Michael Ryan

Who: Poet Michael Ryan When: 4 p.m. April 21 Where: Poetry Stage on the USC campus Information: http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks

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You see the No. 83 on his jersey and the way he hurls his body around the outfield to make plays, and your first impression is that Michael Ryan is some kid trying to impress the coaching staff in his first big league camp. So it's something of a surprise when you look at his biography in the Angels media guide and see that Ryan is 32 and has played 14 years of professional baseball — 1,388 games in the minor leagues and 127 in the big leagues. "I'm definitely not a kid," Ryan said.

LONDON - The United States swim team has 49 members, three of them household names. To the flag-waving audience back home, the American swimmers to watch are Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte and Missy Franklin. Phelps and Lochte are portrayed as bitter rivals, Franklin as the impossibly sunny kid whose every swim turns to gold. In both cases, the truth falls short of the hype. The Olympic swimming competition starts Saturday - a coronation for the retiring Phelps, a push toward the throne for Lochte, a coming-out party for Franklin.

As he was flying to California to assume his teaching job at UC Irvine, poet Michael Ryan, then 44, wrote down some resolutions. No sex with students. No teen-agers. No anonymous sex. No secret touching. He made these resolutions for a less-than-noble reason. Propositioning and sleeping with his students had cost him his job at Princeton nine years earlier. In the intervening years, the award-winning poet had part-time and temporary teaching jobs, received some grants and wrote.

As he was flying to Orange County to assume his teaching jobat UC Irvine, poet Michael Ryan, then 44, wrote down some resolutions. No sex with students. No teen-agers. No anonymous sex. No secret touching. He made these resolutions for a less-than-noble reason. Propositioning and sleeping with his students had cost him his job at Princeton nine years earlier. Getting caught again, he figured, would end his teaching career.

Re "King/Drew Hits Hard at Problem Personnel," Jan. 23 The contradictions and paradoxes of King/Drew Medical Center personnel continue to be made all the more perplexing in that it defies human standards of decency championed by its namesake, Martin Luther King Jr. -- that ultimately the integrity of an institution depends on the quality of the individuals contained in it. MICHAEL RYAN Venice

The former administrator of the Lakewood Chamber of Commerce, who quit one year ago after the failure of a major concert that left the chamber reeling with debt, has been rehired to the post. Michael Ryan, 35, who returned to the chamber two months ago to sell advertising for its monthly newspaper, was reappointed as administrator Nov. 1 when his successor, Gerald Enis, resigned Oct. 31, Ryan said. "I am elated to be back," Ryan said.

We have been fishing Baja for 29 years, with Loreto being our favorite destination. The Hotel Oasis, which was not mentioned in Horace Sutton's article, is the oldest and probably the most popular with the fishermen. GORDON and LOUISE PRENTICE Long Beach

Who: Poet Michael Ryan When: 4 p.m. April 21 Where: Poetry Stage on the USC campus Information: http://events.latimes.com/festivalofbooks

Whether it was the night sparkling with consistent 1-2 finishes for the United States or victories in both swim relays, it was an emphatic statement for the future. Not only for next year at the World Championships but for that meet known as the Olympics, looming in 2012. "Every race has been a dogfight," Michael Phelps said. "We're having new guys step up and race, having the veterans step up and show some strength and put up some good times. Going into next year, we could very well have one of the strongest World Championship teams we've ever had. " Where to start on Friday night at the Pan Pacific Championships in Irvine?

Angels 1, Milwaukee 1 (10 innings) AT THE PLATE: Brandon Wood drew walks in his first two plate appearances and dropped a sacrifice bunt to advance two runners in the seventh inning. That set up a score-tying, sacrifice fly by Michael Ryan. The Angels had only seven hits, including Juan Rivera's fourth-inning double. ON THE MOUND: Scott Kazmir, scratched from his last start because of tightness in his shoulder, looked sound during a five-inning stint in which he allowed one run and four hits, struck out two and walked none, and threw 71 pitches.

You see the No. 83 on his jersey and the way he hurls his body around the outfield to make plays, and your first impression is that Michael Ryan is some kid trying to impress the coaching staff in his first big league camp. So it's something of a surprise when you look at his biography in the Angels media guide and see that Ryan is 32 and has played 14 years of professional baseball — 1,388 games in the minor leagues and 127 in the big leagues. "I'm definitely not a kid," Ryan said.

Re "King/Drew Hits Hard at Problem Personnel," Jan. 23 The contradictions and paradoxes of King/Drew Medical Center personnel continue to be made all the more perplexing in that it defies human standards of decency championed by its namesake, Martin Luther King Jr. -- that ultimately the integrity of an institution depends on the quality of the individuals contained in it. MICHAEL RYAN Venice

You'd have to be pretty heartless to begrudge the blessings of fertility treatment after reading Michael Ryan's new book. But what about the way medical technology drives eager couples to obsess every step of the way? "Baby B" follows the 13 weeks during which Ryan and his wife, Doreen Gildroy, conceive through in vitro fertilization and endure the roller-coaster beginning of a pregnancy. With the help of their larger-than-life fertility specialist, Dr. Lawrence B.

As swimmers go for the gold at the London Olympics, swimwear companies are ready to sell the latest Olympic-themed swimsuits back home. Recreational and competitive swimmers alike can benefit from the same technologies swimsuit manufacturers are using to help the likes of Michael Phelps, Ryan Lochte, Natalie Coughlin (all sporting Speedos), and Matt Grevers, Nick Thoman, Ricky Berens, Ariana Kukors and Amanda Weir (all in Tyr). The controversial suits of the 2008 Olympics, which prompted accusations of "technological doping," are no longer allowed.

Well isn't that just typical? Yet another privileged white male with a 40-year-old excuse on the shelf ready for deployment--its mission: Absolve him of responsibility for his abominably cruel, unspeakably damaging behavior ranging over years and years and thousands of victims. Your profile of Michael Ryan ("His Darkest Chapter," July 4) was downright stomach turning, exacerbated by the pseudo-intellectual blahblahblah spewed in his defense by Michael Clark, chair of UCI's department of English.

As he was flying to California to assume his teaching job at UC Irvine, poet Michael Ryan, then 44, wrote down some resolutions. No sex with students. No teen-agers. No anonymous sex. No secret touching. He made these resolutions for a less-than-noble reason. Propositioning and sleeping with his students had cost him his job at Princeton nine years earlier. In the intervening years, the award-winning poet had part-time and temporary teaching jobs, received some grants and wrote.

Well isn't that just typical? Yet another privileged white male with a 40-year-old excuse on the shelf ready for deployment--its mission: Absolve him of responsibility for his abominably cruel, unspeakably damaging behavior ranging over years and years and thousands of victims. Your profile of Michael Ryan ("His Darkest Chapter," July 4) was downright stomach turning, exacerbated by the pseudo-intellectual blahblahblah spewed in his defense by Michael Clark, chair of UCI's department of English.