Roberta Umor, Yuma Sun 8 October 2019—Yuma, AZ: Yuma Mayor Douglas Nicholls expected it. Yuma Police Chief John Lekan had prepared for it. And down at Anna’s Mexican Food, owner and restauranteur Anna closed early because she too figured it was inevitable. But the riots did not happen. The Yuma Bulldozers were eliminated in the […]
It looked extremely rocky for the Yuma team that day, The score stood 5-2 with but an inning left to play. Yes, the Dozers were on top, but given their many seasons of loss, The odds of Yuma winning were no better than a coin toss. So when Aurora’s Pierce did drive the […]
Roberta Umor, Yuma Sun 28 September 2019: Yuma, AZ — Rioting broke out in Yuma last night at 9:20 pm as Larry Taylor induced Mike Hale to fly out to right fielder Esteban Miranda, completing Taylor’s 44th save of the season and clinching a playoff position for the Yuma Bulldozers for the first time in […]
He knew exactly where he was. Everything looked familiar. Nothing had changed. Down the empty hallway he could see the door to the Men’s Wing and, at the very end, the Wall of Time, where he and Brad had crashed. The wheels on the gurney go round and round … The song flitted through […]
by Yuma Bulldozers He had no idea where he was. Nothing looked familiar. The sky wasn’t blue anymore. The earth neither brown nor green. Where were the trees, the bushes, the bugs, the birds? The silence was stultifying. He stood in a hazy nowhere and wondered, Where am I? The question hung in the […]
by Yuma Bulldozers He had no idea where he was. Nothing looked familiar. The sky wasn’t blue anymore. The earth neither brown nor green. Where were the trees, the bushes, the bugs, the birds? The silence was stultifying. He stood in a hazy nowhere and wondered, Where am I? The question hung in the […]
(Sung to the tune of “A Drunken Sailor”) Whadda ya do with a Hitless Wonder Whadda ya do with a Hitless Wonder Whadda ya do with a Hitless Wonder When it’s time for him to retire? Hard to believe but just 8 short years ago, in the spring of 2011, David Goode was signed to a […]
Roberta Umor, Yuma Sun 24 September 2018: Yuma, AZ — Rioting broke out in Yuma last night for the third or fourth time this year (who’s counting?) after the Bulldozers defeated the Tempe Knights 7-3 in Tempe. Why were YumaYouths taking to the streets after a Dozer victory 186 miles away? We asked Police Chief John Lekan what he thought had caused the unexpected […]
In the state hospital, time doesn’t flow, it doesn’t fly, it doesn’t tick or tock itself away. It stumbles down the hallway like a blind patient with a missing leg, uncertain of each step, fearful of what awaits, indecisive, out of place. Time is incontinent, unpredictable, then constipated. It falls into a room like the […]
April 30, 2018: Yuma, AZ — During the last week of April, the Bulldozers won five consecutive games and catapulted into first place in the Desert Hills Division of the Sovereign League. Headlines announced the extraordinary event. 326 miles northwest of Yuma, in the insulated community of the Camarillo State Hospital, the news disrupted hospital […]