Patrick Comiskey

1 week ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

Modern society and all of its great technological advances has lost one key element and that is the debate. You see, twenty years ago, a group could assemble at a bar and debate any given topic for hours on end. No cell phones, no social media, just people living in the moment and maybe shouting their point across the room yearning for someone to accept defeat. Socrates molded the debate by taking the simple approach of asking and answering questions.

1 week ago | latimes.com | Patrick Comiskey

Carl Doumani, a Los Angeles entrepreneur who bought Stags’ Leap Winery in 1969, was known as a bon vivant and raconteur who regularly lunched with his winemaker friends. Carl Kheir Doumani, a mid-century Los Angeles developer-turned-wine-country icon, died April 22 in his sleep at his home in the Napa Valley, according to his family. The former owner of Stags’ Leap Winery, once at the center of a wine-country legal battle called the Apostrophe War, was 92.

2 weeks ago | ontapsportsnet.com | Patrick Comiskey

Filed under "things absolutely nobody asked for," the Chicago White Sox introduced new City Connect uniforms Monday evening that feature a crossover with the Chicago Bulls. The long-speculated uniforms have been met with a mixed reaction. Alas, Chicago's two worst franchises are now featured as one. Haven't White Sox fans suffered enough? Was the worst season in MLB history in 2024 not enough?

1 month ago | latimes.com | Patrick Comiskey

President Trump has called for a tariff of 20% for all wine and spirits. Inevitably, prices will rise; how much they rise will depend largely on whether sellers, distributors and producers of wine and spirits can cushion the cost increases. The threat of tariffs has been keeping Lou Amdur up at night.

1 month ago | latimes.com | Patrick Comiskey

For me it’s the poppies. They’re not the first harbinger of spring, but they’re certainly the most dazzling. My wife and I usually make annual sojourns to the Carrizo Plain (avoiding the Instagram hordes in the Antelope Valley) to wander among the poppies and lupine and goosefoots and owl’s clover and coastal tidy tips in that turbulent, fault-scarred wilderness. Closer to home, we’ve seeded a patch of ground to wildflowers and wait each spring for it to push.