Posts by Paul Teetor
All Ball Sports: Rams hopeful, Redondo rolls over Costa, Ellison returns
by Paul Teetor Beating the Arizona Cardinals was the easy part for the Los Angeles Rams. Now comes the hard part of their Super Bowl journey. First the Rams will have to beat Tom Brady and the defending Super Bowl Champion Tampa Bay Buccaneers next Sunday, on five days rest. In Tampa Bay. And if…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Chargers coach chokes, Rams throw it away, USC revolving door
By Paul Teetor Justin Herbert should fire Chargers Head coach Brandon Staley. Today. ASAP. Wait. What? The star quarterback can’t fire the head coach, can he? Technically, no. But in this case the Football Gods should make an exception. That’s because Staley made the dumbest decision in sporting history late Sunday night, when he called…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Rams fight each other, Chargers last chance, Laker purge
By Paul Teetor The Rams started out literally fighting themselves Sunday morning. But they finished the day beating the Baltimore Ravens in the most stirring win of their season so far, a 20-19 nail-biter that came down to the last play and the last second. Right from the start, the Rams looked out of sync,…
Read MoreALL BALL Sports: Manhattan Beach Mira Costa champions, LA Title Town to Title-less Town
by Paul Teetor Locally, Mira Costa became the championship capitol of the Beach Cities this year. The boys volleyball team, the boys soccer team, and the girls cross-country squad all won CIF titles, the first for their respective teams in a long, long time. So long, in fact for the girls cross country team, that…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Will it take the death of a superstar? Chargers fourth and down
by Paul Teetor What’s it going to take for the sports world to realize the threat it faces from Covid-19, and the newly dominant Omicron variant? Will it take the death of a superstar? No one loves sports more than All Ball, but the common-sense conclusion after the chaos of the last week is inescapable:…
Read MoreRolling Hills Prep protects perfect record
Point guard Benny Gealer named MVP of Pacific Shores Tournament by Paul Teetor Rolling Hills Prep and Mira Costa High both had perfect records when they met last month in the finals of the prestigious Pacific Shores Tournament, held at Fisher Stadium, Mira Costa’s new $40 million gym. Rolling Hills was 7-0. Mira Costa was…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mira Costa Classic discovery, South Bay Super Bowl hopes
By Paul Teetor The Mira Costa girls basketball team came in second at their own tournament this week. That was the bad news. The Mustangs suffered their first loss of the season, and their record fell to 8-1 after losing to St. Mary’s Academy of Inglewood in the Mira Costa Winter Classic. The good news…
Read MoreFrias, Parsley, Chittenden lead Mira Costa Mustangs to first State Cross Country Title
By Paul Teetor By its very nature distance running is an individual sport. There have been stories written about the loneliness of the long-distance runner. But it took a team of runners and close friends to win Mira Costa its first CIF cross country state championship. A team led by Dalia Frias. Of course Dalia…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mustang boys, girls basketball combine for 15-1 start, Chargers back in the hunt
by Paul Teetor Combined, the Mira Costa boys and girls basketball teams are 15-1. But that single loss was a real buzz-kill. A dream birthday party was all set up for boys Coach Neal Perlmutter on Saturday night: his team was undefeated at 9-0, it was in the finals of its own Pacific Shores…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: New Trojan horse, Mustangs escape, Kobe’s House
by Paul Teetor The gold and cardinal USC banners came out of deep storage Sunday afternoon, and started flying all over the beach cities. Whether they were hanging from a showy over-priced multi-million-dollar mega-mansion, a boxy concrete duplex carved up into a rat-hole megaplex, or a run-down sea shack eyesore – yes, there are still…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mira Costa football season ends, Luke’s back, and o’Crypt
Story by Paul Teetor Photos by Ray Vidal In the end, the Mira Costa football team simply ran out of miracles. The Mustangs staged a furious late rally against St. Pius X-St. Matthias Friday night, wiping out most of an 18-point deficit at Waller Stadium. But they came up just short, to fall 46-43 in…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: The Mira Costa Mustangs Magic Show returns to Waller Stadium
by Paul Teetor There’s something magical, even miraculous, going on with the Mira Costa football team. They’re turning sour lemons into sweet lemonade, copper pennies into silver dollars and dirty water into fine wine. Five weeks ago the Mustangs had an ugly 2-5 record, had suffered a string of heart-breaking close losses, and appeared to…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mira Costa High football passes on, and on. Rough year for coaches, high and low
by Paul Teetor As the high school football season comes to a close, the Mira Costa and Redondo teams are like two ships passing in the night: The Mustangs are sailing off into the starry sea of playoff possibilities while the Sea Hawks are caught in a bad storm and headed straight for the rocky…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Mira Costa football, volleyball move forward, USC, UCLA fall back, Lakers’ not so ‘greats’
by Paul Teetor The rivalry game quickly turned into a rout. Mira Costa’s football team pulverized Redondo Friday night in front of a full house at Waller Stadium, jumping out to a 35-0 lead before easing back on the throttle and settling for a 55-34 victory. The blowout in the annual, end-of-the-regular-season rivalry game earned…
Read MoreAll Ball
by Paul Teetor Saturday night’s disappointing and incredibly frustrating 4-2 loss to the Atlanta Braves in game six of the National League Championship Series was much more than just the end of a disappointing and incredibly frustrating season. It was the end of a golden but ultimately disappointing era in Dodgers baseball. The era when…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Dodger brinkmanship, Chargers human, Rams and Mustangs roll on
by Paul Teetor The Dodgers were 41-0 this season when leading by two runs or more in the eighth inning. They are now 41-1 thanks to some awful fielding and even worse managing in Sunday night’s stunning 5-4 loss to the Atlanta Braves in game 2 of the National League Division Series. The mainstream media…
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