All Ball Sports: Greatest Super Bowl finish ever, great start for MCHS
by Paul Teetor The first two hours of Sunday’s Super Bowl were ho-hum, a below average playoff game that was a snooze to watch. Even Taylor Swift looked bored. The last hour, however, was some of the...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Kansas City Blues, Sea Hawks bright
by Paul Teetor Come on sports fans, we’re better than this. America is better than this. Kansas City is better than this. The National Football League, violent and brutal as it can be on the field, is...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Shohei shows too much, UCLA, USC show too little
In the 5-mile outrigger/surf ski race Tyle Wong and Ray Zhao finished first in an OC2. Photo by Ken Pagliaro The first female finisher was Katelyn Mimsky, on a surfski. Photo by Ken Pagliaro by Paul...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Lakers/Clippers last Hallway Series
by Paul Teetor The Lakers and Clippers squared off Wednesday night in the latest – and probably last – iteration of the so-called Hallway Series. The result was a stunning Lakers “road” win that gave...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Girls Got Next: Redondo’s Zimmerman, Costa’s Yeh leading the...
by Paul Teetor Women’s basketball is having a cultural moment – locally with great players at both beach city high schools, nationally with USC’s star freshman JuJu Watkins and professionally with some...
View ArticleAll 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...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Loyola’s Kelly crushes Mira Costa at home — his home;...
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa boys volleyball team, ranked first in the country, ran into a roadblock Friday night in the form of Loyola and its star outside hitter Sean Kelly. Ironically, Kelly, the...
View ArticleAll Ball: Say it ain’t so, Shohei
by Paul Teetor When the famous slugger “Shoeless” Joe Jackson was caught up in the 1919 “Black Sox” World Series game-fixing scandal, a little kid confronted him on the courthouse steps and uttered...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports: Happy Trails to USC Hoops Coach Andy Enfield
by Paul Teetor It was a week of much-needed change for the beleaguered USC men’s basketball program. They lost a coach, got a new one, and lost almost all their players – including the most famous one,...
View ArticleAll Ball Sports Shohei is OK, OJ never will be
by Paul Teetor There was a giant whooshing sound emanating from Chavez Ravine on Thursday morning that soon spread out, like a coastal fog, over all of Los Angeles. It was a collective sigh of relief...
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