All Ball Sports: Neal Perlmutter staying put at Mira Costa
by Paul Teetor Despite swirling rumors to the contrary, Mira Costa boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter insists he has no intention – or desire – to move up in the coaching hierarchy, either to a bigger high school program or even to a college program. “I’m happy right where I am,” Perlmutter told All Ball […]
All Ball Sports: Mustang girls flip the script, Sea Hawk boys dominate Mustang boys
by Paul Teetor It was a game of runs – and in the end Redondo ran right over Mira Costa. It started out as exactly the kind of jam-packed Friday night hoops happening that Mira Costa basketball fans envisioned when they approved spending $38 million on a new athletic complex a few years ago and […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs on historic run
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, […]
All Ball Sports: Sea Hawks dueling QBs, Dodgers fall hope
by Paul Teetor A star was born Friday night at the Redondo-Banning football game – or at the very least a potential quarterback controversy was born. Redondo came into the home game with a 3-1 record behind a quarterback, Niko London, who had managed the offense efficiently while the Sea Hawk’s suffocating defense carried […]
All Ball Sports: ‘Shohei Time,’ Costa, Sea Hawks 3-1
by Paul Teetor It’s official. Shohei Ohtani is now the greatest baseball player who ever lived. Better than Babe Ruth, better than Ty Cobb, better than Ted Williams, Willie Mays or Joe DiMaggio. Better than anybody you can name in the long, glorious history of major league baseball, which goes back 140 years. Greatest. Of. […]
All Ball Sports: Steve Kerr joins Kamala’s team
by Paul Teetor Steve Kerr said he can already hear the push back to his speech at the Democratic National Convention: Shut up and blow your whistle. For those who don’t watch Fox News, that’s a clever riff on Fox host Laura Ingrahm’s response a few years ago to LeBron’s James Twitter fight with President […]
All Ball Sports: Passion play at the Manhattan Beach Open
by Paul Teetor Sunday was a day of spectacular teamwork, both on and off the volleyball court. USA Olympian Taryn Kloth is 6-foot-4 and built like a fullback on a women’s rugby team. Her volleyball partner, Kristin Nunn, is 5-foot-6 and maybe 130 pounds soaking wet — when covered with victory champagne like she was […]
All Ball Sports: Biles vs. Trump’s Trash Talk
by Paul Teetor For the last two weeks the great American gymnast Simone Biles has been the most famous – or at least the most publicized – woman in the world. Winning seven Olympic gold medals will do that for you. And on Friday she used her once-every-four-years world wide platform to not-so-subtly call […]
MCHS: 2020 Volleyball Olympian Alex Klineman
by Paul Teetor Editor’s note: Mira Costa graduate Alix Klineman (Class of 2007) and partner April Ross won the Gold Medal in beach volleyball at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics. Last June, Klineman had a baby, and in June Ross had a baby. Following the birth of her child, Klineman switched partners in a failed attempt […]
All Ball: Clippers curse continues
by Paul Teetor Clippers President of Basketball Operations Lawrence Frank has to be the luckiest man in all of LA sports. The Lakers have been such a mess for the last few months – getting crushed in the first round of the playoffs, hiring a coach who has never coached, drafting LeBron James’ eminently unqualified […]
All Ball Sport: Truly delusional Lakers hatch a nepo baby
by Paul Teetor Lakers owner Jeanie Buss should just get it over with and change her team’s name to the Los Angeles LeBrons. It would make more sense than the current name, which goes all the way back to 1959, when the team was based in Minneapolis, Minnesota – the land ‘o lakes. When they […]
All Ball Sports: LeBron’s World, ‘Say hey kid’ no more
by Paul Teetor LeBron James finally got his own hand-picked Lakers coach. But the way he did it was ethically questionable at best, and disloyal and sneaky underhanded at worst. It took the Lakers seven weeks to land on Jonathan Clay “JJ” Redick, but the smart money said it would be Redick on May 3, […]
All Ball Sports: Happy Trails to Jerry West, The Greatest Laker of Them All
by Paul Teetor When Gary Vitti was flying into LA to interview for the Lakers Head Athletic Trainer’s job in the summer of 1984, he received a jolt of adrenaline when he was told General Manager Jerry West would be picking him up at LAX. “He was my hero growing up, and now he’s going […]
All Ball Sports: Bill Walton’s long, Strange Trip and “basketball’s greatest ambassador”
by Paul Teetor A bunch of hoopers at Live Oak Park were talking about the late, great Bill Walton last Friday afternoon when a kid shooting baskets nearby chimed in. “What was so great about Bill Walton? Wasn’t he a crazy old hippie on TV who talked about everything except the game he was supposed […]
All Ball Sports: Clippers Dilemma, Grateful for Walton
by Paul Teetor Steve Ballmer deserves a refund. The Clippers multi-billionaire owner doesn’t need a refund, and he probably doesn’t want one either. He’s the seventh richest man in the world, with an estimated fortune of $147 billion. But by any normal business standard, he deserves a refund. He has invested more than $700 million […]
All Ball Sports: Happy Trails to Aaron Donald, welcome Shohei Ohtani
by Paul Teetor It’s an image that will never be forgotten by hard-core LA Rams fans as long as they live: Aaron Donald half-running, half crawling on his hands and knees towards Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Joe Burrow late in Super Bowl LVI. The Rams were up by three with less than a minute left. But […]