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Without question, it was another highly dramatic, competitive and entertaining Friday Night Football game last week at Culver City High School to end the season. Unfortunately, the Centaurs came up just short of a perfect record, losing 49-42, as visiting Apple Valley High withstood a second-half comeback at Jerry Chabola Stadium on the Culver City campus. The Sun Devils clinched the thriller by recovering a Centaur onside kick attempt in the last minute. "It was a back-and-forth game," said...
Showtime Centaurs! Bay League Champions! For the first time in a decade Bay League Football has a new champion as Culver City High rallied to beat perennial power Palos Verdes High, 42-28, last Friday, April 9, on Senior Night at Jerry Chabola Stadium. The Centaurs won the physical thriller over the now-former nine-time defending Champion Sea Kings, an instant classic that was decided in the final minutes. The Centaurs will finish their season this coming Friday, April 16, when they host the...
Los Angeles Football Club wrapped up its two-match preseason series with the New England Revolution last Saturday, rallying for a 3-3 draw as head coach Bob Bradley prepared his squad for this Saturday's 2021 home-opener versus Austin FC, Major League Soccer's latest franchise entry to be initiated at the Banc of California Stadium. Last year, LAFC welcomed Inter Miami into the MLS with a 1-0 shutout in the season opener at the Banc. "The past two Saturdays I think the two teams have gone after...
The Bay League Championship is on the line this Friday evening, April 9, at 7:30 p.m. as Culver City High hosts nine-time defending League Champion Palos Verdes High at Jerry Chabola Stadium on the high campus. The Centaurs and the Sea Kings are tied for the League lead, both with 3-0 records and have split the last two contests between each other, including a thrilling 55-52 double-overtime Culver City victory in 2019. The Centaurs remained undefeated in their first season in the Bay League by...
T-minus one week and counting. Los Angeles Football Club played the New England Revolution to a 2-2 draw in the first of two exhibition games between the two clubs before the 2021 Major League Soccer season starts next weekend. Both will take the field again at Banc of California Stadium this Saturday, April 10, before LAFC hosts Austin FC, the league's latest franchise entry, on Saturday, April 17, 3:00 p.m. at the Banc. "A few good moments but overall I still think the timing and the...
The Lakers and the Clippers are in a dog fight in the Western Conference. With both teams fighting the injury bug they are just trying to stay in the top four of the conference. The Clippers appear to be ahead of the Lakers right now because Anthony Davis and LeBron James are still out with injuries and now newly acquired center Andre Drummond is also out with a toe injury. The Clippers are missing starting center Serge Ibaka because of a back injury but backup center Ivica Zubac is having an...
Two down, three to go. Despite the abbreviated schedule due to COVID, Culver City High school football is making the most of its inaugural season in the Bay League. The Centaurs overwhelmed Redondo Union, 55-12, last Friday night home-opener at Jerry Chabola Stadium to remain tied for first with Palos Verdes High, each undefeated at 2-0. "We were clicking on all cylinders. With everything that we've been through with the layoff, shortened preseason and not a lot of practice time, to execute and...
Growing up in Los Angeles I remember the Lakers, Dodgers and Rams very well. There players were bigger than life but in the early years a few players always stood above the rest. Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale from the Dodgers, Ramon Gabriel and the fearsome foursome from the Rams and Elgin Baylor and Jerry West from the Lakers. Baylor died last Monday of natural causes at the age of 86. When he died that bridge that connected Los Angeles to the old Laker team in Minneapolis, Minnesota fell into...
High school football is back! Sixteen months after their last game, Culver City High christened their Bay League debut by rallying in the last minute on the road to beat an excellent Mira Costa High squad, 35-28, on a foggy, windy Friday night in Manhattan Beach last week, March 19. It was the first of five league games scheduled for the Centaurs this spring season after a seven-month delay due to COVID protocols that threatened to cancel the season entirely months before. "It was definitely...
UCLA completed the 2021 softball preseason in prime form as the Bruins swept back-to-back doubleheaders this past weekend, with each game a shutout, and almost as if expected. And the two-year wait is over as the team hosts the Arizona State Sun Devils for their PAC-12 season opener, a four-game series starting this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 19-21 at Easton Stadium on the UCLA campus. Due to COVID protocol measures, PAC-12 Softball was cancelled the week before the season was scheduled...
Culver City's first opponent in their new league will be a familiar one. The Centaurs and the Mira Costa Mustangs have had some classic battles over the years but the one on Friday night figures to ranked at the top of the list. Not only is this the first game in a pandemic season but Mira Costa may have a quarterback that can go toe to toe with Culver City great signal caller, Zevi Eckhaus. Kick off is set for 7 p.m. at Mira Costa. Only family members will be allowed to attend the game. Culver...
UCLA completed the 2021 softball preseason in prime form as the Bruins swept back-to-back doubleheaders this past weekend, with each game a shutout, and almost as if expected. And the two-year wait is over as the team hosts the Arizona State Sun Devils for their PAC-12 season opener, a four-game series starting this Friday, Saturday and Sunday, March 19-21 at Easton Stadium on the UCLA campus. Due to COVID protocol measures, PAC-12 Softball was cancelled the week before the season was scheduled...
With a new league there will be new challenges for the Culver City varsity, junior varsity and freshmen football teams. The Bay League figures to be slightly more competitive than the Ocean League that the team played in for many years. Mira Costa, Peninsula, Palos Verdes, Redondo Union and Santa Monica are now their opponents. The good news for the varsity team is their team is loaded with a bevy of talented seniors. "We have been blessed to have a lot of seniors this year," said Culver City...
