One of the most famous bridges in the world, the Golden Gate Bridge, opened for pedestrian traffic on May 27, 1937 and to cars the next day after a four and a half year period of construction. The cost was $35 million. It was referred to as a $35 million dollar steel harp by the San Francisco Chronicle on opening day. Due to the construction of other bridges that are longer, … [Read more...] about GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
Archives for 2008
60th ANNIVERSARY FOR “BONES” AND ME
Another Olympics has sped by, stirring warm memories of a golden 10.3 seconds I shared with a man called “Bones” six decades ago. He did the running, I did the rooting from the cheap seats among a throng of 83,000 in London’s Wembley Stadium. The world had waited 12 years for restoration of the Games in 1948, and no one dreamed of this day more than the skinny “Bones,” a … [Read more...] about 60th ANNIVERSARY FOR “BONES” AND ME
DON’T THROWN IN THE TOWEL; USE IT
NEW YORK – Jelena “Jelly” Jankovic didn’t throw in the towel when she fell behind. But she knew how to use it to rattle her foe. Jelly, the tennis player from Belgrade – a superb Serb – is no dummy. She had begun university, and was despairingly planning to go back for a degree in dramatic arts when her mom talked her out of that scenario and back onto the court — also out of … [Read more...] about DON’T THROWN IN THE TOWEL; USE IT
GOOFY SCHEDULING MARS THE OPEN
NEW YORK – The Busher went home with $ 160,000, a surge in his world ranking and a newfound reputation as the De-luxembourger. Everybody at the U.S. Open was glad for the big man from the little country. Six-foot-6 Gilles Muller, on a left-winged serve and a prayer, had bombed his way through a string of upsets, including No. 5 Nikolay Davydenko, and as a kind of serf – a … [Read more...] about GOOFY SCHEDULING MARS THE OPEN
A BRIT IN THE SEMIS – IS THAT RIGHT?
NEW YORK – Waiting for Fred (or a reasonable facsimile). That’s been the turgid status of the British sporting crowd for — let’s see? – 72 years. Yearning for another Fred Perry. Such are in very short supply. Although the Brits invented tennis as we know it, they haven’t been able to play the game for decades. The guys anyway. I mustn’t slight the gracious and graceful … [Read more...] about A BRIT IN THE SEMIS – IS THAT RIGHT?