All Ball Sports: The Clippers: Days of Future Past
by Paul Teetor This was the week it became official: the Clippers trade with Oklahoma City for Paul George back in the summer of 2019 was the worst trade in NBA history. And except for the Boston Red Sox trading Babe Ruth – the Shohei Ohtani of his time — to the New York Yankees […]
All Ball Sports: Lakers blame game; Clippers collapse
by Paul Teetor Well, that didn’t take long. On Wednesday night the Minnesota Timberwolves put the Lakers out of their self-induced misery, pounding in the final nail of a 4-1 near sweep of the best-of-seven first round series. There was much wailing and gnashing of teeth throughout LA, and indeed across the sporting world. To […]
All Ball Sports: Clippers, Lakers: The lost weekend
by Paul Teetor Now this was more like it. After two thrillers in Denver – an overtime loss in Game One and a 3-point win in Game two that came down to the final play – the LA Clippers destroyed the Denver Nuggets by a score of 117-83 Thursday night in the first playoff game […]
All Ball Sports: LA Story: Clippers choke, Lakers swamped
by Paul Teetor Uh oh. The NBA playoffs are finally here but they may soon be gone. The fervent hope blooming in Los Angeles like a California poppy that either the Clippers or the Lakers – or both — could make it to the Western Conference Finals this year were dealt a significant blow in […]
All Ball Sports: Dodgers: Instant karma
by Paul Teetor Shame on the Dodgers. Shame on their ownership, management and the players too. The franchise of Jackie Robinson, the team with the biggest immigrant fan base, the most gay-friendly organization in Major League Baseball, dishonored themselves on Monday by meeting with President Donald Trump at the White House. Just by allowing Trump […]
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 […]