headline sports stories John Hollinger is an Idiot

The battle for internet readership is what dictates most of the content you read online today.  Writers, bloggers and forum junkies alike, post as much controversy as they can dream up in hopes that their writing will start a debate that brings the eyeballs to their post (which is how most bloggers and online sports columnists validate their meaningless existence).  …

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High School Sports »

[15 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
High School Football’s Top 25

Most teams wrapped up their regular season on Thursday – Saturday night and are gearing up for the playoffs.  Below is a look at how the LA Times’ top 25 Southern California HIgh School Football teams fared in their final regular season games:

Soccer »

[14 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
LA Galaxy Back to the Final

Thanks to a 2-0 overtime win against the Houston Dynamo, the Los Angeles Galaxy have found their way back to the MLS Final for the first time since 2005.  Coming off of recent seasons of turmoil, including a not so smooth start to the David Beckham $500 million era, the Galaxy are now back at the elite level of MLS …

Basketball »

[14 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Lakers Clobber Phoenix, then Get Clobbered in Denver

If you look at an NBA team’s 82 game regular season schedule, there are always one or two games you can point to that you know are going to be tough for that team to win.  The Phoenix Suns and Los Angeles Lakers each played one of those games in the past week.  First Phoenix, who after playing five road …

Basketball »

[9 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Kobe, Better with Age?

It may be early in the 2009-2010 NBA season, but judging by headlines like “Kobe’s Newfound Post Game Leads LA,” “Best Kobe Ever” or “Kobe Acts as Lakers’ Gasol-ine in Lakers Win,” it appears that Kobe Bryant has gotten off to a terrific start so far this NBA season. Add to the headlines the fact that, as of …

Football »

[8 Nov 2009 | No Comment | ]
Rivers, Merriman and Keading Repay Giants for “the Trade.”

In what was a hard fought battle throughout, Sunday’s game between the New York Giants and San Diego Chargers ended with an ironic reminder of the 2004 draft-day trade that was. Philip Rivers threw a game winning touchdown pass to Vincent Jackson with just 21 seconds remaining in the fourth quarter and kicker Nate Kaeding’s extra point put the …