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Topic Archive: Sports
The Lakers made up a 12-point deficit in the last four minutes to even make it into overtime, but the Jazz rolled to a 123-115...
Posted May 11, 2008 04:10 PM
They go up 2-0 in their playoff series with the Utah Jazz, winning 120-110 at Staples Center. ESPN, DN/Inside the Lakers, LAT...
Posted May 7, 2008 10:50 PM
You could say that former Dodger and product of Los Angeles Darryl Strawberry had the book thrown at him so often he should write one....
Posted May 6, 2008 10:23 PM
E.J. Bavasi was the last general manager of the Dodgers in Brooklyn (and their first in Los Angeles), then created the San Diego Padres and...
Posted May 1, 2008 07:53 PM
Developer Ed Roski sees his Los Angeles Stadium, to be unveiled at a press conference today, as the hook that will bring pro football back...
Posted April 17, 2008 12:41 AM
Very interesting blog post about the linguistic nuances of the Taiwanese lefthander's last name....
Posted April 16, 2008 10:28 PM
By beating the Sacramento Kings tonight 124-101, the Lakers won finished atop the Western Conference — and, of course, get home court advantage in the...
Posted April 15, 2008 10:46 PM
Unlike in New York, baseball steroid man Jose Canseco drew a muted response at this week's book signing here. Stuffed behind a counter in a...
Posted April 11, 2008 04:24 PM
Matthew Kredell was a Daily News sports writer who lost his job in the Feb. 29 payroll purge. A kid from El Camino Real High...
Posted April 9, 2008 09:36 PM
Hats off to the new Dodgers show producer, Charles Steinberg. The ceremony before today's opener evoked "Field of Dreams." While a dramatic beat played across...
Posted March 31, 2008 06:58 PM
Take a look at the line for the Dodger Stadium shuttle bus to Saturday's Coliseum game. Jon Weisman blogged that when he left the game...
Posted March 30, 2008 04:35 PM
Pretty weird: the Dodgers didn't even send out a left fielder, opting instead to use a fifth infielder/rover. But it sounds like the party inside...
Posted March 30, 2008 01:49 AM
I won't be joining the mass baseball party this afternoon at the Coliseum — here's why, from my KCRW commentary yesterday — but those who...
Posted March 29, 2008 10:46 AM
Back when boxing was a big spectator sport in Los Angeles, Art Aragon fought major bouts at the Olympic Auditorium, Wrigley Field and Hollywood's Legion...
Posted March 25, 2008 11:58 PM
When the season opens next Monday, Canter's will have a stand selling corned beef and pastrami on the third-base side of the field level at...
Posted March 24, 2008 01:15 AM
In his blog on the Times website, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that one of the most common perceptions of him when he played basketball — that...
Posted March 21, 2008 10:41 PM
Andrew Kamenetzky, half of the brotherly duo that travels with the Lakers and covers the team every day for their L.A. Times-owned blog, was denied...
Posted March 20, 2008 01:50 PM
The Dodgers manager, looking dapper at the Great Wall. (Now picture Tommy Lasorda.) Josh Rawitch has a report on the Dodgers' day around Beijing and...
Posted March 16, 2008 05:07 PM
Two days ago, Dodger Thoughts blogger Jon Weisman signed up as a YouTube user and posted footage of Dodger farmhand Clayton Kershaw throwing one spring...
Posted March 11, 2008 11:44 PM
Paul Oberjuerge was writing his column for the San Bernardino Sun when he got the call. They were "eliminating the position of sports columnist for...
Posted March 11, 2008 10:59 AM
After losing four sports staffers last week at the Daily News, the sports editor who doubles as writer of the paper's successful Kings blog had...
Posted March 6, 2008 10:38 PM
Times sports columnist (and former editor of the section) Bill Dwyre gave a nice shout out in today's column to laid-off sports staffers at the...
Posted March 6, 2008 09:55 AM
Emmy winning writer, director, producer and blogger Ken Levine will do the post-game honors on KABC 790 AM this season. Levine has done play-by-play gigs...
Posted March 3, 2008 03:47 PM
Amid signs that the severest cuts yet are coming this week at the Daily News, tonight's latest word to the newsroom staff from union steward...
Posted February 26, 2008 09:43 PM
The words "speculative sports fiction" caught my eye and made me go: huh? But that's the genre that covers the anthology edited by Tujunga author...
Posted February 25, 2008 12:44 PM
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's blog on the Times website seems to be working its way through his personal African American Hall of Fame — the latest...
Posted February 15, 2008 05:19 PM
Phil Wallace calls it a "huge trade," the Lakers getting Pau Gasol from Memphis for Kwame Brown, Javaris Crittenton, and two draft picks. Gasol immediately...
Posted February 1, 2008 01:01 PM
Long-retired Bruins legend John Wooden still attends basketball games at Pauley Pavilion — he is 97 years old — and he is hugely popular in...
Posted January 16, 2008 10:10 PM
The authors of that book claiming a slew of ethical breaches by former USC Trojans star Reggie Bush and his family have posted excerpts and...
Posted January 14, 2008 03:06 PM
Johnny Podres was the most valuable player of the 1955 World Series that brought Brooklyn its first championship over the great Yankees teams, then went...
Posted January 14, 2008 01:06 AM
The Kings held a moment of silence before tonight's game to honor Stu Nahan, the former sportscaster at channels 4, 5 and 7 and sports...
Posted December 26, 2007 10:57 PM
That was quite a front-page correction the L.A. Times ran on Thursday, below the fold under the headline 'Steroid affidavit unsealed.' The Times acknowledged that...
Posted December 23, 2007 12:30 PM
From Tony Jackson at the Daily News: Camille Johnston, the Dodgers senior vice president for communications and chief spokesperson for the past two years, said...
Posted December 15, 2007 08:55 AM
"Perhaps no team comes off worse in the 409-page report than the Dodgers," says the trio of Times reporters who pored over the Mitchell report...
Posted December 14, 2007 12:53 AM
The Times found a passage based on internal notes from within the Dodger organization about former catcher Paul Lo Duca. Seems the team may have...
Posted December 13, 2007 07:50 PM
An open letter from Athletic Director Mike Garrett. Excerpt: It gives me no pleasure to write a letter of this kind, but there are issues...
Posted November 28, 2007 09:53 AM
USC alumni don't want to gather on campus Saturday mornings, touch the statue then get on a bus. They want to walk to the stadium....
Posted November 28, 2007 12:14 AM
Baseball blogs are already ridiculing today's Kurt Streeter column in the L.A. Times worshiping at the feet of new Angels center fielder Torii Hunter, a...
Posted November 23, 2007 12:50 PM
Fun little item on Rich Hammond's Kings blog for the Daily News. Even though the players supposedly had the day off, they were called to...
Posted November 7, 2007 10:21 PM
While his columnist ex-colleagues at the L.A. Times fall over themselves to pronounce Joe Torre just what the Dodgers need, J.A. Adande is now a...
