Defense wins championships. I speak from experience. My first season as a high school girls soccer coach ended after losing the championship game 6-1. The team’s star defender took a college trip to Harvard for a student’s conference and had to miss the game. Her absence was missed. Defense wins championships. Andrew Freidman decided to have a calm offseason and …
It is undeniable 2020 has been a tough year, not only for the city of Los Angeles but for the whole world. The year did not start out great when Los Angeles lost Kobe Bryant, one of the greatest basketball players of all-time, his daughter Gianna, and seven others in a horrific helicopter crash. The whole world was grieving the …
In what should have been the first day of the season, this all-star squad the Los Angeles Dodgers have put together, a day when all Dodgers fans could start their redemption season, they again must feel cheated. Not by the banging of a trashcan, or electronic buzzers, maybe, video thievery, or by a Howie Kendrick grand slam off Clayton Kershaw, …
The pop of the mitt. The sound of mowers cutting down excess growth. The chatter from dugouts and the stands are back, but it’s also accompanied by more “boo’s” than has ever been heard on the spring training fields. Current hit batsman count is seven players, at the time of this writing, that all wear Houston Astros jerseys. That is …
Well, it took almost the entire offseason for the Los Angeles Dodgers to make a splash with their roster. Mookie Betts is on his way to southern California, baring any slim chance of a breakdown in the deal – the prospect going from the Minnesota Twins, has had some issues with his medical clearance. Either way, it just may be …
We are less than two weeks until pitchers and catchers report, and there is a lot to unpack, and still possible transactions – can you say, Mookie Betts? – to be made. This time last year, Bryce Harper was playing the long game and still not close to sniffing the pine tar. Looking at the landscape of the league, and …
While in the shower, where I get all my thinking done on what to fill my column each week, a few days after the Washington Nationals ended the Los Angeles Dodgers season, I made a realization I haven’t seen or read anywhere. It’s not that the Dodgers’ ultimate goal of winning the World Series has not been successful, well, it’s …
Some fantastic news came from the sports movie world this week, as production on the long-rumored reboot of the 1996 classic “Space Jam” has begun! It will star LeBron James alongside Bugs Bunny and the rest of the Tune Squad, and is sure to pack a lot of fun in every minute. But what if they made a “Space Jam” …
