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- Elgin Baylor Leaves Clippers
- Dodgers Advance to NLCS
- Dodgers Up, Angels Down
- Dodgers Take Game 1
- Sports Beat, 9-26-08
- Sports Beat, 9-14-08
- Sports Beat, Football Report Week 1
- Sports Beat, 8-28-08
- Sports Beat, 8-18-08
- He didn't just do that, did he?
- More on Manny Ramirez
- Dodgers Trade for Manny Ramirez
- Angels Trade for Mark Teixeira
- Dodgers trade for Casey Blake
- Sports Beat, 7-17-08
- Sports Beat, 7-13-08
- Jaguars owner denies sale, move to LA
- Brand Leaves Clippers for Philadelphia
- Dodgers in First Place
- Clippers sign Baron Davis
- Laker, Clipper free agent updates
- NBA draft report
- Clipper time
- Shaq disses Kobe with rap
- Wait until next year
- Back to Boston
- LA Football Update
- Painful Loss
- Lakers Take Game 3
- Kings Fire Crawford
- Lakers Fall Short in Game 2
- Celtics Take Game 1
- Sports Beat, 6-1-08
- Sports Beat, 5-30-08
- Sports Beat, 5-14-08
- Sports Beat, 5-10-08
- Behind the scenes with LAT Lakers Bloggers
- NFL Considers LA for Draft
- Lakers Move On
- Sports Beat, 4-28-08
- Exodus of sports scribes continues
- Sports Beat, 4-17-08
- Are you ready for some football?
- Sports Beat, 3-30-08
- Brit not impressed by Staples Center
- Sports Beat, 3-21-08
- Sports Beat, 3-17-08
- Sports Beat, 3-10-08
- Sports Beat, 3-3-08
- 40 Before 20
- No moment of silence for Officer Simmons
- Finger Roll
- Sports Beat, 2-14-08
- Sports Beat, 2-8-08
- Pau-er play
- Larry Smith dies at 68
- The basketball diaries
- UCLA hires Chow
- Crosstown rivalry
- Georgia Frontiere dies at age 80
- Sports Beat, 1-17-08
- Sports Beat, 1-14-08
- Falcons pursuing Carroll
- Coming up roses
- It's Neuheisel
- Stu Nahan dies at 81
- Not so Golden
- Are they for real?
- Sports Updates
- Bellotti Break?
- Sports Beat, 12-20-07
- Dodgers Sign Kuroda
- Sports Beat, 12-14-07
- Naming names
- Why Times scribes don't vote for awards
- Sports Beat, 12-9-07
- Dodgers Sign Andruw Jones
- Walter O'Malley Elected to the Hall-of-Fame
- Sports Beat, 12-2-07
- The end for the Coliseum and Dorrell?
- New Home for USC Football?
- Sports Beat, 11-25-07
- Angels Sign Torii Hunter
- Ariza Traded to Lakers
- Sports Beat 11-19-07
- Changes at KSPN
- Hip to be Clip
- Sports Beat, 11-4-07
- Torre Hired; Kobe Staying (for now)
- Caltech Hoops
- Sports Beat, 10-30-07
- A Conversation with Eric Sondheimer
- West Coast Hoops
- Coliseum Baseball
- Sports Beat, 10-24-07
- BCS Befuddlement
- NFL to Coliseum in Jeopardy
- Sports Beat, 10-21-07
- Hoffarth, by the numbers
- Sports Week, 10-14-07
- Kobe Talk
- Staying Alive
- Quarterback Quandaries
- Sports Week, 10-7-07
- Sports Week
- Roggin and Simers No More
- Longest vacation ever
- Survivor
- Kent Complains
- Here's Charley
- Road-tripping with Jim Murray
- Sports Bits
- Los Angeles Jaguars?
- And then there were two
- Stealing Esteban
- Bent Out of Shape
- The latest edition of LA84 Foundation's "SportsLetter"
- Let the bidding begin
- Wes Parker is golden
- A Whole New Galaxy
- Elvis at Chavez Ravine
- Bad Moody
- Next stop, Glendale
- J.A. Adande joins ESPN.com
- All aboard the Riptide bandwagon
- Countdown to 8/8/08
- Rodents in the Outfield
- A new O'Neal in LA?
- West vs. South
- Achilles' heel
- We're number five?
- First Clausen, then Crist
- Wen Roberts, 1936-2007
- An interview with Jim Brosnan
- Were the L.A. Rams the most significant team in American sports history?
- An interview with Dave Zirin
- The Dodgers approach their 50th anniversary in L.A.
- Who's got the inside track to buy Tribune Co.'s Cubs?
- Kobe Bryant Is Going Nowhere -- Just Ask Phil Jackson
- Last days for the Los Angeles County Raceway?
- Avengers turn eight
- An interview with Larry Merchant
- Kobe in Colorado, fictionalized
- Does Lamar Odom for Jermaine O'Neal Make Sense?
- An NHL franchise in Las Vegas?
- Mark Harris, 1922-2007
- Henry Samueli, owner of your Anaheim Ducks
- Best sports franchise in SoCal
- Bill Plaschke's new book
- Channeling Allan Malamud
- More stadium construction for AEG?
- De La Hoya-Mayweather sets $$$ record
- De La Hoya-Mayweather
- The Big O
- Chicago won the right to bid for the 2016 Olympics . . .
