Category Archives: Football
Painting in Color
Joe started drawing when he was very young. He drew horses, cartoons, Roy Rogers, the Lone Ranger, airplanes, things he related to. He also liked drawing on walls and in coloring books. He wasn’t thinking of art as a career and never took classes or followed guidelines that someone has to declare him an artist […]
Also posted in Al Holmes, Art, Food, Hawaii, Paint it Blue, Painters, San Antonio
Old Joe Kapp Still Brawling
The known facts have been posted on YouTube and written about by those eager to revive the excitement of an enraged quarterback Joe Kapp in action. We’ll review those events before reporting recently discovered facts that now overwhelm the precipitating events which began in Canada’s Grey Cup championship football game in 1963 when lineman Angelo […]
Dwight Clark: The Catch
Entering training camp 1980 the San Francisco 49ers had lost fourteen games two straight seasons and weren’t generating much enthusiasm in central California or anywhere else. Still, even as a temporarily disengaged fan, I wanted to learn a little about the team and didn’t change channels when a Sacramento sportscaster interviewed one of the players. […]
Also posted in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, Bill Walsh, Dwight Clark, Joe Montana, Lou Gehrig, Ronnie Lott, San Francisco 49ers, Steve Young
5-Star Review for “Basketball and Football”
I would like to thank Lance Smith, the Sports Book Guy, one of the top reviewers of sports books in the nation, for his kind words about my most recent book, “Basketball and Football.” Sports Book Guy Lance Smith January 20, 2018 “With one of the simplest titles for a sports book, ‘Basketball and Football’ […]
Also posted in Basketball, Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark, Kobe Bryant, Lebron James, O.J. Simpson
“Basketball and Football” is Published
In a rousing trip through the worlds of Basketball and Football, George Thomas Clark explores the professional basketball league in Mexico, the Herculean talents of Wilt Chamberlain, the difficulties and humor of attempting to play basketball in middle age, and observes that coaching at Caltech can be more painful than studying all night for a […]
Candlestick by the Bay
On a wet gray day late in December 2015 I was driving north on 101, telling my wife about great childhood adventures in the sixties when our family journeyed to Candlestick Park to watch the San Francisco Giants. We would come in the other way, from Sacramento through the city by the bay, and I […]
Also posted in Al Capone, Alcatraz, Baseball, Bay Area, Bay Bridge, Golden Gate Bridge, Jerry Rice, Joe Montana, Marin County, Ronnie Lott, San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers
The People v. O.J. Simpson
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Johnnie Cochran, Los Angeles, Marcia Clark, Marriage, Murder, O.J. Simpson
Northwest Catastrophe
seattle mourns seahawks move to bakersfield
Also posted in Bakersfield, Seattle
Bay Area Delights
Don’t you love the Bay Area? It’s the greatest megalopolis on earth, featuring the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay and wooded hills surrounding blue water and boats and ominous Alcatraz and the Golden Gate and Bay Bridge, and there are all the major league sports and concerts and countless museums and parks and universities […]
Also posted in Carmel, Central Valley, Clint Eastwood, Cypress Point, Gabby Douglas, Golf, Gymnastics, Homeless, Nastia Liukin, Painters, Pebble Beach, San Jose, Santa Cruz, Simone Biles, Spyglass Hill, Stanford University, Tom Hanks
Objective, Atherton
Don’t misunderstand, I love the plains of Atherton but even more the hills where I can gaze over the Silicon Valley and dream I’ll someday be part of this. I know I’m not now. I live in a Section 8 studio in Modesto and can only drive to the Bay Area once a month for […]
Also posted in Atherton, Baseball, Bay Area, Computers, Joe Montana, Larry Ellison, Mental Health, Poverty, Ty Cobb, Willie Mays
Sober Up
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Alcohol, Johnny Manziel
Walsh Lectures Harbaugh and Kaepernick
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Bill Walsh, Colin Kaepernick, Deion Sanders, Jim Harbaugh, Joe Montana
Rhinos Battle Poachers
Thank you, humans, after centuries of slaughtering rhinos and driving many of our species into extinction and others to the brink, for trying to implant microchips in horns of all Kenyan white rhinos you can shoot with tranquilizers and thereby track poachers who kill us, and presumably arrest, prosecute, and convict the heathens who love […]
Executive Jack
Monday after high school graduation kid was required to become adult, moving long miles to Los Angeles and working in south central warehouse owned by gray parental friend named Jack who invited to dinner first night. In large Palos Verdes home south of city Jack and wife greeted kid and promised he’d have great summer. […]
Also posted in Alcohol, Families, George Allen, Los Angeles, Short Pieces - GTC
The Human Brain
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in Brain, Depression, John Mackey, Junior Seau, Mental Health, San Diego, Suicide
Madonna Teases Super Bowl Audience
hey some guy flipped off america during super bowl halftime show few noticed nonevent but bible busters protested when should’ve imagined madonna fifties fit in parked or moving cars on sofas in reading chairs on or under dining room tables planning to disappear in smoke revealing message world peace
Also posted in Conservatives, Dance, Madonna, Music, Poetry - GTC, Religion
Invitation to Brave Tweeters
brave men tweeting san francisco forty niner kyle williams should die should jump from golden gate should catch bullet should blow up in car because twice fumbled football are invited to next tweet at team headquarters Source: SFGate.com on January 23, 2012
Also posted in Golden Gate Bridge, Internet, Poetry - GTC, San Francisco, San Francisco 49ers
Champions of Sleep
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in NCAA, Poetry - GTC
The NCAA Confesses
What’s in that syringe? Untie me. You’ll go to jail. This won’t work. I’m not talking. I hope I won’t. I know I shouldn’t say as a kid I was a white wimp and still am and therefore perfect to work for the NCAA. I loathe my athletic superiors and all the media and fan […]
Also posted in Basketball, Education, NCAA, Racism, Reggie Bush, Walter Byers
Cruising in My First Car
I wish I’d been more on the ball and returned to somehow punish the scoundrel who sold me my first car. The deed occurred on an ominous weeknight when my stepfather drove me east of Sacramento to a fine suburban home where a slender dorky old man at least forty-five opened the door and said, […]
Also posted in Alcohol, Babe Ruth, Baseball, Basketball, Cars & Driving, Civil War - American, Elvis Presley, George Thomas Clark, Grambling University, Grapevine, Highway 99, Jim Cleamons, Kentucky, Lebron James, Los Angeles, Louisiana, Luke Witte, Mississippi, New York City, Niagara Falls, Notre Dame, Ohio, Ohio State University, Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Racism, Roberto Clemente, Sacramento, Siege of Vicksburg, Tennessee, Texas, Travel, Ulysses S. Grant, Vanderbilt University, Western Kentucky University, Woody Hayes
Ryan Mathews Demolishes the Bruins who Ignored Him
Two years ago this November I went to see a Bakersfield phenom who was rushing for about 300 yards and four touchdowns a game against good high school competition. I took notes and wrote an article and sent it to UCLA coach Karl Dorrell and three of his assistants, stressing Ryan Mathews wanted to attend […]
Also posted in Fresno, Pasadena, Ryan Mathews
Letter to Division I Personages
This story is in the collection “Basketball and Football”
Also posted in NCAA
