Topic Archive: Sports
The Dodgers announcer on golf, books and why he can't retire at age 84 in an interesting interview in Golf Digest. Posted February 8, 2012 9:56 AM
The only question, apparently, is which bid to buy the Dodgers will LA's richest man join. Posted February 8, 2012 12:50 AM
The Clippers' special season so far just became a little less magical. Posted February 7, 2012 3:42 PM
Germany's Der Spiegel investigates the amazing coincidence that Bruno Banani, the only luge racer from the island of Tonga, shaes the exact name of a fashionable German underwear brand. The questions lead to L.A. Posted February 6, 2012 12:45 AM
Los Angeles is likely to be well represented in the commercials that air during Sunday's Super Bowl. Like this one showing a flying saucer crash near Downtown. Posted February 4, 2012 12:21 PM
No charges to be filed after lengthy grand jury and justice department inquiry, U.S. Atty Andre Birotte Jr. says. Posted February 3, 2012 3:58 PM
Councilmembers Jan Perry and Bill Rosendahl reacted generally positively to the design, while Councilman Ed Reyes said the project should include more benefits for the area's residents. Posted February 2, 2012 11:15 PM
Tests for drugs and alcohol came back negative, so Dodgers first baseman James Loney won't be charged in his November 14 crash on the Ventura Freeway. Posted February 1, 2012 7:41 PM
The former Lakers coach is writing "Eleven Rings" with Hugh Delehanty, the co-author of Jackson's previous bestseller, "Sacred Hoops." Penguin has agreed to publish. Posted January 31, 2012 5:52 PM
Today's "Morning Edition" has a feature all ready to go on LA Clippers superfan Darrell Bailey, better known as "Clipper Darrell." Posted January 31, 2012 1:14 AM
Jon Weisman's "outlet for dealing psychologically with the Los Angeles Dodgers and baseball" has left ESPN for life on its own. Posted January 30, 2012 11:04 PM
The Clippers took on the NBA's best team tonight at Staples Center, built a first half lead and hung on to win. Posted January 30, 2012 10:32 PM
Mister Los Angeles, getting ready for his 63rd season in the Dodgers press box, is the local sports broadcasters' choice for best radio play by play. Oh, you think? Posted January 30, 2012 4:41 PM
Bill Shaikin of the Times reports that the finalists include a team of Santa Monica financier Tom Barrack and Leo Hindery, a New Yorker and founder of the Yankees' cable channel. Posted January 30, 2012 2:00 AM
Los Angeles Kings players Jarrett Stoll and Matt Greene let a video camera ride along as they drove from Hermosa Beach to a game at Staples Center. Posted January 26, 2012 10:48 PM
As of Monday's soft deadline to float a non-binding bid to buy the Dodgers, the players include Magic Johnson, Peter O'Malley, Rick Caruso and Joe Torre, Mark Cuban, Steven Cohen, Stanley Gold and the family of the late Roy Disney plus others. Posted January 23, 2012 11:31 PM
The Penn State football legend who was fired last year over a child sex scandal involving an assistant died Sunday, his family announced. CBS Sports apologized for posting an erroneous news story about his death on Saturday. Posted January 22, 2012 10:39 AM
Phil Jackson, the ex-Lakers coach, sat down for lunch by the beach on Thursday and talked with Mark Heisler, the ex-LA Times basketball columnist now writing hoops for the New York Times. Posted January 21, 2012 6:02 PM
The 29-year-old freeskier from Canada who suffered a head injury and brain damage during a Jan. 10 training run on the superpipe at Park Mountain Resort in Utah, died this morning. Her organs and tissues were donated in accordance with her wishes. Posted January 19, 2012 11:53 PM
Manny Ramirez sat down for an attempt at image rehab with ESPN and vowed that if someone will just let him play baseball this season, he'll be a good role model. Posted January 12, 2012 10:50 PM
Sports talk has been putting Josh Macciello on the air to plead his case, so Ramona Shelburne of ESPN LA went over to talk to him at his rented house in Studio City. Posted January 12, 2012 6:17 PM
The Dodgers won't try to sell the team's television rights now, and Fox agrees not to object to the settlement between baseball and Frank McCourt. Posted January 11, 2012 12:23 AM
The reigning Mister Los Angeles will be the subject of the last bobblehead giveaway of the coming season at Dodger Stadium. Posted January 9, 2012 10:20 PM
In my weekly commentary segment tonight with Lisa Napoli, we talk about media-shy Colorado mogul Phil Anschutz and his local right-hand, Tim Leiweke. Posted January 9, 2012 5:42 PM
Connie Bruck's profile of Philip Anschutz, Tim Leiweke and their empire in downtown Los Angeles — Staples Center, L.A. Live, the Los Angeles Kings, the proposed Farmers Field football stadium and more — is behind the magazine's pay wall. Here's a brief pre-look. Posted January 9, 2012 1:27 AM
David Beckham won't be joining the Paris Saint-Germain soccer club after all, and that team says he will be staying in Los Angeles with the Galaxy. Posted January 3, 2012 12:31 PM
Getty Images photographed Villaraigosa on the Denver sideline with NFL commissioner Roger Goodell, left, and Patriots owner Robert Kraft. Posted December 18, 2011 10:31 PM
Tonight at the Alamodome in San Antonio, UCLA's women's volleyball team beat Illinois to win the NCAA national championship. Posted December 17, 2011 9:41 PM
NBC bills it as an interview with the Santa Cruz paramedic who was beaten at Dodger Stadium on opening day of the past season, possibly because he was a Giants fan. Posted December 16, 2011 9:54 PM
It's her move, says TMZ, which reported that Vanessa Bryant cited "irreconcilable differences" in Friday's Orange County filing and that a source says "the last straw" was infidelity. Posted December 16, 2011 9:30 PM
Baseball's all-time home run leader can appeal before serving his sentence. Posted December 16, 2011 1:09 PM
Major League Baseball and its partner association of sportswriters have become the first major sport to issue dress guidelines for the media working games. It applies to camera people and... Posted December 13, 2011 12:31 AM
And just because it's been one of those sports weeks, the Los Angeles Kings have removed coach Terry Murray — "relieved him of his duties," in press release speak. Posted December 12, 2011 3:21 PM
And we thought the Frank and Jamie McCourt melodrama was intense.
Posted December 12, 2011 3:04 PM
Sunday was media day at the Lakers training camp in El Segundo. Then the Clippers traded (aparently) for Chris Paul. Posted December 11, 2011 11:55 PM
The Lakers get a first-round pick in 2012 from Dallas for Lamar Odom, who came back to the team after his trade to New Orleans (with Pau Gasol for Chris Paul) was voided by the league. Posted December 11, 2011 12:29 AM
The producers of the documentary on the troubled life of USC football phenom Todd Marinovich premiering tonight on ESPN write that "for six months we tried to track him down and were greeted with radio silence." Posted December 10, 2011 12:23 PM
Fans are invited to today's 11:30 a.m. press conference at the stadium in Anaheim where the Angels will show off the newest SoCal megastar. Posted December 10, 2011 10:42 AM
Dodgers first baseman James Loney says he remembers colliding with the first car on the 101 freeway on Nov. 14, and hitting his head, then nothing more until he woke up in the hospital and was sent home. Posted December 10, 2011 12:10 AM
Lamar Odom was a no-show at Lakers camp today and from the sounds of it, he doesn't intend to make an appearance any time soon. Posted December 9, 2011 3:10 PM
Even the janitors at the New York Post and NY Daily News are probably having a good laugh about La-La-Land and the "citizen journalism" power of Twitter and cellphone cameras. Posted December 9, 2011 1:52 PM
Lamar Odom and Pau Gasol now have to report to Lakers camp on Friday. Posted December 8, 2011 10:20 PM
A wild twist to an already topsy-turvy day, says the L.A. Times reporter. Posted December 8, 2011 6:56 PM
James Loney allegedly hit several cars, exhibited strange behavior and was taken to the hospital and put in leg and arm restraints after last month's crash, TMZ reports. Posted December 8, 2011 1:34 PM
Baseball's biggest free agent, possibly ever, is coming to play in Los Angeles of Anaheim. Posted December 8, 2011 9:27 AM
UCLA athletic director Dan Guerrero relieved football coach Rick Neuheisel of his duties this morning. Posted November 28, 2011 11:32 AM
The Los Angeles Newspaper Group papers are reporting, based on "multiple sources close to the program," that UCLA coach Rick Neuheisel will be let go after the Pac-12 Conference championship game on Friday. Posted November 27, 2011 12:47 AM
The agreement still has to be approved by the league's owners and by the players association, but negotiators for both shook hands on a tentative deal. Posted November 26, 2011 1:47 AM
Bryan Stow's familyposted a photo showing the Dodger Stadium beating victim surrounded by smiling relatives and friends on Thanksgiving. Posted November 25, 2011 11:05 PM
Landon Donovan scored in the 72nd minute at Home Depot Center and that was all the Galaxy needed to top Houston and win the championship of Major League Soccer. Posted November 21, 2011 12:35 AM
Lowering expectations on Natalie Wood case, tearing down the 6th Street bridge, media notes and a local sports death. Posted November 18, 2011 11:23 PM
Kershaw, at 23, is the youngest Dodger since Fernando Valenzuela (20, in 1981) to win the National League's Cy Young Award. Posted November 17, 2011 11:11 AM
The worst of the bunch, in the latest Texas Transportation Institute study, is supposedly the stretch of the 110 Freeway from Interstate 10 to the Dodger Stadium exit at Stadium Way. Posted November 16, 2011 12:47 PM
AEG and Gensler released fresh looks at the proposed Downtown football stadium. Posted November 15, 2011 5:36 PM
Could it be the Dodgers owner is a stand-up guy after all? Posted November 14, 2011 11:12 PM
On Nov. 5, ESPN Senior VP Joan Lynch woke up in her home to find a front tire of her vehicle slashed. This is notable for two reasons. Posted November 14, 2011 4:43 PM
Romenesko, the Geffen Playhouse, Evelyn Martinez, Haskell Wexler, Winston Doby and more. Posted November 12, 2011 3:37 PM
Jordan Farmar, the former Laker and UCLA Bruin, is one of a only a few NBA players who are Jewish. Posted November 8, 2011 9:29 PM
Readers of the LAT's Fabulous Forum sports blog voted Sandy Koufax the greatest figure in Los Angeles sports history. Posted November 8, 2011 12:54 PM
Monday is the 20th anniversary of the shocking afternoon press conference, on live national TV from the Forum in Inglewood, when Magic Johnson announced that he had been infected with the AIDS virus and would be retiring from the Lakers, effective immediately. Posted November 6, 2011 9:10 PM
Mike Magee scored the go-ahead goal (on a pass from David Beckham) in the 58th minute, helping the Los Angeles Galaxy drop Real Salt Lake 3-1 on Sunday at Home Depot Center. Posted November 6, 2011 8:25 PM
Another East Los Angeles Classic is in the books. Posted November 4, 2011 10:43 PM
The folks at Mammoth Mountain must want people to come ski and board, since they send out pics like this. Posted November 4, 2011 2:39 PM
From Stuart Rapeport in Highland Park. Posted November 4, 2011 11:22 AM
Former owner Peter O'Malley might be a sentimental fan's favorite to re-take the Dodgers, but T.J. Simers makes a point somebody had to raise. Posted November 3, 2011 7:54 PM
As you could guess, people are generally thrilled that Frank McCourt has agreed to put the Dodgers up for sale. The excitement is tempered by the realization that last time... Posted November 2, 2011 1:14 PM
Frank McCourt has agreed to baseball's pressure to put the Dodgers up for auction, Bill Shaikin reports tonight for the Los Angeles Times website Posted November 1, 2011 10:46 PM
The LAT's Bill Shaikin reports tonight that a resolution to the Dodgers drama could be near. Owner Frank McCourt, the paper says, "appears close to agreement with Major League Baseball... Posted October 31, 2011 10:05 PM
"Yes, a great game and never mind the early stuff," says the New Yorker writer. Posted October 28, 2011 1:55 PM
The longtime L.A. sports figure has been laid off. Posted October 25, 2011 11:35 PM
First a fake referee stops play and takes off his clothes, then UCLA and Arizona players brawl on the field. Posted October 21, 2011 10:28 PM
Staples announcer David Courtney tweets his excitement for tonight's Kings opener. Posted October 18, 2011 3:14 PM
Tom Hoffarth of the Daily News wrote, after talking to Dan Wheldon, "So how much is it really worth for last May's Indianapolis 500 winner to risk his neck maneuvering from the last spot of a 34-car field to win this 200-lap, season-ending race?" Posted October 17, 2011 12:43 PM
Frank and Jamie McCourt have reportedly reached a divorce settlement under which she would get about $130 million and relinquish any claim to the Dodgers. Posted October 17, 2011 8:59 AM
A goal in the 53rd minute by Chad Barrett gave the Galaxy a 1-0 victory tonight over Chivas U.S.A. on the soccer field the teams share in Carson. Posted October 16, 2011 11:26 PM
The Los Angeles Kings began the NHL season with two games in Europe, which meant a first time overseas for Rich Hammond, the traveling beat writer who the Kings employ. Posted October 16, 2011 10:46 PM
Live Talks Los Angeles is offering LA Observed readers tickets to see NBA legend Jerry West talking about his life (and new autobiography) with producer and author Peter Guber. Posted October 13, 2011 9:35 AM
This time the water polo team has broken a nine-year winless streak. Posted October 8, 2011 6:08 PM
Clippers fans get a treat in the Body Issue of ESPN the Magazine: Blake Griffin nude, along with more than a dozen other sculpted athletes, including snowboarder Gretchen Bleiler at the Chateau Marmont. Posted October 8, 2011 4:59 PM
The Los Angeles Kings opened their regular season a long ways from L.A., with games Friday in Stockholm (they beat the New York Rangers) and today in Berlin (they lost... Posted October 8, 2011 1:54 PM
The last owner of an NFL team in Los Angeles died this morning at home in Oakland. Posted October 8, 2011 11:58 AM
The former Lakers star and general manager admits in a profile at Grantland that he's still uncomfortable with his fame. Maybe more now, at age 73 and apparently taking stock of his life. Posted October 5, 2011 1:15 PM
Q: Did you really take batting practice naked when you were with the Astros? Posted October 4, 2011 12:27 AM
The Dodgers finally announced their deal to move games to Fox Sports station 570 next season and to enter into an "integrated marketing and broadcasting agreement" with Clear Channel Communications. Posted October 3, 2011 12:21 PM
The Kings said they have a verbal agreement with the 21-year-old defenseman, reportedly eight years at $7 million per. Posted September 29, 2011 8:45 PM
The headline is a line from Buster Olney, the former New York Times baseball writer who's now a go-to baseball guy at ESPN — and who in a fashion foresaw last night's historic turns in the sport. Posted September 29, 2011 1:12 PM
Here are the highlights you need to know to appreciate how your friends, spouse, squeeze or co-workers are feeling after "the most shocking, unbelievable, thrilling night in baseball history." Posted September 28, 2011 11:59 PM
Nyad got out of the water at about 8 a.m. Pacific time, after swimming 67 nautical miles from her starting point in Cuba. Posted September 25, 2011 11:09 AM
Diana Nyad ran into some Portguese Man-of-War and endured several stings, but her team says she is still swimming toward Florida and gaining strength. Posted September 24, 2011 4:59 PM
Stow, the victim of the Opening Day assault at Dodger Stadium, progressed this week to speaking with relatives and asking to see his children. Posted September 22, 2011 10:26 PM
Zac Sunderland, the Southern California sailor who navigated solo around the world at age 17, and his father Laurence will be on the new season of the CBS reality show,... Posted September 22, 2011 12:48 PM
Two things have gone right for the Dodgers in what has basically been a lost season: pitcher Clayton Kershaw and centerfielder Matt Kemp have turned the corner and become elite... Posted September 20, 2011 11:43 PM
A bit over a month since Mark Heisler was excused as the Los Angeles Times' NBA columnist, his byline showed up on a story in the New York Times on Mikhail Marinovich. A few days before the LAT ran a story. Posted September 19, 2011 12:54 PM
Mr. World Peace also intends to switch to number 70 on his Lakers jersey. Posted September 16, 2011 3:15 PM
Back in May, New York Times bureau chief Adam Nagourney wrote about Lewis Brown, a homeless former star for Verbum Dei and UNLV who roamed the streets of Hollywood. Posted September 16, 2011 9:35 AM
The Special Olympics will return to the United States for the first time in 16 years. Posted September 14, 2011 2:21 PM
Cover story in The Atlantic by Taylor Branch is the longest piece the magazine has run in four years. Posted September 13, 2011 6:38 PM
Josh Rawitch, the Dodgers' vice president of communications, is moving up in the standings by taking the position of senior vice president for communications with the first-place Arizona Diamondbacks. Posted September 12, 2011 9:08 PM
The former Dodger's wife called police Monday and said he slapped her face during an argument. Posted September 12, 2011 8:55 PM
Tears, candles and a moving display as each player from the Minsk team knelt at a photo of a deceased counterpart, then skated a solitary puck the length of the ice. Posted September 8, 2011 10:39 PM
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Nice blog post on Ruslan Salei, the former Ducks player who died today in the Russia plane crash, Posted September 7, 2011 5:45 PM
Former Kings forward Pavol Demitra and former Ducks defenseman Ruslan Salei.were believed to be on the plane. Posted September 7, 2011 8:59 AM
Wesleyan biology professor Frederick M. Cohan and his Little League pals sat in the stands at Dodger Stadium on Sept. 9, 1965 and watched Koufax pitch a perfect game. Posted September 7, 2011 12:14 AM
On tonight's "Which Way, L.A.?" on KCRW, lawyer David Pettit of the Natural Resources Defense Council introduced his comments about AEG's bill in Sacramento by saying that he — and NRDC — want the downtown NFL stadium to be built. Posted September 6, 2011 9:13 PM
Sometimes Angels bench warmer Reggie Willits is now 30, has never stuck in the major leagues, and probably never will. Posted September 5, 2011 2:32 PM
Chip Jacobs, the co-author of "Smogtown: the Lung-Burning History of Pollution in Los Angeles," observes on Burke being partners with the world's worst air polluter. Posted September 5, 2011 2:08 PM
Grahame L. Jones, the Los Angeles Times' longtime soccer writer, was among the last of the 40-year newsroom presences. He began on the news side as a reporter and editor... Posted September 2, 2011 12:38 PM
There are the San Diego folks, who are protective of the Chargers, and then a broader problem: the rest of the state don't much like L.A. Posted September 2, 2011 9:11 AM
The Lakers' Ron Artest and former Clippers star Elton Brand are among the NBA players taking part in informal workouts this summer. Posted August 31, 2011 10:22 PM
He's actually Magic's second grandchild. Posted August 30, 2011 10:21 PM
Former Laker Javaris Crittenton was taken into custody tonight at John Wayne Airport in Orange County after checking in for a Delta Air Lines flight to Atlanta. Posted August 29, 2011 10:20 PM
The Dodgers have approximately two hitters on their roster who would be everyday players on a good team, and the one that isn't Matt Kemp appears to be burning his personal bridges. Posted August 29, 2011 1:45 AM
The Los Angeles corner of Twitter (and my email box) just lit up with the news. Posted August 26, 2011 9:03 PM
The court said Ron Artest of the Lakers can't change his name to Metta World Peace until he pays off his traffic warrants first. Posted August 26, 2011 12:56 PM
SI's Lee Jenkins has landed a major piece reconstructing the day when Bryan Stow was attacked at Dodger Stadium, and analyzing how it became such a big story both for Dodger fans and the culture. Posted August 25, 2011 1:48 PM
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Former NBA columnist's comments on earlier sports deadlines are interesting, Posted August 19, 2011 9:55 AM
In testimony this morning in federal court, the head of a company that handles merchandise for the Dodgers says this season's actual turnstile count at Dodger Stadium (not the bogus number the team announces) will be between 2.2 and 2.3 million. Posted August 16, 2011 11:08 AM
Diana Nyad was almost 24 hours into her Cuba to Florida swim and losing the battle with the Gulf Stream. An inside look. Posted August 11, 2011 1:10 AM
Nyad was vomiting when she was pulled onto her support boat at 12:45 a.m. Eastern time on Tuesday. Posted August 8, 2011 10:37 PM
On my trip to Seattle, my hotel room window looked out at the baseball stadium. We got to our seats in five minutes. Posted August 8, 2011 10:25 PM
Nyad, the KCRW columnist and extreme swimmer, played "Reveille" on a bugle then at 4:45 p.m. L.A. time plunged into a Havana marina to begin swimming from Cuba to Florida. Posted August 7, 2011 8:21 PM
Avery, who plays the role of agitator in hockey and has been run off a couple of teams by his own teammates, was arrested this morning on suspicion of battery against a police officer. He has since been released. Posted August 5, 2011 11:54 AM
The paper's award-winning pro basketball writer sent along this write-up of his experience going into the Times to check out after 32 years in Sports. Posted August 5, 2011 10:49 AM
No official word on cause of death, but police believe it was natural causes. Posted August 3, 2011 3:06 PM
Actually, he was well down the list, which was topped by businessman Malcolm Glazer. Posted August 2, 2011 8:00 AM
Matthew Lee, who was with Stow for the Dodgers home opener and had been considered an important witness, died Sunday after an allergic reaction to nuts. Posted August 1, 2011 3:58 PM
When dealing with pro football, don't ever assume anything. Posted August 1, 2011 1:31 PM
There's nothing like a late-season trading deadline to separate baseball's haves and have-nots. Posted August 1, 2011 8:06 AM
He calls the arrest "regrettable," but also defends the decision to bring in Ramirez. Posted August 1, 2011 7:49 AM
Don't expect too many surprises at City Hall. Posted July 29, 2011 11:22 AM