Posted November 2, 2007 12:29 AM
Before Joe Torre's hiring — as the most expensive Dodgers manager ever — became official today, Jerry Crowe in the LAT noted that his pre-Yankees...
Posted November 1, 2007 10:31 PM
Joe Torre says there's nothing to it, but the New York Post says there is and the L.A. Times cites two major league sources who...
Posted October 30, 2007 12:21 AM
The Dodgers are going home again, radio-wise. The team announced a deal today to return their games to AM 790 in a package that includes...
Posted October 15, 2007 08:43 PM
Phil Wallace mourns the demise of the morning sports talk show with NBC4's Fred Roggin, the Times' T.J. Simers and Simers' daughter Tracy. Dan Patrick,...
Posted September 27, 2007 09:02 PM
Writer Frank Coffey's spoof site eTrueSports.com is now in video on YouTube....
Posted September 25, 2007 11:19 PM
Bill Plaschke's column today urges the Dodgers to quit haranguing KFWB host Bob Harvey over his post-game show. Here was the post I put up...
Posted September 19, 2007 09:05 AM
I got a note last night saying that Bob Harvey, who hosts the post-game Dodgers talk show on KFWB, angrily told yesterday of being berated...
Posted September 17, 2007 09:54 PM
Stewart has covered the sports side of TV and radio in Los Angeles since 1973, first for the Herald Examiner and lately in the Times....
Posted September 14, 2007 09:48 AM
Jaime Cardenas has been covering soccer as a Times sports intern. He apparently impressed enough to stay — and inspired Sports Editor Randy Harvey to...
Posted August 14, 2007 01:52 PM
If you figured Shea Hillenbrand's baseball career was over after he was cut loose twice this season by contending teams — the Angels and Padres...
Posted August 13, 2007 10:14 PM
The reeling Dodgers had a couple of things go right today. First, they scored — five times. That hadn't happened in a while. They got...
Posted August 9, 2007 01:39 PM
There's some chuckling going on in Singleton newsrooms over the front page of Tuesday's Wednesday's sports section in the San Gabriel Newspaper Group papers, San...
Posted August 9, 2007 11:07 AM
Nice personal piece on Wen Roberts, the sports photographer who died this week, by David Davis at SoCal Sports Observed. Roberts was probably the photographer...
Posted July 28, 2007 11:40 PM
San Bernardino Sun sports columnist Paul Oberjuerge seems to have a bit of a thing about Christine Daniels, the transgender sports scribe for the L.A....
Posted July 23, 2007 11:21 PM
David Beckham may be no Gretzky, but he'll do. Photo: AP Photo / Kevork Djansezian via Yahoo...
Posted July 21, 2007 11:59 PM
David Beckham is giving La Opinión exclusive Spanish-language access for print and the web, the paper says. Content and photos will be in the paper...
Posted July 19, 2007 05:20 PM
Barry Bonds clubbed home runs number 752 and 753 today in Chicago, leaving him two behind Henry Aaron....
Posted July 19, 2007 02:55 PM
With all the gushing about David Beckham and his wife coming to town, it's nice to see the Venice-based eTrueSports — "Dedicated to taking scraps...
Posted July 12, 2007 11:47 AM
Ex-UCLA basketball coach Steve Lavin apparently took a cue from the airlines and overbooked his own wedding. He has been scheduled to marry Mary Jarou...
Posted July 10, 2007 12:08 AM
The Dodgers on Sunday finally got the game they have been waiting for from young pitcher Chad Billingsley. He gave up no runs and three...
Posted July 2, 2007 10:36 PM
The Daily News went out front Sunday with San Bernardino Sun columnist Paul Oberjuerge's worshipful interview with Vin Scully, who has announced Dodgers games since...
Posted July 1, 2007 11:47 PM
Don't Let the Lipstick Fool You will be "an uplifting memoir profiling the author's personal and professional life," says Publishers Lunch. Dafina bought it for...
Posted June 27, 2007 08:43 AM
Longtime L.A. Times staff writer Mark Arax and the paper reached an undisclosed settlement of their public dispute about a story he wrote about the...
Posted June 17, 2007 11:25 PM
There are no Hall of Famers in the Dodgers dugout anymore. Murray was let go as hitting coach and replaced on an interim basis by...
Posted June 14, 2007 12:42 PM
Kurt Streeter, a Metro reporter at the Times whose lengthy narrative pieces have sometimes focused on athletes, is moving to the sports staff as a...
Posted June 11, 2007 12:33 PM
The Stanley Cup now resides in Anaheim. Orange County's Ducks whomped the Ottawa Senators 6-2 to win the Cup in five games. At the...
Posted June 6, 2007 08:32 PM
The Anaheim Ducks will try tonight to become the first California team to skate with the Stanley Cup. Hockey fans have been lined up for...
Posted June 6, 2007 11:43 AM
J.A. Adande, the only Times sports columnist who went to Crossroads, writes that he took the buyout and is exploring other options. He sends a...
Posted May 31, 2007 09:13 AM
After mincing words for a few days, Kobe Bryant went all the way today on ESPN radio and said the Lakers should trade him. "I...
Posted May 30, 2007 12:11 PM
The most successful and most entertaining pro team in Southern California isn't the Lakers or the Dodgers. And it certainly isn't the Kings. SoCal Sports...
Posted May 23, 2007 01:06 AM
The Times sports writer formerly known as Mike Penner is scheduled to be interviewed live tonight at 11:30 on Sports Byline USA. She will chat...
Posted May 4, 2007 08:44 AM
OK, today's matchup at Dodger Stadium is an afternoon game. It won't be nearly as full as Opening Day — in fact, they're sending out...
Posted May 2, 2007 08:57 AM
Veteran L.A. Times sports writer Mike Penner writes in today's paper that he will return from vacation in a few weeks as Christine Daniels. He...
Posted April 26, 2007 07:39 AM
Kevin Modesti, a columnist at the Daily News, becomes the first sports editor of the Los Angeles Newspaper Group chain. This means he oversees the...
Posted April 24, 2007 08:45 AM
KPCC's Adolfo Guzman Lopez airs one of the fire and bomb threats called in to Academia Semillas del Pueblo, promising the Spanish-language charter school...
Posted April 19, 2007 04:43 PM
Author Neal Pollack, a confirmed Dodgers junkie, ventured out to the stadium's new family-friendly right field pavilion and endured nine innings of all-you-can-eat madness. His...
Posted April 18, 2007 04:03 PM
John Stodder was one of the smart ones who got to Dodger Stadium early yesterday and was able to observe the mess with somewhat detached...
Posted April 10, 2007 09:50 AM
The Dodgers lost to a suddenly good Rockies team, Jason Schmidt and Matt Kemp (prone after hitting the wall) both left hurt, and a limp...
Posted April 9, 2007 10:53 PM
Travel editor Gary Warner of the Orange County Register bought this souvenir T-shirt at Holman Stadium, where the Dodgers play their spring training games in...
