Posts by Paul Teetor
All 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…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: UCLA From Now to Eternity; Mustangs break through; Sea Hawks emulate UCLA in final seconds
by Paul Teetor Three seconds. That’s how long it took for UCLA fans to go from jumping for joy to stunned silence. Still, for three wonderful, memorable seconds, Bruins fans knew the meaning of pure ecstasy. The hero: Bruins sophomore guard Johnny Juzang, who tied the big game at 90-90 with three seconds left. The…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Bruins brewing; Help Me Rondo; Mustangs, Sea Hawks down
by Paul Teetor From the First Four to the Final Four. That was the highway to heaven that UCLA traveled on its five-game March Madness journey, and the trip ain’t over yet. The Bruins are moving on to Saturday’s national NCAA semifinals after a pulsating, heart-stopping finish to their 51-49 Elite Eight victory over top-seeded…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Bruins, Trojans could make hoops history
by Paul Teetor April 3, 2021. Circle the date on your calendar because that’s when history could – repeat, could – be made if USC and UCLA each win two more games in the NCAA Tournament. They would then play in a national semifinal game, with the winner earning a spot in the NCAA Championship…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports
by Paul Teetor Next man up. That was the story Saturday night for Mira Costa as the Mustangs fell to St. Francis 38-35 on a last-minute touchdown and then missed what would have been a game-tying field goal as time expired. Hanging over the first game of the year was the shadow of a Mustang…
Read MoreAll Ball sports: Rafters to ring in Fisher Gym, UCLA salvages USC season, listen to LeBron
By Paul Teetor Prep sports fans are about to enjoy an unprecedented all-you-can-watch buffet. Or it could just be an all-you-can-read buffet, as the final rules on fan and media attendance are still being worked out. Either way – fans or no fans, maybe only just immediate family with a limit of four — football,…
Read MoreAll ball sports: Not so fast, Tiger; not so fast Irving; not so fast Rams
by Paul Teetor It wasn’t his fault. He was victimized by a ridiculously steep, slinky street that has caused accident after accident in recent years – 13 in the last 13 months, with four of them resulting in injuries, according to the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department, which has jurisdiction over that stretch of Hawthorne…
Read MoreALL BALL: LeBron’s lost weekend
by Paul Teetor It was a lost weekend for LeBron and the Lakers. And it’s going to get worse. First they lost Anthony Davis for at least the next month and quite possibly longer. Then they lost four out of five games. In the process they lost their standing as the league’s best team and…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Turner returns, Kobe’s all too human pilot, Herbert charging toward the Super Bowl
by Paul Teetor If you turned the volume down on the must-see impeachment TV Saturday afternoon, you could hear the cheering from homes all over SoCal as news spread that the boys in blue had just resigned the most popular Dodger of them all, third baseman Justin Turner. It took more than three months for…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Dodgers load the mound, Rams ready for Super Bowl, LeBron dunks against star game
by Paul Teetor The news that broke Saturday night was as shocking as it was exhilarating: the Dodgers had just signed Trevor Bauer, last season’s National League Cy Young Award winner with the Cincinnati Reds, to a three-year, $102 million contract. He will be the highest paid player in baseball next season, with a salary…
Read More“The Speed Game:” A memoir by NBA Championship Coach Paul Westhead
NBA coach Paul Westhead’s “speed game” won him championships and cost him jobs.
Read MoreGoff leaves Hermosa Beach; Snead should follow; farewell Parker and Pederson
by Paul Teetor Goodbye Jared Goff. Enjoy your time in depressing, rundown Motown with one of the worst teams in the league. As for that beautiful home you just bought in Hermosa Beach, well, there’s always Airbnb if you need to make a little extra cash while you’re out of town. Hello Matthew Stafford. Welcome…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Nash clash with Nets, McPeak honored, Kobe remembered
Nash clash with Nets, McPeak honored, Kobe remembered This isn’t what Steve Nash signed up for. The former Phoenix Suns star signed with the Lakers in 2012, spent three injury-plagued years with LA, and retired in 2015 to enjoy life. He deserved a break after his miraculous journey from unheralded Canadian baller with exactly one…
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