All Ball Sports: March Sadness: UCLA Women Crash and Burn
The Los Angeles 2028 US Olympic Committee will get a preview of how great holding the Beach Volleyball Olympics in the South Bay could be when Smackfest returns to Seaside Lagoon in King Harbor on Saturday, April 12. Play begins at 12:15 p.m., accompanied by live bands, food, beer, wine, and cocktails. 21 and over. […]
All Ball Sports: March Madness: UCLA Women In; USC Women Out
by Paul Teetor The UCLA women’s basketball team made modern history Sunday afternoon by reaching its first ever NCAA Final Four. For the old-timers who say wait a minute, UCLA won a national title in 1978 – well, that was in the pre-NCAA era of women’s basketball, and this was its first NCAA regional final […]
All Ball Sports: Say a prayer for JuJu Watkins, rooting for “laundry with numbers”
by Paul Teetor The worst thing you could imagine happening to the USC women’s basketball team happened Monday night: superstar JuJu Watkins suffered a season-ending knee injury. It’s now up to the UCLA women to bring an NCAA Championship home to LA. That was the grim reality after Watkins suffered a torn ACL in the […]
All Ball Sports: Coach Reggie has Sea Hawks flying high again
by Paul Teetor The high school basketball season – which started way back in November – is finally over. The last South Bay team standing was the Redondo boys basketball team, which battled all the way to the Division One Regional Final before losing a 74-68 nail-biter to Sierra Canyon, which then went on to […]
All Ball Sports: Neal Perlmutter staying put at Mira Costa
by Paul Teetor Despite swirling rumors to the contrary, Mira Costa boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter insists he has no intention – or desire – to move up in the coaching hierarchy, either to a bigger high school program or even to a college program. “I’m happy right where I am,” Perlmutter told All Ball […]
All Ball: Mira Costa’s one win from history
Expect another typical Mira Costa game in Saturday’s Championship, with bodies strewn all over the floor, on every play by Paul Teetor Thirty-two minutes of hell. That’s what the Mira Costa boys basketball team unleashed on the Santa Barbara Dons in front of an ecstatic, adoring, standing-room-only home crowd last Saturday night. Mira Costa is […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs galloping towards history
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team continued its relentless march towards the school’s first CIF Division 1 title with a gritty 59-48 win over Windward at home Tuesday night. The Mustangs raced out to a 10-0 lead, saw it cut in half by halftime, and then finished with an 11-point victory on […]
All Ball Sports: Lakers crazy post-trade week
by Paul Teetor LeBron James was so pumped up by the arrival of fellow superstar Luka Doncic this week that he promptly went out and became only the second player – ever – to score 40 points after he turned 40 years old. The other player to do that? Some guy named Michael Jordan. You […]
All Ball: Lucky Laker Luka
by Paul Teetor The Lakers did it again. Sooner or later, all the stars that are big-time box office – Wilt Chamberlin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, LeBron, Pau Gasol and Luka Doncic – find their way to Los Angeles. Now the Luka era in Lakers history has officially begun – thanks to […]
All Ball: Mustangs Upset Sea Hawks in a thriller
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team upset the Redondo Sea Hawks 69-68 Tuesday night to grab a share of the Bay League title. Mira Costa fell behind by double digits Tuesday in the regular-season finale between the teams, but that was a wake-up call for the Mustangs. They outscored Redondo 24-15 in […]
All Ball Sports: The Rams Quarterback Problem
by Paul Teetor Lately, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford sounds like a modern Hamlet: to retire or not to retire. That is the suddenly urgent question he is pondering. The Manhattan Beach resident – he and his family live on The Strand, a couple of blocks from the Pier – certainly doesn’t need more money. He […]
All Ball Sports: Mustang girls flip the script, Sea Hawk boys dominate Mustang boys
by Paul Teetor It was a game of runs – and in the end Redondo ran right over Mira Costa. It started out as exactly the kind of jam-packed Friday night hoops happening that Mira Costa basketball fans envisioned when they approved spending $38 million on a new athletic complex a few years ago and […]
All Ball Sports: Chargers crushed, Herbert blamed, Harbaugh humbled
by Paul Teetor Justin Herbert threw just three interceptions in 17 regular season games. It was an incredibly efficient season for the All-Pro quarterback and a big reason for the Chargers turnaround from last season’s 5-12 record to this year’s 11-6 record. Then he threw four interceptions in the Chargers first-round playoff game Saturday afternoon. […]
All Ball Sports: Rams, Chargers in the playoffs: a sure thing
by Paul Teetor Parley bets – betting that two, three or even four separate things will happen at the same time in the same game or games – are increasingly popular as corporate gambling takes over the sports world sucker bet by sucker bet. There are so many variables – player injuries, travel snafus and […]
All Ball Sports: Teo’s back, good riddance D-Lo
by Paul Teetor He’s baaaack! The most wanted man in Los Angeles was finally caught by the Dodgers. Teoscar Hernandez, the sunflower seed spitting, clutch hit slugging outfielder who played such a vital role in the Dodgers march to a World Series championship this past season, signed a three-year contract Friday night to return to […]
All Ball Sports: 2024 Top Sports Stories
by Paul Teetor Overview: It’s been an incredible year for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers, and they are still – justifiably – celebrating their World Series win six weeks after the last Yankee struck out. For nearly everyone else in the LA sports scene, not so much. We lost two all-time greats of the hardwood […]