Posted March 23, 2007 08:19 AM
Last year's winners of the Los Angeles Marathon and other top runners boycotted this month's race because they didn't receive their winnings for almost a...
Posted March 10, 2007 10:55 AM
David Beckham damaged a ligament in his right knee playing today in Madrid, and European media were full of reports that the injury is serious...
Posted March 4, 2007 08:57 PM
Dennis Johnson grew up in Compton and played basketball for Pepperdine before winning NBA championships with the Seattle Supersonics and Boston Celtics. He collapsed today...
Posted February 22, 2007 02:22 PM
Mickey Meyer, the goalie for the USC ice hockey team, was ejected from a weekend game against Brigham Young — and ticketed for lewdness by...
Posted February 21, 2007 12:49 PM
Time Warner will begin carrying KCAL 9 HD on Friday with the 5:30 pm broadcast in high-definition of the Lakers game at Indiana. It's channel...
Posted January 31, 2007 11:24 AM
They threw a big party down at Staples Center Saturday night for the city's most popular hockey player, so naturally LA Observed had to tag...
Posted January 23, 2007 12:35 AM
Sure, in Europe he's just a bench warmer on Real Madrid who got dropped from the English national team. But here, David Beckham will do...
Posted January 11, 2007 01:22 PM
The Los Angeles Newspaper Group has posted an opening for an executive sports editor to oversee the sports coverage at all nine papers in Southern...
Posted January 10, 2007 12:06 PM
Judge Dzintra Janavs bitch slapped Mayor Villaraigosa over his LAUSD compromise, David Zahniser writes in the LA Weekly. Greg Stacy found out the hard...
Posted December 28, 2006 06:02 PM
Video blogger Jacob Soboroff uploaded from last night's Clippers' game, chatting in the floor seats with #1 fan "Clipper" Darrell Bailey and courtside at Staples...
Posted December 15, 2006 02:53 AM
No, not Allen Iverson — not yet anyway. LA Observed contributor Bob Baker has taken over from Rick Cipes as the official, paid Clippers blogger...
Posted December 13, 2006 02:34 PM
Dodgers bullpen closer Eric Gagne has agreed to a one-year deal with the Texas Rangers for $6 million, pending a physical. He actually only closed...
Posted December 12, 2006 11:44 AM
While Greg Maddux takes however many innings might remain in his 40-year-old arm to San Diego, the Dodgers appear to have a deal with Jason...
Posted December 6, 2006 12:36 PM
UCLA 13, USC 9 No national title for the Trojans this year. Game stories: ESPN, AP. It's quiet around TJ Sullivan's neighborhood, but my daughter...
Posted December 2, 2006 06:27 PM
Juan Pierre tries on #9 (now with the names on the back), admits to a little fear of Los Angeles traffic and warily lines up...
Posted November 30, 2006 12:28 AM
Departures from the increasingly Tribunized L.A. Times are beginning. Tim Brown, the national baseball writer since leaving the NBA beat, is jumping to Yahoo! Sports,...
Posted November 27, 2006 02:52 PM
Item: The Los Angeles Times makes a 20% annual profit and wins Pulitzers, but is considered in decline as a business. Instead of investing in...
Posted November 20, 2006 01:13 AM
USC professor David Carter is the media's go-to guy on the business of sports. More than an academic, he also has a private equity firm...
Posted November 6, 2006 01:55 AM
This weekend — apparently for the first time ever — both L.A. pro football teams play in the Bay Area on the same day: USC...
Posted November 1, 2006 01:19 PM
Which says more about the culture of Los Angeles: that Lakers owner Jerry Buss gets a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, or that...
Posted October 30, 2006 10:45 PM
LA Observed contributor Victor Merina checks in from Nashville: Here in Music City, much of the conversation around town and on sports talk shows this...
Posted October 16, 2006 01:02 AM
Saturday's game 3 of the Dodgers-Mets series will start at 4:35 pm at the stadium and be televised on Fox. Sunday's game, if it's needed,...
Posted October 5, 2006 04:38 PM
The Dodgers just had two base runners thrown at home on the same single to the right field wall. Yes, a double play at the...
Posted October 4, 2006 01:49 PM
After taking a year off, the Dodgers slipped back into the playoffs with a win at San Francisco. Greg Maddux scattered three hits in giving...
Posted October 1, 2006 01:29 PM
Wild game still being played between the Dodgers and Rockies. Colorado scored three in the first to knock out Brad Penny. Chad Billingsley came on...
Posted September 28, 2006 03:17 PM
Last week's News & Chatter post about the LAT sports editor giving the Times Staff Writer designation to reporters from sister papers rang some alarm...
Posted September 26, 2006 02:34 PM
After yesterday's post about missing the end of the game to see "Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip," several readers commiserated — or noted that...
Posted September 19, 2006 10:49 PM
Fred Roggin on NBC-4: "One of the most incredible games you will ever see." I bailed out of the Dodger-Padres game to look in on...
Posted September 18, 2006 11:38 PM
Yahoo! Sports says that its own eight-month investigation has turned up evidence that Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush and his family received more than $100,000...
Posted September 14, 2006 07:14 PM
David Davis at SoCal Sports Observed makes the point that the Los Angeles Times has yet to mention that the father of USC basketball player...
Posted August 30, 2006 02:32 PM
Riverside County Superior Court judge Paul Zellerbach was at an Angels-Red Sox game in Anaheim in 2004 when his jury came in with a murder...
Posted August 15, 2006 05:20 PM
You probably don't know that there is a big Little League championship tournament underway in San Bernardino, with a team of Northridge 11- and 12-year-olds...
Posted August 8, 2006 12:31 PM
The race will begin at Universal Studios and end downtown at the Central Library. Mayor Villaraigosa and Bill Burke said the new course should relieve...
Posted July 31, 2006 02:28 PM
They had to bribe Kansas City to take him. Story at SoCal Sports Observed....
Posted July 25, 2006 04:53 PM
By David Davis For those keeping score at home, it's been a banner year for Terry Cannon's Baseball Reliquary. In February, Cannon and his...
Posted July 21, 2006 07:02 PM
We told you on Monday that Helene Elliott would become a general columnist for the Los Angeles Times sports section. Today the memo came down:...
Posted July 19, 2006 04:17 PM
Furillo was the sports editor of the late Herald Examiner, wrote his column "The Steam Room" there for many years, and served a couple of...
Posted July 18, 2006 05:46 PM
L.A. Times beat writers will no longer routinely cover road trips of the Kings and Ducks, Sports Editor Randy Harvey tells LA Observed. Hockey columnist...
Posted July 17, 2006 02:11 PM
Slugger Barry Bonds' lawyers are preparing for the San Francisco Giant to be indicted in federal court as soon as next week. The charges could...
Posted July 14, 2006 05:25 PM
The Dodgers' Brad Penny today was named as starting pitcher for tomorrow's All-Star Game. One of the guys he was traded to Los Angeles for...
