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Hall of fame football coach Bill Parcells once said that, "You lose with potential. You win with performance." The 2019 Los Angeles Chargers are a team full of potential. But to this point, the performance has been lacking. For the fifth straight season, the Chargers have started the season with a losing record after their first three games, losing to the Houston Texans 27-20 on Sunday at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. The loss dropped the Chargers to 1-2 for the season. The Chargers star...
12 NFL Power Rankings - Week 4 1. New England Patriots (3-0): The Antonio Brown experiment is over and now the Pats can move forward with their very good roster. The Patriots are 7-2 favorites among Las Vegas oddsmakers to win the Super Bowl and are 6-5 favorites to win the AFC Championship. Next: -7 at Buffalo Bills - Sun, Sep. 29 2. Kansas City Chiefs (3-0): Quarterback Patrick Mahomes is on a pace to throw for over 6,000 yards, which has never been done before. Just 20 games into his career...
Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers has often mentioned how "hard it is to win to win in this league." He is referring to the competitiveness of the NFL. Each week brings a new challenge and many games are decided in the last minute. The other side of that is how easy it is to lose an NFL game. On Sunday in Detroit, the Chargers showed just how easy it is to lose a football game, losing to the Detroit Lions 13-10 in an ugly performance on the road in Detroit. The Chargers should have...
12 NFL Power Rankings - Week 3 1. New England Patriots (2-0): The Pats are off to a fast start, winning both games by a combined 76-3. With the wounded Jets up next, there is no reason to believe the Pats juggernaut will be slowing down this week. Next: -22.5 vs New York Jets - Sun, Sep. 22 2. Kansas City Chiefs (2-0): For anyone who thought Patrick Mahomes might regress in 2019, he threw for 278 yards and four touchdowns against the Raiders. In the 2nd quarter. Without Tyreek Hill. Next: -6...
The beautiful South Bay hills in the Palos Verdes Peninsula has some terrific views of Los Angeles. In this semi-rural setting, it almost seems like the last place you would look to find a football game between two 2018 playoff schools. But that was the setting when the Culver City Centaurs brought their offensive juggernaut to Palos Verdes Peninsula High School. On Friday afternoon, Zevi Eckhaus completed 23 of 27 passes for 474 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Culver City Centaurs to an...
1. New England Patriots (1-0) - The Antonio Brown circus has moved to New England. As Jon Gruden said to the Pats after acquiring Brown, "Good luck." Next: -19 at Miami Dolphins - Sun, Sep. 15 2. Kansas City Chiefs (1-0) - Sammy Watkins and LeSean McCoy were teammates in Buffalo from 2015-2016. Apparently, they were not needed in Buffalo. The Chiefs send their thanks. Next: -7 at Oakland Raiders - Sun, Sep. 15 3. Los Angeles Rams (1-0) - Sean McVay is 25-8 as the Rams head coach and has never...
Touchdown celebrations are unique to many NFL players. Los Angeles Chargers running back Austin Ekeler has developed his own signature air-guitar celebration and the celebration was on full display Sunday, as he scored three touchdowns, including the game winner in overtime to lead the Chargers to a 30-24 victory over the Indianapolis Colts. With the win, the Chargers are 1-0 for the first time since 2015. The Chargers survived their season opener at home in the friendly confines of Dignity...
The Los Angeles Chargers finally wrapped up the preseason on Thursday in San Francisco against the 49ers, winning 27-24 behind the passing and running of quarterback Cardale Jones. He completed 10 of 16 passes for 149 yards and rushed for 23 yards and one touchdown. Jones led the Chargers to scores on the first four offensive possessions of the game. Unfortunately, a few days later, Jones was released in the cutdown to 53 players. The win gave the Chargers a 1-3 record for the preseason. Two...
If the season started this week, the Seattle Seahawks already look in mid-season form. The Seahawks led the NFL in rushing yardage per game in 2018. The Seahawks were the only NFL team last season to run more the ball more than 50% of the time. On Saturday Night, the Seahawks came to Los Angeles and showed that they will be a tough running team again this season, defeating the Chargers 23-15. The game was played at Dignity Health Sports Park in Carson. For three quarters, the Seahawks dominated...
When the Los Angeles Chargers drafted Easton Stick in the 5th round of the 2019 NFL draft, they saw qualities in him that reminded them of a quarterback from the New Orleans Saints. No, it was not Drew Brees. Chargers general manager Tom Telesco told the NFL Network that Stick had "a lot of the qualities that Taysom Hill has as far as his toughness, being able to run with the football." On Sunday afternoon, the Chargers got a closer look at some of those qualities that Hill possesses and they ca...
With running back Melvin Gordon still holding out and starting quarterback Philip Rivers in street clothes on the sidelines, the Los Angeles Chargers opened their preseason schedule with a 17-13 loss in Phoenix to the Arizona Cardinals. Gordon and Rivers were among the many starters that either sat out the game or saw little action. Head Coach Anthony Lynn needed to use this first preseason game to "find the right 53 guys and to get better." The starting offensive line continues to be a...
The NFL draft is frequently referred to as a crapshoot. But don't tell Tom Telesco that. Telesco is the General Manager of the Los Angeles Chargers and the architect of the current Chargers roster. Telesco was hired in 2013 to turn the Chargers around. Telesco pledged that the Chargers would be a draft driven organization, stating that "we're going to be home-grown." Six years later, the Chargers have built a roster full of home-grown players that has put the Chargers in a position to challenge...
