Farewell Is a Reminder of a Better Day

Congratulations to Earl Gustkey on his retirement after 40 years of covering sports. Thank you and have a long, healthy and happy retirement.

We’ll miss seeing him at courtside at Pauley Pavilion for the women’s basketball games. He was always among the first ones there.

We agree with Earl that sports was meant for the amateurs, not for the million-dollar players and prima-donna athletes.

Peter Lee

Los Angeles

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Earl Gustkey’s article about Lanton Kame was a wonderful reminder of the metaphor for life that made sports important to most of us in the first place.

But contrasting Kame’s personal accomplishments with the arrogance and misbehavior of today’s overpaid pros begs one important issue: Every one of us who buys an overpriced ticket to a game, royalty-producing jersey or product advertised during a sportscast contributes to what sports have become.

Jordan Sollitto

Pasadena

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Earl Gustkey retires and T.J. Simers stays? And I thought Barry Bonds’ home run record chase was proof enough that there is no justice.

Alex Kaseberg

San Diego