END OF AN ERA: DONAHUE RESIGNS : JUST TO THE RIGHT OF RUSH LIMBAUGH

Donahue would bridle at being called conservative, and I guess every beat writer got an earful about it in his indoctrination to covering UCLA football.

“How did I get that?” he asked me in our first conversation, riding to lunch in his UCLA-blue car. “You get a reputation, and there’s nothing you can really do about it, I guess, but I don’t think I’m conservative.”

Careful, maybe.