Another NFL season has begun, with the opening of NFL training games in the past week. The Los Angeles Chargers opened training camp on July 24th, with the goal of returning to the playoffs and ultimately winning their first Super Bowl Championship. Expectations have never been higher for the Chargers. The national newspaper USA Today recently picked the Chargers to win the Super Bowl next February, beating the Philadelphia Eagles. NFL coaches like to divide the season into quarters. With a...
The Los Angeles Chargers were having a quiet offseason, with a few key additions through free agency and the draft in order to improve on a playoff team that went 12-4 in 2018. It was quiet until last week, when star running back Melvin Gordon, through his agent, announced that he was holding out and would not report to training camp and will demand a trade unless he receives a new contract. Gordon's agent, Damarious Bilbo stated: "We received an offer - talks had been dead - but we received an...
The Los Angeles Clippers have finally arrived. The Clippers have been fighting for relevancy in a city where the Los Angeles Lakers legacy has completely dominated the professional basketball scene. On late Friday night, NBA Superstar Kawhi Leonard decided to officially come home and become a Clipper. Leonard ended up signing a max contract with the Clippers after they acquired Paul George from the Thunder in exchange for five first-round selections, two pick swaps, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander and...
NBA Free Agency is like putting a puzzle together. For the thirty NBA teams, it can just be finding that missing piece. Or there can be many missing pieces. Or maybe, the puzzle needs to be completely redesigned. In the first 24 hours of NBA free agency, there are teams that fit all those descriptions. For the causal NBA fan and even a diehard NBA fan, some teams will look completely different. In the Western Conference of the NBA, where the Lakers and Clippers call home, the changes start at...
The NBA draft is rarely going to produce instant stars. The goal is to acquire cheap labor that will fill out the roster, with the hope that the players can develop into stars or solid role players. Most NBA teams use the draft to build the roster into a playoff team and will try to add a superstar through free agency to become a championship team. The Clippers are that example. The Lakers are the opposite, acquiring superstars to win now and filling the roster out with role players and...
Southern California native Kawhi Leonard was named the 2019 NBA finals MVP as the Toronto Raptors upset the favored Golden State Warriors and won their first NBA Championship. Leonard, who played his high school basketball at King High School in Riverside and his college ball at San Diego State University, has spent his professional career leading the San Antonio Spurs and the Raptors to Championships. He is now an unrestricted free agent and he may be coming home to Southern California. While...
The Detroit Tigers won the World Series in 1984, led by local star Kirk Gibson, the MVP in the 1984 World Series. That was the last time the Tigers won a world championship. That same year, the Michigan Wolverines baseball team went to the College World Series, led by future Hall of Famer Barry Larkin. That was the last trip to the college world series for Michigan baseball...until now. In a shocking upset, Michigan came to Los Angeles and defeated the top seed in the NCAA baseball tournament,...
To outside observers, the Los Angeles Lakers look like a trainwreck. A bad basketball team and a bad soap opera. The sudden resignation of Magic Johnson, Laker legend and President of Basketball Operations, only helped to reinforce this image. The bungled head coaching search, which led to the Lakers losing their top two head coaching candidates, made the Lakers head coaching search look like a circus act. Despite the comedy of errors, at the end the Lakers got it right with the hiring of Frank...
The Los Angeles Chargers entered the 2019 NFL draft with just a few holes to fill and filled them quite nicely in the three-day draft that started on April 25th and ended April 27th. Despite having a top ten defense in 2018, there were a few holes to be filled in the middle of the defense. The Chargers used Notre Dame and a relative of NFL football royalty to help fill the key areas on defense. Here are the seven round results of the 2019 Charger draft: Round 1 - Jerry Tillery, Defensive...
In a preview of the Pac-12 Championships this weekend, two of the top track & field programs in the nation faced off on Sunday when UCLA took on USC at Loker Stadium on the campus of USC. In a split decision, the UCLA men soundly defeated the USC men’s track team, 102-60, while the USC women sprinted past the UCLA women, 90-69. Both UCLA and USC will participate in the PAC-12 Outdoor Track & Field Championships in Tucson, Arizona, this weekend - May 4th and 5th. On the men’s side, UCLA was led...
The UCLA outdoor track & field team continued a strong 2019 season with some stellar performances at the 17th annual Rafer Johnson/Jackie Joyner-Kersee Invitational on Saturday at Drake Stadium on the campus of UCLA. The Bruins, currently ranked in the top 25 in both the men’s and women’s national rankings, were led by sophomore Alyssa Wilson, who won three field events on Saturday. The invitational, which honors two of the greatest track & field athletes in Bruin and Olympic history, was hig...
It is believed by many people around the NFL that the Los Angeles Chargers have one of the best rosters in the NFL. The Chargers apparently believe that as well, as they have been relatively quiet during the offseason. That will change soon with the upcoming NFL Draft, which starts on April 25th. Here is a look at a three round mock draft I created for AFC West division teams - Round 1: #4 Oakland Raiders – Clenin Ferrell, DE, Clemson, 6'4", 264 - The Raiders had the worst pass rush in the N...
NFL free agency is underway, and the early returns may signal some significant changes in the race to succeed the Kansas City Chiefs as the best team in the AFC West. The Chiefs have suffered the most losses in free agency of any team in the AFC West, and quite possibly the NFL. Here is a summary of free agency in the AFC West to this point: Oakland Raiders – The Raiders had the worst roster going into the off-season and have made some significant additions in free agency and through a few t...
