch-kindle
Commemorating the second anniversary of its publication, I'd like to encourage you to get The Catch for the holidays - either for yourself or as a gift. Also perfect for book clubs! Black Friday rebate available with proof of purchase. Spread the word!

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November 24, 2025 at 6:16 PM
The Lowdown episode four is one of the best episodes of TV I’ve seen this year. What a showcase for Jeanne Tripplehorn.
November 24, 2025 at 1:37 AM
Is this the best song ever written?
Flight Of The Conchords Perform 'Father & Son'
YouTube video by The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
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November 20, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Ebuka Okorie, a 6-foot-2 Stanford freshman, is third in the nation in scoring in men's basketball at 25.5 points per game. www.espn.com/mens-college...
Ebuka Okorie - Stanford Cardinal Guard - ESPN
View the profile of Stanford Cardinal Guard Ebuka Okorie on ESPN. Get the latest news, live stats and game highlights.
www.espn.com
November 19, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I’m a little frustrated by Pluribus.
November 15, 2025 at 3:45 AM
Freedom does not bestow the right to use backward apostrophes.
November 10, 2025 at 11:37 PM
One Day More!
YouTube video by Johnny Storm
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November 1, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Dodgers won the entire 1963 World Series in eight hours and 17 minutes.
October 28, 2025 at 6:29 AM
“GameDay seems to be broke. It keeps on saying the Dodger pitcher is hitting a home run.”

Diehards will understand.
October 18, 2025 at 6:44 AM
This game is going so long, it’s going to be followed by Murder ……………. She Wrote, except on the West Coast.
October 11, 2025 at 4:10 AM
A low-key pleasure for me is the Geico ad where the guy says "I think I like sports now" in this very sweet way, only to get cut off -- and it's clear he'll never speak of that topic again.
October 1, 2025 at 11:33 PM
You’ve never seen cleaner dirt.
September 30, 2025 at 12:30 AM
Clayton Kershaw threw 43,216 pitches in his 18 regular seasons. Stretched end to end, he threw 495 miles of baseball.
September 28, 2025 at 8:55 PM
This story just about made me cry. www.nytimes.com/2025/09/18/o...
Opinion | I Once Talked to Robert Redford About What Happens When We Die
www.nytimes.com
September 20, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Ever since I saw Butch and Sundance for the first of about 20 times, Robert Redford has been one of my all-time actors. But for my mom, who went to junior high with him, and my father, who was Chairman of the Board of the Sundance Institute, he was a close friend for decades. This is a painful loss.
September 16, 2025 at 2:14 PM
This new story on the old Kerserzer rookie matchup is so good. www.nytimes.com/athletic/653...
Clayton Kershaw, Max Scherzer and a rookie-year meeting for the history books
One day in September, 17 years ago, two future Hall of Famers replaced two future Hall of Famers in a unique bit of baseball lore.
www.nytimes.com
August 6, 2025 at 1:37 PM
I rewatched Normal People this week, and good lord was that show amazing.
July 16, 2025 at 6:32 PM
There have been 1,313 players who have appeared in an MLB game this year, from Andrew Abbott to Yosver Zulueta. Alphabetically, All-Star Game starting pitchers Paul Skenes (1,073) and Tarik Skubal (1,074) are next to each other.

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(Also, Abbott and Zulueta are both Reds.)
July 15, 2025 at 6:38 PM
July 15, 2025 at 4:14 AM
Fifty years ago, thanks to family friend Roy Neal (NBC aerospace correspondent), I was lucky enough to be at Johnson Space Center Mission Control to witness the end of the Apolloe-Soyuz mission. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/14/s...
A Handshake in Orbit 50 Years Ago Transformed the Space Race
www.nytimes.com
July 14, 2025 at 4:38 PM
The incredible life and tragic death of the ‘Queen of Volleyball’
The incredible life and tragic death of the ‘Queen of Volleyball’
Flo Hyman, a women’s sports pioneer who rose to stardom at the 1984 Olympics, was felled by Marfan syndrome while playing in Japan two years later.
www.washingtonpost.com
July 11, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Squid Game Baby is like no other baby.
July 11, 2025 at 3:36 AM
From the Los Angeles Times - June 28, 1965.

Just who are the Beach Boys? Don’t ask the teenagers around your domicile or you’ll rate a contemptuous look. It would be like inquiring of the average adult, “Who’s Bing Crosby, Perry Como or Frank Sinatra?”

www.latimes.com/entertainmen...
Beach Boys ride crest of teen craze
In this 1965 interview — his first with the Los Angeles Times — Brian Wilson already showed a remarkably prescient grasp of the lifelong hold his music would have on fans.
www.latimes.com
June 11, 2025 at 8:18 PM
With the help of family, I have determined the first Dodger game I can *remember* going to. Accoring to two sources, I called for Davey Lopes to hit a leadoff home run - and he did!

www.baseball-reference.com/boxes/LAN/LA...
June 9, 2025 at 6:45 PM