The Dodgers released the dates for their promotional giveaways, in 2015, and we will wade through the tatty (fleece blanket) and the bizarre (a Tommy Lasorda garden gnome; brilliant but creepy) and go straight to the stuff that matters. The bobbleheads! The Dodgers have 10 bobblehead games scheduled for 2015, which boggles the mind. Remember […]

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I heard the end of the 2014 World Series on Thursday morning in Abu Dhabi — Wednesday night in Kansas City, where the San Francisco Giants defeated the Royals 3-2 to win the championship for the third time in five years. I preferred the Giants. The Dodgers’ arch-rival, sure, but a National League team, and […]

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If we still lived in Southern California, I might feel differently. But not only do I not mind the San Francisco Giants winning a World Series … I prefer it to the Kansas City Royals winning it. How I arrived at this place:

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The Dodgers clinched the National League West tonight by defeating the San Francisco Giants 9-1 behind Clayton Kershaw. Always grand to clinch against the Giants, and let them watch the team in blue celebrate. But, more important, the Dodgers winning the division, and avoiding the wild-card stuff, comes a week after the Angels secured the […]

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A few years ago, I went off on the misuse of the word “surreal” by athletes. It’s one of those Crabby Old Editor things. Most athletes don’t know surrealism from the Man in the Moon. What they mean is “unreal”. And here is another horribly overworked word, these past years: “Icon” … and it’s adjectival […]

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As noted a few days ago, when Mike Trout tripled in his first at-bat at the All-Star game, I support the concept that the triple is the most exciting play in baseball. A guy running full speed from the batter’s box to third base while an outfielder or two chases down a ball in the […]

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The Los Angeles Kings tonight wrapped up their second Stanley Cup championship in three years. And though I, like most native southern Californians, am not a hockey fan, we must concede this: Los Angeles would be confronting a potential championship drought, about now, if the Kings had not had not turned into world beaters.

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Bob Welch, a fine pitcher for both the Dodgers and the Oakland Athletics died yesterday. Heart attack. He was 57. A personal aside: As you age, in relation to sports figures, you notice two things: one, when you are older than any professional athlete in one of the Big Four sports and, two, you notice […]

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When I was a young, Los Angeles versus New York sports championships happened fairly often. And they were intense. The Dodgers and the Yankees met in the World Series in 1963, 1977, 1978 and 1981. The Lakers and Knicks met in the NBA Finals in 1971 and 1972. (And, a reader reminds me, in 1970.) […]

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In the wake of Jurgen Klinsmann‘s cavalier treatment of Landon Donovan, I have arrived at a crisis point. Do I support the team Klinsmann will coach at Brazil 2014? Or do I withhold my love until he is gone? I am leaning towards the latter.

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