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by Matt Olin Spencer Hill enlisted a few friends to start the Tuesday Run Club in 2021. Since then, TRC has grown to about two dozen runners, all motivated to support one another, and to start Tuesday mornings with a run through town. The runs start at Valley Park at 6 a.m. sharp so parents […]
by Paul Teetor Divorce is always toughest on the kids. In this case, the kids are the fans. Lakers fans will no longer have LeBron James – the second greatest player in NBA history, behind only 6-time champion Michael Jordan – to watch and cheer for while their team stumbles through the regular season and […]
Video by Jefferson Graham (PhotoWalksTV.com) Justin Thirsk sings Pennywise anthem ‘Bro Hymn.’Video by Ron Siegel Hermosa Beach Ironman 2026.IONs.com Blake Vogelsang celebrates winning the Hermosa Beach Fourth of July Ironman for the second consecutive year. Photo by Ron Siegel Hermosa Fourth of July Ironman People by Chris Miller [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”52″ gal_title=”Hermosa Beach 2026 Fourth of […]
by Paul Teetor The Los Angeles Dodgers, riding the tidal wave of two consecutive World Series titles for the first time in franchise history, are heroes to most LA sports fans. But to the owners and fans of the other 29 Major League Baseball teams, they spend like drunken tech bros who have bought themselves […]
by Chelsea Sektnan Soccer coach Billy Hansen’s path to founding SIFA (Soccer Is For All) grew out of a lifelong passion for the game and what he saw while coaching club soccer in the South Bay. Hansen, a retired professional soccer player, said the roots of SIFA began after he started coaching his daughter’s club […]
by Baran Taghvaei My parents and I went to the Sunday, June 21 World Cup group-stage match at Los Angeles Stadium between Iran and Belgium. Yet for me, a 16-year-old Iranian immigrant, what was happening off the field was just as culturally significant as what was happening on the field Many Iranians arrived wearing the […]
by Mark McDermott An internationally fraught incident occurred in Manhattan Beach this week when the Iranian soccer team competing in the FIFA World Cup arrived for a brief, yet controversial overnight stay at the westdrift Manhattan Beach hotel. The Iranian men’s national team arrived in Southern California Sunday afternoon and was housed at the […]
by Rick Dickert I first learned about the warming of the waters off of Peru, and its impact on the South Bay in 1983, during my freshman year at Redondo Union High School. Because my friends and I surfed, I was already deeply entrenched in the world of weather. I tracked it with my backyard […]
by Mark McDermott When the Mira Costa baseball team came from behind to beat Agoura 9-7 in the CIF Southern Section Division 3 final on May 30 — winning the program’s first championship since 1953, and only its second ever — the title was also the seventh CIF Southern Section crown Mira Costa High School […]
by Mark McDermott The Northgate Broncos came into the CIF Division I Boys Volleyball Championship game on May 30 with reasonable hopes of winning the title. They had been a dominant team all season, going 37-1 and winning some of the more hallowed tourneys along the way, including the Surf City Invitational, which attracts top […]
by Paul Teetor The novelist Thomas Wolfe proclaimed a sad truth 85 years ago in the title of his best-known book, You Can’t go Home Again. Former New Yorker turned Florida man Donald Trump learned that painful lesson the hard way this week when he announced that he was going to attend game three of […]
Photos by Steve Gaffney (SteveGaffney.com) [Best_Wordpress_Gallery id=”45″ gal_title=”Queen of the South Bay 2026″] by Kira Ivarsdottir Nearly 200 surfers participated in the third annual Queen of the South Bay, held Saturday, May 30 at 42nd Street in El Porto. But the emphasis wasn’t on competition. “Queen of the South Bay was created to encourage women […]