Posted July 10, 2006 05:13 PM
It's easy. You're the captain of your national team in the final minutes of the final match of the World Cup. The score is tied,...
Posted July 9, 2006 11:55 PM
Daily Telegraph correspondent Catherine Elsworth returned to her post in West Hollywood from a trip home to the U.K. with a serious jones for David...
Posted June 29, 2006 03:25 PM
Boi from Troy is checking out a report that the male yell leaders won't be back on the sidelines at Trojans football games this fall....
Posted June 29, 2006 02:55 PM
They give up on Jae Seo in a trade with the Devil Rays for sub-.500 veteran lefty Mark Hendrickson, who appears to have made a...
Posted June 27, 2006 01:23 PM
When a non-political blogger actually does some digging to get a story, we applaud. So kudos to Ethan Lindsey at LAist for noticing that the...
Posted June 23, 2006 02:52 PM
Landon Donovan's body language says it all. The Americans were eliminated from the World Cup, losing to Ghana 2-1. My favorite headline, from ESPN: Going,...
Posted June 22, 2006 12:07 PM
Midway through a piece built around some tortured play on 6-6-06 and the Boston Red Sox, ESPN the Magazine columnist Bill Simmons admires Dodger Stadium...
Posted June 18, 2006 07:18 PM
Midway through a piece built around some tortured play on 6-6-06 and the Boston Red Sox, ESPN the Magazine columnist Bill Simmons admires Dodger Stadium...
Posted June 18, 2006 07:18 PM
The longtime producer of Lakers broadcasts became a household name in Los Angeles through mentions on the air by Chick Hearn. She has been let...
Posted June 16, 2006 11:34 AM
The longtime producer of Lakers broadcasts became a household name in Los Angeles through mentions on the air by Chick Hearn. She has been let...
Posted June 16, 2006 11:34 AM
Dispatch from Koreatown: It's 8:42 am and Wilshire Blvd. In Koreatown is choked with traffic, as are all the side streets, after a World Cup...
Posted June 13, 2006 11:08 AM
The Daily News is calling for readers to send in a 300-word column on the Dodgers, with the chance to win a later assignment to...
Posted June 11, 2006 11:01 AM
Last night's suspicions proved right on. The Dodgers' Eric Gagne underwent an MRI exam today and will sit for a few days to see if...
Posted June 7, 2006 11:57 PM
Eric Gagne picked up his first relief save for the Dodgers since undergoing surgery almost a year ago, striking out two and forming half of...
Posted June 6, 2006 11:55 PM
Behold the late-inning dessert cart for fans who make it into the luxury boxes on the Club Level at Dodger Stadium. Click on the photo...
Posted May 25, 2006 10:49 PM
♦ USC isn't thrilled about the mayor's (and others') plan to drastically alter the Coliseum's innards to entice the NFL. University prez Steven Sample's letter...
Posted May 23, 2006 05:12 PM
Anson Carter grew up in Toronto and has played in the National Hockey League for nine seasons, including an unimpressive fifteen games here with the...
Posted May 17, 2006 08:52 PM
It's not the prices or the unruly crowds this time (or the blown ninth-inning leads.) First, in his Sunday column Bill Plaschke gave voice to...
Posted May 14, 2006 11:31 PM
♦ The Clippers tie up their NBA playoff series 2-2, beating the Suns 114-107 at Staples Center on Sunday. ♦ USC basketball freshman Ryan Francis...
Posted May 14, 2006 10:27 PM
In response to a question from golfing journalist Geoff Shackelford at the Times Festival of Books, LAT Editor Dean Baquet said (as he had when...
Posted May 12, 2006 02:41 AM
In the last three seasons the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have done what the Los Angeles Kings have been unable to do in thirty years:...
Posted May 11, 2006 10:26 PM
Ducks win in overtime, 4-3. Joffrey Lupul, a 22-year-old from Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta, scored all four goals for Anaheim. The Quacks lead their playoff series...
Posted May 9, 2006 08:13 PM
If there's one good thing to come from the Lakers' week-long meltdown and inevitable loss in Saturday's deciding game, perhaps it will be a permanent...
Posted May 6, 2006 11:57 PM
Councilman Bernard Parks heads out to Valleywood this morning to speak at the First Friday breakfast group at the Wine Bistro on Ventura Boulevard. Parks,...
Posted May 5, 2006 03:01 AM
In case there was any uncertainty, yes Mayor Villaraigosa did depart from yesterday's march podium to fly to Dallas and join Gov. Schwarzenegger in pitching...
Posted May 2, 2006 12:57 PM
Denver Nuggets forward Reggie Evans was fined $10,000 by the NBA for "unnecessary and excessive contact" with Clippers center Chris Kaman in Saturday's game. What...
Posted May 1, 2006 06:36 PM
Monday's post on Eric Stone's critique of Dodger Stadium's prices, long lines and hot dogs—and his suggestion for tearing it down and building a new...
Posted April 25, 2006 11:46 PM
Would you believe 200 luxury boxes and 24,000 fewer seats for most events, but with 15,000 of them designated as club seating? Those are...
Posted April 25, 2006 06:48 PM
Author Eric Stone, just back from a book tour in China, took in his first game of the season at Dodger Stadium. He splurged on...
Posted April 24, 2006 10:58 AM
Yahoo! Sports reports that the family of USC Trojans running back Reggie Bush abruptly packed up and moved out of a big home in Spring...
Posted April 23, 2006 05:10 PM
Los Angeles Kings CEO Tim Lieweke meets the media at 1 pm at the Toyota Health Center in El Segundo to, ahem, "announce major changes...
Posted April 18, 2006 06:58 AM
It's Pulitzer day in newsrooms, UTLA day on the school reform front, and rehearse for the big speech day in the mayor's office. Today's Morning...
Posted April 17, 2006 01:47 AM
The Dodgers today got word of their worst injury yet this year. Reliever Yhency Brazoban needs elbow reconstruction (the Tommy John procedure) and will miss...
Posted April 14, 2006 08:08 PM
Retired Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey makes his living giving speeches about honor and integrity. In real life, it turns out he is a chiseler...
Posted April 8, 2006 11:29 PM
Selective news judgment on Derek Lowe...mysterious illness of a local congresswoman...the mayor and the Chinese vice premier...plus yet another Hollywood media blog, an L.A. blog...
Posted April 6, 2006 02:42 AM
Derek Lowe started the Dodgers opener today and kinda bombed—he gave up eight runs in five innings. Either before or after the game, he also...
Posted April 3, 2006 11:03 PM
USC journalism students fanned out across Los Angeles and Orange Counties and asked 1,100 people if the Angels' decision to drop Anaheim from the name...
Posted April 3, 2006 09:36 AM
OK, so it's like this. It's Opening Day and if it doesn't rain too hard I'll be on assignment most of the afternoon in the...
