All Ball Sports: Dodgers: The Blame Game
by Paul Teetor Who’s to blame for the Dodgers latest collapse? The arguments are endless – and they’re all correct, to one degree or another. But they’re all missing the big picture too. Let’s take a look at them one by one. It’s the piss-poor pitching. They’ve got to get better pitching, No, it’s the […]
All Ball Sports: Dodgers: Happy Trails to Clayton Kershaw
by Paul Teetor Dodgers Stadium felt like the place to be Saturday night. It was sold out for the first home game of the postseason, an 80-degree day was transitioning into a perfect LA night, and Clayton Kershaw was on the mound for the home team. It doesn’t get any better than that for a […]
All Ball Sports: USC’s gets unwanted defense assist, Redondo defense defeats Peninsula
by Paul Teetor The worse that USC’s defense plays, the greater the chances that quarterback Caleb Williams becomes the first college football player to win two consecutive Heisman Trophies since Archie Griffin in 1975. That’s because the worse USC’s defense plays – and it’s pretty bad right now – the more points Williams has to […]
All Ball Sports: Brandon Staley Must Go
By Paul Teetor Somebody please stop Brandon Staley before he completely destroys the Los Angeles Chargers season — for the third year in a row. The Chargers Head Coach did his level best to cost his team a victory in Sunday’s must-win game against the Minnesota Vikings, but he was saved when the Vikings quarterback […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs toughen up, Sea Hawks on a run, Bruins have new star
by Paul Teetor It happened again. For the second week in a row the Mira Costa football team jumped out to a commanding 14-0 lead over an undefeated opponent in front of a raucous home crowd at Waller Stadium. Once again, hopes were high that Costa would secure its first victory of the season. That […]
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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
Basketball 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 […]
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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]
All 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 […]