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Los Angeles Dodgers slugging first baseman Cody Bellinger, who won the NL Rookie of the Year Award and helped lead the Dodgers to the World Series last season, has been selected 2017 Sportsman of the Year by the Los Angeles Sports Council. Bellinger will be honored at the 13th Annual LA Sports Awards, to be held on Tuesday, February 6 at The Beverly Hilton. In his first season in the majors, Bellinger compiled a .267 batting average with 39 home runs and 97 RBI in 132 games. Bellinger began the...
The last game of the 2017 NFL regular season, a 34-13 loss to the visiting San Francisco 49ers was inconsequential to the Los Angeles Rams. What mattered was the team being able to rest most of its starters in preparation for Saturday night's NFC Wild Card Playoff matchup. The third-seeded Rams will host the wild card Atlanta Falcons starting at 5:15 PST in the Coliseum. Six roster moves and 17 lineup changes by the Rams (11-5) were no match for the 49ers (6-10) and quarterback Jimmy Garappolo,...
In 1965 the Chicago Bears opened their season 0-3. They won nine of their next ten games to get back into the conference race, but fell short in their bid to win the conference. The Green Bay Packers and the Baltimore Colts were conference co-champions that year. Despite beating the eventual champion Packers by 21 points and shutting out the Colts on the road, the Bears could not overcome their 0-3 start. The Bears fate of 1965 is the similar to the fate of the Los Angeles Chargers of 2017. The...
Imagine a gathering of 20,000 people, all coming together to celebrate their hero, Kobe Bryant, leaving the Lakers. They see both his jerseys, No. 8 & 24 hanging on the dais for display. This outstanding production was one of the best shows of teamwork, just like the Lakers Family knows how to do it. The atmosphere in Staples Center was intimate. The Spirit of Love & Gratitude was to the fullness & we were continually surrounded by High Appreciation. The Lakers shared many of their unique...
The City of Culver City will present the Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration on Saturday, January 13, 2018 noon to 3 p.m. at the Culver City Senior Center 4095 Overland Avenue. Opening ceremonies at noon, actor Gerald Rivers as Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. at 12:30. Film screening “Agents of Change” at 1 p.m. Community conversation at 2 p.m. Additional free parking across the street at the Veteran’s Auditorium Complex. Tori Bailey Chair MLK Committee and Steven Fisher, Daniel Lee,...
Candidates wasted no time in lining up to replace Sebastian Ridley-Thomas in the state assembly. Four candidates have thrown their proverbial hats in the ring, Sydney Kamlager-Dove, Steve Dunwoody, Joey Hill and Ashlee Marie Preston. All four are registered Democrats. Sydney Kamlager-Dove is currently president of the Los Angeles Community College District (LACCD) Board of Trustees and district director for California State Senator Holly J. Mitchell has announced her candidacy for the state's...
Assemblyman Sebastian Ridley Thomas whose 54th Assembly district includes Culver City announced last week that he was resigning his seat effective December 31 due to undisclosed health issues. He had previously taken a two-week medical leave on March 7th of last year. Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. will have 14 days in which to call for the special election for the vacated seat. According to Kevin Liao, Press Secretary for California State Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon In a press release issued...
By Steve Finley For the past three years two local college quarterbacks have dominated the talk about who is the best NFL ready signal caller. UCLA’s Josh Rosen and USC’s Sam Darnold climbed to the top of the list. Now Oklahoma’s Heisman Trophy winner Baker Mayfield has joined the club. All three players have strong points and weak points. Darnold and Mayfield combine great athletic ability with good quarterback skills and tremendous leader skills and a will to win. Rosen is the best pure passe...
Walk, Carefully, Into The New Year I hope 2018 will be a year when you'll stay intact. Is the reason so many people are falling the time of year, or the time of life? "There are 27,000 ankle sprains every day in the U.S.," says Glenn Pfeffer, orthopaedic surgeon and Director of the Foot and Ankle Surgery Program at Cedars-Sinai. Half of all ankle sprains happen when you're not even doing anything athletic. It could be something as innocent as stepping on an uneven surface. One story I heard...
