Rob Miech has been writing about sports since 1986; on that July 4, his Tijuana jai-alai feature ran below a column by legend Jim Murray in the (long-defunct) San Diego Section of the Los Angeles Times. The San Diego State graduate has written for papers in Pasadena, Ca., and Las Vegas. His work has appeared in USA Today, Washington Post, San Diego Union-Tribune, Basketball Times and other publications. Having covered 1995 NCAA hoops titlist UCLA led to a 20th-anniversary book about those Bruins. His fourth book, Sports Betting for Winners, was released in 2019. He pens a Vegas-based sports-betting column for the Chicago Sun-Times. Never ask the Milwaukee native about the 1982 Brewers.