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by Paul Teetor Divorce is always toughest on the kids. In this case, the kids are the fans. Lakers fans will no longer have LeBron James – the second greatest player in NBA history, behind only 6-time champion Michael Jordan – to watch and cheer for while their team stumbles through the regular season and […]
by Paul Teetor The Los Angeles Dodgers, riding the tidal wave of two consecutive World Series titles for the first time in franchise history, are heroes to most LA sports fans. But to the owners and fans of the other 29 Major League Baseball teams, they spend like drunken tech bros who have bought themselves […]
by Paul Teetor The novelist Thomas Wolfe proclaimed a sad truth 85 years ago in the title of his best-known book, You Can’t go Home Again. Former New Yorker turned Florida man Donald Trump learned that painful lesson the hard way this week when he announced that he was going to attend game three of […]
by Bondo Wyszpolski After emerging from the south exit of Chigasaki station and veering right for two blocks, one comes to Southern-dori, or Southern Street. This narrow, slightly curving thoroughfare winds downhill to Sagami Bay. Keep walking, and before long the vibes and rhythm of a rather funky beach town will appear. Less than […]
By Paul Teetor Attention Rams fans: get ready to party like its 2022 all over again. Consider the parallels between then and now. The next Super Bowl is going to be held at SoFi Stadium, just like it was five years ago when the Rams won Super Bowl LVI over the Cincinnati Bengals 23–20 on […]
By Paul Teetor The Dodgers’ Grim Reaper The grim reaper struck again Wednesday night. It happened at Chavez Ravine when Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled Shohei Ohtani out of the game two thirds of the way through a game where he was pitching a no-hitter against the Colorado Rockies. It was the second time in […]
by Paul Teetor Matthew Stafford is now the $55 million man. The single most important position in all of sports is the quarterback in football. More important than the pitcher in baseball, the goalie in hockey or the point guard in basketball. That’s because the quarterback is involved in every single play on offense, whether […]
The end of the Lakers season came quickly with four straight losses to the Oklahoma City Thunder. The cause of death: blunt force trauma. Oklahoma City was too good, too deep and too talented to be tested by the Lakers in the Western Conference semifinals. Three of the four losses were blowouts, all following the […]
by Paul Teetor There was nothing but doom and gloom predicted for the Lakers in the semifinal Western Conference Playoffs against the Oklahoma City Thunder. And after a 7-0 start in game one it all came true. After that great start by the Lakers, the Thunder came roaring back and rolled to a 108-90 win, […]
By Paul Teetor When LeBron James walked into the Lakers locker room after the series-clinching game six victory over the Houston Rockets, he was greeted with a chorus of bleats and baaahs – the kind of sounds made by goats. It was his teammates’ way of saying he is the the GOAT, the […]
By Paul Teetor OK, so it was a chippy, choppy game and it got downright ugly all too often. But boy oh boy, the drama level was off the charts Friday night in the Lakers 112-108 overtime win over the Houston Rockets. Not only did the victory enable the Lakers to take a 3-0 stranglehold […]
by Paul Teetor One superstar – even if he is 41 years old and in his 23rd NBA season – is better than no superstars. That was the moral of the story when the Lakers shocked the basketball world Saturday night by beating the Houston Rockets 107-98 in the first game of their first-round playoff […]