Posted April 3, 2006 02:34 AM
The Bruins mauled LSU 59-45 in Indianapolis and will take on Florida in the final of the NCAA basketball tournament on Monday. Forward Luc Richard...
Posted April 1, 2006 08:14 PM
Wow, two of my favorite days in the year back to back. Sunday marks the return of evening sun with Daylight Saving Time—sorry about that...
Posted March 31, 2006 03:26 PM
Had to happen, with the playoffs-bound Clippers turning respectable. ClipperBlog.com is from Kevin Arnovitz and friends. He is the Slate magazine Fray editor who confessed...
Posted March 29, 2006 08:55 AM
Former boxing champion James Butler, who fought as “The Harlem Hammer,” pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and arson Monday in the 2004 bludgeoning death of...
Posted March 27, 2006 06:14 PM
♦ Saturday's downtown protest march against the Sensenbrenner bill to criminalize giving aid or jobs to illegal immigrants was really big. The LAPD, usually conservative on...
Posted March 25, 2006 11:01 PM
The Dodgers let last year's most productive first baseman, Hee Seop Choi, go on waivers to the Boston Red Sox. He figures to play more...
Posted March 24, 2006 06:29 PM
Down by nine with three minutes to go? Never led in the game? No problem. Just score the last eleven points. UCLA 73, Gonzaga 71...
Posted March 23, 2006 11:36 PM
Andy Murray was fired tonight as coach of the Los Angeles Kings. Assistant John Van Boxmeer goes too. The hockey team will introduce interim coach...
Posted March 21, 2006 07:05 PM
Political consultant Matt Szabo blogs that today's retirement announcement by NFL commissioner Paul Tagliabue raises questions about the fate of Los Angeles' drive to get...
Posted March 20, 2006 12:22 PM
CBS Sportsline.com has posted a story saying that NCAA schools across the country have steered more than $147,000 in game fees to a company co-founded...
Posted March 15, 2006 04:17 PM
In the days before last weekend's big hoops game at Berkeley, Trojans guard Gabe Pruitt was chatted up on AIM by a lovely from cross-town...
Posted March 8, 2006 10:38 PM
Reader Louis just emailed: It's 8:25pm, and the Kings made a major trade today....it was announced hours ago. So I go to the Times' sports...
Posted March 8, 2006 08:45 PM
If nothing else, Christopher Arellano has found a way to deflect scrutiny from the $200,000 he has taken from UTLA. But the Times and Daily...
Posted March 2, 2006 11:52 PM
One thing is clear from Bill Plaschke's LAT column today where Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe finally talks about his personal turmoil last season: the beat...
Posted March 2, 2006 01:52 PM
There will be more raw emotion on the ice than usual when the Trojans and Bruins meet on Friday for the Crosstown Cup hockey tournament...
Posted March 1, 2006 09:53 PM
New manager Grady Little doesn't have many rules for the Dodgers, but he does have one. In a multi-lingual, multi-cultural clubhouse where cliques have been...
Posted February 23, 2006 04:51 PM
Another near-miss at LAX, Vin Scully signs on for three more years (but that's probably it), chiding Erin Aubry Kaplan on race, the editor of...
Posted February 22, 2006 02:40 AM
As of today, new names eligible for election to The Baseball Reliquary's Shrine of the Eternals include the creator of Strat-o-Matic, a one-eyed umpire, the...
Posted February 15, 2006 02:06 AM
Jon Weisman notes at Dodger Thoughts that the real spring training has begun. The baseball beat writers have winged their way to Florida and Arizona...
Posted February 14, 2006 06:24 PM
The baseball team in Orange County won the right to call itself the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim. A jury voted 9-3 against Anaheim's claim...
Posted February 9, 2006 05:22 PM
While the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim have proven they are the fast, tough, relentless local hockey team with young stars on the rise, the Los...
Posted February 8, 2006 01:14 AM
Expect something as soon as this week on the NFL-in-the-Coliseum front, the L.A. Business Journal says. Also, look what's in our drinking water, how's your...
Posted January 30, 2006 02:03 AM
Snopes.com weighs in on the case of the USC cheerleader on the side of she may not be to blame—after all, it was a close...
Posted January 26, 2006 01:14 PM
Yahoo's hiring of Dave Morgan, the #2 editor in the LAT Sports section, gets a thorough dissection in the forum at SportsJournalists.com....
Posted January 25, 2006 02:02 AM
Kobe Bryant is #5 on GQ's list of the ten sports stars who are most hated by their peers. T.J. Simers considers the evidence and...
Posted January 24, 2006 04:57 PM
Yeah, I guess Kobe Bryant is on fire. His 81 points for the Lakers tonight is the second-highest total in NBA history, bettered only by...
Posted January 22, 2006 10:21 PM
You can end the week with a Wall Street Journal look at Dave Dreier, a thousand Valleyites out of work, possible trouble for Ron Deaton...
Posted January 20, 2006 01:59 AM
826LA, the Venice writing and tutoring center where Mayor Villaraigosa pitched in as a guest editor, has cooked up a new program with the Lakers...
Posted January 19, 2006 03:49 PM
The Colin Campbell Network blog has some details: According to sources close to the production, a team of ESPN executives from the East Coast informed...
Posted January 17, 2006 01:11 PM
That's a USC cheerleader shaking the pom-poms for a Texas score during last week's Rose Bowl. Gloating UCLA fans are letting her have it in...
Posted January 13, 2006 02:58 AM
Heisman Trophy winner Reggie Bush just announced that he will leave USC to accept the riches the National Football League would like to throw at...
Posted January 12, 2006 10:49 AM
In today's morning roundup: Anthony Pellicano has a fool for a client, the City Council returns to life, counting the homeless, and saving the Convention...
Posted January 12, 2006 02:08 AM
The Trojans' baseball coach for forty-five years died today in Glendale from complications of a stroke. Born Raoul Martial Dedeaux, he coached at least sixty...
Posted January 5, 2006 07:46 PM
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt recently and very quietly proposed building a 65,000-seat football stadium on the parking lots at Dodger Stadium for a new NFL...
Posted December 29, 2005 11:23 AM
More than 2,000 people (LAT; AP says "hundreds") viewed the body of executed murderer Tookie Williams Monday at a mortuary on South Vermont. Jesse Jackson,...
Posted December 20, 2005 01:27 AM
The Dodgers today added Nomar Garciaparra to their growing list of ex-Bostonians, joining the manager Grady Little, pitcher Derek Lowe and infielder Bill Mueller (plus...
Posted December 18, 2005 04:52 PM
Bill Mueller continues the exodus of Boston Red Sox who names are pronounced "Miller" and signs for two years with the Dodgers, the Times website...
Posted December 14, 2005 11:30 AM
Tookie Williams has asked for a stay of execution by the state Supreme Court. No word yet. (* Also: Gov. Schwarzenegger won't divulge his ruling...
Posted December 11, 2005 03:42 PM
Lisa Guerrero used to be a sports reporter for KCBS and KTTV here, then for the "Regional Sports Report" on Fox Sports West. She was...
