Looking back at the Pac-12: Good, bad, magical and mirthful
The forerunner to the Pacific-12 Conference was formed in 1915, and contrary to some belief, I wasn’t outside that meeting room, yelling “Gimme rewrite!” into a phone. A little later, though, I did cover 45 years’ worth of Pac-8/10/12 goings-on. I saw inspiring and awful football (does a scoreless...
To the dustbin of history, the Pac-12
In 1978, the Pacific-8 Conference welcomed in the Arizona schools, and members of the league’s “Skywriters” – a roving band of reprobates who visited the campuses and wrote preseason football, when they weren’t pouring another drink – all were given blue windbreakers. The inscription on the breast was...