Authorities are investigating Hideki Irabu's death as an apparent suicide and hanging. Posted July 28, 2011 5:24 PM
You have to wonder whether it's worth all the time, effort and political maneuvering. Posted July 28, 2011 8:22 AM
Does Billy Bob Barnett want to protect the citizens of Los Angeles, or is this political payback? You decide. Posted July 25, 2011 1:46 AM
There never was any physical evidence linking Giovanni Ramirez to Dodger Stadium or the beating of Giants fan Bryan Stow, just weak eyewitness IDs, says an L.A. Times story. Then... Posted July 23, 2011 8:21 PM
Prosecutors today charged two Rialto fathers, Louie Sanchez, 29, and Marvin Norwood, 30, with felony mayhem, assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury and battery with serious bodily injury in connection with the opening day attack on Giants fan Bryan Stow at Dodger Stadium. Posted July 22, 2011 6:19 PM
Bert Blyleven, Pat Gillick and blogger Rich Lederer will stand up at the baseball Hall of Fame in upstate New York. Posted July 22, 2011 5:53 PM
This week's photos of Lakers center Andrew Bynum parking in a disabled spot weren't the first time he's been caught. Posted July 21, 2011 10:26 PM
The L.A. Times story saying Giovanni Ramirez is off the hook in the Bryan Stow beating is attributed to an unnamed law enforcement source Posted July 21, 2011 10:18 PM
Whether Garcetti can deliver on any of the conditions is an open question, but here is his letter addressed to CAO Miguel Santana and the council's legislative analyst, Gerry Miller. Posted July 20, 2011 11:03 AM
Lakers center Andrew Bynum was videotaped parking his BMW across two marked disabled spots at the Bristol Farms store in Westchester. Posted July 19, 2011 10:36 AM
Lance Armstrong's new legal team, led by John W. Keker of San Francisco, has filed a brief alleging the government has been leaking damaging information to "60 Minutes" and others about the former bicycling champion. Posted July 18, 2011 8:20 AM
Eddie North-Hager spotted this sign under a display of Dodgers bobbleheads at King of New York Pizza in Koreatown. Posted July 13, 2011 8:54 PM
Basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar cried when Walter O'Malley's Dodgers left Brooklyn, and he's not much happier about Frank McCourt's team now. Posted July 6, 2011 11:23 PM
With tonight's defeat, the Dodgers now have reached 50 losses at the earliest date in any of the team's seasons since 1979. Posted July 5, 2011 10:29 PM
The Dodgers are in last place on July 4, and the media pile on. Posted July 4, 2011 1:33 PM
The Dodgers and Angels have played each other many times in inter-league play. But tonight's game in Anaheim is the first time they will face each other in a game that counts while both teams wear L.A. on their caps. Posted July 1, 2011 4:52 PM
Boston Globe columnist Bob Ryan says the happiest thing for a Boston sports fan these days is that Frank McCourt is L.A.'s problem now. Posted June 30, 2011 12:22 PM
Bob Daly, the Dodgers' managing partner when Frank McCourt got to town, rues the day. Posted June 28, 2011 9:58 PM
In their first game as a legally bankrupt club, the Dodgers on the field went out and just had some fun tonight against the Minnesota Twins Posted June 27, 2011 11:11 PM
Jeff Blair, a columnist in Toronto, briefs readers of the Globe and Mail on WTF's going on down in Los Angeles. Posted June 27, 2011 10:43 PM
Baseball commissioner Bud Selig released a statement in reaction to today's bankruptcy filing by the Dodgers. Posted June 27, 2011 2:26 PM
Make that "very, very sad," says the woman who as a young city council member in the 1950s played a key role in closing the deal to bring the Dodgers from Brooklyn to Los Angeles. Posted June 27, 2011 10:35 AM
The Dodgers' bankruptcy filing this morning lists Manny Ramirez as the club's leading creditor, owed $21 million. Posted June 27, 2011 8:23 AM
Civic leader Steve Soboroff was brought in as vice chairman of the Dodgers two months ago and became, for a short time, Frank McCourt's most vociferous public defender. Posted June 25, 2011 8:17 PM
In papers filed in L.A. Superior Court, the Laker requests to change his name to Metta World Peace. Posted June 24, 2011 8:27 AM
Former L.A. Times sportswriter Lonnie White has posted a remarkable first-person story for Fox Sports disclosing for the first time how he accepted a brown bag with $5,000 cash — and took a total of $14,000 — while he was a star wide receiver and kick returner for the Trojans in the 1980s. Posted June 22, 2011 6:40 PM
Guarded good news out of San Francisco on Bryan Stow, the victim of that brutal assault at Dodger Stadium on this season's opening day. Posted June 22, 2011 1:13 PM
Many kudos on baseball websites today for blogger Larry Behrendt's detailing of the case against Dodgers owner Frank McCourt. Posted June 20, 2011 10:38 PM
As Mark noted earlier at LA Biz Observed, baseball commissioner Bud Selig has rejected Frank McCourt's longterm deal with Fox Sports for the future broadcast rights to Dodgers games. Here's a statement from lawyer Steve Susman on behalf of McCourt Posted June 20, 2011 5:34 PM
Scott Jones, an Australian, and Alex Thomas, a Canadian, had been at the Stanley Cup finals seventh game and were caught in the post-loss rioting in downtown Vancouver. Posted June 17, 2011 9:54 AM
Frank and Jamie McCourt have reached a divorce settlement, according to three people familiar with the case, says the LAT's Bill Shaikin. They are in court this morning to inform... Posted June 17, 2011 8:51 AM
Superior Court Judge Scott Gordon on Thursday rescinded his finding that Frank and Jamie McCourt were at an impasse in their settlement talks, and he set a hearing for later today to determine if a deal had been reached. Posted June 17, 2011 12:28 AM
Tyler Hamilton, the former bike racer who said on "60 Minutes" that he took banned substances with then-teammate Lance Armstrong and knew of a positive drug test that was covered up, had words with Armstrong at a bar in Aspen on Saturday night. Posted June 15, 2011 12:36 AM
As part of the deal NBC agreed to with the International Olympic Committee last week, NBC says it will start with the 2014 Olympics to make every event available live on one platform or another. Posted June 12, 2011 10:01 PM
A season after seeming to lose his focus, the Dodgers' Matt Kemp leads the National League in home runs. Posted June 12, 2011 8:35 PM
The L.A. Times has been reporting all weekend that anonymous "law enforcement sources" are contradicting NBC 4's report that blood stains on a Dodgers jersey match Bryan Stow's blood. Posted June 12, 2011 6:58 PM
NBC 4 reports tonight that police have a jersey with blood stains that was dropped off at a cleaners. Posted June 10, 2011 6:44 PM
Ron Rapoport, the author and former sportswriter and columnist, stops in as an LA Observed visiting blogger on the occasion of Dick Ebersol leaving NBC and the network getting the rights to keep airing (on delay) the Olympic Games. Posted June 9, 2011 9:28 AM
Todd DeStefano, who resigned in January as the Coliseum Commission's long-time events manager, "collected tens of thousands of dollars in private payments from liquor and soft drink companies, television and... Posted June 8, 2011 11:32 PM
Kathy Kohner-Zuckerman, Gidget herself, will be a guest of honor at Saturday's Santa Monica Pier Paddleboard Race and Ocean Festival. Posted June 8, 2011 9:43 PM
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Mayor names new DOT head, stadium suspect stays in custody, Greuel on TV, James Arness dies and more. Posted June 3, 2011 6:06 PM
Outposts will drop from the L.A. Times blogroll due to "committee" decision, blogger Kelly Burgess says in her final post. Posted June 2, 2011 4:30 PM
Armstrong's lawyers reportedly demanded that "60 Minutes" make an on-air apology for last month's report, and called the story "extraordinarily shoddy to the point of being reckless and unprofessional, or a vicious hit-and-run job." Posted June 1, 2011 11:11 PM
Shaquille O'Neal announced his retirement from basketball today, via the social media tool Tout: "We did it. Nineteen years baby." Posted June 1, 2011 9:05 PM
Los Angeles-based Bill Simmons is "the most prominent sportswriter in America," this Sunday's New York Times Magazine says in a profile pegged to Simmons getting a ton of ESPN cash to headline his own website. Posted June 1, 2011 4:23 PM
Harvey Araton's February column in the New York Times about the spring training friendship between Yogi Berra and former Yankees pitcher Ron Guidry is heading to bookshelves. Posted May 31, 2011 6:24 PM
Bryant is "one of the best ever" and his role will not change under the Lakers new offense, coach Mike Brown said at his introductory presser today in El Segundo. Posted May 31, 2011 6:15 PM
Jim Buss, the son of Lakers owner Jerry Buss, sat down with the Times' T.J. Simers to do damage control about the hiring of Mike Brown as coach. Posted May 29, 2011 12:31 AM
When a fire broke out tonight at Dodger Stadium, fans joked about Frank McCourt burning the place down for the insurance. Posted May 28, 2011 11:58 PM
Gil Scott-Heron, Jeff Conaway, Margo Dydek, Irene Gilbert, Don Kubly, Dana Brand, Tom West. Posted May 28, 2011 12:30 PM
Pretty badly. Mark Heisler, the L.A. Times' longtime NBA writer, isn't impressed by the growing role of Jerry Buss' son, Jim, or his pick of Brown to coach Kobe Bryant. Posted May 27, 2011 4:53 PM
McCourt needs to pay out about $9.8 million to avoid baseball stepping in. The bill goes up next month when Manny Ramirez has to be paid. Posted May 25, 2011 11:29 PM
Authorities are using a parole hold to keep Giovanni Ramirez in custody, without criminal charges, while the police investigation continues. Posted May 24, 2011 8:45 PM
The beating victim's family will sue today in L.A. Superior Court, the Daily Journal says in a story. Posted May 24, 2011 9:27 AM
The Robert Redford myth that refuses to die, this time in the Los Angeles Times. Posted May 23, 2011 8:38 AM
Actually, tonight's "60 Minutes" says it's the testimony of Lance Armstrong's former teammate and confidante, Tyler Hamilton, that threatens to rewrite the story of bike racing and its biggest American legend. Posted May 22, 2011 8:34 PM
OK, the statement shapers got their work done in time for the LAPD to announce this afternoon they have formally arrested a 31-year-old man in the Bryan Stow beating. Posted May 22, 2011 5:31 PM
A suspect was extracted from an East Hollywood apartment building in a SWAT operation this morning, the LAPD says. Posted May 22, 2011 11:22 AM
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says he's moved on from the Lakers. At least one letter writer has moved on from him. Posted May 21, 2011 1:48 PM
Lewis Brown played high school ball for Verbum Dei and starred for the UNLV team in Las Vegas. The 6-11 former center has been living on the streets of Los Angeles for ten years. Posted May 19, 2011 5:08 PM
She will apparently send her lawyers to court tomorrow to argue that ex-husband Frank McCourt has endangered the value of the Dodgers, and set her up for a big loss should Commissioner Bud Selig seize the club. Posted May 18, 2011 8:28 PM
Inland empire columnist David Allen got to Monday night's Dodgers game in the second inning and left in the eighth, but he can say he successfully took MetroLink and the Union Station shuttle. Posted May 18, 2011 9:31 AM
We first told you about Roger Guenveur Smith's one-man show, which traces its roots to the summer day in 1965 when San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal conked Dodgers catcher John Roseboro's head with a bat, back in 2009. Posted May 17, 2011 5:40 PM
The Northern California paramedic severely injured in a beating at Dodger Stadium in March was flown from Burbnank today. Posted May 16, 2011 6:08 PM
The Angels' home plate celebration last May 29 of Kendrys Morales' game-winning grand-slam home run must be the most costly walk-off party in the history of pro sports. Posted May 11, 2011 9:40 PM
He goes out as one of the most interesting — and most successful — sports figures we've ever had in L.A. Posted May 11, 2011 9:15 PM
Andrew Bynum's dumb elbow to the upper body of Dallas guard J.J. Barea in the Lakers' final playoff game will cost him $702,272, including the five-game suspension and a $25,000 for taking off his jersey as he left the court. Posted May 10, 2011 5:00 PM
Final score 122-86. The Lakers are swept out of the NBA playoffs by the Dallas Mavericks, and manage to look unclassy doing it. Posted May 8, 2011 3:24 PM
Andre Ethier went 0 for 4 Saturday night against Mets pitchers, ending his quest for the longest hitting streak in Dodgers history. They lost 4-2 to the Mets.... Posted May 7, 2011 7:27 PM
No NBA team has come back from a three-game deficit in the playoffs, according to the TV broadcast. Posted May 6, 2011 9:14 PM
That gives him the second-longest hitting streak in Dodgers history, L.A. or Brooklyn. Former centerfielder Willie Davis holds the top spot at 31 games. Posted May 6, 2011 6:02 PM
Dodgers owner apologizes for untrue comments about Tom Scheiifer, MLB's monitor at Dodger Stadium. Posted May 6, 2011 9:32 AM
The Giants fan who was beaten into a coma in the Dodger Stadium parking lot has been experiencing major seizures. Posted May 5, 2011 6:38 PM
It's not very often that you hear a guest on KPCC's "Airtalk" get almost snarky with host Larry Mantle, but these are desperate times at Dodger Stadium. Posted May 5, 2011 5:51 PM
Final score tonight: Dallas 93, Lakers 81. Posted May 4, 2011 10:07 PM
Frank McCourt took questions on ESPN 710 AM on Tuesday. On Wednesday morning he'll be on KTLA. Posted May 3, 2011 11:57 PM
It's hard to imagine anyone close to the nexus of L.A. fashion and celebrity not being familiar with James Goldstein, the older (shall we say) man who dresses in python skin suits and hats and who has been a fixture for years at Lakers games and around the edges of the L.A. fashion scene. Posted May 2, 2011 11:25 PM
The Lakers eliminated the New Orleans Hornets 98-80 and will open the second round against Dallas at home on Monday. Posted April 28, 2011 10:53 PM
After his Dodgers picked up a nice win in Florida, Frank McCourt met with baseball officials in New York and came out swinging in remarks to reporters. Posted April 27, 2011 11:48 PM
The Kings were eliminated from the NHL playoffs by the San Jose Sharks on Monday night, so the hockey season in SoCal is officially over. Posted April 26, 2011 12:26 AM
Frank McCourt's path back to civic grace is tough to see because in screwing up the Dodgers he didn't just disappoint, he offended. Posted April 25, 2011 6:10 PM
Actually, that day will be Monday for game 6 of the Stanley Cup playoffs round. Posted April 23, 2011 11:53 PM
I was quoted on camera in the "NBC Nightly News" story about the Dodgers mess Saturday, plus other news of the day. Posted April 23, 2011 11:43 PM
Analysis and reaction as Frank McCourt gears up to fight baseball's decision to take control of the Dodgers. Posted April 22, 2011 12:39 AM
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The Dodgers just released a statement from Frank McCourt. Short and sweet. Posted April 20, 2011 9:55 PM
Man, so many wrinkles and angles and reactions to the stunning news that baseball has taken over control of the Dodgers from Frank McCourt. Posted April 20, 2011 8:20 PM
"Pursuant to my authority as Commissioner, I informed Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt today that I will appoint a representative to oversee all aspects of the business and the day-to-day operations of the Club." Posted April 20, 2011 2:36 PM
That's how Fox Sports announcer Patrick O'Neal summed up tonight's L.A. Kings game. Posted April 19, 2011 10:52 PM
Jerry Sands, the outfield prospect the Dodgers called up hoping he can add a little spark to the lineup, stroked a double to right field in his first time up in the major leagues. Posted April 18, 2011 11:23 PM
The San Francisco Giants fan who was severely beaten outside Dodger Stadium was placed back in a medically induced coma after suffering seizures Saturday. Posted April 18, 2011 4:53 PM
The New Orleans Hornets came into L.A. and humbled the defending champions. Posted April 18, 2011 12:08 AM
Underdogs for a reason and already down one game to none, the Kings played perhaps their best game of the season and tied their Stanley Cup playoffs series against San Jose. Posted April 16, 2011 11:45 PM
Bill Shaikin of the L.A. Times says Frank McCourt borrowed $30 million from Fox to cover the Dodgers' first payday on Friday. Posted April 16, 2011 10:57 PM
City News Service now says there were 46 tickets written by the LAPD and no arrests at last night's game. Posted April 15, 2011 10:05 AM
As part of the response to the Bryan Stow beating, the Dodgers had been thinking about whether to exclude alcohol from the half-price promotions offered at six day games this season. Posted April 13, 2011 5:13 PM
The suit against the Dodgers' top McCourt-in-residence, by the Boston-based law firm that made the big gaffe enshrined in McCourt v. McCourt, "is the strangest damned thing to read," writes Gene Maddaus of the LA Weekly. Posted April 12, 2011 9:15 PM
Before the game in San Francisco, the Giants and Dodgers gathered on the field to stand for a moment of silence in honor of injured fan Bryan Stow. Then the players spoke to the fans. Posted April 11, 2011 8:59 PM
The county Board of Supervisors might just have some surprise jurisdiction over AEG's plan for a football stadium next to Staples Center, a Times reporter found. Posted April 10, 2011 10:45 PM
Stay away from Chavez Ravine on these half-price beer days, says Oscar Garza. Posted April 8, 2011 5:21 PM
It appears that Manny Ramirez got caught on a drug test again this spring. Facing a 100-game suspension, he retired from the Tampa Bay Rays. Posted April 8, 2011 2:04 PM
It's confirmation, if you needed any, that the beating of a Giants fan and the spreading perception of a violent tone at the stadium is a big issue that City Hall and the Dodgers hope to contain. Posted April 8, 2011 12:50 PM
It's hard to know whether ex-LAPD chief William Bratton and Kroll, where he is chairman, will be actual security advisers or they are there as Frank McCourt's latest in a series of image consultants. Posted April 6, 2011 8:40 PM
Los Angeles and San Francisco leaders issue a joint statement, but will it be enough to assure fans who are leery of Dodger Stadium violence? Posted April 3, 2011 8:22 PM
Archbishop Jose Gomez and Cardinal Juan Luis Cipriani of Lima, Peru visited Lakers practice this week for chats and pictures with Pau Gasol, Kobe Bryant and Phil Jackson. Posted April 2, 2011 2:21 PM
Today at Dodger Stadium, all was sunshine and warm breezes. Plus a media note. Posted March 31, 2011 11:49 PM
Zito, who has a home in the Hollywood Hills, was taken to Cedars-Sinai after a two-car crash tonight near Sunset Blvd. and Sunset Plaza Drive. He was released from the hospital. Posted March 30, 2011 11:37 PM
Bloomberg moved a story tonight saying that AEG's financial guarantee to the city on the NFL stadium the company wants to build near L.A. Live "falls short" of the assurances offered on Staples Center 13 years ago. Posted March 29, 2011 11:42 PM
If AEG gets the go-ahead to build its NFL stadium and events center on the footprint of the existing Los Angeles Convention Center, L.A.-based Gensler will be the designer. Posted March 25, 2011 12:44 PM
ESPN Los Angeles discovers the Woodley Park cricket field in the Sepulveda Dam Basin, "a Shangri-La to cricketers around the world." Posted March 22, 2011 9:37 AM
Markos Geneti of Ethiopia, running his first marathon, set a course record 2 hours, 6 minutes and 35 seconds. It's the fastest marathon ever run in California and the second fastest in the world this year. Posted March 20, 2011 2:57 PM
Times columnist Steve Lopez plays TV reporter on tonight's "SoCal Connected" on KCET for a story billed as a look at the politics of bringing the NFL back to a new L.A. stadium. Posted March 9, 2011 11:59 PM
The Dodgers' assistant general manager has been talked up through the years as a viable candidate to be the first woman to run a major league team's baseball side. She'll go work for Joe Torre at Major League Baseball. Posted March 8, 2011 5:21 PM
Ralph Branca met Duke Snider in the spring of 1947, when they were both trying to make the Brooklyn Dodgers club. It was the year that Jackie Robinson was being... Posted March 7, 2011 12:59 AM
Shuttles between Union Station and Dodger Stadium will begin with the March 28 exhibition game. Buses will run 90 minutes before games and 45 minutes after the final out. Dodger... Posted March 4, 2011 4:58 PM
Michael Fanter is tall and hairy and looks enough like Pau Gasol, especially when he wears a Lakers jersey, that he's been turning heads. Posted March 2, 2011 6:22 PM
The tennis star had treatment last week at Cedars-Sinai, and on Monday was treated on an emergency basis for a related hematoma. Posted March 2, 2011 5:44 PM
Yesterday was turf-laying day at Dodger Stadium. Posted March 2, 2011 5:16 PM
Jane Russell is probably best known as the busty actress whose cleavage Howard Hughes exploited so flagrantly in "The Outlaw." Her life story, though, runs through several other prominent Los Angeles threads. Posted February 28, 2011 4:58 PM
The Dodgers' all-time leader in home runs and runs batted in and a Hall of Fame icon of the 1950s died this morning in Escondido. Snider grew up in the Los Angeles area and starred at Compton High School. Posted February 27, 2011 12:51 PM
Venues being considered include Staples Center, Honda Center, the Sports Arena — plus Ontario, Bakersfield and San Diego. Posted February 25, 2011 12:25 PM
They will get back Mo Williams and Jamario Moon, sources tell ESPN and LAT's Lisa Dillman. Posted February 24, 2011 12:08 AM
Caltech broke its 310-game losing streak with a one-point win tonight over rival Occidental in the final game of the season. It's the Beavers' first basketball win in the conference since, oh, 1985. Posted February 22, 2011 10:11 PM
Coliseum manager out, Villaraigosa appoints to the DWP commission and more. Posted February 15, 2011 6:26 PM
In a story exploring the bios of the group appointed by Mayor Villaraigosa to report to him on the wisdom of AEG's downtown stadium, the Associated Press's Jacob Adelman cuts to the chase right in the lede. Posted February 8, 2011 7:00 PM
AEG chief Tim Leiweke kept to the us versus them message in remarks today to reporters asking him about public doubts over his company's NFL stadium plans for Downtown. Posted February 8, 2011 1:28 PM
