Rosen MVP in Mustang Holiday Tourney win
Mustangs improve to 7-5 going in to Bay League play
In a season already filled with peaks – third place in the Pac Shores tournament – and valleys – a one-point overtime loss to El Segundo – the Mira costa boys basketball team was staring directly at the possibility of reaching a new low a week ago Friday night. The Mustangs trailed winless South Torrance […]
Young Mustangs play like vets against Gondoliers
The Mira Costa boys basketball team got its Pac Shores Tournament off to a rousing start Monday night with a dramatic, two-point, come-from-behind win over Venice in the first round of pool play. Year two of Head Coach Neal Perlmutter’s rebuild of Costa’s traditionally mediocre basketball program got a jolt of rocket fuel this year […]
Sea Hawks deliver first win to new head coach Welch
Redondo boys basketball head coach Nick Welch sounded more relieved than happy after his team opened the Ryse Williams Pac Shores Tournament Monday night with a gritty, first-round 60-50 win over South Gate South East High School. “I’m just glad it’s out of the way,” Welch said after his very first game as a head […]
First half momentum propels Mustangs past Sea Hawks
Whitney, Southey connect for three TDs It was only a 3-yard pass, but rarely has a single play had such a huge impact on a rivalry game. After the Mira Costa and Redondo football teams fought and scrapped their way to a 7-7 tie shortly before halftime Friday night, the Mustangs got the ball back […]
Mustang, Sea Hawk victories ramp up rivalry tensions
The Mira Costa and Redondo football teams both won last Friday night to set up their annual end-of-the-season rivalry game as a battle for second place in the Bay League and all the playoff seeding advantages that go with it. There is even a remote chance that the winner will share first place with […]
Mira Costa, Redondo rival for second, playoff seeding
The Mira Costa vs. Redondo rivalry football game is always a high point of the regular season, regardless of the teams’ records. But this year the Nov. 1 game at Costa is shaping up as an even bigger deal than usual. It looks like it will be a battle for second place in the Bay […]
Mustangs hold off relentless Panthers
Mira Costa won a wild 35-27 shoot-out with Peninsula Friday night, but had to survive an epic 21-point Peninsula comeback, a 20-minute blackout and a last-second on-side kick that could have given the Panthers one last chance to send the game into overtime. “What a great game!” said a happy and relieved Mira Costa Head […]
Preston Sturges a prescient screenwriter
The Hollywood legend’s struggles disclosed in biography by son If Thursday night’s book signing at Pages Bookstore was a Preston Sturges film, it would have been called “The Manhattan Beach Story.” The plot summary: a son who worships his long-dead, celebrity father as a hero finds some old letters and diaries that give him […]
Bay League battle becomes Battle of the Bunglers
The much-hyped, highly anticipated Battle of the Bay League Big Boys quickly turned into the Battle of the Bay League Bunglers Friday afternoon. Palos Verdes ground down Mira Costa in a game that featured an all-you-can-stand buffet of fumbles, interceptions, penalties and missed field goals and points after. In the end, Palos Verdes slogged […]
LeBron’s Lakers locked and loaded
My mother always told me, don’t talk about it, be about it.” — LeBron James “I’m happy to be a Laker,” LeBron James declared as he put down the mic and walked away from the media after baring his soul for 14 long minutes. James’ horrible, no good, very bad Lakers experience is ancient history. […]
Mustangs trample Torrance, next up Palos Verdes
After Friday night’s destruction of West Torrance, the Mira Costa football team is now on a three-game winning streak and hungry for more. Next up for the galloping Mustangs: Palos Verdes, the traditional Bay League bully. This time the mercy rule wasn’t invoked — but it was still their second straight blow-out victory. One […]
Costa’s ‘Slingin’ Sam shoots down ES Eagles
The rivalry game between the El Segundo and Mira Costa football teams Friday night turned into a one-sided rout quicker than you can say “Lord have mercy.” The rarely invoked mercy rule – in which the game clock does not stop for time-outs, injuries, scores, etc. — was in effect for the entire second half […]
Friendships formed, hearts broken at Manhattan Open
Trevor Crabb and Reid Priddy took the concept of “frenemies” – two people who seem friendly but are under-the-surface enemies — to a whole new level at the Manhattan Beach Open Sunday afternoon. Redondo Beach’s Crabb and his new partner Priddy – a former Olympic indoor gold medalist — capped off a wild weekend […]
The old man and the little mermaid
“You’re on your own, just you and the ocean.” – Dwight Crum Pier to Pier announcer Dick Douglas She’s the youngest person ever to swim in the two-mile Dwight Crum Pier to Pier race. He was the oldest person in Sunday’s race. In an after-race photo, he looked like a proud grandfather and she […]
Day, Flint dominate, Budinger, Patterson break through at HB AVP
There were two very different endings Sunday afternoon for two local favorites with huge fan clubs – Sean Rosenthal of Redondo Beach and Emily Day of Torrance. After a long, grueling day of monster blocks, diving sets and laser-like kill shots in front of a standing-room-only crowd at the AVP Hermosa Open – the overflow […]