Posts by Paul Teetor
All Ball Sports: LA Times to sports fans: Drop Dead
by Paul Teetor Breaking news: the Los Angeles Times has entered into a murder-suicide pact with its sports section readers. The Times killed off most of its sports coverage this week as part of its ongoing, slow-motion suicide that started more than two decades ago when the Chandler family sold out to the Chicago Tribune…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Sand Crabbs duel, A-Team eyes Paris Olympics
by Paul Teetor When it comes to dominating a sibling rivalry, winning nine out of 10 ain’t bad. For the math challenged, that’s 90 percent. It’s also the number of times pro volleyball player Trevor Crabb has beaten his brother Taylor lately – winning nine out of the last 10 matches between the brothers. The…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Lakers getting the band back together
by Paul Teetor LeBron James didn’t say a word. He didn’t need to. The pictures on his Instagram Story said it all. There they were: mugshots of every player the Lakers had just signed in the first 48 hours of free agency. The league-wide fast break began Friday afternoon at 3 p.m. with the biggest names…
Read MoreAll Ball Dodgers: June Gloom on, off the field
by Paul Teetor June Gloom has been worse than usual in the Beach Cities this year. But it’s been a bright sunny day compared to what’s been hanging over Dodgers Stadium lately – both on and off the field. There the June gloom is more like June Doom. To put it mildly, June has been…
Read MoreAll Ball Sport: Waiting for LeBron
by Paul Teetor Maybe he really did mean it. Maybe he really is not coming back next season. Or maybe he really does want to leave LA for greener pastures. It’s been more than three weeks since LeBron James said he had a lot of things to think about before deciding whether or not he…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Golf, greed and hypocrisy
A Song of Freedom (Editor’s note: The following is excerpted from a speech delivered at the Hermosa Beach September 9 Memorial on September 9, 2019 by Manhattan Beach Fire Captain Tim O’Brien.) Because of technical rescue training Jeff Sanders, and I had, and through a relationship our former Fire Chief Dennis Groat had with a…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: A great runner passes; A great job opening at Mira Costa
by Paul Teetor The Lakers incredible late-season run from 13th place in the Western Conference to the Western Conference Finals – making them one of the final four teams in the NBA playoffs – was such a big deal here in LA that it overshadowed some significant local sports stories that broke in the last…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Come Back, LeBron, Come Back
by Paul Teetor There’s a memorable scene at the end of the classic western film, “Shane,” where a little boy watches the title character riding his horse off towards the horizon and calls out, “Come back, Shane, come back.” That’s how most Lakers fans felt this week after LeBron James dropped the bombshell that he…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: A future to look forward to
by Paul Teetor The Lakers magic carpet ride to the Western Conference Finals was great fun, it was totally unexpected, and even inspiring in many ways. You know, the old bromide about keep rooting for the underdog and sometimes it will actually come true. And it did – for a while. But now, after the…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Hillbilly Kobe Leads Lakers into Western Finals
by Paul Teetor Anthony Davis blocked Dante DiVincenzo’s layup attempt late in the first half of Friday night’s game against the Golden State Warriors, grabbed the loose ball out of the air and threw it down the court to a streaking Austin Reaves with three seconds left in the first half. Reaves caught the ball…
Read MoreJohn Fogerty takes ownership of his songs at BeachLife Redondo Beach
Creedence Clearwater Revival songwriter reclaims his songs, in every way at BeachLife Redondo Beach
Read MoreMira Costa girls run the table on way to CIF championship
by Paul Teetor by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa girls beach volleyball team made history Saturday afternoon at Long Beach City College when it beat Redondo to win the first ever Southern Section CIF beach volleyball championship. The CIF made beach volleyball a sanctioned sport this year. After advancing to the finals…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: The consistently inconsistent Laker, and a look far into the future
by Paul Teetor Anthony Davis was scheduled to have a great game Saturday night in game three of the Lakers semifinal playoff series with the Golden State Warriors. And he did exactly that, leading the Lakers to a 127-97 rout, and a 2-1 series lead with 25 points, 13 rebounds and four blocked shots. How…
Read MoreAll Ball: Lakers, Nicholson Turn Back the Clock
by Paul Teetor Jack’s back. That’s all you had to see Friday night to understand what was about to happen: the Lakers were poised to win their biggest home game in more than three years. The first thing anyone with a pulse and a working pair of eyes noticed – whether in person or on…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Laker bear responds to poke, Clippers’ stars falling
by Paul Teetor For your own safety: don’t poke the bear. Memphis Grizzlies bad boy Dillon Brooks had to learn that the hard way. First, he called the bear – aka LeBron James – a tired old man after the Grizzlies beat LeBron and the Lakers in the second game of their first-round playoff series,…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Lakers, Clippers Hallway Series? If so, thank Westbrook
by Paul Teetor All hail Russell Westbrook. The Lakers and Clippers have never met in the playoffs — but that statistically unlikely circumstance could change this year. And if it should happen, much of the credit has to go to Westbrook, the former NBA Most Valuable Player who was traded away by the Lakers two…
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