Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell, and the greatest moments countdown continues In December, I asked you to send me your list of the 10 greatest moments in Dodgers history, and boy did you all respond, as I received 7,237 ballots. The way it works: You listed […]
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For decades, Jeff Grosso lived and breathed skateboarding, spreading his passion for the sport in person and in his digital series “Loveletters to Skateboarding.” His friends and family recall his passion, his character and what made him a skateboarding legend. Almost a year after his death, here is a primer on his influential life: How […]
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Sacha Kljestan doesn’t like to be called old. “I still feel young,” he argues. “I guess I would use the word experience. I’ve just been around a long time.” So long that eight players on the Galaxy roster are closer in age to Kljestan’s 4-year-old son Knox than they are to their 35-year-old teammate. The […]
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Hi, this is Dan Woike, Lakers beat writer for the Los Angeles Times, here with your Lakers newsletter, where we don’t get to go on All-Star break. In honor of the Lakers’ 24-13 first half record, I’ve decided to give everyone 37 random Lakers thoughts/observations from the first half of the season, a chance for […]
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Somehow, college basketball’s regular season is already coming to a close. For the sport’s diehards, who may not have gotten to see their favorite team play in person but were still glued to every game that wasn’t wiped out by COVID-19 protocols, it probably feels like it was gone in a flash. For the players, […]
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Mary Olmos had no difficulty obtaining refunds for Lakers games, Los Angeles Philharmonic concerts and other events that were canceled because of the COVID-19 pandemic. But getting all her money back for the yet-to-be-held 2020 Tokyo Olympics has been like running a marathon. And the Upland resident is starting to wonder if she’ll ever reach […]
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At the old O-Pee-Chee’s bubblegum and trading card factory in the Canadian city of London, Ontario, the month of December was most employees’ favorite time of the year. During most of the company’s history, that was when its eagerly anticipated packs of NHL player cards were manufactured — the crown jewel of its multi-sport product […]
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Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we get ready for a big weekend of Kentucky Derby prep races. Couple of notes before we get to the good stuff. –Del Mar announced it stakes schedule for this summer. There are 34 major stakes worth $6.75 million, up […]
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Until recently, gathering athletes’ performance data was a laborious process. Coaches and sports scientists would spend hours compiling information from games and training sessions, pulling out the information relevant to their players’ development. But technology-based performance analytics has changed all that. These days, athletes can wear devices or vests with GPS-tracking capabilities that record the […]
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There’s the kid picked in the middle of the second round with three less letters in his name than years on this planet, the wild-haired big man who couldn’t get off the bench in his first NBA stop and the gunner transforming himself into a whatever-it-takes role player. Oh, and the best player on the […]
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