Recent Professional Career
In 1997, he returned to the Los Angeles Times to become a sports columnist for the paper's Orange County edition. In 1998, his column began running in all editions. In 1997, Adande was made a member of the BBWAA.
Adande briefly hosted the "Celebrity Sports Talk" radio program with ex-NBA player Marques Johnson in 2002. The show aired on KMPC in Los Angeles and WSNR in New York City.
Adande's assignments at the Los Angeles Times included the Olympic Games, Wimbledon, the Super Bowl, the NCAA Final Four, the NBA, Major League Baseball and World Cup 2006.
In 2007, the Tribune Company, parent company to the Los Angeles Times, sought to cut costs at the newspaper by offering a voluntary buyout package to the newspaper's employees. Adande was one of those who accepted the buyout, and he published his final column (titled "He's outta here") for the newspaper on May 31, 2007. When he announced he was leaving during the June 1, 2007 episode of Around the Horn the other panelists applauded him, among them Kevin Blackistone (who accepted a similar buyout in 2006 from the Dallas Morning News and appears on ATH regularly from a Washington, D.C. studio) who joked, "Aren't there enough people here without a job?"
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