I don’t dwell on the National Football League. It’s gone. It seems a bad idea for the NFL to leave open the Los Angeles market for 14 seasons (and counting), but, yeah, whatever. Anyway, I just happened to bump into recent stories about L.A.’s former NFL teams — the Rams and Raiders. And collectively, well, […]

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It’s football season. But to me and, I’m beginning to believe, most football fans in Greater Los Angeles … football season means college football. USC and UCLA. Maybe high school football. It does not mean the National Football League.

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This has been a weird story, this whole Brett Favre and the Packers saga. It’s a big story, for sure, but forgive us if we in the NFL-Free Zone known as greater Los Angeles aren’t hanging on every twist and turn in the tale. It seemed fairly obvious from this end. The guy retired. He […]

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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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OK, he’s only 24, but Matt Leinart has a real job now — quarterback of the Arizona Cardinals. Which doesn’t mean he needs to take monastic vows … but at least should be smart enough to stop posing for photos when he’s having over the local chapter of the Tappa Kegga Bru sorority. Here are […]

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