Posted December 9, 2005 04:07 PM
Jose Valentin signs with the Mets, Elmer Dessens goes to the Royals and Jason Grabowski—who was a Paul DePodesta reclamation project—takes what's left of his...
Posted December 8, 2005 02:39 PM
Grady Little, former manager of Frank McCourt's hometown Boston Red Sox, will be introduced as manager of the Dodgers at a 5 pm press conference....
Posted December 6, 2005 03:52 PM
She hasn't posted since the Kings began their annual fade in the standings, but actress Elisha Cuthbert is on board as the L.A. hockey team's...
Posted December 6, 2005 03:30 AM
LA Weekly Deputy Editor Joe Donnelly had a pleasant enough interview with Mike Lacey, the New Times co-founder who will soon be in charge of...
Posted December 5, 2005 11:33 AM
Extending the subway out Wilshire Boulevard is essential—and only didn't happen originally because of white fears about "those people" coming to the Miracle Mile and...
Posted December 5, 2005 02:07 AM
They already had a Gold Glove incumbent in Cesar Izturis who made the All-Star team last season (though he isn't likely to ever again.) The...
Posted December 4, 2005 04:22 PM
Around the LA Observed offices, we prefer our pigskin roasted or barbecued. A hotbed of football fever we aren't, but we've ignored the gathering tension...
Posted December 2, 2005 02:23 AM
Sports columnist T.J. Simers claimed in Thursday's Times column that he just noticed his paper's month-old, Daily News-citing Lakers blog—and says the Times should have...
Posted November 25, 2005 11:59 PM
After spinning through all the candidates they really wanted, the Dodgers today hired San Francisco Giants assistant Ned Colletti to be their general manager. The...
Posted November 15, 2005 06:21 PM
Unlikely hero "El Pando" Guillermo Ramirez punched in a goal during the second overtime—at 124:18—to give the Galaxy the championship of Major League Soccer. Final...
Posted November 13, 2005 04:13 PM
...and nothing. Arizona 52-UCLA 14. At least there's still one undefeated football team in town....
Posted November 5, 2005 11:38 PM
Times columnist Bill Plaschke, the leading cheerleader to get Paul DePodesta fired, hails the Dodgers' move in Sunday's paper and predicts that veteran old-school baseball...
Posted October 29, 2005 08:29 PM
The Dodgers' young general manager had three years left on his contract and was in the midst of selecting a new field manager, but something...
Posted October 29, 2005 01:12 PM
Retired L.A. Times staff writer Ken Reich blogs that the LAT's new ethics policy forbidding sportswriters from voting in the college football polls cost USC...
Posted October 26, 2005 12:58 PM
I took in tonight's performance downtown of Les Canards et les Rois. Very enjoyable. The story was classic in its simplicity and the company talented...
Posted October 25, 2005 11:59 PM
Just hours after I posted below about the OC Register's Lakers blog, the Times sends a news release about the launch of a blog following...
Posted October 19, 2005 10:59 AM
♦ City Hall lobbyists now have to disclose online their clients, the issues they advocated and how much they got paid every three months. Daily News...
Posted October 19, 2005 02:44 AM
Just took a look at my server logs and was surprised to see that the second most-popular search engine term for October is "Miranda McOsker."...
Posted October 17, 2005 04:08 PM
I have no idea, but a new college football website in town says Matt Leinart's last-seconds touchdown dive to beat Notre Dame on Saturday should...
Posted October 16, 2005 02:45 PM
Angels fans are bananas over the strange call by umpire Doug Eddings that gave the White Sox an extra out to win last night's game....
Posted October 13, 2005 03:58 PM
Maybe not yet, but Slate's Kevin Arnovitz argues they have come a long way and can thank the Dodgers' ordinary-ness for the opening. Take away...
Posted October 12, 2005 11:20 AM
The recently excused Dodgers manager is going to Pittsburgh, where the Pirates are on a string of thirteen losing seasons but the general manager is...
Posted October 11, 2005 11:59 AM
Since Columbus Day is not one of our two dozen company-paid holidays here at LAObserved LLC... ♦ The Supreme Court hears oral arguments this week in...
Posted October 10, 2005 01:45 AM
♦ Marc Weingarten reports in today's New York Times on a bitter lawsuit here in L.A. between singer Leonard Cohen and the manager he says looted...
Posted October 6, 2005 01:54 AM
We don't know yet who will manage the Dodgers next season, but it won't be Jim Tracy. He and the club agreed Monday on a...
Posted October 3, 2005 08:34 PM
As the Dodgers prepare for tonight's mercifully final home game, things are not all bad. Plenty bad, yes. They need to win three of four...
Posted September 29, 2005 03:44 PM
♦ The school board picked up Supt. Roy Romer's option for another year. ♦ The state medical board opened an investigation of the St. Vincent's physicians who...
Posted September 28, 2005 12:59 AM
Times sports columnist-wiseguy T.J. Simers cracked off some arch lines in today's piece on the Giants' Barry Bonds possibly switching to the Dodgers next season....
Posted September 20, 2005 05:25 PM
The Breeze listened to the 911 calls placed this summer from the home of the Dodgers' Milton Bradley, and it sounds like several times he...
Posted September 14, 2005 11:28 AM
• Expect an announcement today from Times publisher Jeff Johnson that Michael Kinsley has been formally replaced as Editorial and Opinion Editor. The editorial page, Op-Ed...
Posted September 13, 2005 02:58 AM
Just shoot this team. In today's Times, T. J. Simers points out that the Dodgers players have voted volatile outfielder/husband Milton Bradley as their Man...
Posted September 8, 2005 11:44 AM
Good morning, everybody. Here are some observettes... • Gov. Schwarzenegger says through an aide that he will veto the gay marriage bill passed by the Legislature,...
Posted September 8, 2005 01:18 AM
When circumstances conspire to allow you to run a photo of the late Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley's face on a tortilla, you take it. Also...
Posted September 5, 2005 10:30 PM
Welcome to September... • Seems like every gas station between Hollywood and Santa Monica went to $3-plus a gallon overnight. The 76 station at Olympic and...
Posted September 1, 2005 01:43 AM
Dodger Thoughts blogger Jon Weisman got up this morning and realized that the Milton Bradley incident nicely summarizes why he quit being a sportswriter at...
Posted August 31, 2005 01:18 PM
Dodger Milton Bradley spoke to the press Tuesday, in a fashion. The team's crisis PR adviser Sitrick an—oops, I mean Bradley—issued a statement through the...
Posted August 31, 2005 01:41 AM
Police in Redondo Beach have answered three domestic violence calls at Milton Bradley's home this summer, the Daily Breeze reports today. In a July 11...
Posted August 30, 2005 02:40 AM
Pretty bad. Does anyone remember that the Dodgers ended last season on their highest high in many years? Forget the nonsense about being in second...
