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The article focuses on the golf team of Abraham Lincoln High School in San Francisco, California during the early 1960s. Team members including Hall of Fame golfer Johnny Miller, former professional golfer Bob Lunn and insurance broker Tom O'Kane discuss their experiences on the team, which never lost a match from 1961-1964. Miller attributes the team's success to learning to play golf on the many different golf courses in the city.

The article focuses on the migration of professional sports franchises across the United States. Like the Westward expansion that preceded it by a century, the migration of franchises has observed the logic of Manifest Destiny: Baseball is America's pastime, and where the land is open, the soil fertile and the sky wide, the game must take root. We saw the California transplantation of the Dodgers, Giants and Athletics, and the creation of new clubs in Texas, in the Rocky Mountains and in the Arizona desert, the last in 1998 when Jerry Colangelo unwrapped the expansion Diamondbacks in Phoenix and opened a ballpark that featured a swimming pool. A wave of expansion in the early 1990s added nine NHL franchises in areas such as Florida, Atlanta and Nashville. In the last 11 years four teams (the North Stars, Nordiques, Jets and Whalers) relocated to nontraditional hockey cities Dallas, Denver, Phoenix and Raleigh, respectively. Before 1985 the NBA league had not gone more than five years without a team switching cities. Since David Stern became commissioner in '84 he has preferred expansion to relocation, adding seven teams since '88. No NFL team had relocated in 19 years when Al Davis took the Raiders from Oakland to Los Angeles in 1982.

The article considers the Rose Bowl football game and Tournament of Roses parade in Pasadena, California on New Year's Day. The origins of the two events as a means of marketing Pasadena's mild winter weather to other regions of the U.S. is noted. The Rose Bowl's history as a rivalry between the Big 10 and Pacific 12 conferences is examined.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles published in the December 30, 2013 issue including "Candle in the Wind" on Candlestick Park stadium in San Francisco, California, eulogies to athletes who died in 2013 and an article on the Auburn University college football team.

Letters to the editor are presented in response to articles from the November 12, 2012 issue including "To Survive You Must Evolve," which discusses the evolution of college basketball, by Alexander Wolff, "The Past Was Fast," which discusses a 1990 college basketball game between Loyola Marymount University and Louisiana State University (LSU), by Luke Winn, and "It's Getting a Little Offensive," which discusses professional football players Jay Cutler and Brandon Marshall, by Austin Murphy.

The article presents a first person narrative by the producer of the opening ceremonies of the 1984 Olympic Games.

The article focuses on Dale Webster, a surfer who has surfed in the waters of Bodega Bay, California every day from 1976-2008. Webster has lived in poverty and worked a series of low-income, temporary jobs in order to pursue his obsession with surfing, which has brought him no reward but a certain amount of fame among other surfers. His wife Kaye has been diagnosed with terminal myeloma, which may end Webster's streak.