Bob Timmermann
Bob Timmermann used to blog about baseball at The Griddle. He has contributed pieces to Dodger Thoughts and Baseball Analysts. He is one of the vice presidents of the Allan Roth Chapter of the Society of American Baseball Research (SABR) and has given two presentations at SABR's national convention. He grew up in Granada Hills and later earned a history degree at UCLA back in the day when the Bruins were good in football and bad in basketball. He will be happy to explain the catcher interference rule to you. Bob also wrote the blog One Through Forty-Two or Forty-Three, "a more or less random look back at the Presidents of the U.S." Bob lives in South Pasadena. Email
On Tuesday night, Dodgers hitting coach (and manager heir apparent) Don Mattingly committed a gaffe that forced the Dodgers to remove closer Jonathan Broxton from the game. Mattingly was pilloried throughout the blogosphere, but he was not the first manager to run afoul of baseball's arcane rule about making trips to the mound during an inning.
Spain and the Netherlands face off Sunday in Johannesburg for the World Cup. For the first time since 1998, there will be a first time winner of the Cup. Just who will it be? It's hard to say, but Spain is a slight favorite.
The World Cup semifinals start Tuesday at 11:30 am PT with a match between the Netherlands and Uruguay. Germany and Spain play the other one on Wednesday. All four teams have a fighting chance, although the Germany-Spain winner will be favored.
The quarterfinals of the World Cup are usually where the pretenders are finally found out. Expect the big boys of international soccer to move on to the semifinals. Or ask an octopus.
The United States and Mexico both left the World Cup after losing their second round matches. But, the tournament will still move on with some of its brightest stars and biggest matches to come.
The United States qualified for the second round of the World Cup in a dramatic and nerve-wracking fashion. Next up for the Americans will be Ghana on Saturday. Mexico will take on Argentina on Sunday.
UCLA's baseball team has often been a monument to under achievement, but the 2010 squad has won a record 49 games and picked up the school's first ever win in the College World Series.
The United States scratched back from an early deficit to tie Slovenia in an important World Cup match. Meanwhile, Mexico looks primed to move on to the second round. Even South Korea is in good shape after a big loss to Argentina.
The World Cup has opened up in South Africa with an overabundance of cautious play. But, both the American and Mexican teams have a good chance of making it to the second round.
Soccer's World Cup gets underway in South Africa on June 11. Here's a very quick and extraordinarily unsophisticated preview written by a guy is only related to a soccer expert.
Former major leaguer Morgan Ensberg is trying to help people understand the game of the baseball, as well as serve as a media critic.
Josh Wilker, author of Cardboard Gods, talks about his new book based on his blog about his life and baseball cards. Wilker will give a reading of his book at the South Pasadena Public Library on June 10.
Today (April 12) marks what would be the 106th birthday of my maternal grandmother, Ella Kimberling. She passed away in 2001, a few weeks shy of her 97th birthday.
I tend to start looking at old photos of her around this time. One photo, which I had ignored for years, seems to represent her importance to my family.
The Dodgers left their spring training home in Glendale, Arizona on Wednesday to play a game in Las Vegas. On Thursday night, they came back home to Los Angeles to play an exhibition game against Cleveland. And both the Dodgers and this one fan still do not seem ready for the regular season to start on Monday.
The Dodgers got back minor league outfielder Jamie Hoffmann from the New York Yankees. But they did get back ALL of him?
Twenty years after the death of star player Hank Gathers, the Loyola Marymount basketball team finally looks like it might be able to return to respectability. A winning record and a berth in a postseason tournament gives some hope to a small school that commanded the spotlight in Los Angeles basketball for the briefest of times.
If one word had to be picked to sum up the 2009-10 season in Pac-10 men's basketball, it might not be a word. It would likely be more of a groan or a sigh. The conference, which has won the championship 15 times (11 of them by UCLA), has not had a year to remember.
| It turns out that the property tax add-ons levied by the City of Bell have its residents paying a higher rate than in any local city but Industry.
| More and more experts are saying that the Gulf Coast mess isn't turning out to be nearly the disaster that everybody had thought.
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