It’s all in the details: Pat Riley is wearing a Giorgio Armani suit and a crocodile leather belt in the statue unveiled in Star Plaza today. The raised right fist was the Showtime Lakers’ signal for a pass into the post to Kareem.
A big television program is being filmed here tonight at 8 p.m. These 2 semi-pro sports entities will sell a bunch of truck commercials and make millions for their corporate partners. Football fans can also come watch if they wait around all day, pay $$$ and don’t mind getting home at 1 a.m.!
Manny Pacquiao tells me “the book on politics is closed.” He’s all-in on his revived boxing career at 46, and not just for one farewell bout next month. He loves training, competing, even promoting — and he wants to fight on indefinitely. apnews.com/article/mann...
Time to see if the Galaxy can end their MLS-record 15-match winless skid to start the season as they take on Bruce Arena’s Quakes.
Matthew Lugo homered on the only pitch he saw yesterday. Tonight he smacks a 106.9-mph grounder on the first pitch he sees in San Diego, but Manny Machado handles it. A promising big league start for the Angels prospect.
Matthew Lugo comes up as a pinch-hitter in the 9th and hits his first career homer on the first pitch he sees. The Angels still trail 7-3 but that was cool.
Angels fall behind 1-0 in the first when Taylor Ward loses Adley Rutschman's ordinary fly ball in the sun and it falls for an RBI triple. LAAs are trying to win back-to-back series for the first time in a month.
Not a lot of folks came out to watch the Angels and the Blue Jays tonight. The Canadian weather in Anaheim doesn’t help.
Entertaining first half in the USWNT and Brazil friendly at SoFi. Studio City’s Alyssa Thompson set up Newport Beach’s Trinity Rodman for the only goal.
Anaheim Ducks GM Pat Verbeek after largely standing pat at the trade deadline: "Honestly, I’m happy with this group. I like this group. I believe in this group. We’re going to look to always keep improving, (while) at the same time allowing our young guys to keep pushing ahead and developing."
Ducks GM Pat Verbeek says he didn't get close to making any other trades at the deadline.
He "delayed as long as I could" before trading Brian Dumoulin to Jersey, not wanting to disrupt the Ducks' recent surge. Says he only decided to pull the trigger after the loss in Vancouver on Wednesday.
LeBron James just scored his 50,000th point in the regular season & playoffs combined. For perspective, Kareem is second with 44,149 career points. And LeBron isn’t even slowing down at 40 in his 22nd season.
San Diego FC plays its inaugural home opener tonight in front of what’s going to be the biggest crowd in Snapdragon Stadium history. This town is hungry for more pro sports, so this is a great time for MLS to enter the market.
Freeway Faceoff CLXVI is underway. I was worried about how to kill the 2 hours between games, but then Mark Williams failed the Lakers’ physical and all that down time evaporated!
Cooper Kupp says the Rams are trying to trade him after 8 prolific seasons, and the wideout is clearly disappointed. No comment yet from the team. apnews.com/article/rams...
Just watched Rui Hachimura teach Roki Sasaki how to make the LA hand symbol before tonight’s Lakers game. That was awesome.
RIP and thank you to David Lynch, an artist and an original. You made my mind work better.
There aren’t many active NBA players left who could watch Michael Jordan in his 1990s Chicago Bulls prime. LeBron James was a witness, and that’s why it means so much to him when he breaks one of Jordan’s records, as he did tonight with his 563rd 30-point game.
The Rams have to practice today & tomorrow with a short week before Arizona, but Sean McVay made a schedule that gives them time to enjoy Christmas. That’s huge for dads like Matthew Stafford, who says he’s got “kids that are the prime age right now of enjoying it.”
The Rose Bowl traditionalists will love an Ohio State vs Oregon matchup, but I’m a strict Rose Bowl fundamentalist who’s still mad we aren’t getting Harvard vs the Mare Island Marines
“Art of Sport LA Bowl Hosted by Gronk” is maybe the clunkiest name in bowl history, but it’s even clunkier because they hired that weird subset of PR/branding people who refuse to use definite articles in names, thinking they’re Sean Parker dropping “The” from Facebook. “The” ain’t the obstacle here
LeBron James was excused from the Lakers’ practice today for personal reasons, JJ Redick said. He’s also still got his foot issue. LeBron and Austin Reaves are both TBD for LA’s games this weekend.
Rams DT Braden Fiske is the NFL’s Defensive Rookie of the Month for his 5-sack November.
He’s the third Ram to win that award in the past 2 seasons, joining Kobie Turner (Dec ‘23) and Jared Verse (Sept ‘24).
USC's Makai Lemon got honorable mention on the All-Big Ten teams, barely preserving the Trojans' streak of a WR making an all-conference team or getting HM every year since 2007.
Lemon needs 94 yards in the bowl game to avoid being the Trojans' least productive top WR in the 21st century.
The Lakers are now targeting early January for Jarred Vanderbilt’s long-awaited return to uniform. He developed an effusion in his left knee, the team says. He hasn’t played in an NBA game since Feb. 1. He’s only played in 55 regular season games since joining the Lakers in February 2023.
As we get ready for the 95th Notre Dame-USC game, a reminder that Knute Rockne has a tribute plaque on the Coliseum Peristyle because this rivalry was unique and cool long before all of us were born & it’d be really lame and short-sighted to sever this venerable connection to our history.
Black Friday hockey in Anaheim for the 20th consecutive year. It’s also Freeway Faceoff CLXV.
Rams WR Demarcus Robinson is very remorseful about his arrest: "It's a bad look. I don't want to bring that type of light, or any type of negative energy, toward the team. Things like that are not natural for me, in my nature, stuff I usually do. I sincerely apologize to the whole organization."
Rams WR Demarcus Robinson will not be suspended this week after getting arrested on suspicion of DUI, Sean McVay says. He will play at N.O.
The Rams' offense averaged 8.4 yards per play and didn't face a third down during that first quarter vs Philadelphia's top-rated defense.