'm getting used to the idea that there might be a football stadium dropped behind Staples Center, but if Phil Anschutz and friends want Angelenos to buy into the idea, they better come up with some better assurances — and drop the classless us versus them attacks. Posted February 7, 2011 6:02 PM
Tim Leiweke met this week with Speaker John Perez, and with labor's backing for Farmers Field I have to bet Perez will give the Anschutz company whatever it wants. Posted February 1, 2011 11:32 PM
The biggest political threat to the AEG stadium deal might be skepticism among die-hard Angelenos (and sports fans) who have heard it all promised before. Posted February 1, 2011 6:54 PM
Pardon my mixed sports metaphors. After this morning's pep rally for the Downtown NFL football stadium, Mayor Villaraigosa announced the members of a "blue ribbon commission" to evaluate the proposal... Posted February 1, 2011 4:51 PM
Mark's right over at LA Biz Observed. AEG's stadium show this morning, officially to announce the naming of Farmers Field but more importantly staged to make the downtown NFL stadium... Posted February 1, 2011 12:30 PM
Phil Anschutz' football stadium at L.A. Live would be called Farmers Field under a $700 million naming-rights deal with Farmers Insurance to be announced tomorrow. Posted January 31, 2011 6:44 PM
After a procedural gathering of the city's most fortunate lawyers — those with a piece of the McCourts divorce proceedings — a couple of things became clear. Posted January 25, 2011 11:34 AM
In writing about Dodger Stadium's turf being converted to a Supercross course last weekend (while the baseball groundskeeper sounded like he wanted to cry), Daily News sports columnist Tom Hoffarth threw around some cultural stereotypes. They noticed. Posted January 24, 2011 11:55 PM
Gretzky's milestone birthday will be noted with some wistfulness in Canada, where they have been following his feats since he was about four. He's also the top pro athlete in any sport to play for an L.A. team. Posted January 23, 2011 9:50 PM
Thirty minutes before Bert Blyleven's Hall of Fame election became public, he called L.A. blogger Rich Lederer with the news. The two later met in Florida. Posted January 21, 2011 11:02 AM
Troubled ex-Dodger Milton Bradley looks to be in trouble again. He was booked into the Van Nuys jail today on suspicion of making criminal threats, reportedly involving a woman in... Posted January 18, 2011 9:56 PM
Clippers rookie phenom Blake Griffin schooled the Lakers Sunday night at Staples Center, a game won by the Clips 99-92. Posted January 17, 2011 12:14 AM
Jamie McCourt, who gets substantial ammunition to argue that she remains co-owner of the Dodgers, also shared the same room today as Roz Wyman, the former City Council member who played a key role in bringing the Brooklyn Dodgers to Los Angeles. Posted January 14, 2011 2:23 PM
The Miami Heat came to town on a 13-game road win streak. They had LeBron James and friends, and they were playing the Clippers. Clips win 111-105. Posted January 12, 2011 10:34 PM
Bunch of developments in the campaign by AEG's Tim Leiweke to rush through approval of a football stadium next to Staples Center and, he hopes, secure an NFL team to play there before Ed Roski's proposed stadium in Industry gets one. Posted January 9, 2011 8:30 PM
The Giants will come to Dodger Stadium and open the 2011 season against the Dodgers on Thursday, March 31. Posted January 6, 2011 12:00 PM
Ex-Angel pitcher Bert Blyleven was elected today to the baseball Hall of Fame, and he has Los Angeles blogger Rich Lederer to thank for it. Posted January 5, 2011 11:50 AM
The Lakers continued their funk with a blowout loss to the Memphis Grizzlies tonight. As the game wound down, KCAL and ESPN radio sportscaster John Ireland tweeted: "Never heard the Lakers booed this loudly at home." Posted January 2, 2011 9:12 PM
In her KCRW column airing tonight at 6:44, swimmer Diana Nyad calls the late documentarian Bud Greenspan "my long-time, dear friend...and he was far and away THE number one mentor in my career." Posted December 30, 2010 1:47 PM
Steve Greenberg notes that today is the 75th birthday of Sandy Koufax. Posted December 30, 2010 11:15 AM
US Weekly reports "exclusively" that the Dodgers can have their centerfielder back this coming season. Posted December 28, 2010 10:48 AM
The blogger at Bottom of the Fourth was invited to join his roommates' holiday tradition of commemorating some big Jewish event in gingerbread. He chose Sandy Koufax' 1965 perfect game against the Cubs at Dodger Stadium. Posted December 22, 2010 1:30 PM
The county's Department of Mental Health released a public service announcement yesterday that stars the Lakers' Ron Artest urging people to seek help. Posted December 22, 2010 11:12 AM
The Kings' press box crowd is mourning the death of their friend Graig Woodburn, a Los Angeles attorney who by night covered the Kings and Ducks for the Riverside Press-Enterprise, Associated Press and The Sporting News. Posted December 20, 2010 8:14 PM
If the three competing designs for Phil Anschutz's downtown football stadium were an NFL division, LAT architecture critic Christopher Hawthorne says "they'd be the NFC West." Posted December 16, 2010 7:56 AM
Right about now, at 5 p.m., AEG is formally unveiling prospective designs for the Downtown stadium it wants to build in place of the Convention Center's West Hall. Posted December 15, 2010 4:59 PM
Which team do you think expects to win more games next season? Posted December 14, 2010 11:40 PM
Current TV has a new docu-series coming next year called "4th and Forever," on the football program at Long Beach Poly — the U.S. high school that has sent... Posted December 14, 2010 12:11 AM
Two experienced downtown planners from Michigan and Florida argue on the Times op-ed page that fooitball stadiums tend to be a bad choice for downtowns. Posted December 12, 2010 9:03 PM
ESPN's Rick Reilly spent a day tooling around L.A. in Ron Artest's Cadillac Escalade, talking about the Lakers, therapy, and a bunch of other things. Posted December 12, 2010 7:59 PM
ports architects HKS and HNTB and L.A. Live designer Gensler are the three finalists to plan the stadium, says Sports Business Journal. Posted December 9, 2010 11:22 PM
The ex-first baseman with the checkered financial record said he has assembled a group of three to five investors from the business and entertainment communities, all "deeply rooted in Southern California." Posted December 9, 2010 8:55 AM
The Angels made outfielder Carl Crawford their top free-agent target this baseball winter, but he has signed tonight with the Boston Red Sox. Posted December 8, 2010 10:11 PM
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ESPN reporter Molly Knight is the first to tweet from today's hearing that the judge has sided with Jamie McCourt and thrown out the disputed marital agreement with Frank McCourt. Posted December 7, 2010 8:57 AM
Going on the air in about 20 minutes to talk about AEG's proposal for a Downtown football stadium. The piece airs at 6:44 p.m. (my usual Monday spot) and is... Posted December 6, 2010 6:24 PM
And with that, the Pac-10 is history. Posted December 4, 2010 10:40 PM
I guess our NFL stadium item this morning sparked some media followup. Posted December 1, 2010 4:33 PM
All of a sudden, the intrigue swirling around AEG's wishes to build a football and soccer stadium in place of part of the Los Angeles Convention Center has gotten more interesting. Posted December 1, 2010 9:42 AM
Jose Rodriguez, Harold Katz and Danny McDevitt. Posted November 24, 2010 12:35 AM
A documentary called "Out: The Glenn Burke Story" aired last night on Bay Area television. Posted November 11, 2010 5:05 PM
The Harvard economics graduate who figured in the Michael Lewis book "Moneyball" will be a VP for the Mets. Posted November 8, 2010 10:57 PM
This weekend in Toronto, U.S. Olympic champion Cammi Granato joined Canadian legend Angela James as the first women received in the Hockey Hall of Fame. They picked up their rings... Posted November 8, 2010 5:25 PM
Another East Los Angeles Classic is in the books. Posted November 5, 2010 9:56 PM
With the L.A. Kings' 1-0 win tonight, they remained the top team in the National Hockey League. Which makes the sports report by Jim Hill tonight on Channel 2 that much more ragged. Posted November 5, 2010 12:58 AM
Anderson was the first baseball manager to win World Series titles in both leagues, with the Reds and Tigers. He played ball at Dorsey High School. Posted November 4, 2010 3:22 PM
Gov. Schwarzenegger's tweeter just posted a pic of the governor congratulating the world champion San Francisco Giants. Posted November 3, 2010 2:20 PM
Steve Cooley is going ahead with plans to host 20 or so big contributors in a luxury suite for tonight's Lakers-Kings game in Sacramento. Posted November 3, 2010 2:12 PM
The San Francisco Giants won their first World Series tonight on a clutch three-run home run by a new Bay Area hitting star, Edgar Renteria. Posted November 1, 2010 7:50 PM
With a 4-0 win pitched by rookie lefthander Madison Bumgarner, the Giants are one victory away from their first World Series championship since coming west with the Dodgers in 1958. Posted October 31, 2010 10:12 PM
Here's the trailer for ESPN's Fernando Nation, the 30 for 30 documentary directed by Cruz Angeles that debuted tonight. Posted October 26, 2010 10:45 PM
With the McCourts wearing out their civic welcome, Councilwoman Janice Hahn's public ownership idea being possibly the worst idea in the history of municipal ideas, and a certain ex-jock in the market to buy something, artist Stuart Rapeport has a suggestion for a new owner of the Los Angeles Dodgers. Posted October 20, 2010 4:28 PM
A day after selling his 4.5% share of the Lakers to L.A. billionaire Patrick Soon-Shiong, Magic Johnson reportedly has divested his interest in 105 Starbucks franchises. Posted October 19, 2010 11:21 PM
This sentiment from L.A. Times columnist (and former Sports Editor) Bill Dwyre would have been unthinkable before the McCourt era at Dodger Stadium. Posted October 19, 2010 11:10 PM
ESPN's Dodger Thoughts blogger, Jon Weisman, ties together his adoration of John Wooden, his mixed feelings on the play of Matt Kemp since becoming Rihanna's boyfriend and some self-reflection on his life into a readable closer on the Dodgers season. Posted October 18, 2010 12:40 AM
In the 90s inland, 80s at the coast — the kind of day when some fans attending tonight's Los Angeles Kings home opener will likely show up in shorts and flip-flops. Posted October 12, 2010 4:39 PM
Dennis Mannion had been the guy the McCourts brought in to have an actual executive in charge of the team. He came in as chief operating officer in 2007 and... Posted October 8, 2010 10:07 AM
Juan Pierre, now on the White Sox, reached base far more than any Dodger hitter — and with a better on-base percentage than Matt Kemp, James Loney or Casey Blake. Posted October 3, 2010 4:04 PM
Stylish blogger Joe Posnanski came to town and spent a little time with Vin Scully at the stadium, and more time listening on the radio as he rode around Los Angeles, and spins out a a nice piece exploring the origins and meaning of L.A. culture's most enduring relationship. Posted October 1, 2010 12:51 PM
Steve Soboroff and Frank McCourt share a PR rep and a mutual admiration, apparently. Posted September 26, 2010 11:34 PM
NBC is airing tonight's football game between the Jets and the Dolphins with some production graphics in Spanish. Those graphics and some commercials in Spanish have apparently sparked a bunch of complaints to KNBC. Posted September 26, 2010 7:58 PM
Once Larry Silverstein gets done testifying, the two sides will go into mediation, reports say. Posted September 21, 2010 11:56 PM
Joshua Fisher, the 24-year-old University of Minnesota Law School student who started DodgerDivorce.com, is back in town covering McCourt v. McCourt, which resumed today with Jamie on the stand. Posted September 20, 2010 1:45 PM
If Frank McCourt does manage to own the Dodgers for a long time to come, as he vows, he's in for some rough pubic relations. He's already lost the Times, if Plaschke's column is any indication. Posted September 19, 2010 11:47 PM
Dodgers manager Joe Torre will announce this afternoon that he is stepping down at the end of the season, to be replaced by Don Mattingly. Posted September 17, 2010 12:30 PM
Nobody wants the McCourts to keep the Dodgers, it's beginning to sound like — including Bud Selig and Peter O'Malley. Posted September 16, 2010 10:39 PM
The City Attorney's charges against Mariotti stem from a domestic violence incident last month with his girlfriend at their condo in Venice. Posted September 13, 2010 4:15 PM
Sofia Coppola's "Somewhere," a forthcoming film set mostly at the Chateau Marmont, won the top Golden Lion prize at the Venice Film Festival. LAPD chief Charlie Beck said the... Posted September 12, 2010 11:51 PM
If this is really how the McCourts and the Dodgers are viewed around the sport, the media in this town — and ESPN at all levels — has done one horrendous job of reporting up to now. Posted September 9, 2010 10:54 PM
One of the websites that was selling Los Doyers t-shirts before the Dodgers trademarked the phrase has taken its merchandise off the market. Latin Lingo Clothing got a cease-and-desist letter... Posted September 9, 2010 1:01 PM
In August the Dodgers filed paperwork to trademark the use of the phrase Los Doyers on clothing and souvenirs for sale and in media. Posted September 7, 2010 9:10 AM
Molly Knight says that Joan Didion speaks for her on why L.A. has it all over New York, fo rher. Posted September 6, 2010 10:40 PM
In today's Los Angeles Daily Journal, reporter Gabe Friedman says that "as federal prosecutors ramp up the high-profile criminal investigation into alleged doping by U.S. pro cyclists, including seven-time Tour de France winner Lance Armstrong, two questions have stumped observers: Why here? Why now?" Posted September 3, 2010 11:19 AM
Might be fun for somebody to go back and look at which print columnists and which Dodgers-hypers in broadcast media bought into the myth that the McCourts were a return to O'Malley-style family ownership. Posted September 2, 2010 3:26 PM
When Manny Ramirez met the media for his debut moment with his new Chicago team, the graduate of New York public schools answered in Spanish through coach Joey Cora. Posted September 2, 2010 2:54 PM
The Times used an outside accountant to look at the mounds of financial information that has become publicly available as part of the Frank and Jamie McCourt divorce action. The... Posted September 1, 2010 11:45 PM
Bob Timmermann likes to keep score when he's at a baseball game, but Monday night at Dodger Stadium — horrors — both of his pens ran dry. Twitter to the rescue. Posted September 1, 2010 12:08 AM
With Mannywood a thing of the past, artist Stuart Rapeport suggests a new use for the left field corner seats. Jamiewood! Day 2 of McCourt vs. McCourt: Law student Josh... Posted August 31, 2010 12:10 PM
Photographers Jonathan Alcorn (top) and Ted Soqui (bottom) were both out waiting for Frank and Jamie McCourt to come and go from court on Monday.. Posted August 30, 2010 11:29 PM
Perusing the baseball media reaction to Manny Ramirez leaving the Dodgers via ejection and waiver claim, after three trips to the disabled list this season and being unofficially benched by manager Joe Torre. Posted August 30, 2010 2:26 PM
ESPN and the Times are reporting, based on an unnamed baseball source, that the Dodgers will send Manny Ramirez to the Chicago White Sox on a waiver claim Monday. If... Posted August 29, 2010 7:06 PM
Frank McCourt brought more than himself when he accepted an award from the Los Angeles Police Protective League’s charitable Eagle & Badge Foundation. Posted August 27, 2010 9:32 AM
Elin Nordegren broke her silence on the end of her marriage to Tiger Woods in an exclusive interview that runs in Friday's People magazine. Posted August 25, 2010 1:58 PM
Both ESPN and the L.A. Times have confirmed with baseball sources that the Dodgers have asked waivers on Manny Ramirez. Posted August 25, 2010 1:46 PM
Sports Illustrated.com has posted a gallery of photos spanning the career of Vin Scully, who the magazine notes was the youngest announcer to work a World Series at age 25 in 1953. Posted August 24, 2010 1:12 PM
He wouldn't say on Saturday what he will announce, but the 82-year-old voice of the Dodgers since the Brooklyn days dropped a hint to TJ Simers: "I know what I... Posted August 21, 2010 10:38 PM
Jerry Crowe's Text Messages From Press Row column in the L.A. Times Sports section. Posted August 20, 2010 11:53 AM
In a brief filed today, Jamie's lawyers produce a version of the famed marriage agreement that specifically says the Dodgers were not to be solely owned by Frank in the event of divorce. Posted August 19, 2010 1:39 PM
Speculation continues about Manny Ramirez packing his bags even before the Dodgers are officially out of the pennant race. Today: Buster Olney of ESPN. Posted August 17, 2010 5:45 PM
The Dodgers surprise a lot of people and give a young prospect the team's biggest signing bonus ever. Posted August 17, 2010 12:29 AM
Alan Abrahamson, who covered the Olympics and international sports for the Los Angeles Times and NBC, has started 3 Wire Sports in Los Angeles. Posted August 15, 2010 11:23 PM
It turns out that the Frank and Jamie McCourt Dodgers, which own the stadium and parking lots and pay their property taxes under various company names, charge themselves $14 million in annual rent. Posted August 15, 2010 9:42 PM
On a bad day all around, the story is in the ledes. Posted August 12, 2010 11:45 PM
Angel Stadium announcer David Courtney just posted this photo. Posted August 11, 2010 12:14 PM
The Dodgers are playing about as well as you'd expect from a team that devotes three of its lineup spots to Jamey Carroll, Ryan Theriot and Scott Podsednik — and... Posted August 4, 2010 8:08 PM
Jeanie Buss, the longtime girlfriend of Lakers coach Phil Jackson, tweeted just now about a text message from her man. Posted August 3, 2010 3:30 PM
Ronaldo just finished up his first press conference at UCLA's Morgan Center. At least 15 TV cameras were there, more than a dozen still photogs rushed the stage when he came out, and a roomful of media types fired courteous questions. Posted July 29, 2010 1:26 PM
Ed Roski, the real estate developer who wants to build an NFL stadium in the City of Industry, made his first comments to the media since a rival stadium project emerged in Downtown Los Angeles. Posted July 26, 2010 10:29 AM
It turns out the Dodgers' Jonathan Broxton should not have been forced to leave last night's game when substitute manager Don Mattingly visited the pitching mound twice during the same inning. Posted July 21, 2010 4:54 PM
Dodger Thoughts has the whole sordid story: "If you thought the collapse against the Yankees was a nightmare, if Sunday's meltdown at St. Louis brought you to your knees, those games have nothing on tonight's 7-5 loss." Posted July 20, 2010 10:40 PM
The former Trojan and L.A. Rams quarterback takes over from Mike Garrett on Aug. 3, the same day that USC's new president takes office. Posted July 20, 2010 1:59 PM
Big-time scorer Ilya Kovalchuk is going back to the New Jersey Devils, spurning a lengthy courtship by the Los Angeles Kings. Posted July 19, 2010 11:12 AM
This shaming won't be soon forgotten. "This one was tough, very tough," Dodgers manager Joe Torre said after Sunday's loss. Posted July 18, 2010 10:55 PM
"They hated each other from the moment they set foot in Los Angeles," a former high-ranking Dodgers official tells ESPN the Magazine. Good. Stuff. Posted July 14, 2010 8:58 PM
“I will always remember George Steinbrenner as a passionate man, a tough boss, a true visionary, a great humanitarian and a dear friend," Dodgers manager Joe Torre says in a... Posted July 13, 2010 12:57 PM
Who knows whether that whole trip to Miami thing was a bluff, but Fisher announced he's signing a three-year deal to remain with the Lakers. "I have decided to continue... Posted July 12, 2010 3:51 PM
The New York Times has a story about Howard Sunkin, the Dodgers senior vice president for public affairs, being paid $401,395 in 2007 by the Dodgers Dream Foundation — at a time when the team charity's budget was only $1.6 million. Posted July 9, 2010 1:13 PM
Visualeditors.com gathers up a bunch of today's LeBron James pages and nominates the Cleveland Plain Dealer's as best of show. Note the pointer to James' fingers and the label... Posted July 9, 2010 1:03 PM
Count me in for one last season, the Lakers coach says after giving it some thought in Montana. Posted July 1, 2010 2:35 PM
The powwow with AEG representatives included Speaker John Perez, Senate leader Darrell Steinberg and Maria Elena Durazo, head of the L.A. County Federation of Labor, James Wagner reports in the San Gabriel Valley Tribune. Posted July 1, 2010 11:17 AM
NBC's "Today" show packaged footage of Abby Sunderland at home in Thousand Oaks with a lengthy interview this morning at the studios in New York. Posted June 30, 2010 2:32 PM
Abby Sunderland told her news conference in Marina del Rey this morning that, now that she's home, she'll concentrate on school and getting her driver's licen Posted June 29, 2010 11:15 AM
The teenaged sailor arrived home in Thousand Oaks late Monday evening. Posted June 29, 2010 12:05 AM
Fans of the Jacksonville Jaguars have reacted to talk of their team fleeing west by launching a website called No Way L.A. Posted June 28, 2010 5:38 PM
For Yankees weekend the Dodgers began plying media and blogs with photos of celebrities in the field-level seats. Posted June 28, 2010 1:00 PM
With the Yankees in town this weekend a much better team than the Dodgers, the LAT's Bill Plaschke observed that Dodgers' manager Joe Torre looked a little older. Posted June 27, 2010 11:55 PM
Argentina sent Mexico home with a 3-1 win this afternoon, after Germany had taken care of England 4-1. Posted June 27, 2010 1:42 PM
While Abby Sunderland was on his boat chugging toward Reunion for more than a week, says Jacques Deshayes, the 16-year-old had her own cabin and access to a phone and mailbox. She sat up on the bridge sometimes, but she also slept a lot and after dinner would return to her room and they wouldn't see her again until 8 in the morning. Posted June 26, 2010 11:46 PM
Ghana scored five minutes in. Then in the 61st minute, Landon Donovan comes through again, on a penalty kick. Match is tied at the end of injury time. Now into... Posted June 26, 2010 12:27 PM
Sailor Abby Sunderland arrived on the French island of Reunion a few minutes ago. She was greeted by her brother Zac then met the media briefly before the two teenagers... Posted June 25, 2010 9:47 PM
