This could have been a turning point day for the Dodgers.Good news: Joe Torre benches Andruw Jones and broadly hints the $36 Million Mistake won’t be back in the lineup any time soon. Bad news: Nomar Garciaparra suffers a tweaked knee and leave in the middle of a 2-0 victory. He said it didn’t hurt […]

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Gee, we hate to make a habit of praising the management of local pro sports teams, but we have to express approval at the Lakers’ coming to terms with Sasha “The Machine” Vujacic. Sasha will get $15 million over three years, which sounds about right. Vujacic had threatened to jump to Europe, a la Josh […]

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Now that I’ve just written that headline … I wonder if it is the right thing, considering that nearly every major move taken by Dodgers general manager Ned Colletti has gone so spectacularly wrong. I mean, it is possible for him to do anything right when his resume includes Andruw Jones, Jason Schmidt and Juan […]

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Semi-weird story unfolding here, and I have a hunch it’s going to leave everyone involved not quite happy about the way it turns out. “Tragedy” is too strong a word for a sports event, but what should have been a happy ending to Brett Favre’s career now looks like it may leave unhappy fans — […]

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For the first time in 32 years, I am spending most of my summer in Long Beach, the city where I grew up. And I am reminded of several of the patterns of summer, here by the Southern California ocean. And how we passed the time during those glorious 12 weeks or so between school […]

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OK, new marketing strategy: Flying fists! Open-court tackles! Cat fights! Heck, why not? Nothing else has worked for the WNBA. The women’s version of the NBA has been around for, what, 11 seasons now, and it has barely qualified as background noise on the national sports scene. So if two teams in a scrum at […]

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Sort of a running joke, during The Sun sports reunion in Las Vegas, were expressions that seemed to strike someone as a good name for a band. They were coming about one-an-hour, there for a while. Some of those I remember … and feel free, homeboys and girls, to add more:

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Let’s see … “hitting on a soft 20” probably will be the line that sticks in people’s heads. Though “goat on a staircase” … “yes, I sit to pee” … “lucky goiter” … and “Black Death Tour” have a chance to live in infamy, as well. Ah, yes, The Sun sports department reunion weekend, July […]

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May not get much posted today. I’m in Las Vegas for the Sun sports reunion.  We’ve got something like 14 former Sun sports staffers here on The Strip, and it’s a little wilder than I expected, frankly. Not that I’m contributing a whole lot to it. Might be able to catch up tomorrow or the […]

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On the previous entry, someone who saw Andruw Jones play in Atlanta — where he was a real player … actually, a star … for most of a decade … hopes that Dodgers fans get to see that guy before they, oh, I don’t know … start pelting him with rotton tomatoes. My response to […]

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