Bowl Championship Series

Manti Te'o's Girlfriend Was A Hoax Straight Out Of SoCal

Of course the most bizarre story in sports in the new year has to run through Southern California ... more than once. The website Deadspin blew the lid off Notre Dame linebacker Manti Te'o's fake girlfriend Lennay Kekua, a dying college student-cum-grad who inspired his play in the school's near-ch ... More >>

Katherine Webb: Meet The L.A. Model Who Made Brent Musburger Drool On-Air (PHOTOS)

Meet Katherine Webb, a Miss USA contestant who became America's sweetheart almost overnight. Besides being the target of Brent Musburger's on-air drool during ESPN's broadcast of the BCS championship football game Monday, it turns out that Webb is a West Hollywood-based model (photos at the bottom ... More >>

What To Eat During the BCS Title Game: Duck, Regardless

Anne FishbeinCacao​ What to eat during tonight's much-anticipated BCS championship game? Sure, you can grill up bits whatever large animal you have handy, or throw the traditional burgers and brats on the fire. If you're tailgating in Arizona, well, bless you. But regardless of which side you ... More >>

What To Wear While Tailgating: The Cook, The Milliner, His Wife & Her Quarterback. Or Something Like That.

Between tonight's Orange Bowl and the crowds slowly gathering in Pasadena for Thursday's BCS championship game (with all the Longhorn banners fluttering along Del Mar, you'd think that half the faculty at Cal Tech was secretly from Texas), we thought it was time for a little food fashion weigh-in. ... More >>

Depeche Mode at the Hollywood Bowl: Night One

View more photos in the "Depeche Mode: Night One" slideshow. Depeche Mode at the Hollywood Bowl, Aug. 16 You needn't look back at the Rose Bowl in 1988 or the West Hollywood record store riot of 1990 to measure Depeche Mode's relationship with our city. Those kinds of things are for the history bo ... More >>

Boi From Troy Rose Bowl Headline Beats L.A. Times'

The gay, USC-themed blog known as the Boi from Troy decisively trounced today's L.A. Times when it came to headlining the Trojans' impressive 34-24 Rose Bowl victory over Penn State. "Friday Morning QB: Three-Pete Edition" quipped BFT's blogger, alluding to the third consecutive Rose Bowl title ... More >>

Still Trying to Figure Out What to Do on the Fourth?

ESPN Puts New Orleans Back Underwater

It's BCS Championship Game time and, two years after Katrina, New Orleanians are no doubt ecstatic to have the Sugar Bowl back in their fair city. They might not be so thrilled, however, to discover that their city is once again under a deluge. Maybe I'm being a little sensitive, but check out ... More >>

Must See Art

Paul McCarthy lecture at the UCLA Hammer Museum and “Sick-Amour” by Joel Tauber at Susanne Vielmetter

Tunnel Vision

The Rose Bowl’s long, narrow exits aren’t ready to handle a crowd crisis in a post-9/11 world

StreetSignism

The new, weird counterculture

Best Corporate ­Coffee Break

Fleas in Heaven

Scratching the urge to bargain

The Billy Pulpit

Fame, etc.

Holiday showtime hits City Hall

Bowl Over

The end is near for a Crenshaw landmark