How to resolve AdBlock issue? Lakers heading for NBA crown
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- Published: Friday, 18 September 2020 11:11
Nearly a year after LeBron James, Anthony Davis and the Los Angeles Lakers squared off against Kawhi Leonard, Paul George and the Los Angeles Clippers in the 2019-20 NBA season opener, the path to the NBA championship still runs through LA.
The Western Conference Finals tip off Sept. 18 in the NBA’s Orlando bubble, exactly 332 days since the two squads first faced off at Staples Center.
MLB must market young megastars
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- Published: Friday, 04 September 2020 08:24
MLB has rising, exciting young stars ready to take the reins and guide the game into the future. The stars are as plenty as those above Ojai under the Dark Sky Ordinance.
But baseball has a big problem, too.
Black lives bigger than basketball
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- Published: Thursday, 27 August 2020 11:20
The Los Angeles Clippers defeated the Dallas Mavericks by a resounding 154-111 score to open up a 3-2 lead in their Western Conference quarterfinals series Tuesday night. But after the blowout, Clippers head coach Doc Rivers’ mind was not on basketball.
His thoughts were on the shooting of Jacob Blake, a Black man who was shot seven times in the back by a police officer in Kenosha, Wisconsin, on Sunday. Blake’s three young children were in the car as he was shot.
Make baseball fun again
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- Published: Friday, 21 August 2020 09:23
By Austin Widger
Rules are meant to be broken – especially unwritten ones.
San Diego Padres phenom Fernando Tatís Jr. broke two of these rules this week, and caused a great debate about the validity of baseball’s long-standing traditions.
Divisiveness dooms college football
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- Published: Friday, 14 August 2020 09:11
By Austin Widger
It didn’t have to be this way. We did not have to lose the opportunity to see football played in Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum or the Rose Bowl on Saturdays throughout the fall, or in major college football stadiums across the country.
Player opt-outs ominous for NFL
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- Published: Friday, 07 August 2020 09:06
By Austin Widger
The 2020 NFL season opener is scheduled to kick off exactly 34 days from today when the defending Super Bowl Champion Kansas City Chiefs host the Houston Texans with thousands of fans in the stands.
Yes, you read that right. Thus far, the NFL’s only league-wide coronavirus restriction for fans is to mandate masks when they attend games during the 2020 NFL season.
Bubble won't burst Lakers' title hopes
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- Published: Friday, 31 July 2020 08:44
Despite the NBA being completely transformed as it resumes its season in a “bubble” inside ESPN’s Wide World of Sports complex at Walt Disney World, the Los Angeles Lakers will not miss a beat in their quest to win a title this season.
The NBA restarted its season last night with the first of eight seeding games each of the 22 teams in the quarantined bubble will play before the playoffs begin.
Play ball!?
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- Published: Friday, 24 July 2020 08:55
Get ready to buy some peanuts and Cracker Jack from the grocery store and sink into your recliner. It’s time to play ball!
Major League Baseball finally played meaningful innings again yesterday for the first time in 267 days — without fans or spitting — when the San Francisco Giants and Los Angeles Dodgers squared off to the tune of piped-in crowd noise at Chavez Ravine Thursday night.
Washington football forced to get it right
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- Published: Friday, 17 July 2020 08:38
In a move more overdue than that library book under your bed, the National Football League’s Washington, D.C. franchise and team owner Dan Snyder announced the team will retire the “Redskins” name after 87 years.
COVID-19 comes for major sports
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- Published: Friday, 13 March 2020 09:06
March Madness indeed.
Novel coronavirus’ latest casualties are this year’s NCAA college basketball March Madness tournament and the current NBA season.
NBA future is in great hands
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- Published: Friday, 06 March 2020 09:25
The future of the NBA is so bright, you nearly need sunglasses to watch the dazzling displays of basketball artistry its young stars exhibit on a nightly basis.
“The league is in great hands with guys like Zion (Williamson), Ja Morant, Luka Dončić, Trae Young, Jayson Tatum, and the list goes on,” Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James said on ESPN Sunday. “I’m just happy to be a part of it and be on the floor with those guys in their younger days.”