Dean Spanos and family may have done San Diego sports teams a favor when they moved their football team north, leaving America’s eighth-largest city without an NFL team for the first time since the 1960s.
How have the holdover teams responded?
Raise a cold beverage to San Diego State football and basketball, and the hockey Gulls.
All three have won more than 60 percent of their games and advanced beyond the regular season.
The Padres, still struggling, lost more than 60 percent of their games last year. They’re winless this young season after getting swept at home last week.