Category: Sports

By JW August

Fore!! The city of San Diego has received a lot of unwanted attention in recent years for some of its questionable real estate deals, but when it comes to its three municipal golf courses, it has a lot to crow about, based on a newly released revenue report.

The three courses — Balboa, Torrey Pines and Mission Bay — generated $40 million in sales, and after costs, cleared a $14 million profit for the 2024 fiscal year ending June 30, thanks to a record-breaking 420,000 rounds of golf played. Torrey Pines North  the most–94,000 rounds.That’s according to a report presented by the city’s golf division to the San Diego City Council’s Environment Committee.

By Nicklas Balboa/ The Inertia / October 31, 2024 

After living in San Francisco for years, I finally made the commitment to the SOCAL life and moved to San Diego. I bounced around for a few months, and fell in love with Ocean Beach. Something about the graffitied walls, the painted murals, the hippie-esque culture, the homelessness, and the cold surf made me feel at home. But in my heart, there was only one OB.

Growing up in the Bay Area, I always thought that the title OB belonged to San Francisco’s fabled Ocean Beach… but after moving to Ocean Beach in San Diego, I was confused when I saw the OB stickers on every car in town.

After asking friends from home in SF, and local buddies in San Diego, it appeared that everyone was in agreement that their neighborhood was (un)officially called OB. And people less in the know from either pole of the state were unaware that the other side had an Ocean Beach to represent.

It was 1965 and I remember very well staring at the cover of Life magazine. It had a young woman, a local Point Loman, on the cover doing a handstand on a skateboard. It was an amazing picture and even more of an amazing stunt. The young blond on the cover was Patti McGee.

Skateboards were brand new back in the mid-sixties and most kids who had them had made them themselves. Take the metal skates available and attach them to a wood board covered by a piece of carpeting. Voila! A skateboard.

Patti McGee has just passed; she was 79. She broke so many records, it’s difficult now to imagine a world without her. Fortunately for us, U-T writer Maura Fox has just laid out McGee’s history and significance, and to let the rest of us know that a nonprofit named Exposure Skate will hold a ceremony for McGee at its annual skate event for women and nonbinary skaters in Encinitas this Saturday, November 2 at 5 p.m.

By Jim Kempton / Surfer / Sept 30, 2024

The 1966 World Surfing Championships in San Diego was a watershed moment in surfing. Organized by an international cadre of visionary contest directors, led by Peruvian maestro Eduardo Arena, the event was attended by more than ten thousand spectators, showcasing the budding sport to the nation in real time. Held in the city’s coastal enclave of Ocean Beach, it was the first world contest ever hosted by the United States and helped put San Diego on the map as an attractive tourist city in America.

By Joe Mathews / JMathews@SCNG.com SD U-T / September 26, 2024

Lock up your tents, California! Toss out your old camping gear! Hide your pillows and blankets where the cops will never find them!

Because the people who run California have finally seen clearly that the greatest scourge in today’s Golden State is not climate change and not crime, not COVID and not corruption, not the rising cost of living nor grinding poverty.

No, what most threatens our way of life is people who camp.

Public Service Announcement

By Tyler Faurot / San Diego Union-Tribune / September 19, 2024

As the city of San Diego seeks public input on conceptual designs for a proposed aquatic center in NTC Park at Liberty Station, it held the first in a series of community meetings Sept. 12 at the Point Loma/Hervey Library.

Plans for a community swimming complex at NTC Park date to a 2001 redevelopment plan following the closure in 1997 of Naval Training Center San Diego, which became the Liberty Station commercial and cultural center.

The 4th Annual OBWC Ping Pong Tournament is back on Friday, September 27th.  This annual event features fierce competition, with the current champion, Kevin Hastings, coming back to defend his two year reigning title.

The 1st tournament kicked off in 2019, but was cancelled the next 2 years due to COVID. Now on its 4th year, it has grown into one of the most highly anticipated parties in Ocean Beach.

This year’s winner will go home with the treasured Golden Paddle and a WWE Style Championship Belt-provided by Skrewball.

From Pickleball Association of San Diego

For four years now, Mayor Todd Gloria has refused to meet with San Diego pickleball representatives. He has told his staff to shun us. He has consistently acted in bad faith to the pickleball community. For example, when PASD presented our proposal to the Mission Bay Parks Board, the chair asked us “why are you here wasting our time, when you know the Mayor has already decided that no tennis courts will ever be converted to pickleball?”

By Arturo Castañares – Editor-at-Large / La Prensa / September 4, 2024

San Diego State University has blocked a statewide university official from testifying under oath about his knowledge of an offer for a free-to-taxpayers sports arena in Mission Valley that was kept secret from the public for over two years and could have impacted the City’s current proposal for a taxpayer-subsidized arena in the Midway area.

Jack McGrory, a Trustee on the 25-member California State University (CSU) system Board and former City Manager of the City of San Diego,

From California Surf Museum 

This latest announcement means San O is safe, at least for another few decades. “California just signed a new deal with our federal partners to keep San Onofre open as a state park for another 25 years,” wrote California Governor Gavin Newsom on Friday night. “San Onofre’s beaches, hiking and biking trails, and campgrounds will continue to welcome visitors for years to come.”