All Ball Sports: Mustangs on historic run
by Paul Teetor The undefeated Mustangs were on a roll, crushing every team in their path. But this game was going to be different. Mira Costa boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter knew that even before the game. Just how different he had no idea. In racing out to a 10-0 start to the new season, […]
All Ball Sports: LeBron, Life at 40, Army’s shining Black Knights
by Paul Teetor Over a four-game losing streak this week, LeBron James missed 20 consecutive three-point shots. Let me repeat that staggering statistic in Live Oak Park terms: LeBron bricked 20 straight threes. Dude was straight up shooting blanks. If that happened at Live Oak Park in Manhattan Beach or Clark Park in Hermosa Beach, […]
All Ball Sports: A pickleball Thanksgiving, Dodgers all in
by Paul Teetor There were players as young as 8 and as old as 77. There was a grandmother-granddaughter team. There were sibling teams. There were father-son teams. There were mother-son teams. The pickleball craze that is sweeping America came to Manhattan Beach this past weekend when more than 300 players entered the fourth annual […]
All Ball Sports: A dreary night in Pasadena, will Dodgers ‘run it back?’
SB Sharks on to Pop Warner Championships The South Bay Sharks Pop Warner youth football and cheer teams sent three teams to the recent Southern California Conference Pop Warner Championships, and came home with three championship trophies. The Sharks won the 10-and-under, 11-and-under, and 12-and-under divisions. All three teams moved on to the Western Conference […]
Palos Verdes earns playoff birth with Mira Costa overtime win
by Paul Teetor Palos Verdes High battled Mira Costa high into overtime in the Bay League final and won on quarterback Ryan Rakowski’s 1-yard touchdown run on the opening possession of overtime. The Sea Kings, who ended their regular season with a Bay League record of 3-2 and an overall record of 5-5, earned one […]
All Ball Sports: USC – new quarterback, new hope; Sea Hawks downed
by Paul Teetor USC Football coach Lincoln Riley finally made the key personnel change this week that he should have made a month ago, when it became obvious that Miller Moss was not the quarterback to lead USC back to the promised land – or even to a bowl game. At this point the Trojans […]
All Ball Sports: Extra point decisive in Sea Hawks CIF first round win
by Paul Teetor Sea Hawks Play On – Barely The Redondo Union High School football team clawed its way to a 7-6 win over Aquinas in Friday’s CIF-Southern Section Division 4 first-round game Friday night. A blocked extra point by senior safety Owen Pepper in front of a roaring home crowd was the difference. Both […]
All Ball: Dodgers: Thanks, We’ll Take It
by Paul Teetor Yaahh! The Dodgers won the World Series! Yaahh for the hometown team. Let’s have a big parade and revel in how great our team is! And indeed, the Dodgers are great – they’re the deepest and best team in all of Major League Baseball. But All Ball’s journalistic keep-it-real mission statement compels […]
All Ball: Dodgers ‘Forever Freddie,’ Costa’s dueling QB’s, Redondo on a roll
by Paul Teetor Sure, Freddie Freeman will be remembered forever by Dodgers fans and a whole lot of other people for his walk-off grand slam homer that won game one of the World Series against the Yankees Friday night in extra innings. It was a magnificent achievement by a guy who was playing on a […]
All Ball Sports: Dodgers most unlikely hero, Costa stopped, Redondo resumes
by Paul Teetor Jackie Robinson, Duke Snider, Kirk Gibson and …. Tommy Edman? Yep, that’s a list of Dodger postseason hitting greats who carried their teams to memorable triumphs. Wait – Tommy who? That would be Tommy Edman, a utility player the Dodgers picked up from the Saint Louis Cardinals in an under-the-radar move at […]
All Ball Sports: Dodgers fever, Mustangs gallop, Sea Hawks stumble
by Paul Teetor Mira Costa and Culver City put on an offensive clinic Friday night at Waller Stadium. In the end the Mustangs relentless ground game ran right over the Centaurs prolific passing game. The teams combined for 13 touchdowns, 43 first downs, eight plays covering at least 40 yards and eight touchdowns on plays […]
All Ball Sports: Big Game Shohei, big game for Sea Hawks
by Paul Teetor The popcorn was still popping as All Ball settled in Saturday night for Game 1 of the Dodgers-Padres National League Division Series. And before I could shove the first handful of hot corn in my mouth, the Dodgers were already down 3-0. Even though the Dodgers were the home team by […]
All Ball Sports: Sea Hawks dueling QBs, Dodgers fall hope
by Paul Teetor A star was born Friday night at the Redondo-Banning football game – or at the very least a potential quarterback controversy was born. Redondo came into the home game with a 3-1 record behind a quarterback, Niko London, who had managed the offense efficiently while the Sea Hawk’s suffocating defense carried […]
All Ball Sports: ‘Shohei Time,’ Costa, Sea Hawks 3-1
by Paul Teetor It’s official. Shohei Ohtani is now the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Better than Babe Ruth, better than Ty Cobb, better than Ted Williams, Willie Mays or Joe DiMaggio. Better than anybody you can name in the long, glorious history of major league baseball, which goes back 140 years. Greatest. Of. […]
All Ball Sports: Trump six-packed, bageled, pancaked, Sea Hawks, Mustangs roll on
by Paul Teetor Donald Trump loves to use sports metaphors when discussing politics and personalities. When his good pal Fox News host Sean Hannity asked him after the Presidential Debate on Tuesday night if he would accept Kamala Harris’s challenge to do another debate, Trump had a quick answer. “When two prize fighters have a […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs hit Lucky 7 against Sea Hawks, Chargers supercharged
by Paul Teetor Mustang Win Streak Continues The Mira Costa football team extended its winning streak over archrival Redondo to an incredible seven straight games with a thrilling 14-13 victory Friday night. While the victory still meant a lot emotionally to the Costa players and their fans — and ensured backyard bragging rights for another […]