News out of Reunion tonight is that the French vessel carrying 16-year-old Abby Sunderland will dock at 8:30 Saturday morning local time. (Reunion is 11 hours ahead of Los Angeles.) Posted June 24, 2010 11:58 PM
Xan Brooks, the Guardian's associate editor who made a new name for himself live-blogging yesterday's mega-match at Wimbledon, is making his mark today in Los Angeles media. Posted June 24, 2010 12:44 PM
lgerians (apparently) in Paris rampaged after today's U.S. victory in the World Cup, smashing windows and igniting or flipping over 20 cars. Posted June 23, 2010 3:23 PM
Xan Brooks began blogging for The Guardian from Wimbledon at 10:45 a.m. His last post of the day went up at 9:25 p.m., showing definite signs of distress: Last thoughts... Posted June 23, 2010 2:23 PM
The leader of the Ducks' Stanley Cup winning team just announced he's done. Nice 20-year hockey career. Posted June 22, 2010 1:44 PM
On page 12 of today's Lakers special section in the L.A. Times, J.C, Penney congratulates the Lakers and offers a free replica of the championship trophy to customers who make a $50 purchase of NBA merchandise. Posted June 21, 2010 9:50 AM
This unedited and graphic video released by the Los Angeles Fire Department shows the crowd in Downtown attacking that taxi after the Lakers championship victory. Posted June 21, 2010 12:55 AM
The reason Rafael Furcal left the Dodgers a couple of days ago was to be with his father, who had suffered serious injuries when kicked by a horse on the family farm in the Dominican Republic. Posted June 21, 2010 12:15 AM
Here's how the mayor's press release glosses over that the Coliseum won't be opened at the end of Monday's Lakers championship parade. The Coliseum party, open free to anyone who could get in — the place filled to capacity — was the high point of last year's celebration. Posted June 18, 2010 11:44 AM
Best part of the NBA Finals, says ESPN's J.A. Adande.... Posted June 18, 2010 8:56 AM
U.S. earns a draw with Slovenia. Posted June 18, 2010 8:26 AM
At least 38 were arrested, an LAPD officer and a sheriff's deputy were hurt, an unknown number of others were injured, three vehicle fires were set, and some shops and restaurants had their windows broken or stuff stolen. Posted June 18, 2010 8:15 AM
This year's parade to celebrate the Lakers' NBA championship is scheduled to begin Monday at 11 a.m. at Staples Center, according to media reports. Posted June 17, 2010 11:15 PM
Ron Artest handled the first three quarters, then Kobe and Gasol took over. Rough, intense game. Posted June 17, 2010 8:55 PM
So much for the LAPD's threat to check tickets as a measure to keep Lakers fans from crowding the Staples Center neighborhood. Posted June 17, 2010 4:18 PM
Geez, a guy can't even go to lunch in this town without Mexico beating France 2-0. Posted June 17, 2010 2:52 PM
The New York Times reports today that Dodgers outfielder Manny Ramirez and his representatives twice approached baseball last season about permission to use a banned drug that would boost his testosterone levels. Posted June 17, 2010 11:58 AM
Meg Whitman's first general election campaign ads targeting Latinos will run later today during the Mexico-France match at the World Cup. Posted June 17, 2010 12:57 AM
Mayor Villaraigosa just met the media under the stands at Staples Center and confirmed he will attend Game 7 of the NBA Finals, but declined to say in what official capacity he would perform. Posted June 16, 2010 5:25 PM
A representative, presumably from Ventura County, met with Abby Sunderland at home for two hours before she sailed from Marina del Rey on her attempt to circle the world. More from blogger Pete Thomas, who sailed with Sunderland. Posted June 16, 2010 1:15 PM
Ed Roski Jr. and Majestic Realty Co. have hired Ben Porritt, who was a spokesman for John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign, to help work on the project to build an NFL stadium in the City of Industry. Posted June 16, 2010 11:05 AM
If the Lakers grab the NBA championship in Thursday's game 7 TV ratings extravaganza against the Celtics, coach Phil Jackson will get a $2 million performance bonus, ESPN says citing "NBA coaching sources." Posted June 16, 2010 10:49 AM
Game 6 began with a rafter-shaking Star-Spangled Banner from Christina Aguilera, then the Lakers began sinking everything and getting to most of the loose balls. Posted June 15, 2010 7:11 PM
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Times beat writer Dylan Hernandez had an amusing exchange with the Dodgers manager about Vladimir Shpunt, the Russian healer who may have been paid six figures by Frank and Jamie McCourt to beam good vibes toward Dodger Stadium from his TV room in suburban Boston. Posted June 14, 2010 12:35 AM
In her latest blog post from the French fishing ship Ile de la Reunion, Abby Sunderland said she's in awe of the efforts undertaken to rescue her in the southern Indian Ocean. Posted June 13, 2010 11:33 PM
The Lakers missed nine free throws, including two by Ron Artest in the final minute with the Celtics guarding a five point lead. Posted June 13, 2010 7:50 PM
After an All-Pro career in the NFL with the Los Angeles Rams, Richter went on to run Riverside International Raceway and Auto Club Speedw Posted June 12, 2010 3:44 PM
Over in Rustenburg, South Africa, Liverpool FC captain Steven Gerrard scored in the fourth minute of the big World Cup showdown between the U.S. and England. "It's not good to fall behind that early -- in any game let alone the first game of the World Cup," ABC's announcer said. Posted June 12, 2010 11:59 AM
Sixteen-year-old sailor Abby Sunderland was rescued this morning by a French fishing vessel, in a delicate operation that included overhead aircraft and the French captain falling into the sea. Posted June 12, 2010 9:58 AM
Everyone who works for us should have their heads examined, say Frank and Jamie, by way of eTrueSports. Posted June 11, 2010 6:24 PM
Abby Sunderland's blog carries an update from her team, passing along the account of Australian Search and Rescue volunteers who flew over the Indian Ocean today and found her... Posted June 11, 2010 1:27 PM
Rafael Marquez scored in the 79th minute to tie South Africa. Posted June 11, 2010 10:05 AM
The Qantas jet spotted Abby Sunderland about 11:30 last night (PDT) and made radio contact. Posted June 11, 2010 7:16 AM
A family spokesman did most of the talking at today's briefing in Thousand Oaks about Abby Sunderland, who's sending distress signals from the south Indian Ocean. Posted June 10, 2010 9:52 PM
Game 5 is Sunday in Boston. The Celtics bench outscored the Lakers bench two to one. Posted June 10, 2010 8:44 PM
Abby Sunderland's mother tells the Ventura County Star that the emergency beacon signals from the Indian Ocean give them hope she is still on her boat, and that a third beacon that would indicate the boat is submerged has not gone ofF. Posted June 10, 2010 2:35 PM
Jump over to vevo.com to watch the concert live from Soweto/Johannesberg. Posted June 10, 2010 12:48 PM
Abby Sunderland, the Thousand Oaks teenager who is sailing around the world, set off her emergency beacon in the Indian Oce Posted June 10, 2010 11:32 AM
The Blackhawks' winning the Stanley Cup doesn't quite leave the Los Angeles Kings as the NHL team that has has gone the longest without a championship. Just close. Posted June 9, 2010 10:45 PM
Frank says it was Jamie's idea. She says it was Frank's idea. Doesn't matter! Posted June 9, 2010 10:18 PM
The NCAA has given USC a two-year bowl ban and stripped more than 20 football scholarships after a four-year investigation into allegations involving Reggie Bush and O.J. Mayo, the L.A. Times' Gary Klein reports. Posted June 9, 2010 9:57 PM
Kind of touch and go there at the end, but the Lakers regain the series lead 2-1. Posted June 8, 2010 8:50 PM
The issue goes on sale June 9. Posted June 8, 2010 10:31 AM
Flowers and messages honoring John Wooden were piled up this morning at The Bruin sculpture on campus at UCLA. Posted June 7, 2010 1:10 PM
Tight game until the end, but the Celtics managed to deal the Lakers their first home loss of this postseason. Posted June 6, 2010 7:58 PM
UCLA's legendary coach dies of natural causes at age 99. Posted June 4, 2010 11:42 PM
UCLA's statement this morning says "Coach John Wooden is resting comfortably at Ronald Reagan UCLA Medical Center and spent a peaceful night. Posted June 4, 2010 9:02 AM
The news has been full of reports about legendary UCLA coach John Wooden since mid-afternoon, some of them grossly erroneous. Here's what UCLA can say. Posted June 3, 2010 11:33 PM
Lakers fans had some fun tonight. Posted June 3, 2010 8:54 PM
A journeyman pitcher named Armando Galarraga today pitched just the 21st perfect game ever and the first by a player for the Detroit Tigers &mdash but he wuz robbed. Posted June 2, 2010 11:10 PM
You know the Dodgers had to be thinking about Kendry Morales when they carefully, but enthusiastically, met Matt Kemp at home plate tonight. Posted June 1, 2010 11:54 PM
Ted Green's post for the Los Angeles Times sports blog called Your Guide to Hating the Celtics used to say of Paul Pierce, "By the way, Pierce's idea of a fun night is going clubbing and getting stabbed. Good times." Posted June 1, 2010 10:55 AM
The Lakers almost gave back a 17-point lead in the fourth period, but Kobe Bryant took charge (again) when they needed him most. Posted May 29, 2010 8:25 PM
If the Lakers get past the Phoenix Suns, they will open the finals against Boston next Thursday at Staples Center. Final 96-84.... Posted May 28, 2010 8:17 PM
The Lakers' Ron Artest missed two three-point attempts in the final minute or so, the second miss coming with a Lakers lead and a full 24-second clock. Then, after the Suns tied the game with three seconds to go and Kobe missed his final shot, Artest grabbed the rebound and sank the game-winner. Posted May 27, 2010 8:49 PM
Ross and David Newhan have found a blog niche they should have all to themselves. Posted May 27, 2010 11:25 AM
The Suns' bench went crazy with three-pointers, and Kobe's 38 for the Lakers weren't enough. Posted May 25, 2010 8:33 PM
The Lakers led by 1 with under nine minutes to play, then Phoenix kicked into high gear while L.A. kept missing key shots. Posted May 23, 2010 9:50 PM
Lima died today at home in Los Angeles, reportedly of a heart attack. A native of the Dominican Republic, Lima won 89 games in thirteen seasons as a pitcher, including in 2004 the Dodgers' first port-season win in more than a decade. Posted May 23, 2010 12:59 PM
Daily News sports columnist Tom Hoffarth was not amused to come across the installation activity on Hollywood Boulevard for ESPN's Chris Berman. Posted May 20, 2010 10:59 PM
A burst of points in the fourth period lets the Lakers pull away 124-112. Next game is Sunday in Phoenix. Posted May 19, 2010 8:36 PM
Tonight is Andre Ethier Bobblehead Night at Dodger Stadium, but the featured bobblehead won't be playing. Posted May 18, 2010 4:24 PM
Much chortling in Orange County, apparently, after Vanessa Bryant showed up at last night's Lakers game wearing a shirt with the political slogan "Do I Look Illegal? Posted May 18, 2010 1:37 PM
Final score 128-107, with Kobe Bryant scoring 40 points. Steve Nash had just 13 for Phoenix. Posted May 17, 2010 8:36 PM
Andre Ethier leads the league in batting average, home runs (tie) and RBI — all reasons that the Dodgers are hoping his broken finger isn't serious. Posted May 16, 2010 10:53 PM
The first City council member who cites this poll as evidence of public support for a Downtown football stadium should be laughed out of the horseshoe. Posted May 10, 2010 10:46 PM
Next up are the Phoenix Suns, but not until a week from tonight. Time for Kobe to rest his finger. Posted May 10, 2010 10:10 PM
Saturday night's game at Dodger Stadium had a 7 p.m. start time, did not go into extra innings, and only lasted 2:52 according to the box score. Yet it wasn't in the Times. Posted May 9, 2010 10:42 PM
Saturday night's game came down to the last four seconds, with the Jazz taking the final shot. But Deron Williams missed and the Lakers prevailed 111-110. Posted May 8, 2010 8:04 PM
Los Angeles 111, Utah 103. ESPN recap.... Posted May 4, 2010 10:29 PM
Legendary Detroit Tigers broadcaster Ernie Harwell died today at age 92. Legendary Dodgers broadcaster Vin Scully takes to the air for tonight's game against the Brewers on KCAL Channel 9... Posted May 4, 2010 5:55 PM
For tomorrow's NBA playoff game, the Phoenix Suns will wear jerseys that rephrase the team name into Spanish: Los Suns. Posted May 4, 2010 4:20 PM
When was the last time a fashion spread in the L.A. Times got this much attention? Kobe as ET. Posted May 4, 2010 3:53 PM
Guerrero has gone sober (though just for three years) and wants a job in baseball, preferably with the Dodgers. Posted May 4, 2010 11:58 AM
The L.A. Times Magazine has an online array of photos from yesterday's fashion spread that accompanies a Q&A with Kobe Bryant. They call it White Hot. Posted May 3, 2010 12:35 PM
The Lakers gave up the lead late in the fourth period, but Pau Gasol, Lamar Odom and Kobe Bryant turned on the jets and got it back. Posted May 2, 2010 3:18 PM
"What a finish. What a finish!" announcer Joel Meyers exclaimed as the Lakers squeak past the Oklahoma City Thunder 95-94. Posted April 30, 2010 9:20 PM
The Dodgers lost 7-3 today in New York, meaning they were swept by the Mets and have the worst won-loss record in the league. Posted April 28, 2010 6:50 PM
In the new issue of Los Angeles magazine, David Davis talks to and about Pau Gasol i Sáez, the Lakers resident Spaniard. Posted April 27, 2010 3:21 PM
Bill Dwyre and Nancy Rommelmann on having second thoughts about a story. Posted April 25, 2010 11:53 PM
The Los Angeles Kings' season ended tonight, not unexpectedly, with a loss to the quicker, hungrier and more experienced Vancouver Canucks. Posted April 25, 2010 6:52 PM
The 16-year-old sailor from Thousand Oaks posted Saturday that she will pull into port in Cape Town, South Africa for repairs, ending her bid to sail around the world without stopping — but not her solo sail. Posted April 25, 2010 1:55 AM
Would you believe 110-89? The Thunder tie the series 2-2, with play returning back to L.A. Posted April 24, 2010 9:25 PM
They fold 7-2 with two goaltender changes — and the goalies weren't even the problem — as the Canucks go up 3-2 in the series. The Canadians can clinch the... Posted April 24, 2010 12:11 AM
Dodgers lose their hottest hitter for two weeks, and a look at the Kings-Canucks series for KCRW. Posted April 23, 2010 3:51 PM
HL commissioner Gary Bettman just met the press underneath the stands at Staples Center and was asked about the prospects for staging one of the league's popular New Year's Day outdoor games here. His answer — that he assumed the suggestion was a joke — was surprising. Posted April 21, 2010 6:59 PM
This morning's Los Angeles Times carries a correction to that Op-Ed piece from last week that stated the LA logo on the Dodgers cap sprang from team executives and a... Posted April 21, 2010 1:51 AM
Jeanie Buss of the Lakers tweeted the photo of the newest statue outside Staples Center, with a short and sweet caption: Chickie baby. Posted April 20, 2010 6:06 PM
My take on the Kings' exciting playoff win last night was really just a sequence of quick observations. Brian Kennedy, my seatmate in the press box who covered the game... Posted April 20, 2010 2:00 PM
Fans came in jerseys dating back to the Marcel Dionne days (that would be the 1970s and 80s) ready to stomp and cheer at the first Stanley Cup playoff game... Posted April 19, 2010 8:04 PM
AEG's Tim Leiweke and sports mogul Casey Wasserman are considering reviving the NFL stadium plan they first aired eight years ago. Posted April 18, 2010 9:25 PM
The Lakers began their playoff run with an 87-79 victory over the Oklahoma City Thunder at Staples Center. Kobe led the way with 21 points, Pau Gasol 19. Posted April 18, 2010 8:20 PM
Some of today's printed Los Angeles Times editions carry no report on last night's Kings' playoff game, which started early about 7 p.m. and, though it went into overtime, ended with a Kings win at 10 p.m. — well within the Saturday night deadlines of previous years. Posted April 18, 2010 12:41 PM
Did Jimmy Hahn, the future mayor, design the Dodgers' LA logo as a 9-year-old? Or is the style decades older? We delve into the mystery. Posted April 16, 2010 1:40 AM
The Wall Street Journal's Hannah Karp informs the global audience that, with the Los Angeles Kings in the Stanley Cup playoffs for the first time in eight years, "there's a... Posted April 15, 2010 3:55 PM
Last night's Dodgers score didn't make it into this morning's Los Angeles Times Sports section, at least the printed version that many subscribers get — just as predicted when the... Posted April 15, 2010 9:25 AM
The Dodgers and the LAPD decided to crack down on parking lot partiers at yesterday's home opener. L.A. Times staff writer Carla Hall commits the story to video:... Posted April 14, 2010 11:53 AM
Jamie McCourt will be staying away from Dodger Stadium today, though she claims to be part owner. David Kipen has a fun Op-Ed piece on the origins of the interlaced... Posted April 13, 2010 9:15 AM
The Apple Pan and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar turn 63, plus Jackie Robinson and the Hollywood Freeway. Posted April 10, 2010 9:09 PM
ESPN's Bill Simmons has written an interesting column explaining the conversion of an old-school baseball writer (him) to the modern sabermetric analysis embraced by an increasing number of major league... Posted April 10, 2010 1:54 PM
Everyone was surprised when manager Joe Torre tapped natural #4 starter Vicente Padilla to be his opening day pitcher. Padilla, released last year by Texas, didn't disappoint the skeptics. He... Posted April 5, 2010 6:30 PM
TJ Simers devoted his Sunday column in the L.A. Times to calling out Kobe Bryant as surly, joyless and worse things, "basketball's version of Jeff Kent in so many ways."... Posted April 4, 2010 11:55 PM
For the first time since 2002, the Los Angeles Kings will play in the post-season. Posted April 4, 2010 8:15 PM
Kobe Bryant, Brian D'Arcy, Ron Kaye, John Forsyth and more. Posted April 2, 2010 5:15 PM
he 16-year-old from Thousand Oaks who is sailing solo around the world blogged this afternoon that she has passed around the tip of South America, and believes she's the youngest to ever sail alone around Cape Horn Posted March 31, 2010 9:58 PM
Boston and Fenway Park have the famous Jimmy Fund. Now eTrueSports.com thinks it's time for all of Los Angeles to get behind The Jamie Fund. Posted March 30, 2010 2:29 PM
With the principal combatants sitting at their respective tables, the lawyers are busy today doing their best to make the other McCourt look bad. Posted March 29, 2010 12:58 PM
Tina Dupuy at Fishbowl L.A. says the runners she has heard from had tons of horror stories about pre-race traffic, the course and the experience for runners after they finished the race. Especially the traffic. Posted March 23, 2010 11:15 PM
The Times got it wrong. The Dodgers' own website did too — misspelling the name of farmhand Jamie Hoffmann. Notice the two n's at the end of his name? New LA Observed contributor Bob Timmermann did, but then he would. Posted March 23, 2010 9:40 AM
Yeah, anybody who believed in the fairy tale that Eric Gagne would return to the Dodgers bullpen can move on now. He asked for and was given his release Sunday.... Posted March 22, 2010 12:23 AM
The Dodgers say that Vin Scully fell getting out of bed at home in Hidden Hills and was admitted Thursday night for observation at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center. Posted March 19, 2010 12:44 AM
On "Real Sports" at 10 p.m. on HBO, Bryant Gumbel talks to the country's two transgender baseball writers and reviews the story of the L.A. Times writer Christine Daniels. Posted March 16, 2010 8:12 PM
Galaxy midfielder David Beckham suffered a ruptured left Achilles' playing in Italy tonight for AC Milan, ending his quest to return to the World Cup and possibly his playing career. Posted March 14, 2010 9:22 PM
Saturday was opening day at the Encino Little League baseball diamonds, located at Hayvenhurst and Magnolia since 1954. John Scheibe, the author of "On the Road With Jim Murray: Baseball and the Summer of '79" and an editor in Sports at the L.A. Times, played there as a boy and returned for the annual ritual. Posted March 14, 2010 3:04 PM
A $300,000 grant from the South Coast Air Quality Management District will pay for free shuttle buses this season between the stadium and Union Station. The service was cancelled last season when neither the city nor the Dodgers wanted to pay for it. Posted March 12, 2010 11:33 AM
The newest LA Observed contributor, Bob Timmermann, has blogged about American and Japanese baseball, "The Prisoner," and every president of the United States. Posted March 11, 2010 10:35 PM
When the Rams were a big deal in Los Angeles, Olsen anchored their Fearsome Foursome defensive line. He went on to be longtime color commentator for NBC’s pro football and Rose Bowl telecasts, and a television actor on “Little House on the Prairie†and in his own series, “Father Murphy.†Posted March 11, 2010 11:35 AM
Sportswriter Bruce Jenkins in, of all places, the San Francisco Chronicle, recalls the late Dodgers centerfielder as the coolest of them all. Posted March 10, 2010 12:46 PM
He was a Dodger for three injury and cheers-filled seasons, but for this morning's announcement Garciaparra returned to the Red Sox on a one-day contract so he could say he retired with the team where the fans truly loved him. Posted March 10, 2010 11:27 AM
"The team has simply not made sufficient progress during Dunleavy’s seven-year tenure," says the Clippers' statement. Posted March 9, 2010 5:51 PM
Willie Davis, the Dodgers centerfielder through most of the 1960s who came out of Roosevelt High in Boyle Heights, was found dead today at home in Burbank. Posted March 9, 2010 1:15 PM
And cigars, too, when you're the gold medal-winning Canadian women. They celebrated on the ice with champagne, cigars and a couple of their players' children. Posted February 26, 2010 12:48 AM
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The running back died at a hospital in Attleboro, Mass., on Tuesday. The cause of death has not been reported. Posted February 24, 2010 1:06 PM
Deadspin's editor emeritus Will Leitch turns his spring training eye on the Dodgers and, by extension, Los Angeles. Posted February 23, 2010 11:55 PM
No sooner did the Dodgers secret plan for a long-term rise in ticket prices get out than the team unveiled an immediate jump in prices on low-end tickets. Posted February 23, 2010 1:14 AM
