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by Paul Teetor The high school basketball season – which started way back in November – is finally over. The last South Bay team standing was the Redondo boys basketball team, which battled all the way to the Division One Regional Final before losing a 74-68 nail-biter to Sierra Canyon, which then went on to […]
Mira Costa falls short of CIF sectional title, stifles Crean Lutheran in State tourney opener UPDATE, March 7: Redondo Union will have home court advantage against Mira Costa in the the rival teams’ post season quest for the CIF State Boys Basketball Championships on Saturday March 8, starting at 7 p.m. In the regular season, […]
by Mark McDermott By the time they’d arrived at the championship game last Saturday, the Mira Costa Boys Basketball team had wreaked a wide swath of havoc in a furious march through the CIF Southern Section Division I playoffs. They’d blown out two teams by over 20 points and two others more than ten. The […]
by Mark McDermott Kyle Lu knew about the uncertain nature of the gig when he got it. A lot of turnover occurs within the National Basketball Association. Players get traded, coaches get fired, and management changes. As an 11-year-old kid from Manhattan Beach with only a little over a year under his belt working for […]
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team continued its relentless march towards the school’s first CIF Division 1 title with a gritty 59-48 win over Windward at home Tuesday night. The Mustangs raced out to a 10-0 lead, saw it cut in half by halftime, and then finished with an 11-point victory on […]
by Paul Teetor The Lakers did it again. Sooner or later, all the stars that are big-time box office – Wilt Chamberlin, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Kobe Bryant, Shaq, LeBron, Pau Gasol and Luka Doncic – find their way to Los Angeles. Now the Luka era in Lakers history has officially begun – thanks to […]
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys basketball team upset the Redondo Sea Hawks 69-68 Tuesday night to grab a share of the Bay League title. Mira Costa fell behind by double digits Tuesday in the regular-season finale between the teams, but that was a wake-up call for the Mustangs. They outscored Redondo 24-15 in […]
by Paul Teetor Overview: It’s been an incredible year for Shohei Ohtani and the Dodgers, and they are still – justifiably – celebrating their World Series win six weeks after the last Yankee struck out. For nearly everyone else in the LA sports scene, not so much. We lost two all-time greats of the hardwood […]
by Paul Teetor The undefeated Mustangs were on a roll, crushing every team in their path. But this game was going to be different. Mira Costa boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter knew that even before the game. Just how different he had no idea. In racing out to a 10-0 start to the new season, […]
by Paul Teetor Over a four-game losing streak this week, LeBron James missed 20 consecutive three-point shots. Let me repeat that staggering statistic in Live Oak Park terms: LeBron bricked 20 straight threes. Dude was straight up shooting blanks. If that happened at Live Oak Park in Manhattan Beach or Clark Park in Hermosa Beach, […]
by Paul Teetor This past weekend Lakers fans got a chance to see something they probably will never see again: a relentless, focused and, determined LeBron James leading a talented supporting cast to a championship. Team USA’s 98-87 victory over France in the Gold Medal game Saturday afternoon provided plenty of proof that LeBron is […]