Posted August 26, 2005 12:39 PM
News on the local sports talk scene. Lee "Hacksaw" Hamilton, who moved to XTRA Sports (570 AM) when it subsumed what used to be the...
Posted August 25, 2005 04:47 PM
• That's Daily News sports columnist Tom Hoffarth in the photo, taking a parachute jump with an instructor at Lake Perris. It's front and center on...
Posted August 25, 2005 02:43 AM
Blogger Steve Smith posts his astonishment that longtime baseball figure Bobby Bragan just became, at age 87, the oldest pro baseball manager—and the oldest to...
Posted August 16, 2005 11:46 PM
Whatever may or may not be going on between Dodgers pitcher Derek Lowe and Fox Sports West Dodgers reporter-anchor Carolyn Hughes is breaking out as...
Posted August 3, 2005 12:28 AM
Anchor-reporter Carolyn Hughes has been taken off Dodger coverage at Fox Sports West during an investigation of her relationship with pitcher Derek Lowe, the pay...
Posted July 29, 2005 02:24 AM
I didn't catch any of the TV coverage, and the papers all report that everybody had a great time at yesterday's Real Madrid-Galaxy match in...
Posted July 19, 2005 03:33 PM
More than 8,500 futbol fans paid $30 just to watch the famous Spanish club work out yesterday at Home Depot Center in Carson. Real Madrid...
Posted July 18, 2005 03:58 PM
Summer weekends when there is no fog at the beach are no time to be blogging. But here are some items that fought their way...
Posted July 11, 2005 01:22 AM
The Dodgers lost another game today and another player to injury. This time it's not a sore hamstring or three, a hurt finger, a blown...
Posted July 7, 2005 09:43 PM
The Times' Alan Abrahamson, in Singapore covering the politics of choosing a site for the 2012 Olympics, observes that the chief operating officer in Los...
Posted July 5, 2005 01:47 AM
Updated with new entries at the bottom... • It's official: the Dodgers' star reliever Eric Gagne is done for this year and the start of next...
Posted June 22, 2005 01:25 AM
Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Doug Krikorian has been doing sports talk on L.A. radio since 1992. On Monday, he got the axe at KSPN (710...
Posted June 21, 2005 03:54 PM
Phil Jackson will be announced as the next coach of the Lakers at a 2 p.m. press conference. Just this morning, the Times reported that...
Posted June 14, 2005 11:01 AM
ChoiCentral tracks the sudden rise to popularity of Dodgers first baseman Hee Seop Choi, who this weekend opened a lot of eyes by clubbing six...
Posted June 13, 2005 06:14 PM
Sitrick and Co. executive Kelly Mullens has a fulltime office at Dodger Stadium these days, and the strategic PR company's tab to help team owner...
Posted June 7, 2005 10:29 AM
I'm not certain that I had ever heard his name until now, but Emil Praeger was the architect and engineer of Dodger Stadium. He and...
Posted June 4, 2005 11:31 PM
Fans of the Los Angeles (Not Really) Angels have been watching the saga of Long Beach State pitching star Jered Weaver, who has threatened for...
Posted May 31, 2005 01:40 AM
The Baseball Reliquary in Monrovia plans to induct three more baseball figures into its distinctly non-traditional Shrine of the Eternals in July. The late Dodgers...
Posted May 5, 2005 11:14 PM
The Lakers invited their TV game-caller, Paul Sunderland, not to return next season. Turns out he was not the second coming of Chick Hearn. Next!...
Posted May 3, 2005 12:45 AM
Surely you didn't think that baseball outcast Jose Canseco wrote Juiced, his tell-all book on steroids, by himself (if at all.) His uncredited ghostwriter was...
Posted April 25, 2005 02:12 PM
Times Sports Editor Bill Dwyre's professional burdens include being made fun of in print by columnist T. J. Simers and approving the expense accounts of...
Posted April 23, 2005 01:56 AM
Marc Cooper reviews the pricey new field level seats at Dodger Stadium and finds them, as I suspected, not worth $100 — or even $10...
Posted April 21, 2005 01:06 AM
They came from six runs behind again this afternoon to win in the tenth inning on another clutch home run by Milton Bradley, who's feeling...
Posted April 19, 2005 03:11 PM
Longtime ESPN baseball columnist Peter Gammons lifted a few lines Wednesday from a Steve Henson piece in the L.A. Times about Dodgers centerfielder-slash-reformed head case...
Posted April 14, 2005 01:05 PM
Fox Sports chairman David Hill holds the top spot on the L.A. Business Journal's new list of most powerful local sports executives. Hill moved up...
Posted April 11, 2005 08:21 PM
The Times greets the baseball season with a Sunday front-pager by business writer Thomas S. Mulligan on how Frank McCourt managed to buy the Dodgers...
Posted April 4, 2005 12:45 AM
In a brilliant comment on Barry Bonds' "The Media Ruined Me" speech, Jon Weisman of Dodger Thoughts turns for inspiration to—yes—Blazing Saddles: I'm tired Tired...
Posted March 23, 2005 07:15 PM
The sports journalism world seems both mystified and miffed that somebody ponied up $15,000 to give ESPN broadcaster Jim Gray a star this week on...
Posted March 4, 2005 03:03 PM
Rob McMillin at the baseball blog 6-4-2 has posted an MP3 audio clip of Vin Scully calling the ninth inning of Sandy Koufax's perfect game...
Posted March 1, 2005 11:36 PM
Wayne Gretzky is back on Los Angeles ice (technically, El Segundo ice) this week for a fantasy camp at HealthSouth Training Center. People pay $9,999...
Posted February 7, 2005 11:44 PM
Rudy Tomjanovich makes his resignation from the Lakers official. For now, Frank Hamblen takes the reins....
Posted February 2, 2005 02:16 PM
ESPN.com is reporting that Lakers coach Rudy Tomjanovich has already had enough and will pack it in before tonight's game. He missed Sunday's game and...
Posted February 1, 2005 02:22 PM
I wonder if Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has ever ridden an earthquake—or watched when the third game of the 1989 World Series was halted for...
Posted February 1, 2005 01:29 AM
Dodgers historian Mark Langill is chronicling in photographs the redesign of Dodger Stadium's dugouts, foul territory and expensive seats. His photos are on the team's...
Posted January 23, 2005 10:52 PM
Finally, someone has made a connection between local politics and hockey that I can give a link. It's a fleeting connection, but still. NBC Sports...
Posted January 19, 2005 11:53 AM
I have no idea if this is true with other sports, but blogs about baseball can be remarkably good. At their best, they offer the...
Posted January 17, 2005 10:09 PM
Yes, the USC Trojans won the Orange Bowl in a rout, 55-19, and locked up a national title. Hard to miss among the illustrious alumni...
Posted January 5, 2005 12:29 AM
They were the Los Angeles Angels from 1961-65, and for decades before that as a minor league team in the Pacific Coast League playing in...
Posted January 3, 2005 11:36 AM
AP says the Dodgers and two other teams, the Yankees and Diamondbacks, have okayed and submitted the trade that has been rumored since last week....