Manny Ramirez arrived at spring training today and, since his contract expires at the end of the season, told reporters he won't be a Dodger next year. Well, maybe he did. Posted February 22, 2010 11:32 AM
Higher ticket prices to see inferior teams, by design. Is that any way to run the Dodgers? Posted February 21, 2010 11:04 PM
SoCal hockey players were all over Sunday's hugely entertaining Olympics match won 5-3 by the U.S., especially the Kings' young defenseman Drew Doughty. Posted February 21, 2010 7:33 PM
El Segundo skater Evan Lysacek is the Olympiic champion. Posted February 18, 2010 11:05 PM
Just to add to Jon Weisman's admirably bristling take from this morning — "I want my kids to be like her" — Sports Illustrated's Joe Posnanski blogs his thoughts on the media's disappointment over snowboard champion Lindsey Jacobellis falling short of a medal. Posted February 17, 2010 6:06 PM
Twitter's feed of posts by verified Olympic athletes. Rife with spoiler alerts, including the one hidden after the jump. Some safe samples: ApoloOhno Catching womens skiing, mens halfpipe and cheering... Posted February 17, 2010 4:14 PM
Skater Evan Lysacek likes Joan's, while Jon Weisman says of snowboarder Linsey Jacobellis: "I want my kids to be like her." Posted February 17, 2010 12:23 PM
A name from the past, Eric Gagne, may show up in the Dodgers spring training camp. Posted February 16, 2010 7:35 PM
Noel Greenwood, the LATs retired Senior Editor, says the suggestion that earlier deadlines are an improvement is nonsense. Posted February 15, 2010 1:14 PM
Kings' defenseman Jack Johnson will be the first American-born NHL player to walk in the Opening Ceremonies at the Winter Olympics. Posted February 12, 2010 3:32 PM
Hard-working sports talk host Jim Rome is looking for writers or bloggers to "help grind content" for his TV and radio shows. Posted February 12, 2010 11:10 AM
Just to finish a thought from the weekend, the Kings lost tonight to the Ducks — ending their club-record winning streak at nine. Posted February 8, 2010 10:58 PM
After hearing complaints from readers, the L.A. Times made some fixes to its tinkering with the format last week. Apparently the readers also asked that the Times stop covering the Clippers, because Saturday night's game wasn't in the paper.. Posted February 8, 2010 10:32 PM
After several years as an afterthought in the sports world, the Los Angeles Kings have just won their franchise-record 9th game in a row. They did it the hard way this afternoon, falling behind 3-0 to an older, more talented team — the Detroit Red Wings — but came back to win 4-3 and send another sell-out crowd out onto the streets of Downtown raucous and happy. Posted February 6, 2010 3:58 PM
Bryant scored 44 tonight in Memphis to take over the franchise lead from West, but the Lakers lost by two. Posted February 1, 2010 8:20 PM
When ESPN staffed up its local operation in Los Angeles, it hired several staffers from the Daily News and Los Angeles Times. The result has been some promotions and hiring at those papers. Posted January 29, 2010 12:28 PM
The Dodgers blog by Variety TV writer-editor Jon Weisman that moved into the Los Angeles Times stable a year ago is going to ESPN. Posted January 28, 2010 11:08 AM
Choosing to give his first lengthy statements on the divorce and Dodgers future to MLB.com beat writer Ken Gurnick, Frank McCourt repeated what has been asserted out of the stadium all along. Posted January 15, 2010 10:44 AM
L.A. journalists Donnell Alexander and Neille Ilel helped co-produce an animated short on the amazing feat turned in by Pittsburgh Pirates pitcher Dock Ellis in 1970. Posted January 14, 2010 12:49 AM
ESPN columnist Rick Reilly began at the Los Angeles Times in the same year as his friend and sports colleague Mike Penner. Reilly and his wife helped Penner make the transition to a new identity as Christine Daniels. Posted January 13, 2010 5:14 PM
Professional skateboarder Mike Vallely was involved in that post-game fracas in the stands at the Honda Center in Anaheim after a Ducks match in November. Posted January 12, 2010 10:51 PM
Koufax is seldom seen at Dodger Stadium, let alone in Los Angeles. But on Feb. 27 he will sit on stage and chat with Dodgers manager Joe Torre and T.J. Simers at Nokia Theatre. Posted January 12, 2010 7:23 PM
Kiffin, who coached at Tennessee this year, is a former Oakland Raiders coach who was on the USC coaching staff from 2001-2005. Posted January 12, 2010 6:22 PM
McGwire, a former USC baseball star, said he regrets using performance enhancing drugs. He acknowledged their use during the 1998 season when he smashed the all-time record with 70 home... Posted January 11, 2010 5:52 PM
The USC football coach is taking the Seattle Seahawks coaching job. Posted January 11, 2010 8:02 AM
Times basketball columnist Mark Heisler floats an intriguing idea in today's column: it's within the realm of possibilities that James could get his upcoming free-agent riches from Donald Sterling and the Clippers. Posted January 10, 2010 1:59 PM
Baron Davis scored 25 as the Clippers continued their winning ways, now at five straight at home. Posted January 6, 2010 11:12 PM
Journalist Robert Niles says that national college football playoff that would replace the Rose Bowl game should also consider that it might end the Rose Parade. Posted January 6, 2010 6:47 PM
The Dodgers outfielder was snapped spending quality time with new girlfriend Rihanna in Cabo San Lucas. Posted January 5, 2010 11:30 PM
Channel 11's news at 10 p.m. opened tonight with five minutes of reporting and personal commentary about Rory Markas, the station's sportscaster who was discovered dead at home in Palmdale... Posted January 5, 2010 10:38 PM
Randy Johnson retires from baseball, and Bert Blyleven makes it in at least one Hall of Fame vote. Posted January 5, 2010 5:52 PM
Team spokesman Tim Mead says the voice of the Angels was found dead at his Palmdale home on Monday. Posted January 5, 2010 9:17 AM
Inside on the new LA Observed books page, the featured book of the week is "Los Angeles Lakers: 50 Amazing Years in the City of Angels," the first issue from... Posted January 4, 2010 10:47 PM
Phil Wallace got into the details of the Trojans' self-imposed sanctions at Native Intelligence, and also wonders whether it will be enough to keep the NCAA from coming down harder.... Posted January 3, 2010 10:23 PM
Baron Davis sinks the winner at the buzzer. 92-90. Think the fans made some noise out on Figueroa tonight?... Posted December 27, 2009 9:19 PM
ESPN's new Los Angeles website does have, as rumored, columnist J.A. Adande, plus former Daily News sports staffers Tony Jackson and Ramona Shelburne, Steve Mason and John Ireland from ESPN... Posted December 21, 2009 12:12 AM
Today is departure day for some of the Los Angeles Times staffers who were laid off this week or who retired and/or took buyouts. Arts reporter Suzanne Muchnic sent a... Posted December 18, 2009 4:56 PM
Superior Court commissioner Scott Gordon didn't give either side what they wanted and set a court date of March 29 to decide issues of spousal support and attorney’s fees in... Posted December 15, 2009 12:35 PM
Eric Spiegelman stopped in this afternoon at the Brooklyn Bagel Bakery at Beverly and Alvarado, picked up some bagels, cream cheese and coffee and noted the bill: $19.55. An homage... Posted December 12, 2009 4:24 PM
The statement on Tiger Woods' website says, in part, "After much soul searching, I have decided to take an indefinite break from professional golf. I need to focus my attention... Posted December 11, 2009 4:16 PM
Greg Long of San Clemente won "the Eddie," the big surf contest on the north shore of Hawaii. Here's the Register story from Waimea Bay. Also, the Register's Mike Goulding... Posted December 9, 2009 12:45 PM
When ESPN's new Los Angeles presence debuts Dec. 21, the network will be without baseball writer Peter Gammons. He's leaving to pursue other challenges and a lighter schedule.... Posted December 8, 2009 2:03 PM
The interviewer on Los Angeles Kings telecasts on Fox Sports West was stopped early Monday morning, allegedly for driving too slow on the 105 freeway. She was booked on suspicion... Posted December 8, 2009 1:51 PM
Roger Guenveur Smith was six years old and living in Los Angeles the summer day in 1965 when San Francisco Giants pitcher Juan Marichal conked Dodgers catcher John Roseboro over... Posted December 7, 2009 2:29 PM
Time Capsule Press was started last year by Narda Zacchino, a former top editor at the Los Angeles Times and San Francisco Chronicle, and Dickson Louie, an ex-LAT and Times... Posted December 6, 2009 9:36 PM
Online Editor Ryan Garfat is leaving the Daily News to be one of five editors working on ESPN's soon-to-launch Los Angeles site, working out of the L.A. Live newsroom downtown.... Posted December 2, 2009 3:17 PM
OK, not real! But going around. Credit unknown.... Posted December 2, 2009 9:47 AM
The sports giant said back in July it was coming to Los Angeles with a local news website, and now we know it will launch Dec. 21. "ESPN's launch of... Posted December 1, 2009 4:42 PM
Sportswriter Scott French was at the World Cup match in Pasadena in 1994 where Mike Penner first discovered soccer. The late L.A. Times sports writer bought a ball, started kicking... Posted November 30, 2009 2:15 PM
The Trojans dominated in a sloppy game by both sides, but what they'll be talking about for days (at least) is this: USC throwing a touchdown bomb one play after... Posted November 28, 2009 10:58 PM
Sad news at the Los Angeles Times website about one of their own. Mike Penner, the veteran sportswriter who in 2007 and '08 was known publicly as Christine Daniels, was... Posted November 28, 2009 11:44 AM
Frank McCourt's latest court filing in the case of McCourt v. McCourt makes for interesting reading, judging by the stories from John R. Emshwiller in the Wall Street Journal and... Posted November 27, 2009 12:20 PM
Rich Hammond, the ex-Daily News reporter hired by the Los Angeles Kings, has been the only journalist accompanying the team on most road trips. This week they're in western Canada,... Posted November 26, 2009 11:24 PM
Click to view larger. More by Steve Greenberg... Posted November 12, 2009 9:21 AM
Former tennis great Andre Agassi took his woe-is-he book tour tonight to NPR's Fresh Air with Terry Gross. Nice shout-out at the top of the segment for Los Angeles magazine... Posted November 11, 2009 9:20 PM
The ousted Dodgers CEO gave her first interview since the divorce papers were filed to Times columnist T.J. Simers. She said in the hour-long sit-down that she was never with... Posted November 10, 2009 10:17 AM
The Lakers' special coach and former great for the Lakers and UCLA made the media rounds Monday announcing that he is being treated for a rare form of leukemia. The... Posted November 10, 2009 9:35 AM
Video of the Kings' Luc Robitaiile speaking at his induction into the hockey Hall of Fame tonight in Canada. He didn't choke up until addressing his parents in French. Robitaille... Posted November 9, 2009 11:05 PM
The team isn't for sale — yet — and Cuban has some imposing conditions, but the owner of the NBA's Dallas Mavericks says, sure, he could see owning the Dodgers.... Posted November 9, 2009 3:26 PM
The Los Angeles Marathon has produced a Google map of the new course from Dodger Stadium to Santa Monica, and this animated version:... Posted November 9, 2009 9:15 AM
The Boston Globe on Sunday went with a front-page story on the McCourts saga. Included is skepticism about Jamie's claim that she didn't know what she was doing when she... Posted November 9, 2009 12:20 AM
Manny Ramirez has decided to take the $20 million and stay with the Dodgers next season, rather than opt out of his contract and look for work as a drug-tainted,... Posted November 6, 2009 5:59 PM
* Couple of updates after the jump Author Pat Jordan's profile of Frank and Jamie McCourt ran in the LAT Magazine and talked about their rough reception in Los Angeles... Posted November 5, 2009 1:18 PM
In court this morning, Jamie McCourt's bid to be immediately reinstated as CEO of the Dodgers was rejected. Frank McCourt's lawyer dismissed her former role as "ceremonial" anyway (something they... Posted November 5, 2009 11:35 AM
The media advisory has gone out for tomorrow's Game One of McCourt v. McCourt: no cameras, thanks to a ruling by Commissioner Scott Gordon. "Once again, we are seeing the... Posted November 4, 2009 4:05 PM
Renovation of the loge level at Dodger Stadium won't take place this winter, or as they're calling it around the stadium, the winter of the McCourts' discontent. For the second... Posted November 2, 2009 9:07 AM
Bill Shaikin went through the Frank and Jamie McCourt divorce filings, heard from the lawyers and turned up some interesting kernels that could loom larger in the legal fight that... Posted October 29, 2009 6:09 PM
The Dodgers have filed a friend-of-the-court legal brief siding (surprise) with Frank in the divorce proceedings with Jamie, and alleging that Jamie was fired from her $2 million-a-year job as... Posted October 28, 2009 3:49 PM
Jamie McCourt's divorce filing today says that she and Frank have a net worth of $1.2 billion, estimates the Dodgers are worth $800 million, says that they separated July 6,... Posted October 27, 2009 5:36 PM
Turns out that Jamie McCourt called in a 911 emergency on Sept. 5 because Frank McCourt turned up at their Holmby Hills home at 10 in the morning — while... Posted October 27, 2009 9:20 AM
I forgot to post last night about the Angels being eliminated in another flurry of errors. Luckily, Steve Greenberg steps up. For more of his LA Sketchbook, visit the archives.... Posted October 26, 2009 1:11 PM
TMZ has the letter in which Dodgers owner Frank McCourt fired the other owner, Jamie McCourt, as CEO of the team — citing "insubordination, non-responsiveness, failure to follow procedures, and... Posted October 23, 2009 10:17 PM
Sports Illustrated is reporting that the Dodgers' front-office drama has taken a new turn, with chairman Frank McCourt firing CEO and estranged wife Jamie. She "was fired within the last... Posted October 22, 2009 4:16 PM
They didn't look any better tonight, losing 10-4. The Phillies are the National League champions after eliminating the Dodgers for the second year in a row. This time, at least,... Posted October 21, 2009 8:49 PM
Oh man. Jonathan Broxton took a 4-3 lead into the 9th inning, gave up a walk, hit a batter, and served one up to former MVP Jimmy Rollins. Just like... Posted October 19, 2009 8:53 PM
Angels make it a 2-1 series on a Jeff Mathis double in the bottom of the 11th inning. Final score: 5-4. In Philadelphia: The Dodgers are down 2-0 to the... Posted October 19, 2009 5:35 PM
Man, that was ugly. The Phillies jumped all over Hiroki Kuroda in the first inning, chased him in the second, and ran up their most lopsided post-season victory in team... Posted October 18, 2009 9:42 PM
It was close, but the Dodgers eked out the win. Grrrreat start by Vicente Padilla, though Pedro Martinez was just a little bit better. The Dodgers bullpen was just a... Posted October 16, 2009 4:13 PM
Frank and Jamie McCourt were in their respective corners of the owners' box for the first pitch at Dodger Stadium, the LAT's Bill Plaschke tweets: One day after announcing their... Posted October 15, 2009 5:08 PM
In the last series, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa alternated between Jamie's and Frank's rows in the owners' box beside the dugout at Dodger Stadium. Which side of the new McCourt Ravine... Posted October 15, 2009 3:53 PM
Let's just get this out in the open: yes, the families and the affected employees are certain to feel pain and be in turmoil. But for the media in town,... Posted October 15, 2009 1:34 PM
Frank McCourt is the owner of the Dodgers and the team would not be put up for sale, his lawyer says in a story the Times posted at 1:58 a.m.*,... Posted October 15, 2009 8:57 AM
Fox Sports' Ken Rosenthal has the most detailed take on the separation of Frank and Jamie McCourt, citing "multiple major league sources" saying the McCourts "are in the middle of... Posted October 14, 2009 10:41 PM
Dodgers owners Frank and Jamie McCourt said tonight in a statement that they are separating. "This is a personal matter and they request that their privacy be respected,'' said the... Posted October 14, 2009 8:10 PM
The Dodgers will host the Phillies, starting Thursday at Dodger Stadium, in the league championship series. The Phillies eliminated Colorado tonight in Denver, setting up a replay of last year's... Posted October 12, 2009 11:21 PM
The Angels staged a Dodgers-like 9th-inning, two-out rally against Red Sox closer Jonathan Papelbon and won today 7-6. Vladimir Guerrero had the key hit, then closer Brian Fuentes shut down... Posted October 11, 2009 1:28 PM
The Dodgers' champagne didn't have to travel to any extra cities this time. Vicente Padilla pitched a great game and the Dodgers swept away the Cardinals in St. Louis this... Posted October 10, 2009 6:11 PM
The Dodgers' win over the Cardinals was especially thrilling — with two out in the 9th inning, the Cardinals up 2-1 and no one on base for the Dodgers, a... Posted October 8, 2009 10:51 PM
It was a four-hour monster in which the teams combined to leave 30 men on base, but in the end the Dodgers opened the post-season with a win over the... Posted October 7, 2009 11:54 PM
Click to enlarge. See more of editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg's contributions to LA Sketchbook in the archive.... Posted October 7, 2009 8:04 AM
After last night's flurry of hockey posts, a friend sent along this paean to the locker room speech given to the U.S. Olympic team in 1980, before the kids went... Posted October 4, 2009 2:26 PM
The 5-0 lead held up and for an hour the Dodgers have been spraying bubbly on each other and fans. The playoffs open Wednesday at Dodger Stadium, with the Cardinals... Posted October 3, 2009 11:30 PM
Gustavo Dudamel is making his long-awaited debut tonight at the Hollywood Bowl. The Dodgers are trying to avoid an epic collapse at the stadium. My choice of venues for tonight... Posted October 3, 2009 7:06 PM
The Dodgers lost again tonight and now lead the Rockies by just one game — L.A.'s smallest lead since April. The Rockies were 15 games behind the Dodgers in June,... Posted October 2, 2009 11:30 PM
LA Observed contributor Iris Schneider went along as Bruce Lisker went shopping at Target, which came to the Valley during the 26 years he was in prison for the murder... Posted October 2, 2009 4:42 PM
Just to finish the thought, the IOC selected Rio de Janeiro over Madrid (and earlier Chicago and Tokyo.) Here's Phil Wallace's advance handicapping of the race at Native Intelligence.... Posted October 2, 2009 9:57 AM
The Paley Center for Media in Beverly Hills unveiled its fall schedule, starting tonight with Wayne Gretzky, Bruce McNall and a showing of "Kings Ransom," a documentary by Peter Berg... Posted October 1, 2009 12:17 PM
One playoff-bound team, the Yankees, swept three from the Boston Red Sox this weekend to clinch the toughest division in baseball. The Dodgers, meanwhile, lost three of four to the... Posted September 28, 2009 5:08 PM
Just in time for football season. See more of LA Sketchbook by editorial cartoonist Steve Greenberg in the archive.... Posted September 28, 2009 9:07 AM
Sports teams everywhere are trying to figure out a way around the declining volume and quality of the free media they have long enjoyed. The Los Angeles Kings are adapting... Posted September 23, 2009 1:40 PM
Steve Hymon isn't the only recent media type who has taken up blogging about ice hockey. Talking Ducks: A Ladies Hockey Salon is by Orange Coast Magazine managing editor Rose... Posted September 21, 2009 12:10 AM
John Klima, the writer behind the website Baseball Beginnings, has written "Willie's Boys: The 1948 Birmingham Black Barons, The Last Negro League World Series, and the Making of a Baseball... Posted September 20, 2009 11:35 PM
What's really pathetic about her updated statement is that there will be folks out there who believe she means it this time. "I want to amend my press statement of... Posted September 14, 2009 11:14 AM
Response to Mark Whicker's tasteless sports column in the OC Register has been so brutal that he was forced to make a public apology on the newspaper's Web site The... Posted September 10, 2009 6:03 AM
Dodgers post-game broadcaster Ken Levine didn't enjoy this last road trip to Denver, it would appear. From his blog: Stayed at the Ritz-Carlton hotel downtown (or, as they call it... Posted September 1, 2009 9:52 AM
The Dodgers picked up Jim Thome and his 564 lifetime home runs — that's 23 more than Manny Ramirez — for a player to be named later. Thome has played... Posted August 31, 2009 10:51 PM
The Dodgers still have the best record in the National League technically, but they haven't been the best team for awhile now. Tonight they met the hottest team around, and... Posted August 26, 2009 12:14 AM
There were few boos after his drug suspension, but with the Dodgers losing most of their first-place lead the beat writers all note that Manny Ramirez was booed at home... Posted August 24, 2009 8:44 AM
Tribune Co. said today that it has an agreement to sell the Chicago Cubs and Wrigley Field to the Ricketts family, which is paying about $800 million. Chicago Tribune... Posted August 21, 2009 3:50 PM
How desperate are the Dodgers for pitchers? They have signed a righthander named Vicente Padilla who was cut this month by the Texas Rangers, a team trying to make the... Posted August 19, 2009 5:05 PM
A 25-year-old pitcher named Charlie Haeger made his Dodgers debut tonight — only his second major league start — and against the odds he done good. Not good enough, since... Posted August 17, 2009 10:51 PM
John Cherwa left the Los Angeles Times in 1995 to become sports editor of the Chicago Tribune. Most recently he has been in Orlando, but now he's returning to the... Posted August 17, 2009 4:46 PM
Andre Ethier ended a Dodgers game with a home run for the third time this season, and he leads the majors with five walk-off hits. "No, they never get old,"... Posted August 7, 2009 8:41 AM
With two out in the 8th inning, after the Dodgers scored their 17th run against Milwakuee pitchers, Vin Scully sighed and said, "You know, you would really like to see... Posted August 4, 2009 10:50 PM
Sportswriter Brian Dohn's Inside UCLA was one of the, if not the, highest traffic blogs in the Daily News stable. He announced there that he's moving to New Jersey. Fall... Posted August 3, 2009 11:05 PM
