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It's what everybody expected. The Los Angeles Rams became Tom Brady's 201st victim as the New England Patriot set an all-time record for most wins by a starting NFL quarterback. And clearly, the Rams' incompetent offense never threatened in a 26-10 loss on a cold and clear Sunday December 4th afternoon in Gillette Stadium, Foxborough, Massachusetts. On the other side of the coin L.A. rookie quarterback Jared Goff has yet to register a win in three starts as the Rams' offense sputtered to a new...
The UCLA women’s volleyball team took one step closer to reaching the NCAA final when it beat Murray State and Baylor last Friday and Saturday in the first and second rounds of the NCAA Division I Women’s Volleyball Championships. Both matches were played in Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. Now the 10th seeded 26-6 Bruins travel to Minneapolis to face the seventh-seeded 29-3 North Carolina Tar Heels on Friday (today) in the NCAA Regionals at 7:45 p.m. The winner of that game will face the winner of between second- seeded 27-4 Minnesota and...
When free agent center Dwight Howard left the Lakers after the 2012-’13 season fans were very angry. Ever since then Howard has been treated harshly at Staples Center from the opening introductions to the final buzzer every time he’s played here. Every time he’s handled the ball in fact. It happened again Sunday night when the Lakers erased an early deficit to defeat the Atlanta Hawks. I don’t expect Laker fans to ease up on Howard because of anything I write. But I’d like to tell you what I th...
Seasoned reality finally set in for Los Angeles Rams on Sunday, November 27, as the team lost for the sixth time in its last seven games. The bad news: the team is virtually eliminated from the 2016 postseason picture following its worst beating of the season to quarterback Drew Brees and the New Orleans Saints, 49-21. The good news: the Rams still have five games remaining on the schedule for rookie quarterback Jared Goff to prepare for next season and beyond. Goff displayed a strong arm,...
The No. 11 UCLA Bruins will travel to play the No. 1 team in the country, the Kentucky Wildcats on Saturday at 9:30 p.m. The game will be televised on Channel 2. The Bruins are 8-0 and the Wildcats are 7-0. Both teams play up tempo basketball. "This has all the makings of a good national television game," said UCLA head coach Steve Alford after his team ran past UC Riverside 98-56 last Wednesday night at Pauley Pavilion on the UCLA campus. The Bruins are averaging 97 points per game and...
I went to Staples Center Saturday and Sunday nights. That’s no surprise since my job requires keeping up with the Lakers and Clippers. But the weekend had a special significance. The Chicago Bulls were in town. They’re not a great team but a good one. They’ve added free agent Dwayne Wade and I expected them to provide a test for the LA teams. Could they meet the challenge? The Clippers passed the Chicago test but the Lakers didn’t. The Bulls were tearing the Clippers apart early in the game bu...
While the USC Trojans will get ready to play Notre Dame on Saturday at 12:30 p.m. at the Coliseum they will also be keeping an eye on the results of the Colorado, Utah game on Saturday. After the Trojans beat UCLA 36-14 last Saturday at the Rose Bowl that other Pac-12 game on Saturday is very important to the Trojans. If Utah beats Colorado USC will be the South Division champs and they will play in the Pac-12 championship game. Both teams will end up with the same division record at 7-2 but...
Jared Goff's NFL quarterback debut showed promise but it took a very late hard hit as the Rams suffered a disheartening 14-10 loss to the visiting Miami Dolphins last Sunday. A rain-soaked Coliseum crowd once again was pleading in the final minutes for the defense to save the day. "It felt good. I think I'll start off with obviously very disappointed with the result there at the end, and how things turned out and how we felt the whole game and how in control we were," opened a solemn yet confide...
It’s good to be a fan of an LA team so far in the 2016-’17 National Basketball Association season. The Clippers are 10-1 at this writing, the best record in the NBA. And they’ve been routing opponents, building several 30-point halftime leads. The Lakers can’t match that but as of Monday they had a 6-5 record and that’s encouraging considering their slow starts in recent years. They even had a three-game winning streak before losing at Minnesota Sunday. I credit new coach Luke Walton for doing...
Enter Jared Goff. Quarterback. Los Angeles Rams. On Tuesday morning, November 15, Rams Head Coach Jeff Fisher pulled the trigger and announced that the NFL's 2016 #1 draft choice was going to replace Case Keenum as the team's starting quarterback. "I was excited, very excited. It's been a long time, it feels like, since I've gotten out there and played. I'm excited to get back out there and play," began Goff. "He (Fisher) sat me and Case down and just told us, just straight up. Again, I was...
If you are a fan of UCLA and USC sports then this weekend is perfect for you. The football game between the two schools takes place Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at the Rose Bowl and their basketball teams and women’s volleyball teams all have home games this weekend. The USC women’s volleyball team plays Oregon State on Friday at 7 p.m. and on Saturday they battle Oregon at 5 p.m. The No. 9 UCLA women’s volleyball battles Oregon on Friday at 7 p.m. and the UCLA men’s basketball team plays Long Beach S...
It wasn't the kind of beginning or ending the Ocean League Co-Champions were dreaming about. Culver City High football lost its first round 2016 playoff opener to the visiting Valley View Eagles from Moreno Valley in a slugfest, 69-43, on Friday night, November 11, at Jerry Chabola Stadium. Ultimately, it was two interceptions just before halftime that permanently turned the tide against the Centaurs. Culver City was leading 28-26 when Valley View marched into the end zone to retake the lead in...
