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The 2020 season NFL season was a disappointment for the Los Angeles Chargers, leading to the firing of head coach Anthony Lynn and the hiring of Brandon Staley as the new head coach of the Chargers. The Chargers offensive line was rated by Pro Football Focus (PFF) as the worst in the NFL and the worst in the NFL over the past five seasons, with the exception of the 2019 Miami Dolphins. Despite this fact, the Chargers were ninth in total offensive yardage per game in the NFL in 2020. One of the...
Former Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers, who was praised for his dealings with local and national media during his career, has been selected as the 2021 Good Guy Award winner by the Professional Football Writers of America (PFWA). Rivers, who spent the first 16 years of his career with the Chargers organization, spent his 17th and final season with the Indianapolis Colts. He recently retired from the NFL. Rivers, the 17th Good Guy Award winner, is the first member of the Colts'...
The UCLA Bruins football team finished the 2020 season with a bad taste in their mouths and if the final spring practice is any indication, they are ready to spring into action this fall to get that taste out of their mouths. After an abbreviated 3-4 season that ended up with tough home losses to USC and Stanford, the Bruins look prepared for their first winning season since the 2015 season. Bruins head coach Chip Kelly, in his fourth season at the helm of the Bruins football team, was pleased...
After a long and exhaustive search, the Pac-12 Conference will have a new commissioner in place, effective July 1, 2021. The Conference announced on May 13th the hiring of George Kliavkoff as the next conference commissioner, replacing the departing, Larry Scott. Kliavkoff had been serving as the president of entertainment and sports for MGM Resorts International since 2018. “I am thrilled to be the Pac-12 Commissioner. This is a challenging time for intercollegiate athletics, but I believe t...
Los Angeles Chargers head coach Brandon Staley realizes that he needs a healthy defense this year if he is going to challenge the Kansas City Chiefs in the AFC West. Led by All-Pro quarterback Patrick Mahomes, the Chiefs offensive juggernaut is hard enough to stop when everyone is healthy. No single Charger player will be more important to keep healthy than safety Derwin James. A first round draft pick in 2018, the 24-year-old James had a terrific rookie season, recording 105 tackles, 3.5 sacks,...
The National Football League has announced the 2021 NFL schedule and the Los Angeles Chargers will open on the road for the second straight season. Below is the 2021 seventeen game regular season schedule for the Chargers: Sun., Sept. 12 at Washington Football Team 10:00 a.m. Sun., Sept. 19 Dallas Cowboys 1:25 p.m. Sun., Sept. 26 at Kansas City Chiefs 10:00 a.m. Mon., Oct. 4 Las Vegas Raiders 5:15 p.m. Sun., Oct. 10 Cleveland Browns 1:05 p.m. Sun., Oct. 17 at Baltimore Ravens 10:00 a.m. Sun., Oc...
The past college football season was challenging for many schools due to the pandemic and Pac-12 schools were no exception. The Pac-12 conference played an abbreviated football schedule last season due to the Covid-19 pandemic and it showed in the 2021 NFL draft. The Conference had 28 players drafted, the lowest number for the conference since the 2013 NFL draft. From 2014 through 2020, the Pac-12 has averaged 34 players per year in the NFL draft. The USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks, and Stanford...
It has been one year since Martin Jarmond was hired as the Director of Athletics at UCLA. Jarmond took the job under difficult circumstances, with the athletic program shutdown because of the Covid-19 pandemic. One year later, the athletic program has renewed energy and optimism because of the success of the athletic programs this spring. In an email message to the UCLA community, Jarmond talked about the past year, "Believe it or not, next week will mark one year since I humbly accepted the...
In the 1994 movie, “The Shawshank Redemption,” a constant theme throughout the movie was hope. As Andy Dufresne said to his good friend Red, “hope is a good thing, maybe even the best of things, and no good thing ever dies.” That is true as well with the NFL Draft each spring, where hope never dies. For the Los Angeles Chargers and thirty-one other NFL teams, every spring is full of hope. The Chargers came into the 2021 NFL draft needing help on the offensive line and at cornerback, as well as...
Unlike last season, the Los Angeles Chargers did not enter the 2021 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, due to the selection of quarterback Justin Herbert in the first round last year. Herbert, the offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL in 2020, had a successful rookie campaign and with his backups in place, there was no need to address this position in the 2021 NFL draft. This draft in 2021 they should have focused on the offensive line, the defensive secondary and...
Unlike last season, the Los Angeles Chargers will not be entering the 2021 NFL draft with the need for a quarterback of the future, due to the selection of quarterback Justin Herbert in the first round of the 2020 NFL draft. Herbert, the offensive Rookie of the Year in the NFL in 2020, had a successful rookie campaign and with his backups in place, there is no need to address this position in the 2021 NFL draft. This draft will be focused on the offensive line, the defensive secondary and replac...
At the end of the 2020 regular season, there was only one certainty for the Chargers. They had their franchise quarterback. Everything else was uncertain, including the status of their head coach, Anthony Lynn. That uncertainty was resolved less than 24 hours later, when the Chargers fired Lynn with one year left on his contract after a second consecutive losing season. Exactly two weeks after the Chargers final game, the question of who would replace Lynn was finally answered when the team...
