Was it Branch Rickey who said this? Or who just got credit for it (as he did for so many other things)? Neither the Dodgers nor Angels made a big splash, here at the end of the non-waiver trading deadline. The Dodges got left-handed reliever George Sherrill from the Baltimore Orioles in exchange for a […]

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Well, this is good news for the Lakers, as well as Lakers fan. The on-again/off-again negotiations with Lamar Odom, the team’s free-agent forward, apparently are over, and he will stay with the club in a four-year deal potentially worth $33 million — if the Lakers pick up the fourth year, worth $6 million. This means […]

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Swimming is a sport with problems. 1. Hardly anyone pays attention to swimming unless it’s an Olympic year. (The world championships are going on right now, in Rome. Did you have the foggiest idea?) 2. About 80 percent of all swimming news stories seem to be about what sort of suits the swimmers are wearing. […]

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I did not know this. I am not a huge golf fan. Not even a semi-big one. But I’ve covered a bit of it, and I watch the majors, or at least parts of them. But somehow, I managed not to know this: Tiger Woods can’t control his temper (or his mouth) at golf tournaments.

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Good. He’s old, his arm is shot, and the I’m-leaving-I’m-back thing is really, really old. Can we safely assume we won’t hear about this anymore? Probably not. A link to the news story, if you can stand it. Supply your own weeping and snuffling.

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Reaction? –Man, what a butt-kicking. And on U.S. soil, too. –That’s the kind of score you can get when you send out the JVs to face the varsity. Mexico fans can gloat, and they are entitled. It ended Mexico’s 11-match winless streak (0-9-2) vs. the Yanqis on American turf, and was Mexico’s biggest victory over […]

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I’ve thought this before. Many times. But not a few minutes before I was ready to do some blogging. If I had a nickel for every time Vin Scully has said, “the deuces are wild!” … Heck, if I had a nickel for every time I’ve heard it in real time, with my own ears […]

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David Beckham still hasn’t apologized for his behavior at halftime of the Los Angeles Galaxy game with AC Milan, last Saturday, and continues to insist he did nothing wrong. Major League Soccer begs to differ. And bravo to MLS. MLS on Friday announced it is fining Beckham $1,000 for his part in the exchange between […]

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I like Juan Pierre more now than I did four months ago. So do Dodgers fans. There is something a bit odd, actually, going on around Juan Pierre. He has become something of the Official Pet/Mascot of the 2009 Dodgers. As far as fans are concerned.

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Yes, he’s a drug cheat. Absolutely, I wish the Dodgers had washed their hands of him after he served his 50-game suspension. But Manny Ramirez has a way of delivering big hits in dramatic moments. I was one of 56,000 people in the house at Dodger Stadium on Wednesday night. For Manny Ramirez Bobblehead Night. […]

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