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By Paul Teetor The first thing you notice about Mia Sandblom’s tennis game is her picture-perfect backhand. Mira Costa’s top singles player, Mia Sandblom, prepares to hit a backhand down the line in her semifinal match at the Manhattan Beach Open Saturday afternoon. The racket is starting low so she can finish high with plenty […]
by Emery Min Over 100 runners competed in the 9th Annual Manhattan Mile, held in conjunction with the 63rd annual Chevron Manhattan Grand Prix cycling races on Sunday, July 12, at Live Oak Park. Elite runners were joined by runners as young as seven, many paced by their parents. “Runners are pretty happy go lucky […]
The Hermosa Beach Little League community gathered Sunday afternoon, July 12, on the beach at Eighth Street to celebrate the life and mourn the loss of Josh Sall, who passed away July 3, at age 53. Little League president Evan Smith described Sall as a legend inspiring, bigger than life coach and community volunteer. “He […]
Swell dreams El Porto is the take off point for inspirational, children’s surf book by El Porto surfers John Pickle and Hunter Jones by Nikki Yunker During COVID, Jonathan Pickle looked without success for books about surfing to read to his 3-year-old son, Wolfe. “It was really hard to find children’s books about surfing. […]
Hermosa Beach Public Works employees Noah Narita, DJ Hodges, Brad Cocking and Rene Rodriquez were among two dozen City employees treated to lunch from Martha’s Restaurant on Thursday, July 9. The lunches were provided by Martha’s and Mark Paaluhi, whose Sand Court Experts set up over 60 volleyball courts on either side of the Hermosa […]
by Matt Olin Spencer Hill enlisted a few friends to start the Tuesday Run Club in 2021. Since then, TRC has grown to about four 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 […]