Lamar to sign a four-year deal for $33 million, J.A. Adande reports at ESPN. Broderick Turner at the LAT agrees. Dodgers note: They get lefty reliever George Sherrill for two... Posted July 30, 2009 3:02 PM
Manny Ramirez and his Boston Red Sox teammate David Ortiz were among the 100-plus major league players who tested positive for performance enhancing drugs in 2003, the New York Times... Posted July 30, 2009 10:28 AM
Vin Scully told Bill Plaschke tonight that if he feels OK this winter he'll come back to the Dodgers next season — his 61st — but then that's it. Retirement?... Posted July 28, 2009 9:55 PM
Not really. But Frank Coffey at eTrueSports has fun with the concept of a chain of shops where everybody can just be Manny. Noted: Time Warner Cable's official story is... Posted July 24, 2009 3:48 PM
Synthesizing the emails I've received and comments I've seen about Time Warner Cable cutting to commercial and missing Manny Ramirez's sensation of a home run last night, it sounds as... Posted July 23, 2009 11:24 AM
Manny Ramirez just hit his most dramatic home run as a Dodger, a first-pitch grand slam coming off the bench in a tie game on Manny bobble-head night — and... Posted July 22, 2009 9:29 PM
L.A. Times coverage of the Los Angeles Kings is the poster child in a Sports Business Journal examination of waning sports reportage in newspapers and how worried pro sports teams... Posted July 21, 2009 10:10 PM
Manny Ramirez was hit on the left hand by a pitch early in tonight's game at Dodger Stadium. He shook the hand and flexed his fingers for a few minutes,... Posted July 21, 2009 9:31 PM
I mentioned in last night's ESPN item that the Times was about to name a new editor for sports. It's Mike James, a veteran of the LAT's sports desk. The... Posted July 20, 2009 2:24 PM
The cable sports giant will announce plans Monday for a website devoted to covering Los Angeles sports teams. It has worked for ESPN in Chicago, but L.A. Times sports boss... Posted July 19, 2009 9:39 PM
Four minute LAO video: Young (mostly 17-20) not-yet-pro players in the Los Angeles Kings system came to L.A. this weekend for the team's summer prospects camp. They worked with the... Posted July 12, 2009 3:55 PM
Ex-Dodger Nomar Garciaparra took the field today in Boston for the first time since the 2004 trade that broke off one of the great sports love affairs. The Red Sox... Posted July 6, 2009 6:26 PM
Dodgers manager Joe Torre is on Fox Business Network today talking with David Asman about, of all things, the Yankees he used to manage. Some highlights from FBN: On Roger... Posted July 6, 2009 4:44 PM
Manny Ramirez rejoined the Dodgers tonight in San Diego, was greeted with a loud mix of boos and cheers when he came up in the first inning, and drew a... Posted July 3, 2009 8:00 PM
Bryant is expected to sign a three-year extension some time in July, the L.A. Times says, based on "a source close to Bryant."... Posted June 30, 2009 10:25 PM
The L.A. Galaxy's star Landon Donovan just put the American team up 2-nil over Brazil in the FIFA Confederations Cup final in South Africa. They have played just over 33... Posted June 28, 2009 12:06 PM
The Orange Line busway extension from Woodland Hills to Chatsworth will follow the route of old Southern Pacific railroad tracks that crossed the Valley starting in 1888. The trains carried... Posted June 25, 2009 10:57 PM
Wave columnist Betty Pleasant writes there was a dust-up at the Lakers victory parade when star Kobe Bryant refused to ride with Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa. She says: The cause of... Posted June 25, 2009 12:10 PM
The L.A. Kings' all-time leading scorer, and the NHL's highest-scoring left winger ever, was elected today to the sport's hall of fame. Robitaille, now the Kings' president of business operations,... Posted June 23, 2009 8:13 PM
The Times goes with 150,000 along the parade route and 80,000 in the Coliseum, where many were turned away. City News Service goes with 90,000 in the Coliseum and avoids... Posted June 17, 2009 2:32 PM
See more LA Sketchbook by Steve Greenberg in the archive. Click any cartoon to view bigger. The Lakers title is all about Kobe Bryant, says Phil Wallace at Native... Posted June 15, 2009 3:30 PM
Looks like over a thousand people are gathered in the Staples Center neighborhood right now, with some small fires being set in the street and quickly extinguished — including of... Posted June 14, 2009 8:53 PM
99-86 final. Lakers are NBA champs in 5 games. Phil Jackson has the most trophies of any NBA coach.... Posted June 14, 2009 7:39 PM
J. A. Adande Lacy J. Banks in the house for Game 5! Kareem Abdul-Jabbar I think Lakers will rise to the occasion. Lu Parker Go Lakers! Lots of game anticipation... Posted June 14, 2009 5:01 PM
Mike Florio, the fan who started Profootballtalk.com eight years ago, hits it big. NBC will announce Monday that is acquiring rights to PFT's content and will run it at the... Posted June 14, 2009 4:30 PM
Kobe misses everything at the end of the fourth, but Derek Fisher saves the day and the Lakers go on to win game 4 in overtime. They're up 3-1 in... Posted June 11, 2009 9:14 PM
That little impromptu Manny Ramirez media op in the clubhouse yesterday got the Dodgers in trouble with the baseball home office. The team was warned — without a fine —... Posted June 10, 2009 2:57 PM
When I played in a roller hockey league in the Valley, there was a team of deputy sheriffs that always started fights and played out of control — worst in... Posted June 10, 2009 9:35 AM
Phew, it took an overtime period but the Lakers took game two, 101-96. Series moves to Orlando for as many as three games, starting Tuesday night.... Posted June 7, 2009 8:29 PM
They take game one in a romp, 100-75. Kobe Bryant scored 40 points, his personal high in the NBA finals. Kareem on Twitter: "Tonight the Magic starred in 'Lost.'"... Posted June 4, 2009 8:58 PM
Well, maybe Vin Scully will end up being glad Curt Smith went ahead with an unauthorized biography. But Scully has said often that he didn't want a book done on... Posted May 28, 2009 12:27 AM
Lakers 103, Nuggets 94. Game 6 is Friday in Denver.... Posted May 27, 2009 8:48 PM
Today's media tweet catches two of the top British journalists posted to Los Angeles taking some down time to follow the day's biggest story in Europe. mattgarrahan Watching Man Utd... Posted May 27, 2009 2:10 PM
"I feel very, very, very good," Sara Catania posts after finishing today's Los Angeles Marathon. More at Run On. Race results: Kenyan Wesley Korir won in a race record 2... Posted May 25, 2009 6:27 PM
Over on the LAO Twitter page tonight, updates on Kareem Abdul-Jabbar tweeting his reactions to the thrilling Lakers finish and author Tod Goldberg confessing: "A special message to Trevor Ariza:... Posted May 23, 2009 9:21 PM
ESPN the Magazine sizes up Donald Sterling in the new issue, detailing the disputed allegations about racial bias — the story begins with him being honored by the NAACP —... Posted May 21, 2009 4:14 PM
Back in 1964, Vin Scully was offered the top job broadcasting New York Yankees games, replacing Mel Allen. Tough call back then for the New York native, but he explains... Posted May 18, 2009 5:18 PM
51-31 after two quarters. * Final: 89-70. Tacos.... Posted May 17, 2009 1:47 PM
The Lakers blew it in Houston again, losing 95-80 and looking bad doing it. This is a potential championship team? The Rockets, minus the big center Yao Ming, have forced... Posted May 14, 2009 10:13 PM
With the Anaheim Ducks getting set to play a deciding game 7 tonight in Detroit, I have to say that — for me — there aren't too many sports scenarios... Posted May 14, 2009 4:44 PM
Four oh. * Final: They win by 40. And in Anaheim, the Ducks just forced a seventh game in their NHL playoff series.... Posted May 12, 2009 9:39 PM
Yahoo has promoted Jimmy Pitaro to oversee what they call "North America Vertical Audience Experience," meaning he's in charge of News, Finance, Sports and a whole bunch more. That means... Posted May 11, 2009 2:07 PM
No Yao, no problem: Rockets lead by 29 after three quarters. And it really hasn't been that close. Is the series "over" because Yao Ming is hurt? Uh, no. *... Posted May 10, 2009 2:19 PM
Make it Mike Downey's on the LAT Op-Ed page. Downey is the former Times sports and Metro columnist, and at least he has some fun with the sudden and, in... Posted May 8, 2009 8:34 AM
I don't see the t-shirts catching on, but maybe that's just me. The Manny-less Dodgers had plenty of bat tonight, but not enough pitching, and lost to the Nationals 11-9.... Posted May 7, 2009 11:16 PM
The Lakers' guard who was hit with a flagrant foul in last night's physical game against the Rockets will miss game three in Houston. Fisher flattened the Rockets' Luis Scola... Posted May 7, 2009 8:12 PM
The cartoon above is actually Steve Greenberg's second Dodger-oriented effort of the day. His first and happier sketch was inspired last night by the team's record-setting winning streak at... Posted May 7, 2009 5:11 PM
For sexual dysfunction, a source "close to Manny Ramirez" tells Yahoo Sports' Tim Brown and Steve Henson. Yahoo However, two sources said the substance Ramirez tested positive for was a... Posted May 7, 2009 1:37 PM
Released via the Major League Baseball Players Association: Recently I saw a physician for a personal health issue. He gave me a medication, not a steroid, which he thought was... Posted May 7, 2009 9:54 AM
Manny Ramirez has tested positive for performance-enhancing drugs and will be suspended for 50 games starting today, the L.A. Times' Bill Shaikin and Dylan Hernandez are reporting. "Ramirez is expected... Posted May 7, 2009 9:14 AM
Derek Fisher and Ron Artest were ejected in separate incidents, five technicals were called in all, and in the end the Lakers beat the Rockets 111-98. Kobe scored 40. The... Posted May 6, 2009 10:38 PM
The star of beach volleyball retires from the AVP tour, effective immediately. Hanging up her bikini, says the release: "one of the most celebrated and decorated professional beach volleyball players... Posted May 6, 2009 4:43 PM
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger said yesterday that the time is right to debate legalizing marijuana for recreational use in California. SF Chronicle, Bee Rep. Jane Harman has toned down her... Posted May 6, 2009 8:53 AM
Whoa, it's time to pay attention to the Dodgers. Tonight they tied a major record — set by the Tigers in 1911 — by winning their first 12 home games... Posted May 5, 2009 10:50 PM
The Ducks went into the third overtime period today before beating the Detroit Red Wings, evening their second-round playoff series at one win each. Todd Marchant scored the game winner.... Posted May 3, 2009 5:03 PM
I've updated this morning's post about the Los Angeles Newspaper Group dropping its Dodgers beat writer. There's also this on the blog of Dodgers VP Josh Rawitch, who sits with... Posted May 1, 2009 5:26 PM
Tony Jackson, the Dodgers beat writer for the Daily News, has apparently been laid off, per KABC post-game show host Josh Suchon and chatter at SportsJournalists.com. Jon Weisman reacts at... Posted May 1, 2009 10:21 AM
The longtime sports beat byline for the Examiner, Herald Examiner and L.A. Times died Monday at home in Baldwin Hills of age-related causes. Oates served on the original pro football... Posted April 28, 2009 12:19 PM
The Lakers were the #1 seed eliminating the #8 Jazz, while the Ducks achieved the reverse: the lowest-ranked playoff team in the NHL's west knocking off the top-seeded San Jose... Posted April 27, 2009 10:45 PM
With the Lakers in the NBA playoffs and expected by many to contend for the championship, the Wall Street Journal looks at why they dominate L.A. sports and concludes "the... Posted April 21, 2009 9:22 AM
Gustkey's byline appeared in the L.A. Times sports section for more than three decades, most notably on stories about boxing, the outdoors and the WNBA. "He was a sports editor's... Posted April 19, 2009 11:38 PM
Esquire revisits the sad story of the USC football phenom, by way of Orange County, who was supposed to be the next big thing. Excerpt: 'I was the first freshman... Posted April 16, 2009 4:10 PM
Orlando Hudson went deep in his first game as a Dodger at today's opener, and became the first Dodger to hit for the cycle since Wes Parker in 1970. Fans... Posted April 13, 2009 6:57 PM
"The sudden appearance of these designs, even in provisional form, in the middle of a deep recession prompts a couple of questions. Why now? And why -- when the last... Posted April 12, 2009 10:40 PM
Phil Anschutz is the city's most elusive important billionaire — the builder of Staples Center, remaker of Downtown, and erstwhile Hollywood morals guru and news media mogul. On the occasion... Posted April 10, 2009 1:48 PM
The father of Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart got to spend some quiet minutes at his son's locker in the Angels clubhouse Thursday morning, and some more minutes on the pitching... Posted April 10, 2009 8:56 AM
The team released a statement on the death of pitcher Nick Adenhart, and a statement from his family. Tonight's game was cancelled at the family's request. KPCC's Steve Julian talks... Posted April 9, 2009 11:30 AM
The rookie started last night, then was among three people in a Mitsubishi who died when a red-light runner hit the car in Fullerton. Adenhart, who was 22, threw six... Posted April 9, 2009 8:50 AM
For the last installment of NPR's This I Believe series on "All Things Considered," Muhammad Ali talks about his life with the help of his wife Lonnie. Ali is now... Posted April 6, 2009 4:33 PM
This photo ran big on the front of the Los Angeles Times Sports section today with a caption reading in part "Kobe Bryant, left...tries to shoot over the Clippers' Fred... Posted April 6, 2009 11:07 AM
For those of us who are baseball fans, the first day of the major league season is an unofficial holiday. To help celebrate, here's a roundup of news, previews and... Posted April 6, 2009 12:36 AM
Villanova 89, UCLA 69 in the NCAA tournament on Saturday. ESPN... Posted March 21, 2009 12:40 PM
The Cal State Northridge Matadors are leading Memphis by 3 in their NCAA tournament game with 8 minutes left. On Channel 2. * No Cinderella story: Memphis 81, Northridge 70.... Posted March 19, 2009 11:09 AM
USC's basketball team followed up last night's upset of the Bruins with a 66-63 win today over Arizona State, giving the Trojans the Pac-10 tournament championship for the first time... Posted March 14, 2009 6:10 PM
Manny Ramirez reported to spring training on Thursday in a good mood, laughing easily with teammates and reporters and professing to be in a happy place. With that infectious giggle,... Posted March 5, 2009 11:14 PM
Remember when Dodgers owner Frank McCourt vowed a few days ago that talks with Manny Ramirez would start from scratch? Well, the outfielder signed for the two-year, $45 million structure... Posted March 4, 2009 7:53 AM
Officially there is no deal between Manny Ramirez and the Dodgers, but it sure smells like one is close. ESPNdeportes.com reported earlier today that the two sides had reached general... Posted March 3, 2009 7:40 PM
A website showing higher prices for single-game tickets went live in error, says the team. Now the prices will be the same as last season. "There had been an anticipated... Posted March 1, 2009 1:39 PM
The Dodgers' $25 million offer to Manny Ramirez actually would have paid him $10 million this year and spread the rest over three years with no interest, Dylan Hernandez reports... Posted February 27, 2009 8:02 AM
Negotiations are back to square one, says Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti. If Manny were talking to reporters tonight, I bet he'd wink and pretend he doesn't speak English very... Posted February 26, 2009 10:55 PM
The Tour of California hit Pasadena on Saturday with Lance Armstrong riding in support of race leader Levi Leipheimer, in the yellow jersey. Jonathan Alcorn has more race photos at... Posted February 21, 2009 9:52 PM
Admittedly I pay no attention at all to horse racing, so everyone may know this. Still I was surprised to read over the weekend that it's considered a good year... Posted February 17, 2009 10:48 AM
Ken Gurnick, the Dodgers beat writer for MLB.com, is now sharing his insights on a blog for the network. "Covering all things Dodgers since Steve Sax was a rookie," reads... Posted February 15, 2009 8:46 PM
Jon Weisman, keeper of my favorite Dodgers blog and blogging community, is leaving the indie ranks and moving Dodger Thoughts to LATimes.com. He starts there immediately and will be replacing... Posted February 2, 2009 6:10 PM
The Dodgers' angriest man will retire Thursday at the stadium as the leading all-time home run hitter among second basemen. In just four seasons with L.A., he also slugged enough... Posted January 21, 2009 2:49 PM
Of course the zaftig outfielder who forgot how to hit after the Dodgers made him their highest-paid player ever still has $22 million coming to him. Actually, Jones forgot how... Posted January 15, 2009 8:02 PM
The Bruin Rangers, UCLA's official women's rugby club team, held their annual Prom Dress Rugby game on Thursday. "I got into rugby because I got tired of getting yellow cards... Posted January 9, 2009 9:09 PM
The Sparks' Candace Parker won the WNBA's most valuable player award — and rookie of the year, plus an Olympic gold medal and a national championship at Tennessee before turning... Posted January 8, 2009 9:21 AM
Art Aragon, boxer Buzzie Bavasi, baseball man John Buttera, hot rodder Billy Consolo, player Dock Ellis, pitcher Craig Fertig, USC star Georgia Frontiere, owner Ed Justice Sr., motors Pete... Posted December 30, 2008 7:51 PM
Took my honey to her first Lakers game tonight, and she wasn't disappointed. The Lakers romped over the Warriors 130-113, Kobe scored 31 and our seats were close enough for... Posted December 28, 2008 11:25 PM
Shortstop Rafael Furcal has agreed to a three-year deal to stay with the Dodgers. All that media noise about him being close to signing with the Braves? Bluff calling that... Posted December 17, 2008 5:56 PM
Charley Steiner will only do radio on next season's Dodger games, pushing former pitcher Jerry Reuss out of a job and opening a vacancy for a TV play-by-play announcer for... Posted December 12, 2008 9:30 AM
Now that the Los Angeles Marathon has abandoned March (and Sunday), the Pasadena Marathon will grab the opening. The date is Sunday, March 22, 2009. Under the Dome... Posted December 10, 2008 2:56 PM
Columnist Bill Boyarsky argues that the Dodgers should help pay the cost of the city's shuttle bus to Dodger Stadium from Union Station. It could cost the city $350,000 next... Posted December 1, 2008 8:34 AM
Dodgers owner Jamie McCourt said yesterday the team isn't sure it should spend on free agents this off-season because the big bucks might turn off fans concerned about the economy.... Posted November 26, 2008 12:59 PM
Dodgers spokesman Josh Rawitch blogs that Billingsley suffered a spiral fracture of the left fibula (his landing leg) when he slipped on ice at home in Pennsylvania on Friday. A... Posted November 23, 2008 1:29 AM
Mike Downey, the former Los Angeles Times sports columnist (and featured California columnist on page A3 for awhile in the 1990s, when state and local news still ranked ahead of... Posted November 21, 2008 8:45 AM
As general manager of the Los Angeles Lakers from 1972 to 1976, Pete Newell made the trade that brought Kareem Abdul-Jabbar from the Milwaukee Bucks. Newell's mark on basketball also... Posted November 18, 2008 12:24 AM
The race's new operator finds the last Monday in May preferable to the President's Day holiday in February, so runners get three extra months to prepare — and a greater... Posted November 10, 2008 12:27 PM
There were two prominent stories at the top of Sunday's Los Angeles Times front page, but only one of them was reported by Times staffers. The other — the one... Posted November 2, 2008 8:57 PM
Shirley Babashoff won eight medals swimming for the U.S. at the 1972 and '76 Olympics, but she and her legacy were victims of doping by her East German competition. When... Posted October 26, 2008 10:59 PM
A friend who was listening to the L.A. Kings telecast from St. Louis the other night called to tell me the team's longtime, much-honored and very mild-mannered broadcaster, Bob Miller,... Posted October 26, 2008 10:20 PM
When the Los Angeles Times tinkered with its design this week, the Sports section stopped producing the long-standing Morning Briefing feature. Papers all around the country used MB in their... Posted October 23, 2008 4:07 PM
Anyone who goes to Dodger Stadium or pays much attention to the team has probably heard Vin Scully's call of Kirk Gibson's pinch-hit home run in the 1988 World Series... Posted October 22, 2008 5:32 PM
Eighteen month after writing a column about becoming Christine Daniels, veteran sportswriter Mike Penner has quietly returned to work at the Los Angeles Times, according to multiple sources close to... Posted October 20, 2008 6:02 PM
If you haven't seen the baseball news...to sum up, the Boston Red Sox trailed 7-0 in the 7th inning, facing elimination from the playoffs. Boston scored four that inning, three... Posted October 16, 2008 10:32 PM
The Dodgers...lose 5-1 and don't look like champions doing it. The Phillies are in the World Series. Greg Maddux? Grabbed the game ball as he left the field, probably for... Posted October 15, 2008 10:18 PM
The Dodgers fought back tonight to twice take the lead from the Phillies, but relief pitchers Cory Wade and Jonathan Broxton each gave up two-run homers in the eighth inning... Posted October 13, 2008 11:31 PM
The Dodgers worked the Phillies for five runs in their first ups — led by a two-out, three-run triple by Blake DeWitt — and won 7-2. The Dodgers also finally... Posted October 12, 2008 10:32 PM
A friend of longtime Los Angeles sportscaster Gil Stratton emailed the news that Stratton died this morning at home in Toluca Lake. He was 86 and had suffered heart problems.... Posted October 11, 2008 6:22 PM
Chad Billingsley couldn't get out of the third inning as the Dodgers lost in Philadelphia for a second time, 8-5. Manny hit a three-run homer, but the Dodgers still come... Posted October 10, 2008 5:31 PM
While I'm on the subject of London media coverage of L.A. celebrities, The Independent gets a little snarky about David Beckham's transformation from European soccer superstar to American celebrity. Or... Posted October 7, 2008 11:38 PM