Quarterback Zevi Eckhaus threw for 364 yards and four touchdowns to lead the Culver City Centaurs to come from behind 42-28 victory over the Palos Verde Sea Kings in a Bay League high school football game last Friday. The victory clinched the Bay league Championship for the Centaurs in their first season in the Bay League. For the Sea Kings, the loss ended a streak of nine consecutive Bay League titles in football. Eckhaus, who also scored a touchdown on a one-yard dive into the endzone, had a l...
In the past thirty days, the Pac-12 Conference has had a time to remember. The much-maligned conference, often ridiculed by their friends in the east, have put together a memorable run of success in basketball and the other Olympic sports. As former UCLA basketball great Bill Walton often states, the Pac-12 is the "Conference of Champions" and lately that has never been truer. The highlight of the past month was the performance of the Pac-12 schools in the NCAA basketball tournament, both the...
After their last second loss to the USC Trojans in the final regular season game, head coach Mick Cronin of the UCLA Bruins men's basketball team was at a loss for words. The Bruins had fallen in three consecutive games and had slipped from first place in the Pac-12 conference standings to fourth place in the standings. They had blown second half leads in all three games and they were struggling to overcome the loss of key players. In the game against the Trojans, the Bruins were without...
As the Los Angeles Chargers prepare for the NFL draft on April 29th, they continue to scour the free agent market for talent and have added two more key players to their 2021 roster. The Chargers signed cornerback Ryan Smith, who spent the past five seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers and added backup quarterback Chase Daniel, who spent last season with the Detroit Lions. A five-year NFL veteran, Smith has been a special teams staple for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers while also contributing defensi...
When the UCLA Bruins hired Mick Cronin to be their next head coach, he understood what the expectations were. In his introductory press conference on April 9th of 2019, Cronin explained the importance of winning in Westwood. “It’s UCLA,” Cronin said. “I understand the expectations. And the sooner the better.” He did indeed understand the importance of winning at UCLA. Less than two years later, Cronin accomplished his goal, leading the undermanned Bruins to their first Final Four since 2008, def...
The National Football League (NFL) announced on Tuesday that they are moving to a 17-game regular season schedule starting in 2021 season. The owners voted to approve the change, which has been in the making for at least the past year. As part of the new collective bargaining agreement (CBA), the NFL had the option to increase the regular season to 17 games starting in 2021. "This is a monumental moment in NFL history," NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell said in a statement. "The CBA with the...
At the end of the Pac-12 tournament, five Pac-12 schools were selected to the 2021 men's NCAA tournament. The Pac-12 was relieved to get five teams into the 68-team tournament and was hopeful that at least one of the five could make the Sweet 16. As it turned out, the Pac-12 was able to stun NCAA prognosticators and get four teams into the Sweet 16 this weekend. The UCLA Bruins, USC Trojans, Oregon Ducks and Oregon State Beavers all made the Sweet Sixteen, with only the Colorado Buffalos...
Last week, the Los Angeles Chargers lost their starting tight end to the New England Patriots. Hunter Henry had been a Charger for the past five seasons, but once he got on the market as a free agent, it was inevitable that the Chargers would lose him. As one of the better tight ends in the NFL, Henry was going to get an offer he could not refuse and that came in the form of a $37.5 million dollar contract offer from the Patriots. Fortunately, the Chargers new coaching staff had connections to...
Despite a season of cancellations due to the pandemic, which led to some very uneven play in the Pac-12 conference this season, the NCAA tournament committee selected five teams from the Pac-12 to play in the 68 team NCAA men's basketball tournament in Indianapolis. UCLA, USC, Colorado, Oregon, and Oregon State are the five teams selected to participate in this year's tournament. Due to the pandemic, all games are being held at sites within the Indianapolis metro area and central Indiana. The...
At his season ending press conference, General Manager Tom Telesco of the Los Angeles Chargers stated the obvious about the play of the offensive line during the season: "There's a lot of improvement that needs to be made in that area." On the first day of free agency, Telesco made good on that statement by adding two free agent starters to the offensive line. The Chargers added center Corey Linsley, a 2020 first team All-Pro with the Green Bay Packers and added Matt Feiler, the starting left...
The NFL announced the awarding of 44 additional compensatory draft picks to various NFL teams. Both the Los Angeles Chargers and the Los Angeles Rams were awarded additional compensatory draft picks, with the Chargers receiving a 3rd round pick (97th overall) and the Rams awarded three additional picks, two in the 3rd round (101 & 104 overall), and a 4th round pick (142nd overall). NFL compensatory picks are awarded to NFL teams who lost high value unrestricted free agents the prior year. The...
The Los Angeles Chargers have decided and informed tight end Hunter Henry that they will not apply the franchise tag to Henry, which will allow him to become an unrestricted free agent and sign with any NFL team. The franchise tag is a designation a team can apply to a player scheduled to become an unrestricted free agent. The tag binds the player to the team for one year if certain conditions are met. But the franchise tag is expensive. Last season, Henry played under the franchise tag and...
It is understandable if this season is looking a lot like last season for UCLA Bruin coach Mick Cronin. In his second season as the men's head basketball coach, Cronin has his team in position to win the Pac-12 regular season title with wins over on Oregon in Eugene last Wednesday night and in the regular season finale against USC on Saturday at Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins are currently 13-4 in conference play, a half a game ahead of both the Oregon Ducks at 12-4 and the USC Trojans at 13-5. Las...