Four months ago two top former high school quarterbacks were starting for UCLA and USC. Josh Rosen of UCLA and Max Browne of USC were two of the best quarterbacks coming out of high school and they were set to lead their perspective schools to the promised land. On Saturday both players will be on the sidelines when the teams take the field at the Rose Bowl at 7:30 p.m. Rosen is recovering from shoulder surgery and Browne lost his starting job after the Trojans started the season 1-2. Now UCLA...
The victory was sweet. Among the date palm tree farms just south of Palm Springs the Culver City High football team forged a new path into the 2017 CIF playoff semifinals with a resilient 45-27 victory over Coachella Valley High on Friday, November 17. Even the three-hour bus ride back home past midnight made it a road trip worth savoring. The Centaurs’ multi-faceted three-phase attack withstood a potent offense, the long travel, windy conditions and once again the penalty flags that t...
It was a bloody lip to say the least. The once-highest scoring team in the NFL, the Los Angeles Rams got a stiff dose of reality in thorough and convincing 24-7 loss to the Minnesota Vikings at U.S. Bank Stadium in Minneapolis. The Rams had a four-game winning streak snapped while scoring their least amount of points all season. For the first game all season the Rams (7-3) were outcoached on both sides of the ball as the team suffered its first road loss. First-year Ram head coach Sean McVay...
It was reported this Tuesday morning, November 15, that the Los Angeles Rams will start rookie quarterback Jared Goff, the NFL's top draft selection this year, against the visiting Miami Dolphins this Sunday at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. L.A. Head Coach Jeff Fisher informed Case Keenum, the Rams starting quarterback for the first nine games this season, and Goff of the quarterback change: "I sat down with both Case and Jared this morning, and informed them of the move." "First I want to...
How bad was the UCLA basketball team last season? When the season ended Coach Steve Alford returned the money he had been awarded for an additional year on his contract. Yes, the coach was taking the blame for a 15-17 season which included a 10th place finish in the Pac-12 Conference. Yes, we’re talking about UCLA, the school with all those NCAA championships. Crosstown rival USC beat UCLA twice and finished in sixth place. Oregon was the champion. Well, a new season is starting and it’s lik...
It was a football blitzkrieg at Beverly Hills High as Culver City High overwhelmed the Normans, 63-8, to capture a share of the 2016 Ocean League title on November 4, the final league game of the season. The Centaurs, 7-3 overall, finished tied at 4-1 with El Segundo and Lawndale. All three co-champions advanced to the CIF Southern Section Football Playoffs beginning this Friday, November 11. "I'll take winning the league title every day of the week. We talked in preseason about being league...
The honeymoon is over. The Los Angeles Rams crawled to the halfway point of the 2016 NFL regular season by losing their fourth consecutive game after starting the season at 3-1. For the L.A. faithful the 13-10 loss to the Carolina Panthers was devoid of entertainment on any level. The lack of genuine fan intensity even when the team had the ball was clear and telling. Somehow, a listless Carolina team came into the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum on Sunday, November 5 and beat a Ram squad that...
The USC Trojans will play their most important game of the year this Saturday when they visit the University of Washington. Kickoff is set for 4:30 p.m. and the game will be televised on Channel 11. Washington is the No. 4 ranked team in the nation and they have one of the best quarterbacks in nation in 6-2, 209 pound Jake Browning. “Washington’s quarterback jumps off the table,” said USC head coach Clay Helton. “He is very accurate and that is the reason the kid is up for the Heisman award....
There's a little slice of heaven a few miles southeast of downtown Los Angeles known as the Maywood Boxing Club. Located at the very sliver end of East 52nd Place and East 56th Street adjacent to an industrial complex bordering the Los Angeles River the modest ex-community center serves as a hotbed for some very talented fighters and some very legendary trainers. "There are rumors that Carlos Cuadras may be fighting February 25, 2017 in Dallas, Texas... against Roman "Chocolatito" Gonzalez," dec...
Four consecutive losses and counting. The now 3-5 Los Angeles Rams have reached the halfway mark in the 2016 NFL regular season in a serious funk as they lost to the Carolina Panthers, 13-10, on Sunday, November 5. One can safely say that "the entertainment capitol of the world" was not impressed with either team's offensive performance. The game also marked the unofficial awakening of the boo birds for the first time at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum since the team relocated from St. Louis...
There’s a big difference between having a good team and going all out to have a championship-caliber team. The 2016 World Series champion Chicago Cubs illustrate that point remarkably well. The Cubs hadn’t won a World Series in 108 years but accomplishing what seemed impossible became the goal that surfaced in 2009 when the Ricketts family bought the team for $845 million and Tom Ricketts began running the show. You may be familiar with the Ricketts family. They’re heavily involved in polit...
In a great World Series someone has to lose. This year it was the Cleveland Indians but they should be proud of their performance in a classic series that wasn’t decided until the extra inning of the seventh game. Terry Francona is a manager who is probably headed to the Hall of Fame. He guided the Boston Red Sox to two World Series championships and came close this time. His work this season was superb. The Indians lost some key players early in the season including two important pitchers. F...
Last Sunday the UCLA women's volleyball team showed why it is ranked No. 9 in the nation when they eliminated No. 21 Utah 3-0 at UCLA's Pauley Pavilion. The Bruins are now 18-4 and 9-3 in the Pac-12 which is good enough to tie Washington for the best record in the conference. The Bruins' next challenge is this weekend on the road when they battle Arizona today (Friday) at 6 p.m. and Arizona State on Saturday at 6 p.m. They continue their road trip the following week when they face California...
