Steve Garvey and other newsblips
  • Former Dodgers star Steve Garvey has sold a new book, Bat Boy Days: Lessons I Learned from the Boys of Summer — anecdotal vignettes of the keys to life and baseball, which he learned from being a bat boy — to Scribner. Don't forget, he really needs the money.
  • In the Fray is a sports culture blog by local freelance journalist Gary Andrew Poole. He is also working on a book about Red Grange for Houghton Mifflin.
  • Don Levin, owner of the Chicago Wolves minor league hockey team, tells Tribune columnist Mike Downey that he's serious about wanting to buy the Cubs.
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Judy Graeme | How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
Phil Wallace | Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
Bill Boyarsky
Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
Jenny Burman
Elvis on the Avenue.
Here in Malibu
They're very big and they're very hungry.