Joe DiMaggio

Sophie Kurys dies at 87, star of women's professional baseball league

2013-02-25 11:55:00

On a snowy April day in 1943, a high school sophomore from a working-class family in Flint, Mich., tried out for the major leagues. The big-city scouts were impressed and picked the lightning-quick teen on the spot — skirt and all. A month later,...

Jerry West is rooting for Miami to keep up winning streak

2013-03-21 12:24:00

Jerry West is rooting for the Miami Heat to keep winning, even if it means the former Lakers great loses one of his top legacies. West said during a teleconference with reporters Thursday that he wouldn’t mind if the Heat broke the Lakers’...

Max Allan Collins’ ‘Seduction of the Innocent’: Read exclusive excerpt

2013-02-18 10:52:10

25 years ago: Pete Maravich's tragic trip to Pasadena

2013-01-05 00:00:00

Pete Maravich came to town 25 years ago, Jan. 5, 1988. No newspaper, local or national, had an obituary prepared. No need, presumably. Everything seemed normal that morning in the gymnasium at the First Church of the Nazarene in Pasadena. Maravich had...

Jennifer Lawrence, comfortable in her skin

2013-01-17 07:00:00

Jennifer Lawrence slides into a booth at the casually elegant Culina restaurant at the Four Seasons Hotel. She's on a lunch break from the daylong grind of promoting the international release of "Silver Linings Playbook," but she's not eating because...

Hal Schaefer dies at 87; musician known for Marilyn Monroe liaison

2012-12-16 00:00:00

"The Real Reason for Marilyn Monroe's Divorce from Joe DiMaggio" read the headline on a 1955 Confidential magazine article that exposed a bumbling ambush involving the famous ballplayer and Frank Sinatra. The unlikely duo allegedly had tried to catch...

Richard Ben Cramer dies at 62; Pulitzer-winning journalist

2013-01-09 00:00:00

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Richard Ben Cramer, whose narrative nonfiction spanned presidential politics and the game of baseball, has died. He was 62. Cramer died Monday at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore of complications from lung cancer,...

In excitement over Giants' World Series sweep, mistakes happen

2012-10-29 13:53:08

Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio divorce

2012-10-04 00:13:25

Mike Smith finds love again with Royal Delta at Breeders' Cup

2012-11-02 22:40:00

Quite the ladies' man, this Mike Smith. He may be bald, he may be just a little guy, and he may be just three years shy of that symbolic male decline age of 50. But put him in the saddle of a filly or mare in a big-money horse race and it is instant...

Hot Property: 'It's Complicated,' a Marilyn haunt, speech site

2012-03-23 19:45:00

This post has been corrected. See the note at the bottom for details. From the pool of potential Hot Property items, here are a trio that were just too interesting to delegate to the delete key: --If you loved the movie you’ll love the house? The...

Book Review: 'Wonder Girl: The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias'

2011-07-10 00:00:00

Wonder Girl The Magnificent Sporting Life of Babe Didrikson Zaharias Don Van Natta Jr. Little, Brown: 404 pp., $27.99 So do you know who made the Top 10 when ESPN chose its 50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century? Here they are: (1) Michael Jordan....

Reporters hounding Marilyn Monroe and attorney Jerry Giesler outside of her home in Los Angeles in 1954 after Joe DiMaggio moved out.

2013-03-25 14:48:24

Want to cover the waterfront or the Golden Gate on two wheels? You'll find the Bike Rental District (that's our nickname, not theirs) near the foot of Lombard Street.

2013-02-23 08:57:00

Former Marlins manager Jeff Torborg, right, talks to fans before the Joe DiMaggio Legends Game at Fort Lauderdale Stadium. Orestes Destrade is at left. (Craig Davis, Sun Sentiinel).

2013-01-26 00:00:00