I just experienced one of those moments when your past sneaks up on you. I was perusing the AP Photo wire one last time when I saw a familiar face looking back, former Red Bluff (Calif.) Daily News colleague Bill Goodyear (pictured). He has died, at age 57, of natural causes following a long illness. Bill, SR columnist Doug Clark and I all worked for a stuffed shirt named Fenrick at the Daily News in the mid-1970s. It was a miserable paper, owned by the horrible DonRey Media chain, with a tiny news hole that included ads on the only sports page and a circulation of 6000 or so. I stayed there 4 years. Clark interned for a year. Goodyear became the editor after Clark and I left -- and remained editor until his death. He played basketball on my church team although he wasn't particularly religious. He encouraged me to date my wife of now 32 years, although she was six years younger. He was a good guy. I've been meaning for years to call him to see how things were going. I guess I know now. Here's your Wild Card ...

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