Posts by Paul Teetor
All Ball Sports: Costa falls to 0-3, Redondo to 2-1. Spectrum, Disney fall to 0-0
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa football team scored the first 14 points of the game Friday to fuel hope that they were about to get their first win of the still young season in front of a home crowd. Instead, Damien responded with 42 unanswered points and left Manhattan Beach with a 56-23 win…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Beach volleyball as water sport
by Paul Teetor The Association of Volleyball Professionals gambled that by extending play into Saturday night and starting play early Sunday morning they could finish the tournament in time to avoid the widely predicted hurricane/tropical storm/earthquake before it soaked and maybe even washed out the oldest and most prestigious event on the AVP tour. The…
Read MoreAll Ball: Chargers cocked and loaded. Ram cocked, but loaded?
by Paul Teetor Pro football is back! Yay! Amazingly, summer is almost over already. Boo! That means there’s only two weeks to go before opening night. On September 7, the defending Super Bowl champs, the Kansas City Chiefs, will take on the Detroit Lions, led by Jared Goff, who may have the last laugh on…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Dodger Angel Arte
by Paul Teetor Dodger fans had a lot to celebrate this week – and it was all thanks to inept Angels owner Arte Moreno. The Major League Baseball trade deadline came, and went with Shohei Ohtani still on the Angels roster for what surely will be the last two months of his Angels career. That…
Read MoreAll Ball Sports: Bronny James shines light on State athletic trainer bill
by Paul Teetor Memo to parents of kids playing high school sports: before you let your teenager go out for the team, before you sign that permission slip, make sure the school has a certified athletic trainer on hand with the proper equipment to handle medical emergencies at games and practices. Ask hard questions of…
Read MoreBasketball Hall of Famer Nash offers helping hand
Basketball Hall of Fame point guard Steve Nash talks about the ‘disease of sitting’ after coming off the bench at the Manhattan Beach Tennis Open by Paul Teetor Steve Nash followed the bouncing tennis ball as it skipped past him and went all the way to the back fence. As he went to pick the…
Read MoreAll 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…
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