How to resolve AdBlock issue? 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.”
Spring football cannot survive NFL offseason
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- Published: Friday, 21 February 2020 10:17
The United States is a football-hungry nation. In fact, five of the top 10 and 19 of the top 50 television shows of 2019 were NFL games.
In a country starved for football, one would think that spring football leagues such as the revamped XFL would be an, uh, Xtreme success. However, after the second week of the league’s return, the ratings are already down.
NBA midseason predictions: Lakers land Larry O’Brien?
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- Published: Friday, 14 February 2020 08:58
The NBA’s first season of parity in more than a decade has not failed to disappoint, but as the league heads into All-Star weekend, three teams have set themselves apart as the undisputed contenders to win the NBA Finals in June.
The one Eastern Conference team that has distanced itself from the pack throughout the season like a lion feasting on its prey is the Milwaukee Bucks. The Bucks have capitalized on yet another MVP-caliber season from Giannis Antetokounmpo to reach an NBA-best 46-8 record at the break.
LA bets on Betts: now it has to win
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- Published: Thursday, 06 February 2020 12:13
History will remember the evening of Feb. 4, 2020, as the time in which the Los Angeles Dodgers officially ran out of excuses and became the prohibitive favorites to win this year’s World Series.
The news broke around 6:15 p.m. Pacific Standard Time on Tuesday that LA had landed 2018 American League MVP Mookie Betts and left-handed starting pitcher David Price from the Boston Red Sox in exchange for a $50 In-N-Out gift card, a used Lakers ticket and a ham sandwich (a package including outfielder Alex Verdugo).
Astros cheating scandal reshapes MLB history
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- Published: Friday, 24 January 2020 09:23
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When Major League Baseball blasted the Houston Astros with its punishment for their involvement in a sign-stealing scandal during the 2017 and 2018 seasons, the fallout was only beginning.
Houston stole the opposing pitchers’ signs through high-speed outfield cameras wired to monitors in the clubhouse. Subsequently, members of the organization would bang against trash cans in the dugout at its home games throughout the season to let batters know what type of pitch was coming, among other transgressions.