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1 week ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Pressure, when applied to your car’s tire that needs it, expands, giving buoyancy, stability. Pressure, the kind that happens between the ears, also expands but, instead of stability, you’re liable to run off the road, become disorientated, find yourself talking to a lamppost. It’ s like taking a tortuous two-hour final exam. Like forgetting how to hold the pencil.
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3 weeks ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Steve Kerr has gone out of his way to anger, irritate and, in general, push people to clenched teeth by expressing himself without hesitation. And yet, Golden State’s coach remains smudge-free. If Kerr has a detractor that person must exist in a place without electricity or running water. Protected by his stature in sports, Kerr should run for political office. A little background here.
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1 month ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
It’s been 56 years since I went to college there and yet here I am wearing my Florida cap, my Florida shirt and a window sticker with an alligator wearing a Florida letterman’s sweater. I try to keep my collegiate heritage on the down-low, as Gainesville truly is light years from Northern California and it’s hard to explain why I didn’t mind living with swamps, sweat and skeeters.
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1 month ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
The Tush Push is a popular country line dance that, as far as I can tell, does not involve an actual pushing on the tush. Age, height, weight and grunting seem to bear no influence, as having the desire to crush someone’s skull. Physical contact is nonexistent, except for the occasional flinging of brow sweat. It’s a beautiful thing, two 20-step movements, in choreographed unison with fellow hoofers who seem to be, dare I say, smiling. Tension?
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1 month ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Last Wednesday, the needle inched a bit further to where one day, a boy, age 10 — who can dribble a basketball like a magician — will look to his father and ask, “ Hey dad, what it was like being a kid?”Last Wednesday, Mater Dei High School in Southern California announced it had signed a multimedia rights deal with a sports marketing company. It would be for 10 years at $1 million a year.
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2 months ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Baseball’s spring training, if you believe the poets, represents life anew, flowers blooming, people emerging from igloos and Mother Earth having cleansed the landscape from another harsh winter. A young man’s fancy returns to. . . “Major League Baseball doesn’t have the courage or the decency (to reinstate Pete Rose),” wrote our President on Truth Social. With characteristic tact and sensitivity, he added,“ Baseball is dying all over the place. (MLB) should get off its fat, lazy ass.
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2 months ago | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Once upon a time, a professional athlete in this country didn’t have to worry about his house being burglarized, never called the U.S. administration a“ Nazi movement,” never was shot walking down the street, never said a woman s place was in the home making babies and never heard America’s best friend, Canada, boo the playing of our National Anthem. Kinda makes you wish for the good ol’ days when all hell broke loose because the 49ers’ Colin Kaepernick quietly took a knee in racial protest.
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Feb 10, 2025 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
A long time ago, when Patrick Mahomes was just a rumor in his momma’s belly, Bill Walsh was asked what the first position he would choose if he were starting a team would be. At the time the 49ers Hall of Fame head coach had three Hall of Famers on his team, Joe Montana, Jerry Rice and Ronnie Lott. On the practice field at Redwood City, Walsh without hesitation pointed. “Him!” Walsh said firmly. Fred Dean would be easy to overlook. He was 6-foot-3 and 230 pounds.
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Jan 27, 2025 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
Timing is everything and Lamar Jackson, Josh Allen, Jalen Hurts, Joe Burrow and Jared Goff all have the same problem: Bad timing. They played when Patrick Mahomes did. Same problem Larry Bird and Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant had. They played when Michael Jordan did. Same problem Henry Aaron and Frank Robinson and Mickey Mantle had. They played when Willie Mays did.
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Jan 25, 2025 | 
pressdemocrat.com | Bob Padecky
For more stories about SSU cuts, go to pdne.ws/4jp7Znc FOR SALE: 2-plus acres. Flat parcel, unoccupied except for gophers. Located amid what’s left of once-desirable college campus. Gets plenty of sun. Shovel, hoe, three square canvas bags, baseballs and lawn mower included. Porta-potty may be removed. Portable metal bleachers ideal for pool party. Sellers susceptible and easily influenced.
