All Ball Sports: Rams CSI Los Angeles
by Paul Teetor The Rams are done. Stick a fork in them, and put them next to the roast turkey and mashed potatoes for Thanksgiving. They’ll be home for the holidays. There will be no playoffs for them this year. We have first-hand evidence for those depressing conclusions, however premature they may seem. It’s one […]
Kraskouskas’ four touchdowns runs out the running clock against rival Redondo
“I wasn’t going to let it affect me at all. I wanted to answer them with my legs,” Mustang running back said of Sea Hawk’s heckling. by Paul Teetor Mira Costa seniors Matthew Kraskouskas and Cole Crotty have been best friends – and frequent teammates in football, baseball and basketball – since first grade. “He’s […]
Mira Costa closes in on CIF title with win over Palos Verdes
by Paul Teetor Beat Mater Dei Saturday night and they’re in the CIF Finals. That’s the tantalizing reality for Coach Cam Green and his Mira Costa girls volleyball team after they defeated Palos Verdes in straight sets Tuesday night. Their goal all season has been to help Green win his first CIF title as a […]
All Ball Sports: Throwing bricks at former Staples Center, Mustang/SeaHawk showdown
by Paul Teetor The Lakers are now 0-3 after Sunday night’s depressing 106-104 loss to the Portland Trailblazers, in which they blew a 7-point lead with less than two minutes left. But their winless start is not their biggest problem. Their biggest problem is finding the right answer to the $47 million question: what should […]
The Palos Verdes Sea Kings run routs against Beach City powerhouses
by Paul Teetor photos by Ray Vidal The Palos Verdes Sea Kings had a five game winning streak against the Mira Costa Mustangs when the Manhattan Beach team traveled to the Peninsula on Friday, Oct. 7. But the Mustangs had a 5-1 record. Its only loss this year was a 54 to 48 shootout against […]
Mira Costa girls volleyball advances toward CIF title
by Paul Teetor One down, two to go. That was the situation facing the Mira Costa girls volleyball team Tuesday night after it dispatched Lakewood in the first of three pool games it will play over the next two weeks in its quest to get Coach Cam Green his first CIF title as a head […]
All Ball Sports: Dodgers fans mad as hell, Mustangs rebound, Sea Hawks fall
by Paul Teetor Wait till next year. That’s always been the Dodgers theme song. Why should this year be any different? As a true-blue Dodgers fan, I’m not just sad that they lost to the San Diego Padres 5-3 Saturday night to complete a 3-1 collapse, after being up 1-0 in the best-of-five League Divisional […]
Mira Costa girls volleyball holds off rival Redondo to end season 10-0
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa girls volleyball team capped off an unbeaten Bay League season Thursday night with yet another beatdown of archrival Redondo. Moments before the first jump serve started the match, the packed house at Fisher Gymnasium – well, it was standing room only on the Costa side, not so much on […]
All Ball Sports: World Series or Bust for the Dodgers; USC, UCLA stay the course, Redondo, Costa sunk
by Paul Teetor After six months of a regular season slog towards October, it’s finally time for Dodgers post-season baseball. It starts Tuesday night when the Dodgers host the San Diego Padres in game one of the League Divisional Series, also known as the Pacific Coast Series. Las Vegas oddsmakers say the Dodgers are the […]
All Ball Sports: Costa, Redondo marching towards showdown
by Paul Teetor It took fourth quarter heroics in both games, but in the end both the Mira Costa and Redondo football teams opened the Bay League season with a victory Friday night. The Sea Hawks’ 28-21 win at Peninsula maintained their unbeaten record at 6-0, as Redondo continued its astonishing climb from the doghouse […]
All Ball Sports: Redondo, Costa favorites to win league, Chargers’ Staley nobody’s favorite
by Paul Teetor Watch out, Bay League football teams: here come Redondo and Mira Costa. For the first time in seemingly forever, both the Sea Hawks and the Mustangs are co-favorites to rule the Bay League this fall, along with traditional power Palos Verdes. Of course, anything can happen once league play starts Friday. But […]
All Ball Sports: Rams’ Stafford stumbles, Chargers’ Herbert throws for three TDs
by Paul Teetor In a single night the Rams went from champs to chumps. Yes, it’s only one game – the first game, at that — in a long, and winding 17-game regular season. Yes, the Buffalo Bills are the trendy, pre-season pick to win the Super Bowl this season. And yes, the Rams were […]
Players champion Manhattan – Olympian April Ross, Manhattan Open champions Kolinske, and Hughes join ranks of local champions
by Paul Teetor The City of Champions just gained another one. Manhattan Beach’s sports luminaries already included NBA champion Luke Walton, Wimbledon champion Maria Sharapova and Olympic beach volleyball champion Alix Klineman all call Manhattan Beach home. Now one more has been added to the city’s ever-growing list of present and future Sports Hall of […]
All Ball Sports: Steve Nash Stayin’ Alive
By Paul Teetor Steve Nash survived a near-death experience this week. There will be a few scars and some long-range consequences yet unknown, but he will live to coach another season. In the process the long-time Manhattan Beach resident learned the most important lesson for an employee in a high-stress workplace: when a big shot […]
Bullock, Cummings reign on first time swimmer wins fans during Dwight Crum Pier to Pier race
by Paul Teetor The big digital clock at the finish line of the Dwight Crum Pier to Pier race read 1:36 when Brooke Nojina of Hermosa Beach half-walked, half-stumbled through the narrow trailway to the holding pen just north of the Manhattan Beach pier. When she was about 10 feet up the fenced-in trail, […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs bound for the Big Show, Clippers bound over Lakers
by Paul Teetor In an age of endless war, global pandemics, raging floods, and out-of-control wildfires even the sports pages are filled with depressing stories. WNBA star Brittany Griner is being held hostage in Russia, and may be traded for an arms dealer known as the Merchant of Death; Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer claims […]