Author Archives: Eli Karon

The UCLA gymnastics family saw one of its members selected for the USA gymnastics hall of fame last week, another accomplishment in a prolific year of awards. Chris Waller, UCLA’s assistant gymnastics coach, will be a part of the Aug. 23 induction ceremony in Anaheim, along with other gymnastics greats Bonnie Davidson, Harold Holmes Jr., […]

As I sat listening to the Major League Baseball draft on Tuesday morning, surrounded by family and friends, desperately hoping to hear my name, reality slowly sank in ““ I haven’t played since Little League. I may have been too small then, but I’m a manly 5-feet, 7-inches, 150 pounds now. With all the high […]

The best sports in the world do not take place on a court, a field or a gridiron. You don’t have to walk up hundreds of concrete rows searching for your uncomfortable pink plastic seat, either. There are no vendors screaming “Sack of nuts, here!” before hurling a bag of peanuts your way. There are […]

Extra, extra, read all about it! USC to consider hiring new assistant football coach! I invite you to join me, sports fans, as I make my second foray into teaching spoiled kids how to play football. You see, it seems the ad wizards over at ‘SC have decided to place an application for a new […]

OK sports fans, so I finally bring you a “Dear Eli” column and only one of you writes with questions you want answered. One person! This either means you already know all there is to know about sports, or you realized that I don’t know anything. But I was in Texas this weekend, and after […]

In high school my physics teacher called my house and complained to my parents that I asked too many questions. He wanted to talk to me, but since I wasn’t home, my mom got the brunt of his attack. In the end the joke was on him: He left his home phone number, so I […]