Vince Grippi

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s a major golf weekend, which means Thursday this week starts today. Nothing wrong with that. The longer the weekend, the better we like it. Especially in the sporting sense.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Here’s an outdated notion. Disagreement is fine. You can have an opinion, we can have the opposite one and that’s OK. It’s a sign of maturity. Intellectual prowess. Two things that rarely have a place in the world of college football.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Taking a trip, no matter where, when or why, always adds perspective to life. A little or a lot, that’s probably up to you. And what you are want to absorb. Here’s what we’ve absorbed recently as we once again transverse the West Coast.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • We can’t think of a better way to start this week than checking out the good, and bad, of the recent sports world. Why? To sort-of paraphrase John F. Kennedy, why not?

A GRIP ON SPORTS • It’s Mother’s Day. A day set aside to honor the person who meant more to most of us than any other. What is the best present you can send her way? Something from the heart. Always.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Where were we? Oh, ya. Not appreciating enough what we have. Maybe it’s time to change that.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • An ancient Willie Nelson song should be playing in the background. Or any tune about leaving town. It’s time to hit the road, an adventure that’s changed radically in the past couple decades.

A GRIP ON SPORTS • Every sport has a scoreboard, real or imagined. And every aspect of every sport has an impact on that scoreboard. It’s real. And we imagine not all who follow a sport understands how much. We have to imagine, as well, how the newest aspect of college sports, the transfer portal (and its younger sibling, name, image and likeness) will transform future scoreboards.