I prefer to do top 10s, but the Dodgers have been around only 120 seasons and haven’t gotten around to winning 10 World Series yet. So we will to settle for a top 5. With one (1959) to spare! From fifth to first:

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I feel badly for Milton Bradley. Really, I do. I have written that before. If not on this blog, certainly in a print publication The guy is a little too honest, a little too direct, too easily frustrated and intellectually incapable of toeing the party line. And that has caused him no end of problems. […]

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There goes the now-annual choke job against a Pac-10 minnow. Didn’t take long. Just like last year, actually. Uncanny, really, how similar it was. An important victory over Ohio State, followed immediately by a crushing Pac-10-opening defeat on the road. Washington 16, USC 13. In Seattle. That would be 20-point-underdog Washington. The Washington that hadn’t […]

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I don’t know any of this first-hand. I have done no reporting of my own. I haven’t talked to anyone directly involved in the situation. But I’m going to tell you what I heard, anyway. Which is what blogs too often are about. Just passing on idle gossip. But,  the heck with it. On with […]

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It seemed pretty straightforward. Dodgers at home against the Pittsburgh Pirates, a 12:10 p.m. Wednesday day game. Just zip on up to Chavez Ravine, pick up the Manny Ramirez bobblehead — which was a representation of Manny tipping his hat after hitting a pinch grand slam in the first Manny Ramirez bobblehead game — and […]

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I will get around soon to detailing my awful  experience trying to see the Dodgers play today … but in the meantime I’m going to coast through this entry. Can’t all be opuses. (Opi?)  Some days you don’t wake up ticked off, or eager to heap praise on someone … And some days you are […]

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I have been voting for the Honda Award for a long time now. Maybe from the start, which was 1991. The Honda Award is the biggest award in U.S. soccer that has nothing to do with the federation. It is run by Football de Primera, based in San Francisco, and sponsored by Honda, the auto […]

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From 1976 through 2007, I was all over high school football. Because I needed to be. And because I wanted to be. I’m going to guestimate that I saw more than 300 high school football games during my days running (or working for) the sports department of the San Bernardino Sun. Maybe 400. Lots and […]

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A few entries ago, I noted that the start of the National Football League season doesn’t really interest me. And I believe a big chunk of the Los Angeles market feels the same way. Saturday, we saw Reasons A and B why L.A. doesn’t need the NFL. USC and UCLA football.

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As I noted, below, USC under Pete Carroll wins these kind of games. Non-conference games in general, against prominent opposition in particular, versus Big Ten teams, in specific. But the Trojans cut this one awfully close. And it was mostly about the curious decision by Carroll and his coaches to commit to a 19-year-old freshman, […]

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