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Antonio Cromartie signs autographs for Chargers fans during the first day of training camp. |
One of the happiest places on earth has to be Chargers camp
CHARGERLAND – Welcome, one and all, to the second-happiest place on earth. No Mickey. No Goofy. No Donald. No ducking. No cover charge. No kidding. And, if you're looking for the Seven Dwarfs, brother, are you in the wrong place. But, as the Chargers welcome all troops to their 49th training camp, a visitor with a tin ear can hear the strains of their 2008 campfire song: Shirley Temple's “Good Ship Lollypop.” I'm surprised there isn't a kissing booth.
CHARGERS TRAINING CAMP
Team's quiet confidence
A more mature group of Chargers adopts different demeanor as club starts new era
By Kevin Acee
STAFF WRITER
Here they are, having been through so much together and now perhaps on the precipice of an unprecedented season, believing they are finally prepared to do what they've felt was within their reach for so long.
Plenty of weapons for Coach K, Team USA
LAS VEGAS – If Mike Krzyzewski has a worry, it is how to handle a windfall. With billionaires Bill Gates and Warren Buffett occupying courtside seats at the Thomas & Mack Center, it was the head coach of America's Olympic basketball team who experienced an embarrassment of riches last night.
They were catalysts in 1984
Tomorrow's inductees brought pennant here
By Chris Jenkins
STAFF WRITER
Even before they ever arrived in town and donned those radioactive uniforms, it was clear that each knew something the Padres didn't, something San Diego had never known as a big league city.
For once, baseball gods favor Padres
Eighth-inning escape helps hold off Pirates
By Tom Krasovic
STAFF WRITER
PITTSBURGH – Padres pitcher Heath Bell screamed in anger as the baseball whizzed past him toward the outfield. Certain that he had just allowed a bases-loaded single or double with the Padres ahead by two runs in the eighth inning, Bell turned to see how far the ball would roll in right-center field.
