All 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 […]
ALL 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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
“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.
Goff 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 […]
All 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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A famous football coach – OK, it was the Al Pacino character in Oliver Stone’s great football film Any Given Sunday – famously said that football is a game of inches. That was never truer than in the Rams’ 32-18, second-round playoff loss to the Green Bay Packers Saturday afternoon. It was a […]
US Olympic hopefuls compete in 16th Street Hermosa Beach tourney
Eight of the U.S’ top women’s beach volleyball teams play a practice tournament at Hermosa’s historic 16th Street courts.
Playoff run ends, Mustang look to players returning next year
It’s a basketball debate as old as the 3-point shot itself. If your team is down by 3 points with less than a minute to play, should you shoot a 3 to tie the score and force overtime? If you miss, the game is probably over. Or should you go for a quick two-pointer and […]
Mustangs celebrated despite elimination
Mira Costa boys basketball Coach Neal Perlmutter stood courtside sporting a big “mission accomplished” smile while accepting congratulations for at least 10 minutes after Friday night’s second-round playoff game with Pacifica Christian of Newport Beach. “Thank you, thank you, thank you,” he said as a steady stream of fans, parents, students and even players stopped […]
Costa versus Redondo rivalry heats up
Mira Costa and Redondo Union will head into their Thursday night boys basketball showdown at Da Vinci High in El Segundo with even more motivation than is customary for a rivalry game. (The game is at Da Vinci because Mira Costa’s new gym is under construction). Redondo is still smarting from its four-point loss to […]
Seniors score on senior night
The Mira Costa boys basketball team put a stranglehold on the race for the Bay League title Tuesday night when it beat Palos Verdes 57-49 in yet another defensive slugfest in a season full of down-and-dirty battles. The Mustangs now have a 7-0 league record thanks to senior shooting star Tyler “Ant Man” Antrobius, who […]
Mustangs bring down Sea Hawks for league lead
Costa defeats rival Sea Hawks for first time since 2012 The Mira Costa boys basketball team seized control of the race for the Bay League title Tuesday night when it beat seven-time defending Bay League champion Redondo in a 52-48, back-and-forth thriller. The win puts the Mustangs in the driver’s seat with a 5-0 league […]
Costa boys, girls prove selves against Palos Verdes
It only took two games over four days for the Mira Costa boys basketball team to send an unspoken-but-unmistakable message to seven-time defending Bay League champion Redondo: you better take us seriously this year. After suffering through too many years of Bay League non-contention while their backyard neighbor dominated the rivalry and the league, the […]
Sea Hawks win opener with assist from Leuzinger trainer
The Redondo boys basketball team started its quest for an eighth consecutive Bay League title with a much-closer-than-it-sounds 59-51 victory over Leuzinger Tuesday night. More impressively, they held Amound Anderson, who came in to the Sea Hawk Pavilion averaging 28 points a game, to just one point in the Bay League opener for both teams. […]