Two years removed from executive of the year honors in the NBA, Los Angeles hoops legend Elgin Baylor was apparently ousted as Clippers' vice president of basketball operations and general... Posted October 7, 2008 9:42 PM
Boston wins it in the bottom of the ninth, after the Angels blow a squeeze play in the top of the inning. Red Sox 3, Angels 2. The pennant series'... Posted October 6, 2008 8:32 PM
This won't be the year the Cubs end their run of World Series non-appearances. The Dodgers scored two runs in the first and never looked back, winning 3-1 to sweep... Posted October 5, 2008 12:19 AM
Lots of dour faces down in Anaheim tonight. Ex-Dodger J.D. Drew delivered the killer blow, a 2-run homer to center field off Frankie Rodriguez in the ninth inning, moments after... Posted October 3, 2008 11:22 PM
The Dodgers pitched well until the end, got some timely hits — including another Manny Ramirez home run — and executed all game to spoil the party in Chicago with... Posted October 2, 2008 9:51 PM
James Loney's only good swing of the night was a grand slam that put the Dodgers ahead to stay. They beat the Cubs 7-2, with solo home runs from Manny... Posted October 1, 2008 11:58 PM
Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa upped the ante today in the traditional jousting between mayors of baseball playoff cities. Chicago mayor Richard Mayor Daley previously wagered a “Take Me Out to the... Posted October 1, 2008 4:05 PM
The Dodgers will open the playoffs on Wednesday against the Cubs, play two at Wrigley Field, then come home Saturday for game three and, if neither team sweeps, another game... Posted September 28, 2008 5:47 PM
Upon hearing of Paul Newman's death, Times sports writer Lisa Dillman had to go right out and rent "Slap Shot." Does "Slap Shot," and its player-coach leader, hold up or... Posted September 28, 2008 9:10 AM
Arizona lost 12-3 today in St. Louis so the Dodgers are back in the playoffs. First-round opponent is TBD. Maybe this is the year the Dodgers and Angels play each... Posted September 25, 2008 2:46 PM
The staff-written Fabulous Forum hopes to deliver "the who, what, where, when, why — and why not — of L.A. sports." That makes 43 blogs listed on the Los Angeles... Posted September 25, 2008 2:41 PM
LAT baseball writer Bill Shaikin asked television writer Scott Kaufer to analyze the Dodgers season as if it were a series being filmed on the Paramount lot. Matt Kemp is... Posted September 22, 2008 12:35 AM
Last night was the second anniversary of the game where Dodgers Jeff Kent, J.D. Drew, Russell Martin and Marlon Anderson hit consecutive home runs in the ninth inning to tie... Posted September 19, 2008 9:44 AM
Andre Ethier, the food-blogging Dodger, showed up at Pizzeria Mozza between lunch and dinner, got a seat right away, and enjoyed himself. "Love at first bite," he writes as a... Posted September 16, 2008 4:45 PM
That's 14 homers and 40 RBIs for Manny Ramirez in 38 games with the Dodgers, who are now 3½ games in front of the second-place Diamondbacks. "When he hits the... Posted September 11, 2008 1:18 AM
OK, let's face it, the Angels are the better baseball team in SoCal and may prove to be the best anywhere this year. But Manny Ramirez and the mediocre Dodgers... Posted September 10, 2008 12:38 AM
Manny tied Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, and Frank Thomas with his 521st lifetime home run and the Dodgers knocked Arizona out of first place for the first time since April... Posted September 6, 2008 11:27 PM
Sports Illustrated's Richard Hoffer pays eloquent homage to Vin Scully and his importance to Los Angeles in this week's issue. Hoffer used to cover sports for the LAT and may... Posted September 4, 2008 4:04 PM
The Dodgers kept their playoff hopes alive by taking two of three from the Arizona Diamondbacks' best pitchers this weekend, then stayed within 2½ games of first place by beating... Posted September 1, 2008 10:50 PM
This won't qualify as an epic collapse because the Dodgers weren't that good to begin with, but this el foldo might be etched into the memories of L.A. fans for... Posted August 27, 2008 9:45 PM
They've got Joe Torre blogging about his new life in L.A., and posing for silly pictures to hold up web spots for State Farm Insurance. Sample: So I just moved... Posted August 27, 2008 12:13 AM
Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor win gold again. Straight sets. In a rainstorm. Perfectly matched team of athletes. 'Nuff said. Add Misty: As she did in Athens, May-Treanor marked the... Posted August 20, 2008 11:45 PM
Matt Kemp homered on the first pitch the Dodgers faced Sunday — his first ever as a leadoff hitter — and Andre Ethier clubbed a walk-off home run in the... Posted August 17, 2008 10:41 PM
Michael Phelps and Dara Torres are great stories, but let's appreciate how difficult it can be for the athletes who don't get to be called Olympic champions. Over at the... Posted August 17, 2008 1:19 AM
While perhaps a billion people watched the U.S. and China meet in basketball at the Olympics, Sports Business Daily says that few had more riding on the game than the... Posted August 11, 2008 10:59 PM
Dodgers outfielder Andre Ethier can't convince Joe Torre to play him full time, even though he's second on the team in home runs and gets on base more than Juan... Posted August 11, 2008 12:14 AM
It was less than a year ago that L.A. Times Sports Editor Randy Harvey praised his hire of young Metro reporter Jonathan Abrams to cover the Clippers. Now it's the... Posted August 5, 2008 2:51 PM
Manny Ramirez deftly flicked away the attempted needles of Times columnist T.J. Simers in the morning paper, than went 4-for-5 against the Diamondbacks and clubbed his second home run as... Posted August 3, 2008 11:19 PM
While Dodger fans and Frank McCourt seem ecstatic about the acquisition of Manny Ramirez, there are trouble signs elsewhere. L.A. fans have never been very accepting of bad-attitude players, and... Posted July 31, 2008 11:21 PM
Red Sox slugger (and head case) Manny Ramirez comes to the Dodgers outfield in exchange for highly rated 3B prospect Andy LaRoche and a minor league pitcher, with possibly other... Posted July 31, 2008 1:54 PM
Bill Shaikin, the L.A. Times' national baseball writer, writes today that as the Dodgers go with young players, "it becomes increasingly apparent that [Joe] Torre was not the best choice... Posted July 27, 2008 10:52 AM
Reactions to yesterday's death of former Daily News (plus Register, Star-News and AP) sports writer and editor Matt McHale include an obituary by Los Angeles Newspaper Group Sports Editor Kevin... Posted July 15, 2008 3:05 PM
Turns out that the 150 or so newsroom staffers leaving the Los Angeles Times are a mix of buyout volunteers (who have to agree not to take another job until... Posted July 15, 2008 1:10 AM
Matt McHale, the former assistant sports editor at the Daily News and longtime Dodgers beat writer for the Daily News, Pasadena Star News and Orange County Register, died today in... Posted July 14, 2008 2:52 PM
Frank McCourt, the Dodgers owner of new, met Peter O'Malley at yesterday's Coliseum unveiling of a plaque honoring Walter O'Malley, the owner who brought the Dodgers west from Brooklyn. O'Malley... Posted July 10, 2008 12:38 PM
Ex-Dodger hothead Milton Bradley has calmed down (except for a little brush with a reporter), gotten over the injury bug and put together a heckuva season for the Texas Rangers.... Posted July 8, 2008 10:52 PM
Boxer Mando Ramos, who died Sunday at age 59, fought 27 of his 49 matches in the Olympic Auditorium and also got into the ring at the Coliseum and the... Posted July 7, 2008 12:25 AM
Fifty years ago this week, Los Angeles voters narrowly OK'd a ballot measure approving the city's gift of land near Chavez Ravine for the Dodgers' Walter O'Malley to build his... Posted July 4, 2008 12:28 AM
Phil Wallace calls the news, broken earlier today, "the biggest free agent signing in Los Angeles Clipper history." The Clippers are also expected to re-sign Elton Brand. Says Wallace at... Posted July 1, 2008 10:57 PM
Anaheim Ducks co-owner Henry Samueli was suspended indefinitely by the National Hockey League after the co-founder of Broadcom pleaded guilty to one count of lying to the U.S. Securities and... Posted June 24, 2008 11:20 PM
Today's Wall Street Journal reports that the Coliseum Commission is ready to entertain offers for the rights to put a name on the city's most hallowed stadium. A rich history... Posted June 24, 2008 10:56 PM
Back in 1988, Pete Handelman shot some High-8 video asking ordinary people in Boston who was going to win that year's finals: Celtics or Lakers? It became moot when Detroit... Posted June 18, 2008 11:17 PM
"This is unbelievable," one of the ABC announcers gasped when the Celtics went up by 29 points in the third quarter. (Soon to be 37.) They had more than a... Posted June 17, 2008 8:35 PM
The Lakers gave back a couple of big leads, but held on to force game 6 back in Boston. It was closer than the final score of 103-98 suggests. The... Posted June 15, 2008 9:08 PM
The Lakers blew a 24-point lead and just buckled to the Celtics, both defense and offense, in the second half. Boston goes up 3-1 and could end the NBA finals... Posted June 12, 2008 8:50 PM
They beat the Celtics 87-81 to win game three. Kobe and Sasha overcome off games by Odom and Gasol. ESPN Meanwhile: Convicted ex-referee Tim Donaghy alleges in court papers that... Posted June 10, 2008 8:56 PM
Dave Zirin has been named the first-ever sports correspondent for The Nation. From the flackage: Starting this month, Zirin will report regularly for The Nation and TheNation.com on the intersection... Posted June 10, 2008 3:44 PM
YouTube video of at least two fights between fans at yesterday's Staples Center screening of the Lakers-Celtics game is posted at LAist. Here's the more violent of the skirmishes:... Posted June 9, 2008 2:10 PM
Celtics run away 108-102, even though the Lakers — down 24 points in the fourth period — closed to within two with 38 seconds left. So far in the series... Posted June 8, 2008 9:08 PM
Celtics win game one of the NBA finals, 98-88. Even before the game, the Daily News' Steve Dilbeck predicted the Lakers will lose the series. Phil Wallace analyzes the action... Posted June 5, 2008 9:15 PM
6 PM - Lakers and Celtics tip-off in the NBA finals, from Boston. Channel 7 6:55 PM (ish) - Times Publisher David Hiller sings the national anthem at Dodger Stadium.... Posted June 5, 2008 12:03 PM
Mandalit del Barco of National Public Radio wraps up a four-part series on Los Angeles street gangs with a seven-minute piece on All Things Considered about the feds' decade-long fight... Posted June 3, 2008 5:42 PM
They run away from the Spurs in the fourth period and win 100-92. Kobe scores 39. Next up: the Celtics or Pistons starting June 5.... Posted May 29, 2008 8:46 PM
Laura Lane tells USA Today that she pulled her Blogspot site offline on her own. "I saw it was getting a lot of crazy attention," she says of her post... Posted May 28, 2008 12:58 PM
Spurs don't get the foul call in the final second — even though Derek Fisher definitely made contact with Brent Barry's head — and the Lakers will come home to... Posted May 27, 2008 8:58 PM
Hmm, ESPN.com blogger Laura Lane's blog item where she calls the wife of Kobe Bryant insane — and talks about rumors of an affair — has gone off the air.... Posted May 27, 2008 12:02 PM
Laura Lane covers the Lakers for ESPN.com. She wrote a mildly invasive item about that weird purple tutu thing that Vanessa Bryant wore on the floor the night Kobe picked... Posted May 26, 2008 12:37 PM
Spurs win 103-84, making the series 2-1 in favor of the Lakers. If you're San Antonio, you have to think, hmm, twice we've built up 20-point leads on these guys.... Posted May 25, 2008 11:18 PM
Old interview with SportItalia, but I know of at least one babe who fell in lust watching Kobe be so relaxed here in Italian. For that matter, Bryant was pretty... Posted May 24, 2008 10:09 PM
At yesterday's unveiling of a plaque for UCLA legend John Wooden at the Coliseum, Vin Scully told a fun story about how Wooden was one of the first people he... Posted May 21, 2008 11:25 AM
A 19-point lead shrank to three in the final minute, but the Lakers hung on to win 108-105 in Utah and go to the next round. Starts Wednesday at Staples,... Posted May 16, 2008 10:20 PM
Former Dodgers general manager Paul DePodesta, now with the Padres in San Diego, has started an interesting blog — he knows a lot more about baseball than the sportswriters who... Posted May 16, 2008 7:53 PM
The Dodgers won today in Milwaukee, 7-2, and got home runs from Andruw Jones, Jeff Kent and Gary Bennett (with minor league veteran Luis Maza collecting his first hit in... Posted May 15, 2008 4:42 PM
It was close until the final seconds, but they never trailed in the game. The Lakers go back to Utah with a chance to end the series in game 6.... Posted May 14, 2008 10:30 PM
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 win in Utah. Kobe shot... Posted May 11, 2008 4:10 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. Well, now he is. According... 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 later presided over the California... Posted May 1, 2008 7:53 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 to Southern California and be... 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 preliminary rounds of the NBA... 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 dimly lit corner of a... Posted April 11, 2008 4:24 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 in Woodland Hills and USC,... Posted April 9, 2008 9:36 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 the stadium, an old man... Posted March 31, 2008 6:58 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 early, the line to return... Posted March 30, 2008 4:35 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 the Coliseum was grand, and... Posted March 30, 2008 1:49 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 do should have fun. And... 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 Stadium. He was "the top... 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 Dodger Stadium. The concessions area... Posted March 24, 2008 1:15 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 he was angry a lot... 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 access last night to the... Posted March 20, 2008 1:50 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 the media who joined the... Posted March 16, 2008 5:07 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 training pitch — strike three... 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 the Inland group.” These days,... 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 to ask for volunteers to... 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 rival Daily News: Finally, a... Posted March 6, 2008 9:55 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 for the Padres, Mariners and... Posted March 3, 2008 3:47 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 Brent Hopkins: The rollercoaster continues.... Posted February 26, 2008 9:43 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 Karen A. Romanko. She emails... 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 subject is Charlotte E. Ray,... Posted February 15, 2008 5:19 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 takes the Lakers to another... Posted February 1, 2008 1:01 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 the building. But the school... 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 documents on a website: TarnishedHeisman.com.... Posted January 14, 2008 3:06 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 on to become a dependable... Posted January 14, 2008 1:06 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 talk host on KABC and... 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 its own 2006 story implicating... 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 on Friday that she is... Posted December 15, 2007 8:55 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 on steroids and human growth... 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 considered trading him because he... Posted December 13, 2007 7:50 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 facing our university that you... Posted November 28, 2007 9:53 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. Skepticism abounds over the Times... 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 good but not great hitter... 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 the rink at 7:30 am.... 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 national columnist for ESPN. His... 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 ledger was nothing to brag... 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 say the Dodgers are talking... 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 pre- and post-game shows, a... Posted October 15, 2007 8:43 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, the former ESPN Radio talker,... Posted September 27, 2007 9:02 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 Monday about the team's Josh... Posted September 19, 2007 9:05 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 in a phone call from... Posted September 17, 2007 9:54 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. After today he's moving full-time... Posted September 14, 2007 9:48 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 put some writing into his... Posted August 14, 2007 1:52 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 — then you'll be surprised... 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 a home run, from Rafael... Posted August 9, 2007 1:39 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 Bernardino Sun and Inland Valley... 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 who captured Jerry West in... 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. Times. Oberjuerge encountered Daniels in... 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 tomorrow, with video on the... Posted July 19, 2007 5:20 PM
Barry Bonds clubbed home runs number 752 and 753 today in Chicago, leaving him two behind Henry Aaron.... Posted July 19, 2007 2:55 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 of truth and turning them... 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 on August 17 in front... 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 hits to the first-place Padres... 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 1950 — including eight seasons... 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 publication next May. Leslie won... Posted June 27, 2007 8:43 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 Armenian genocide that was spiked,... 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 recently retired infielder Bill Mueller.... 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 columnist and feature writer. He's... 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 fan site of the other... Posted June 6, 2007 8:32 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 days in the parking lot... 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 shout-out to a roundup of... Posted May 31, 2007 9:13 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 would like to be traded,... 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 Observed Photo: AP/Chris Carlson... Posted May 23, 2007 1:06 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 with local journos John Woolard... Posted May 4, 2007 8:44 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 email offers of deep discounts... Posted May 2, 2007 8:57 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 lays out his personal journey... Posted April 26, 2007 7:39 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 increasingly shared sports coverage of... Posted April 24, 2007 8:45 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 that its "beaners" would be... Posted April 19, 2007 4:43 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 guide in today's Slate explains... Posted April 18, 2007 4:03 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 eye. He pulls from his... Posted April 10, 2007 9:50 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 throw home from shallow center... 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 Vero Beach, Florida. Note that... Posted March 23, 2007 8:19 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 year, the Daily News' Billy... 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 enough to keep him out... Posted March 4, 2007 8:57 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 at a practice in Austin,... Posted February 22, 2007 2:22 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 the North Logan, Utah police... 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 409 in the new Time... 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 along. There were laughs and... 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 as a new media face... Posted January 11, 2007 1:22 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 California. The papers already share... 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 way, after 600 weeks writing... Posted December 28, 2006 6:02 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 Center with Bob Baker, the... Posted December 15, 2006 2:53 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 at LATimes.com. He'll be spending... Posted December 13, 2006 2:34 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 for three healthy seasons in... 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 Schmidt for three years at... 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 just called and said it's... Posted December 2, 2006 6:27 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 with the Clippers as his... 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, where the former #2 at... Posted November 27, 2006 2:52 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 delivering more to readers, Tribune... Posted November 20, 2006 1:13 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 operating in the sports, well,... Posted November 6, 2006 1:55 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 at Stanford and UCLA at... Posted November 1, 2006 1:19 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 Paris Hilton gets a place... 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 past week revolved around a... Posted October 16, 2006 1:02 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, is now set to begin... Posted October 5, 2006 4:38 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 plate on a ball hit... Posted October 4, 2006 1:49 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 them seven innings, and ends... Posted October 1, 2006 1:29 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 and gave up eight runs... Posted September 28, 2006 3:17 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 bells. Romenesko picked it up,... Posted September 26, 2006 2:34 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 my contretemps was so old... 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 "Studio 60 on the Sunset... 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 in airfare, hotel rooms, limos,... Posted September 14, 2006 7:14 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 Brynn Cameron says his daughter... Posted August 30, 2006 2:32 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 verdict. The state judicial watchdog... Posted August 15, 2006 5:20 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 involved. One contender has a... 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 some of the complaints from... Posted July 31, 2006 2:28 PM