There are four preseason games remaining on the 2021 UCLA Bruins softball schedule before the team begins to defend its 2019 PAC-12 title on Friday, March 19. After the Bruins beat U.C. San Diego, 7-1, last Tuesday afternoon, March 9, to improve its season record to 11-1, they are scheduled to play consecutive doubleheaders this Thursday and Friday, March 11 and 12, against U.C. Santa Barbara and UNLV, respectively. The defending National Champions have to be satisfied with their comfortable...
After many months of checking tier levels, making sure coronavirus levels have dropped, the State of California, the County of Los Angeles, the CIF Southern Section office, the City of Culver City and the Culver City Unified School District have cleared most of the schools in Southern California to play outdoor sports this year. Although several sports have been cleared football is at the top of the list. "I found out that it was a strong possibility about two weeks ago that all we needed was so...
"We say things like: pressure is a privilege. That means people are expecting great things from us. And that can only be a positive for us." (Kelly Inouye-Perez, UCLA Softball Head Coach. February 2021) Some things are special. The defending National Champion UCLA softball team has successfully opened the 2021 season with five consecutive victories. After last season's remarkable 25-1 start was abruptly cancelled due to COVID, the Bruins have resumed defending their 2019 title with a...
Leave no doubt. That is what Tampa Bay Buccaneer quarterback Tom Brady did win he won his record setting seventh Super Bowl last Sunday. Without a doubt he is the best quarterback in history at any level. The 43-year-old quarterback from northern California and the University of Michigan proved once again that he can make a gigantic difference on almost any team he plays on. Brady deserves a lot of credit for Tampa Bay’s turn around, but the real hero is their speed and conditioning coach R...
The USC men's basketball team moved into the top 25 nationally rankings at No. 20 after they beat UCLA 66-48 last Saturday. Although the Bruins were missing some key players the Trojans look like the better team even if the Bruins had all of their players. The main reason, Ethan Anderson. If Anderson can continue to play like he did against UCLA, the Trojans will be hard to beat in Pac-12 play. "This was a very big night for me just because I haven't seen my shots fall the way I wanted them...
The time is now. The Los Angeles Rams blockbuster trade eight days before Super Bowl LV made them a serious contender for next season's Super Bowl LVI to be held at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood. On Saturday, January 30, the Rams agreed to trade 5-year NFL quarterback Jared Goff, two 1st-Round and one 3rd-Round draft picks to the Detroit Lions for 12-year veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford. The immediate winners are owner Stan Kroenke and head coach Sean McVay. The trade allows the Rams to get a...
There is nothing like rivalries in college sports. UCLA against USC and Ohio State versus Michigan are two of the most famous rivalries in college. In professional sports you can mention the Lakers and the Celtics, Dodgers and Giants but if those teams are not winning the intensity of the rivalry drops down a notch. When UCLA and USC lock horns it's always special regardless of the team's records. On Saturday, the Bruins and Trojans men's basketball teams will battle on USC's home court at 7...
The time is now. The Los Angeles Rams blockbuster trade eight days before Super Bowl LV made them a serious contender for next season's Super Bowl LVI to be held at SoFi Stadium. On Saturday, January 30, the Rams agreed to trade 5-year NFL quarterback Jared Goff, two 1st-Round and one 3rd-Round draft picks to the Detroit Lions for 12-year veteran quarterback Matthew Stafford. The immediate winners are owner Stan Kroenke and head coach Sean McVay. The trade allows the Rams to get a top-level...
It was a sobering way to start the New Year. The Los Angeles Rams playoff run came to an expected end on a cold Lambeau Field, losing 32-18 to the Green Bay Packers in the 2020 NFC Conference Round. The NFL's number one defense had no answers for quarterback Aaron Rodgers and the Packers' number one offense. The losses continued on Sunday as Rams defensive coordinator Brandon Staley agreed to terms to be the next head coach of the Los Angeles Chargers. "The finality of everything is so sudden,"...
The season is still early but if the early returns are factual the UCLA men's basketball team, USC men's basketball team and the UCLA women's basketball team are moving in the right direction. Throw in the Los Angeles Lakers and the Los Angeles Clippers and the local basketball landscape in Los Angeles looks very impressive during this pandemic season. Despite the challenges presented by the virus these teams have been successful so far this season. The Lakers have the best record in the NBA at...
Destiny comes in different forms. For Culver City volleyball player Brandon Horn-Bostel his destiny was to be a volleyball player and his story started many years ago when his grandfather attended Culver High School and played sports. Then it was his mother's turn to continue the athletic excellence at Culver City. Now Brandon completed the third-generation cycle at Culver City high school. Horn-Bostel accepted a scholarship offer from Charleston University in West Virginia a few months ago to...
Aaron vs. Aaron. The intriguing NFC second round Divisional playoff matchup this Saturday at Lambeau Field at 1:35 p.m. on Channel 11 will feature the Los Angeles Rams and defensive tackle Aaron Donald, the best defensive player in the NFL versus the Green Bay Packers and Aaron Rodgers, one of the best offensive players in the league. Due to a rash of injuries, the Rams with the NFL's No. 1 defense is a 6.5 underdog to the Packers and Rodgers who directs the league's No. 1 scoring offense. The...
