Nick Canepa
Sports Columnist at The San Diego Union-Tribune
San Diego Union-Tribune sports columnist since 1984. Opinions are mine alone. Why would anyone else want them? And, please, as always, no wagering.
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1 week ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa
Sez Me …For some reason, the Padres taste better than they smell. Real food for thought. The Padres have great fans. Maybe the greatest, most loyal and forgiving fans in baseball. They sell out the cupboard when they don’t have enough in it for a full meal. What’s always been a fair-to-good baseball town has turned great. Kind of like it once was a terrible basketball town that has suddenly gone national. Petco Park is a secular miracle. There is no other easy way to describe it.
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2 weeks ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa
I fell off the train at Genoa. Well, not just me. But precious pearls — and almost my sister Julie and brother-in-law Jerry — to me fell out of the bag, turning the northern Italy countryside into an Italian Buster Keaton movie. We spent 23 days abroad, half of them spent aboard the cruise ship Norwegian Star. It was not by any means nothing but a voyage.
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1 month ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa
Sez Me …The draft is about to waft through the NFL’s wide-open window of opportunity. And this one is unpredictable, bud. It’s either going to blow with hurricane force, or not be strong enough to fly a kite. How can it be predictable when the guy shooting the breeze is Deion “Prime Time” Sanders? Deion basically is in control of this lottery’s narrative and destiny.
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1 month ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa
Sez Me …Sports should take a figurative enema and get rid of one word: Comparison. We compare the players. We compare the eras. For the most part, we have no idea what we’re talking about. “Oh, that guy couldn’t play today.”I say, “Yes, he could.” I say, “Well, could this current pitcher who can’t throw more than 50 pitches a game with an ERA of 6.50 get out Williams or DiMaggio?” Forget Williams. By the year 2100, people are going to be asking who was the last baseball player to hit .300.
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2 months ago |
sandiegouniontribune.com | Nick Canepa
Sez Me …My warning went out as the madness began. There weren’t going to be many Cinderellas at this ball for aristocrats. So now the NCAA Tournament has reached its Final Four and Two, and not only has a Cinderella been out of sight this spring, the glass slipper has been crushed under the coach’s wheels and the good prince has turned to online dating.
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