Posts by Paul Teetor
NBA Coach Steve Nash at home on the (tennis) court, in Manhattan Beach
by Paul Teetor Even before Steve Nash left tennis court number 3 at Live Oak Park Saturday morning, a long line of gushing fans and eager favor seekers were waiting to ambush him. Excuse me, Steve, could you sign this basketball for my son? “Of course, got a pen?” Uh, Steve, do you mind taking…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Pandemic Olympics, LeBron as super hero, Clippers’ Curse
For the moment, we can be grateful that none of our beach volleyball Olympians – Alix Klineman, April Ross, Sarah Sponcil, Kelly Claes, Phil Dalhausser, Nick Lucena, Taylor Crabb and Jake Gibb – have tested positive. Nor has Mira Costa grad Olympic cyclist Gavin Hoover.
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Father Time calls Federer, PD calls Trevor, UCLA calls Hurd
by Paul Teetor The shocking news spread among Beach City tennis fans like a Malibu brush fire: Roger got bageled. There was no need for a last name. Among tennis fans, there’s only one Roger: Roger Federer. A bagel is the worst meal a tennis player can have. It’s tennis slang for when one player…
Read MoreAll Ball: Dodger dog, Clippers vs Lakers in 2022
by Paul Teetor The Trouble with Trevor Remember that crazy story Former President Donald Trump loved to tell about the frost-bitten snake taken in by a tender-hearted woman who was then shocked when the snake bit her? The punchline: you knew I was a snake before you took me in. His point, I guess, was…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Clippers close, MCHS VB’s Coordt, Coach Drost earn All CIF honors
by Paul Teetor The Clippers got a good look at their future Monday night – or as the Sarah Connor character said in The Terminator, one possible future. In this nightmarish future, their best player – Kawhi Leonard – is gone, either to some other team or to the permanent injury list. In this possible…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: the end of the Clipper Curse, Nash’s Nets, and RUHS’s strong CIF run
by Paul Teetor From now on, the Clippers are officially more about their future than about their forgettable past. For the first time in their long and – dare we say it – cursed history, their fans have something solid and substantial to look forward to. Today, tomorrow, next week and next year their…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Clippers close, Beach Cities Klineman and Sponcil clinch Olympic berths
by Paul Teetor “Playoff P” is alive and well and living in Staples Center. The question now, as always, is: can he keep on living – and winning? Return on investment is a business concept that multi-billionaire Clippers owner Steve Ballmer understands better than most people. This week, with his team down 0-2 to the…
Read MoreMira Costa looking at #1 National Ranking after defeating Loyola for CIF Division 1 Southern Regional Championship
Championship game photos: Saturday June 12, Fisher Gym, Mira Costa High School. Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor [UPDATED] When the Mira Costa boys volleyball team lost the first set to Loyola in the regional championship game Saturday night and then were tied 11-11 in the second set, Coach Avery Drost called a timeout…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Clippers are LA’s team to watch, Mira Costa Soccer #1 in California
by Paul Teetor When you strip away all the hot air rhetoric about “building the right culture,” and “getting high-character guys,” and “looking for players who play for each other,” there’s really only two ways to build an NBA championship contender. The first is to tank for several seasons in a…
Read MoreTradition lends a hand in Mira Costa High School CIF volleyball championship
Mira Costa had a couple of extra ingredients that helped coach Avery Drost brew up a memorable title run for the team he has coached for the last four years
Read MoreMira Costa, Manhattan Beach defeats Loyola, Los Angeles, for CIF soccer title
by Paul Teetor Pressure can burst pipes and it can produce diamonds. Friday night it produced a diamond of a championship game. No matter how much they told each other it was just another game, so let’s not do anything different than we have all year, Thomas Southey and his Mira Costa boys soccer teammates…
Read MoreALL BALL: Mira Costa basketball loses tough game, faces Redondo next
By Paul Teetor Two points, two (allegedly) clean blocks and 12 seconds. That’s how close the Mira Costa boys basketball team came to gaining a first-place tie with Culver City in a Bay League showdown Friday night. In the final 12 seconds, the Mustangs had 3 chances to tie…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Klineman, Ross on way to Tokyo Olympics, Mira Costa Mustangs beat Santa Monica
By Paul Teetor There’s nothing like blowing a 15-point lead to bring out the sunny side of Mira Costa’s hard-driving boys basketball Coach Neal Perlmutter. “It was nice to see us lose a lead and then get it back and regain our composure,” Perlmutter said without a hint of sarcasm, moments after his team hung…
Read MoreAll Ball sports: A line is drawn, from Kaepernick to Chauvin
by Paul Teetor Colin Kaepernick and Derek Chauvin will go down in the history books together, but for very different reasons. One took a knee during the national anthem in principled protest. The other gave a knee during an arrest made with mindless malice. One is a woke football player who led his team to…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mira Costa High School Mustangs bring down Redondo High Sea Hawks
Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor It was all over by halftime. You could tell it by the starkly different body language as the two teams headed for their respective locker rooms. Mira Costa football players strutted off Redondo’s home field Friday night with a 28-0 lead and the clear expectation of putting up…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Tiger’s ‘Celebrity justice’; Costa-Redondo football Battle of the Beach
by Paul Teetor If you live up on Peninsula and you’re late for an appointment it’s perfectly okay to speed down Hawthorne Boulevard at nearly 90 miles per hour – double the posted speed limit — and crash so badly that your 5,000-pound beast of a vehicle goes flying right through and over the oncoming…
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