- USC professor Todd Boyd joins ESPN.com
- Jerry West resigns
- Why L.A. lost the 2016 Olympic bid
- USOC will bar media from proceedings on 2016 bid
- U.S. Olympic decision due Saturday
- The 60th anniversary of Jackie Robinson's debut
- Read Tom Hoffarth -- religiously
- Plaschke returns
- O.J. Mayo and the high-flying Trojans
- Pens stay in Pittsburgh; RIP Ernie Ladd
- New Format for "SportsLetter"
- NYT on Baseball Reliquary
- Video Exclusive: Elton Brand, blogger, reacts to Livingston injury
- Q&A with Barry Sanders
- Spring books
- Kobe Cares? Have a Take, Do Not Suck
- Let there be volleyball
- So Long Marty, and Everyone Else
- Those billboards just make it worse
- 800 try, 2 are selected
- On the road with the Clippers
- Ashley Force and Kenny Bernstein
- Danelo was drunk
- Ontario's arena play
- From Zamboni to Jabbar
- 'I just wanted to play hockey'
- Is Anze Kopitar the new Andre the Giant?
- The Beckham deal, 2016 Olympics, sports films
- Lilly Rodriguez, RIP
- Unclaimed $$$
- A Letter to A.J. Smith: Keep Marty
- Beckham: "I have decided to join the LA Galaxy" (* LAO video)
- 2016 Olympics update
- USC kicker Mario Danelo found dead
- Batteries report next month
- Definition of erratic — and popular
- Burkle in K.C.; sports media '06
- Memo to Michigan: It's Quiet Time
- Remembering Larry Sherry
- Another convert for Blyleven
- The Crenshaw connection
- Hockey's surfer dude
- Bylines
- De La Hoya-Mayweather goes to Vegas, not Staples
- A lecture in sportsmanship (*updated)
- United Nations of hockey
- Vin Scully v. Sylvester Stallone
- LAO investigates: Report from the baseline
- Love comes to town
- Hear Bob Miller tell tales
- Slate.com attacks John Wooden
- L.A. United?
- Bisheff hangs 'em up
- Jason Schmidt to the Chicago Cubs?
- Juan Pierre takes the Clippers
- Hometown discount
- Where Pierre ranks
- Pierre now a Dodger, expect many outs
- Dodgers blink
- Baseball or journalism?
- Pancho Gonzalez
- Cal prepares for USC
- De La Hoya vs. Mayweather
- Steve Garvey and other newsblips
- What about the Cubbies?
- Dodgers get lucky on Drew
- 2016 Olympic bid
- The California Sports Hall of Fame
- Lyons in talks with Red Sox
- Q-and-A with David Carter
- Sports films and sports talk radio in LA
- Updating a Trojan bust
- Front and Center
- Doctor Buss gets a star
- Remembering Bo Belinsky
- John Force and the drags
- On the scene at South Bend
- Cameron has Leinart's baby
- New sports player in town
- Mancow out, Simers' and Roggin in
- Selig comes to town
- Jose Feliciano and the '68 World Series
- KMPC fires everybody
- The Lakers: Ramping Up
- Chivas USA on the move?
- Milton grows up
- Ollie Matson update
- Where's Roy Firestone?
- Soft launch for Galen Center
- Operation Bullpen
- Petros out at 1540
- Blackie Schwamb in photos
- You can go home again
- You know it's time to take a break when...
- Pitcher's attorney says LAT wrong
- Perfect storm of sports
- Moving day
- Bob Miller gets starred
- Kings trade
- How close is the NFL?
- Ticket sales; Muscle Beach
- Ron Fairly hangs up his mike
- Oaks Christian-St. Bonaventure, Fight Night News
- Reverse flow
- Gammons back to work
- See it again
- The Greatest Comeback Ever
- One that got away
- Invincible, NFL Films
- Now that's ugly
- AEG in K.C. and Roger Federer
- Prep blog at LAT
- Jet lag 1, beat writer 0 (* updated)
- Who needs the NFL?
- Abrahamson flips to NBC
- Marion Jones and the NFL in L.A.
- L.A.'s 2016 Olympic bid
- The Green in Dodger Blue
- Toney, Leinart, Young
- T.J. gets some love
- Mike Quarry, RIP
- Coming and going
- George Brett and the Pine Tar Game
- Jered Weaver finally gets an L
- For college sports junkies
- Lax, Toots, and Dempsey-Carpentier
- Kings will honor Luc
- Around the parks
- Cold War intrigue at TSC
- Bunch of suspensions
- Wooden gets an honor (sort of)
- Meet Howie Kendrick
- Best Dodgers news yet
- Local angles
- In honor of 'Snakes on a Plane'
- Random weekend notes
- Dodgers addiction
- J.A. Adande hits the beach
- It's the schedule
- L.A.'s Own Stanley Silver
- Dilbeck tries to recoup
- Press box interns, have faith
- Secret out on Sand Dune Park
- Feds sue Sterling for bias
- Soccer matters
- Barca is mes que en club
- Hockey hotbed?
- Landis' second test bad too
- Reaching for the stars
- Juiced?
- Bit of a leap, yet...
- Brandon Ting tested positive for 'roids
- At the trading deadline:
- The National experienced
- Baseball Sunday
- When the NFL returns to L.A.
- Dodgers get a Betemit for third
- Another Furillo alum says farewell
- Papa Chet deserves a place too
- Art imitates life
- Last place - and not even that good
- When Odalis went after Plaschke
- Odalis goes from bad to worse
- Fernando and Jered
- Does he mean Drew?
- Bandwagon fan and proud of it
- Can barely recognize him
- Induction weekend in Pasadena
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