SoCal Sports Observed: Now that's ugly

Now that's ugly

Kevin Roderick • Bio • Email

The Dodgers had the worst-place Cubs down 7-0 with Derek Lowe pitching. The Cubs committed six errors. The Dodgers still lost. Cesar Izturis even drove in the winning run for Chicago. Luckily for L.A. the Padres also lost so the Dodgers still lead by 1½ games. Carnage observed in the Times, Daily News, MLB

Also: Jerry Crowe in today's LAT tells the story of the Dons, L.A.'s first major pro sports team. They and the All-America Football Conference beat the defending NFL champion Rams into town by two weeks in 1946. (The Rams fled from Cleveland.) The first game was played on a Friday night at the Coliseum. The Dons beat the Brooklyn Dodgers, 20-14, in front of 18,995. The Dons' ownership included Louis B. Mayer, Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Don Ameche and in 1948 they outdrew every team in the rival National Football League. But after 1949 the league faded away, with the San Francisco 49ers, Cleveland Browns and Baltimore Colts joining the NFL.

September 13, 2006 12:10 PM • Native Intelligence • Email the editor

7:44 PM Wed | No deal yet on May Day Melee

3:58 PM Wed | State supremes take Prop. 8 case

2:32 PM Wed | Daily Bruin goes to China

2:19 PM Wed | Reporting by press release

12:28 PM Wed | May Day Melee could cost city $10 million

More LA Live debuts

5:38 PM Wed | Downtown's retail/entertainment complex is set to open a bunch of restaurants throughout December.

Disney bets on Imax

3:50 PM Wed | The Mouse House will be releasing five movies in the super-sharp format, starting with "A Christmas Carol."

Going through 'The Changes'

TJ Sullivan | Without referencing its recent layoff, the Ventura County Star's editor says the suburban LA paper is now "more streamlined and, in many ways, much more efficient."

Lost thunder: BLM preparing to execute 30,000 wild horses

Deanne Stillman | We stripped the Indians of their ponies, and now we're doing it to ourselves.

LA's fire-orange sun

TJ Sullivan | When the sun looks like that, there's a big fire somewhere regardless of whether we see or smell smoke.

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