Posted December 21, 2004 10:29 AM
Luc Robitaille has been a favorite of Kings fans since he arrived from Quebec as a teenager they all said couldn't skate. Lucky (his nickname)...
Posted December 17, 2004 11:55 PM
I suppose there have been worse overall news days for the Dodgers, but December 16 has to rank up there. Morning brought the report that...
Posted December 16, 2004 10:48 PM
Updated through the weekend, newest at the bottom • Mayor Jim Hahn and councilman Bernard Parks both opened their 2005 campaign headquarters on Saturday. Hahn's (photo...
Posted December 12, 2004 01:29 AM
Soccer great Mia Hamm ends her long career on the U.S. national team tonight in Carson. She first played for the U.S. when she was...
Posted December 8, 2004 10:59 AM
• Milton Bradley did it again. The volatile Dodgers outfielder was cited for disorderly conduct after allegedly interfering with a police traffic stop near Akron, Ohio....
Posted November 29, 2004 05:29 PM
The holiday cheer-spoiling piece about Los Angeles I read over the weekend was Mary McNamara's profile in the Times Sunday Calendar of character actor Michael...
Posted November 28, 2004 11:15 PM
The Dodgers plan to announce today the hire of former ESPN anchor Charley Steiner as the team's newest announcer, replacing Ross Porter. Steiner is 55...
Posted November 22, 2004 10:57 AM
Jimmy McLarnin, apparently one of the great boxers to live and fight in Los Angeles, died back on Oct. 28 at age 96. He was...
Posted November 10, 2004 02:54 PM
The Dodgers owner has decided to remove players' names from the back of uniform jerseys. Frank McCourt cites "tradition" as the rationale; I guess something...
Posted October 28, 2004 06:15 PM
Ross Porter is out after 28 years, and the radio booth will get an as-yet unhired play-by-play announcer and the team's first baseball analyst....
Posted October 23, 2004 01:52 PM
KSPN-AM reports that the Dodgers could announce Ross Porter's disinvitation from the broadcast booth as early as Friday, the same day he begins co-hosting a...
Posted October 21, 2004 05:12 PM
Competing views of Anaheim and the Angels, first from Red Sox loyalist Jeffrey Anderson in the LA Weekly: The Angels play before red-clad, suburban boobs...
Posted October 15, 2004 01:07 AM
It turns out that Phil Jackson told the Lakers in January that he didn't want to coach the team any more if Kobe Bryant was...
Posted October 12, 2004 10:16 AM
Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley and Times beat reporter Jason Reid spoke before yesterday's game, and the writer declared the previous day's confrontation over. "He apologized...
Posted October 8, 2004 09:32 AM
Inner peace still eludes ill-tempered Dodgers outfielder Milton Bradley, who agreed just last week to take anger management classes after going postal on the field....
Posted October 6, 2004 11:02 PM
The mayor has made his bet on the Dodgers with his counterpart in St. Louis. He defends the honor of his team and offers up—Cobbler...
Posted October 5, 2004 11:45 AM
A couple of change-of-pace baseball items. Today, the Burbank Central Library opened an exhibition called "The Times They Were A-Changin': Baseball in the Age of...
Posted October 4, 2004 11:00 PM
I've listened to Vin Scully since I was six years old, and nothing I can remember matches the mastery of his call of the ninth...
Posted October 2, 2004 05:21 PM
It appears that Shaquille O'Neal had a pretty good reason to curl his lip at Kobe Bryant last season. Thursday's L.A. Times reported that when...
Posted September 29, 2004 10:52 PM
So the Dodgers win another with five in the bottom of the ninth inning (again, amazingly), and should be steeling for the playoffs. Instead, the...
Posted September 29, 2004 03:32 AM
A feature in today's Times on Dodgers co-owner Jamie McCourt opens with her astonishment that L.A. fans head out early for the parking lots even...
Posted September 28, 2004 11:10 AM
Nothing good about tonight for the Dodgers. Savior-to-be Brad Penny wasn't to be, throwing half his pitches for balls, walking five and leaving abruptly in...
Posted September 22, 2004 10:38 PM
It's not a certainty that the Dodgers will blow their playoff chance, but they've played like a third place team for more than a month...
Posted September 22, 2004 11:41 AM
Jon Weisman's appreciation of the troubled and now late local phenom Willie Crawford continues to bring in comments at Dodger Thoughts. Some samples of the...
Posted September 9, 2004 01:30 PM
Prosecutors in Eagle, Colo. drop all charges after Kobe Bryant's accuser gets an apology and decides not to testify. The last straw for her apparently...
Posted September 1, 2004 06:43 PM
When hockey officials in Canada asked Frank Gehry to design a new trophy, they apparently expected something, well, else. The unveiling in May at a...
Posted August 31, 2004 09:29 PM
Some things to note from while I was gone: • Larry McCormick: The co-anchor of the KTLA "News at Ten Weekend Edition" began at channel 5...
Posted August 30, 2004 12:37 AM
In advance of going out to the stadium tonight, I decided to look at how Eric Gagne has done in the week since the Dodgers...
Posted August 7, 2004 01:07 PM
In today's sports section, The Times' Jason Reid comes up with a pretty good reconstruction of the moves and deliberations behind last week's Dodger shakeup....
Posted August 3, 2004 11:02 AM
They send away All Star catcher and leading clubhouse quotemonger Paul Lo Duca, intimidating reliever Guillermo Mota and starting rightfielder Juan Encarnacion to get starter...
Posted July 30, 2004 09:54 PM
The New York Times has snared another Los Angeles journalist, but this one's not from the Times. Howard Beck, who covered the Lakers for the...
Posted July 29, 2004 11:50 AM
While local blogger BoifromTroy enjoys his stint as the guest Wonkette, the starting quarterback for his favorite football team has begun to blog. Matt Leinart's...
Posted July 29, 2004 12:46 AM
Heather La Bella is director of tactical marketing for the Los Angeles Sparks, the Women's NBA team that is always looking to bring in more...
Posted July 27, 2004 02:35 AM
Every sport has had it's "next Michael Jordan" or "next Sandy Koufax." Hockey right now has a "next Wayne Gretzky" in 16-year-old Nova Scotian prodigy...
Posted July 13, 2004 09:33 AM
Maria Sharapova the rising tennis star, that is. Coming off her victory over Serena Williams at Wimbledon, the 17-year-old has decided to drop out of...
Posted July 12, 2004 03:08 PM
Phil Wallace at LAist notes that the Dodgers have hired a guy who negotiates the sale of stadium naming rights. He warns owner Frank McCourt:...
Posted July 12, 2004 11:55 AM
Or was it their third? Anyway, Rudy Tomjanovich was hired today to replace Phil Jackson as the suit on the Lakers bench. He's done business...
Posted July 9, 2004 03:57 PM
• LAist, the SoCal version of New York's Gothamist, goes public Tuesday. Earlier: Gotha