They had to bribe Kansas City to take him. Story at SoCal Sports Observed.... Posted July 25, 2006 4:53 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 merry diamond pranksters debuted Ben... Posted July 21, 2006 7:02 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: she joins Bill Dwyre, Bill... Posted July 19, 2006 4:17 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 stints as a radio sports... Posted July 18, 2006 5:46 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 Helene Elliott will become a... Posted July 17, 2006 2:11 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 be perjury or tax evasion.... Posted July 14, 2006 5:25 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 in 2004, Paul Lo Duca,... Posted July 10, 2006 5:13 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, and as your side's legendary... 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 Beckham and England's World Cup... Posted June 29, 2006 3:25 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. Known officially as “yell leaders”... Posted June 29, 2006 2:55 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 breakthrough this season (in that... Posted June 27, 2006 1:23 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 veggie dogs had vanished from... Posted June 23, 2006 2:52 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, Going, Ghana. The U.S. team... 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 as "one of the few... Posted June 18, 2006 7:18 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 go, but the two sports... 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 soccer match with South Korea... 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 cover a home game at... 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 an inflamed ulnar nerve and... 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 the first French Canadian pitcher-catcher... 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 for the whole chocolicious scene.... 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 uses phrases like "athletic program... Posted May 23, 2006 5:12 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 Kings a couple of years... Posted May 17, 2006 8:52 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 fan frustration about longer and... 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 was shot and killed while... 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 I interviewed him last fall)... Posted May 12, 2006 2:41 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: twice reach the semi-final round... 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 three-zip—long way to go, and... Posted May 9, 2006 8:13 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 moratorium on sportswriters using the... 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, of course, is a leader... Posted May 5, 2006 3:01 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 National Football League owners. Today... 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 does that mean exactly? Evans... Posted May 1, 2006 6:36 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 Ebbets Field with trolley car... 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 some of the details of... Posted April 25, 2006 6:48 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 four loge seats behind home... 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 Valley, Calif. when its reporter... Posted April 23, 2006 5:10 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 to the Kings hockey operations... Posted April 18, 2006 6:58 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 Buzz also touches MediaNews Group,... Posted April 17, 2006 1:47 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 the rest of this season.... Posted April 14, 2006 8:08 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 who stiffs the help, walks... 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 award, a bloggy romance and... Posted April 6, 2006 2:42 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 probably got word that revelations... 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 mattered. For most, it doesn't.... Posted April 3, 2006 9:36 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 Elysian Park bureau. Most of... Posted April 3, 2006 2:34 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 Mbah a Moute tied his... Posted April 1, 2006 8:14 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 for you morning risers. Clocks... Posted March 31, 2006 3:26 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 his season-ticket status at Slate... Posted March 29, 2006 8:55 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 freelance sportswriter Sam Kellerman. Butler... Posted March 27, 2006 6:14 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 these things, estimated the crowd... 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 there than he would have... Posted March 24, 2006 6:29 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 Bruins play Memphis in the... 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 John Torchetti at a press... Posted March 21, 2006 7:05 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 a pro football team in... 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 by Los Angeles City College... Posted March 15, 2006 4:17 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 UCLA who said her name... 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 on the web, and not... Posted March 8, 2006 8:45 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 News miss a big chunk... 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 writers at Dodger Stadium missed... Posted March 2, 2006 1:52 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 at Toyota Sports Center in... Posted March 1, 2006 9:53 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 a problem in the past,... Posted February 23, 2006 4:51 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 the LAT's Home section moves... Posted February 22, 2006 2:40 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 Hobo Roy Hobbs and the... Posted February 15, 2006 2:06 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 and begun to file features... Posted February 14, 2006 6:24 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 that they wuz robbed.... Posted February 9, 2006 5:22 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 Angeles Kings are in freefall.... Posted February 8, 2006 1:14 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 algebra, Mike Piazza returns to... Posted January 30, 2006 2:03 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 play. * Another alternate take:... Posted January 26, 2006 1:14 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 2:02 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 writes, "Sure it's true that... Posted January 24, 2006 4:57 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 Wilt Chamberlain's 100 points in... 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 at DWP, a new Times... Posted January 20, 2006 1:59 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 to help high school students... Posted January 19, 2006 3:49 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 the staff of ESPN Hollywood... Posted January 17, 2006 1:11 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 a forum being monitored by... Posted January 13, 2006 2:58 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 him. Most likely stop in... 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 Center hotel—plus Bert Blyleven moves... Posted January 12, 2006 2:08 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 USC players who went to... Posted January 5, 2006 7:46 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 team he would own, the... 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, Louis Farrakhan and Snoop Dog... Posted December 20, 2005 1:27 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 owner Frank McCourt, of course.)... Posted December 18, 2005 4:52 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 says. The third baseman has... 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 on clemency until Monday, his... Posted December 11, 2005 3:42 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 also a regular on Fox's... Posted December 9, 2005 4:07 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 career to Japan.... Posted December 8, 2005 2:39 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. He was run out of... Posted December 6, 2005 3:52 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 blondest, most exclamation-pointed official blogger.... Posted December 6, 2005 3:30 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 the Weekly (and its OC... 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 Beverly Hills, bus rider D.J.... Posted December 5, 2005 2:07 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 new guy, though, is clearly... Posted December 4, 2005 4:22 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 across the city (and the... Posted December 2, 2005 2:23 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 gone with the other NBA... 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 GIants have finished ahead of... Posted November 15, 2005 6:21 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 score: 1-0. The Galaxy only... Posted November 13, 2005 4:13 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 exec Pat Gillick will become... Posted October 29, 2005 8:29 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 changed the mind of owner... Posted October 29, 2005 1:12 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 the top ranking. It is... 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 and multi-national: Russians, of course,... 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 the team on LATimes.com. From... 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 ♦ Hollywood waits and worries over... Posted October 19, 2005 2:44 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." She is the 15-year-old Bishop... Posted October 17, 2005 4:08 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 not have counted. The Wizard... Posted October 16, 2005 2:45 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. If you missed it, the... Posted October 13, 2005 3:58 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 the Dodgers' persistent mediocrity, and... 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 on his side. * Wednesday... 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 Garcetti v. Ceballos, the case... Posted October 10, 2005 1:45 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 millions from his accounts while... Posted October 6, 2005 1:54 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 mutual dissolution of their five-year... Posted October 3, 2005 8:34 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 this weekend to avoid having... Posted September 29, 2005 3:44 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 sold a liver transplant to... 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. Simers observed, for instance, that... Posted September 20, 2005 5:25 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 made the call and asked... 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 and Current will report to... Posted September 13, 2005 2:58 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 of the Year. And the... 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, citing the earlier vote of... Posted September 8, 2005 1:18 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 on exhibit at the Baseball... 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 Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills... Posted September 1, 2005 1:43 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 the Daily News and went... Posted August 31, 2005 1:18 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 Dodgers PR office calling the... Posted August 31, 2005 1:41 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 incident, the Dodgers outfielder allegedly... Posted August 30, 2005 2:40 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 place with a shot at... 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 Tijuana-based "Mighty 690," has lost... Posted August 25, 2005 4:47 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 the DN website this morning.... Posted August 25, 2005 2:43 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 be tossed from a game.... 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 a media story. It began... 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 site Ron Fineman's On the... Posted July 29, 2005 2:24 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 Carson. (Even T.J. Simers seemed... Posted July 19, 2005 3:33 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 is more than a hundred... Posted July 18, 2005 3:58 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 out of the pile. • Shots... Posted July 11, 2005 1:22 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 elbow or even chondromalacia—and it's... Posted July 7, 2005 9:43 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 Angeles for Anschutz Entertainment (Staples... Posted July 5, 2005 1:47 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 season — at best. He's... Posted June 22, 2005 1:25 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 AM). His radio partner, Joe... Posted June 21, 2005 3:54 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 the Lakers want him to... 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 home runs. I believe I... Posted June 13, 2005 6:14 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 Frank McCourt change his image... 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 his 43-year-old creation, and especially... 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 a year to reject the... Posted May 31, 2005 1:40 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 star Jackie Robinson is already... 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! Also: I hope that someone... 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 Steve Kettmann, a Brooklyn-based journalist... Posted April 25, 2005 2:12 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 his writers. Regarding the latter,... Posted April 23, 2005 1:56 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 — if you like to... Posted April 21, 2005 1:06 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 the love these days. The... Posted April 19, 2005 3:11 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 (and potential team leader?) Milton... Posted April 14, 2005 1:05 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 from number two, jumping ahead... Posted April 11, 2005 8:21 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 without any money, then made... 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 of playing the game Ain't... Posted March 23, 2005 7:15 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 the Hollywood Walk of Fame.... Posted March 4, 2005 3:03 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 at Dodger Stadium on Sept.... 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 to spend five days with... 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 2:16 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 yesterday's practice, citing a stomach... Posted February 1, 2005 2:22 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 several weeks by a quake... Posted February 1, 2005 1:29 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 website. Construction crews must fear... 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 contributor Evan Weiner has a... 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 pleasure of eavesdropping on a... 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 on hand was Orenthal James... 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 Wrigley Field at 42nd Place... 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. The Dodgers would give up... 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) is now hockey's all-time scorer... 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 outfielder Milton Bradley began serving... 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 provided by his campaign) is... Posted December 12, 2004 1:29 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 15 and now, at 32,... 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. The winter baseball meetings are... Posted November 29, 2004 5:29 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 O'Neill. You know him: he's... 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 and may have been on... 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 known as "Baby Face" and... Posted November 10, 2004 2:54 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 else justified curtailing the Dodger... Posted October 28, 2004 6:15 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 1:52 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 sports talk show on the... Posted October 21, 2004 5:12 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 who act as if they... Posted October 15, 2004 1:07 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 on it, saying "he won't... 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 for the slur he directed... Posted October 8, 2004 9:32 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. Today he got into it... 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 King? Dear Mayor Slay, Today... 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 Aquarius." It's about "the impact... 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 inning today. I was in... Posted October 2, 2004 5:21 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 Bryant spoke to Colorado police... 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 story line from last night... Posted September 29, 2004 3:32 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 with the Dodgers fighting to... 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 the fourth inning with the... 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 — 18-18, five of those... 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 latest: • I also always liked... Posted September 9, 2004 1:30 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 came when her name was... Posted September 1, 2004 6:43 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 Hockey Hall of Fame ceremony... Posted August 31, 2004 9:29 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 as a weatherman in 1971.... 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 traded his bullpen setup man,... Posted August 7, 2004 1:07 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. He reports that the new... 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 Brad Penny and first baseman... Posted July 30, 2004 9:54 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 L.A. Daily News for seven... 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 website reports on media day... 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 young hetero male fans. She... Posted July 27, 2004 2:35 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 Sidney Crosby. He doesn't have... Posted July 13, 2004 9:33 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 next week's JPMorgan Chase Open... Posted July 12, 2004 3:08 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: don't even think of affixing... 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 with the Lakers before, of... Posted July 9, 2004 3:57 PM
• LAist, the SoCal version of New York's Gothamist, goes public Tuesday. Earlier: Gothamist going bicoastal. • We're number one: The feds seize more contraband cigarettes at the ports of Long Beach... Posted July 5, 2004 11:54 AM
Long Beach Press-Telegram columnist Doug Krikorian said on his radio show on KSPN this afternoon that Lakers owner Jerry Buss met face-to-face with Miami Heat president (and ex-Lakers coach) Pat... Posted June 22, 2004 5:43 PM
Jon Weisman, who writes the Dodger Thoughts blog, will be a guest on "Which Way L.A.?" with Warren Olney tonight at 7 p.m. on KCRW (89.9 FM). The topic: Frank... Posted January 29, 2004 12:20 PM
The ESPN columnist who scored an early copy of the Pete Rose book and posted the first review -- Alysse Minkoff -- works out of her home in Brentwood, says... Posted January 8, 2004 11:51 PM
The Lakers won their opener tonight, but are in organizational disarray because of the Kobe and Shaq troubles. The Kings may be worse off. Eight games into the hockey season,... Posted October 28, 2003 11:54 PM
The Times' Jason Reid called it right when he reported a couple of days ago that Frank H. McCourt was the new top bidder for the Dodgers. Now McCourt is... Posted October 11, 2003 3:42 PM
In his day job Ken Baker is the West Coast executive editor in L.A. for Us Weekly. Somehow he also finds the time to write personal books. His first, Man... Posted September 5, 2003 12:20 AM
It just doesn't get better than Game 7 of the Stanley Cup finals. The ultimate game of the most intense tournament in the fastest, most demanding sport. Doesn't even matter... Posted June 9, 2003 4:36 PM
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