Author: John Spevak

Today’s column could be called a potpourri, a miscellany, a grab bag or just a random collection of thoughts—my own and my readers’, related to recent columns I’ve written. To begin with, baseball continues to captivate me. The...

Rays of sunshine breaking through an overcast sky is a welcome sight these days, after all the clouds and rain we’ve experienced. A similar sensation is what people who knew Heddie Costa felt whenever she entered a room. Sadly,...

My baseball spirts were given a lift this month watching spring baseball games, but not in spring training. They were lifted by an unlikely group — players from the Czech Republic’s national baseball team in the World Baseball...

Wouldn’t it be remarkable if there were someone in Los Banos who cared so much about animals that she would devote her life to finding homes for dogs? As it turns out, there is. Her name is Christine Tercero, and she runs a...