Meet Our Contributors
Sports Today is sent weekly to thousands of Bay Area fans and is filled with the best sports photos available. Issues also contain articles, essays and critiques submitted by noted sports journalists and personalities and below are their contributions to date. To view all Sports Today issues, click the Sports Today tab at the top.
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez
Amaury Pi-Gonzalez – Cuban-born Pi-González is one of the pioneers of Spanish-language baseball play-by-play in America. Began as Oakland A’s Spanish-language voice in 1977, ending in 2024 (interrupted by stops with the Giants, Mariners and Angels). Voice of the Golden State Warriors from 1992 through 1998. 2010 inducted into the Bay Area Radio Hall of Fame.
Andy Dolich
Andy Dolich, President, Dolich Consulting — Dolich has held executive positions in the NFL (San Francisco 49ers), NBA (Memphis Grizzlies, Golden State Warriors, Philadelphia 76ers), MLB (Oakland A’s), NHL (Washington Capitals) Pro Soccer and Lacrosse. Dolich teaches sports business at Stanford’s School of Continuing Studies.
Bruce Macgowan
Bruce Macgowan has worked in radio and TV as a sportscaster for 45 years, with nearly 40 years of experience here in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Bruce spent nearly two decades working at KNBR, ‘The Sports Leader,’ as a reporter/talk show host. He also spent a collective decade at KGO and KCBS radio as a sports reporter/sports anchor. Before returning to his native Bay Area, Bruce worked as a TV sportscaster in television in Eureka and Portland, Oregon before moving into radio in 1980 in Seattle. Macgowan also spent a year working as a radio network sportscaster in New York City.
Macgowan wrote weekly sports oolumns for the San Francisco Examiner and the Sacramento Union for a collective eight years.
Macgowan lives in Fairfax with his wife, Colette, daughter Molly, dogs Lila and Bogey and an orange tabby, Yoda.
Dave Newhouse
Dave Newhouse’s journalism career spans more than half a century, including 45 years at the Oakland Tribune before his retirement in November of 2011. His twelfth book, co-authored with Eddie Hart, hit book stores in August: Disqualified: Eddie Hart, Munich 1972, and the Voices of the Most Tragic Olympics. Dave grew up in Menlo Park, graduated from San Jose State, and has radio and television experience in addition to his work as an award-winning sportswriter and columnist.
Jonathan Siegel
Leland Faust
Leland Faust is an honors graduate from UC Berkeley (economics) and Harvard Law School. He was the founder of CSI Capital Management, where he served as chief investment officer from 1978 through 2011. Faust has represented hundreds of pro athletes over his career and Barron’s has named him four times to its annual list of the top 100 independent investment advisers in the country. He has also been named to the Sporting News’ list of the 100 most powerful people in sports, one of only two investment advisers ever to be included in that roster. Faust is also the author of the recently released book: A Capitalist’s Lament: How Wall Street Is Fleecing You and Ruining America.
Lydia Chain
While she has a background in art history and printmaking, Lydia has indulged in photography since she could hold her father’s Polaroid camera steady as a toddler. Now, she relishes the chance to explore the world of sports media and journalism.
Lydia has previously dabbled in food, concert, and event photography. Her work has appeared in the Long Beach Post, OC Weekly, LA Weekly, and in the didactic information texts for a myriad of art institutions.
Besides shouting at the TV when footy is on, she loves to attend museums, and indulge in art history inspired travels to broaden her knowledge for the world, though she has yet to see Arsenal play at the Emirates Stadium. At home, she has also delved into the world of rockhounding, lapidary, and metalsmithing experiments.
Also, can she pet your dog?
Pete Elman
Originally from Washington, D.C., Pete Elman is a musician, writer, teacher and historian. Since 1963 he has worked as a performer, composer, studio musician, recording artist and producer. Elman was the columnist for the Oakland Athletics Fan Coalition from 2000-2005, covered local sports for the CC Times from 2000-2011 and has worked since 2014 as a freelance contributor to the Ultimate Sports Guide. In 2013 he published an acclaimed children’s picture book, Seasons Rhymes in Time. In 2023 he released two books: Remember Their Sacrifice, (with Arif Khatib) the story of 19 unsung minority athletes who overcame the odds to achieve greatness, both off and on the field, and Insights and Outtakes, an in-depth look into teams and individuals who have brought so much joy, controversy, passion and pain to the landscape of pro sports. He taught public school at levels K-12 from 2002-2015, and since 2015 has been teaching 14 courses on contemporary popular music to adults at universities and other venues all over the Bay Area.
Shelia Young
Shelia Young is the Golf contributor for the Ultimate Sports Guide and was previously affiliated with the Oakland Chamber, Airport Area Business Association, San Leandro Chamber, President TLWGC, Mayor Emeritus of San Leandro, et al., and all-round lover of fun times.
