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Big week for the Bruins, with some good news mixed in with the bad. Rick Neuheisel’s bunch suffered another injury along an already battered and inexperienced offensive line, but at least they have a starting quarterback. Juco transfer Kevin Kraft won the job over redshirt freshman Chris Forcier, but with the September 1 [...]
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NCAA Football
UCLA Bruins
ESPN
Rick Neuheisel
Tennessee Volunteers
Southern California Trojans
Last week when I spoke with LAT Trojans blogger Adam Rose, we talked in more macro terms. The schedule, summer practice, the quarterback situation, and such. This week, we get a little more micro. Mark Sanchez could be back for the Virginia game, there are more injuries in the backfield as CJ [...]
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NCAA Football
Southern California Trojans
Mark Sanchez
Greg Maddux is a Hall of Famer. Through much of his career he’s pitched like Superman cleverly disguised as Clark Kent. His two-in-one socks, hitched pants and crafty demeanor all create a mystique unlike any other superstar in the game. If Manny Ramirez, with his dreads and uniform pants so baggy they look like the [...]
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MLB
Greg Maddux
Los Angeles Dodgers
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Rays 4, Angels 2: For the first time in a long time, the Halos appear to be in a little bit of a slump. Ervin Santana was masterful for seven innings, striking out nine and giving up just one run. Unfortunately, the bullpen couldn’t hold things down [...]
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MLB
Jeff Kent
Los Angeles Dodgers
T.J. Simers
Vin Scully
Tim Brown
With Brad Penny on the shelf perhaps for the remainder of the season, creating a void in the fifth starter slot, and Clayton Kershaw’s arm-preserving innings limit, creating another void on the horizon, the Dodgers have moved to shore up the pitching staff, acquiring ultra wily, super crafty, future HOF righty Greg Maddux from the [...]
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MLB
Los Angeles Dodgers
Greg Maddux
Brad Penny
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Rays 6, Angels 4: The Angels just can’t seem to figure out the Rays at that stupid dome Tampa calls its home “stadium.” This loss moved the Angels to 0-4 in Tampa and trimmed their lead to a half game in the race for home field advantage [...]
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Soccer
Los Angeles Galaxy
Shaquille O'Neal
Bruce Arena
Bill Plaschke
Hall of Fame
A quick recap of how the local teams fared last week…
Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim
Highlights of the Week: The rare week without a string of wins to talk about, as the Angels lost four of six. Still, the trends are good. Mark Teixeira had himself quite a game last Wednesday against the [...]
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MLB
Los Angeles Angels
Los Angeles Dodgers
With Paul Davis rejoining the Clippers, which means joining Baron and Ricky, it’s become abundantly clear this team is not scurred of getting into the “Davis” business. Were Sammy Davis, Jr. still with us, he’d apparently have a shot at a roster bid. For that matter, if you’re living, on this [...]
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NBA
Los Angeles Clippers
Dale Davis
Baron Davis
Paul Davis
Ricky Rubio
Sammy Davis
UCLA head football coach Rick Neuheisel appeared on ESPN’s Outside the Lines today, and acquitted himself pretty well. He didn’t dig deep into the controversies that ran him out of coaching for a while, but did admit to getting caught up in the celebrity of being a very young, very high profile head celebricoach. [...]
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NCAA Football
Rick Neuheisel
UCLA Bruins
ESPN
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Dodgers 7, Brewers 5: Andre Ethier seems to have figured out a little secret. With this “Manny” character now in town, a player’s gotta crank up his drama flair to catch headlines. Having already delivered a walk off single during last Tuesday’s winner against the [...]
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MLB
Southern California Trojans
Reggie Bush
Los Angeles Dodgers
Casey Blake
The Angels, like Old Man River, just keep rolling along, but that doesn’t mean there isn’t anything important to talk about. After the Mark Teixeira deal, L.A. has become the clear favorite to represent the American League in the World Series where they’d most certainly be the universal pick to win it all. Mike [...]
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Los Angeles Angels
Mark Teixeira
Mike Scioscia
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They’ve printed the t-shirts, they’ve printed replica jerseys,
they’re even minting the hair he’s supposed to cut.
There’s a buzz that starts before he’s in the on deck circle and grows to a roar when he’s at ...
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NBA
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Dodgers 3, Phillies 1: For a team that looked shaky after two weekend defeats in San Francisco, the Dodgers sure recovered nicely. Behind a sparkling two-hit performance from Hiroki Kuroda, they completed a rare four-game sweep of the NL East leading Phillies. Matt Kemp homered off Brett [...]
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MLB
Manny Ramirez
Jayson Stark
Los Angeles Dodgers
Under most circumstances, I’d appreciate a topic that allows a throwaway but applicable reference to one of U2’s finest albums. Unfortunately, just writing this piece lends unwarranted gravity to a subject getting second wind headlines. Los Angeles Clippers center Chris Kaman first raised eyebrows in early July upon announcing he would play for the German [...]
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NBA
Chris Kaman
Germany
Los Angeles Clippers
It is an odd coupling, no question, the stern no nonsense Jeff Kent batting third with ahead of the the happy-go-lucky Manny Ramirez. It’s a strange, oil-an-water mixture in the clubhouse for sure, but on the field it has been gold for the Dodgers, and the combination is leading LA’s offensive resurgence.
While Manny is [...]
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MLB
Los Angeles Dodgers
Manny Ramirez
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Phillies 3, Dodgers 4: Welcome back, Nomah! The Dodgers have had a gaping hole at short since both Furcal and Garciaparra have gone down, but on Wednesday night, it appeared that had changed. For how long, given the fact that Nomar is frailer than John Wooden, who [...]
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Olympics
USA
Jason Lezak
Pau Gasol
Amanda Beard
UCLA Bruins
While we can all agree that NBC is screwing west coasters with their three hour tape delay of Olympic broadcasts from Beijing- this is the Internet age, people, and holding off on learning the results is damn near impossible- at least we can track the progress of local athletes at the Games. The Riverside Press-Empire [...]
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Olympics
Y E S T E R D A Y…
Dodgers 4, Phillies 3: It was the boys in blue getting a walk-off win for a change as Andre the Giant drove in Russell Martin in the bottom on the ninth for the big victory. Clayton Kershaw was solid once again, proving he belongs, as he went [...]
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Last year, the Galaxy made headlines for importing soccer icon David Beckham to LA and MLS. Monday, they got some ink for reasons less encouraging, firing president and general manager Alexi Lalas while head coach Ruud Gullit resigned (whether of his own doing, there is some question). With the Galaxy in the [...]
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Soccer
Los Angeles Galaxy
Major League Soccer
ESPN
David Beckham
In an effort to generate solid karma for the local nine, the folks at the always entertaining Sons of Steve Garvey are literally giving away Dodgers tickets. Giving them away. Just for asking (and providing a little feedback to the site). That’s all. Follow the link to try and get on board.
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Manny Mania! vs. Teixeira… Reasonably Polite Appreciation