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Dodgers Pull into New York for Don Mattingly Lovefest While L.A. Fans Steam

Losers of six of eight, the Dodgers pull into the Bronx today for a pair of interleague games with their long-time World Series rivals, the New York Yankees. And much to the dismay of the City of Dodgers, it's going to be 48 hours of Don Mattingly-inspired reminiscing, with a laser-like focus on hi ... More >>

MLB Hits Back after Dodgers Dbacks Fight, Suspension all Around

The long wait is over. The Dodgers and Arizona Diamondbacks had a knock down drag out fight Tuesday night in Los Angeles, and a mere three days later, Major League Baseball has decided what to do about it. MLB generally hands out fines and suspensions the day after an on-field incident, but with a ... More >>

5 Stories All Angels Fans Should Know

If you're an Angels fan looking for more ways to prove your diehard loyalty, there's a book out there that might hold a helpful suggestion or two. Baseball writer Joe Haakenson recently released 100 Things Angels Fans Should Know and Do before They Die and we took some excerpts from the book to guid ... More >>

Zinedine Zidane Film at Cinefamily Is Like an Odd Sort of Nature Documentary

You may be more familiar with Zinedine Zidane than you think. In the 2006 World Cup Final -- a game that the French soccer player of Algerian extraction had already announced would be his last -- he was red carded (read: ejected) for headbutting Italy's Marco Materazzi in extra time. By all accounts ... More >>

Joe Torre Wants to Buy the Dodgers With Developer Rick Caruso; L.A. Rejoices

If Frank McCourt is the most hated man in baseball -- and in Los Angeles in general -- Joe Torre might be the most loved. Which makes Torre's surprise resignation as executive vice president of the MLB, and announcement that he'll pursue ownership of the Dodgers alongside major L.A. developer Rick ... More >>

Moneyball Review

Toronto Film Festival: Moneyball and the Fetishizing of Spreadsheets

​ "It's hard not to be romantic about baseball," admits Billy Beane, the general manager of the Oakland Athletics played, in career-best form, by Brad Pitt in Bennett Millers' Moneyball.This line, from a screenplay by Stephen Zaillian and Aaron Sorkin, happens in the home stretch of a film abo ... More >>

Anthony Bourdain Joins Writing Team on HBO's Treme

Anthony Bourdain, no stranger to TV, is moving to the other side of the camera.​Under Anthony Bourdain's many writing credits - Kitchen Confidential, Bone in the Throat and Medium Raw, to name a few - we can now add HBO series Treme to that list. As the AVClub reports, via Nola.com, the sharp ... More >>

Joe Torre: Out As Dodger Manager

​Joe Torre is out as Dodgers manager after this season, to be replaced by Don Mattingly next season, the Times reports. Torre could stay with the team in another capacity. The Dodgers have been 251-220 during his three-year tenure. Torre has been a manager for 28 years, the highlight an incr ... More >>

George Steinbrenner Will Be Remembered For The Hollywood Work On 'Seinfeld' He Didn't Actually Do

NBC vis YouTube​As New Yorkers mourned the passing of Yankees owner George Steinbrenner, a tribute was planned for Tuesday night's Major League Baseball game in Anaheim, and former team manager and former Yankees leader Joe Torre was speaking about his old boss to reporters at Dodger Stadium T ... More >>

Yeah, Another George Steinbrenner Post: Remember His Mysterious Fight In L.A. During 1981 World Series?

NBC via Youtube​ I was a huge Yankees fan in 1981, having that summer gone to my first Major League game at Yankee Stadium as a 6-year old. Reggie Jackson hit a monster home run, there was a bench-clearing brawl, the young women behind us were smoking weed, and we beat the traffic home. Thus, ... More >>

Lakers Are The Sports Franchise Of The Decade

Da Lakers.​Yes, another year-end, top-of-the-decade list, this time from Sports Illustrated. The magazine says the Los Angeles Lakers are the sports franchise of the decade. The Staples Center-based ballers beat out the NFL's New England Patriots (number two), the University of Connecticut's w ... More >>

Hideki Matsui Coming to LA: A Designated Hitter A Japanese Curry House

MLB.com​Hideki Matsui, the New York Yankees DH and MVP of the World Series, is coming to Los Angeles. Matsui has reportedly signed a 1-year contract with the Angels. So they get a guy who batted .615 over the 6 games of the series, and in arguably better news--depending on your culinary tastes ... More >>

Dodgers/Phillies Game 5: Well, So Much For 2009. Thanks For the Memories.

​Turn out the lights, the party's over.There was a glimmer of hope when Andre Ethier hit a solo home run in the 1st inning, but the Phillies quickly snuffed it out in the bottom of the inning with that three-run dinger by Jayson Werth.The Dodgers needed another solid outing from Vicente Padilla bu ... More >>

Dodgers/Phillies: It'll Be Deja Vu All Over Again

​ Stupid Rockies.All they had to do Monday night was hold a two-run 9th inning lead to extend their series with the Phillies to a fifth game, but closer Huston Street blew it. The Rockies got the tying run on base in the bottom of the 9th, but couldn't push it across.So the NL Championship, beginn ... More >>

Dodgers Finish Off Cardinals: What Did I Tell You?

​Yesterday I predicted the Dodgers would knock the Cards out this weekend, but I didn't think it would necessarily happen Saturday--or that the Blue Crew would make it look relatively easy. The Dodgers gradually silenced the St. Louis crowd as they built a 5-0 lead. The Cards scored a measly run i ... More >>

Positively Second Street: L.A.'s Tunnel Vision

The L.A Times' car-biz writer Dan Neil has a great piece on the Second Street Tunnel -- its history, going back to 1924; its schizoid appearance, depending on which end you enter, and how it's "probably the most recognizable city landmark most Americans have never heard of," having figured in films ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 28, 1963

Kou Shows Off Form in Vero. L.A. Dodgers' pitching ace Sandy Koufax shows movie cameramen how it's done during spring training in Vero Beach, Florida. That summer would prove to be among Koufax's best and the Dodgers won the World Series, sweeping the New York Yankees in four games. Koufax, who'd s ... More >>

Joe Torre Book Clips Yankees

Call it another front in the N.Y. versus L.A. war, but now Los Angeles Dodger manager Joe Torre has launched a salvo against his former team, the New York Yankees. In an Associated Press story picked up by NBC Sports/MSNBC and other sources, Torre's new book, The Yankee Years, spills the dirt on:&nb ... More >>

Don Larsen's Beautiful Nothing

Diane Pucin has a fine Memory Lane piece in today's L.A. Times Sports section. In "Scully Pulls Up His Own Chair," Pucin interviews L.A. Dodger announcer Vin Scully about Don Larsen's 1956 World Series no-hitter. It came in Game 5 between Larsen's team, the New York Yankees, and the Brooklyn Dodgers ... More >>

Vin Scully Inducted into Hall of Fame

Vin Scully, the TV and radio voice of the Dodgers for 59 years, will be inducted into the newly formed Sports Broadcasting Hall of Fame in New York City tonight.  Don Ohlmeyer will be joining  him, along with other broadcasting legends such as the late Chet Forte and Curt Gowdy. Scully, wh ... More >>

Statutory Tape: Nixon Library Unspools More Recordings

Marx had Bismark in mind when described the "shallowness characteristic of all successful statesmen," but he may as well have been looking ahead to Richard Nixon. Today the Nixon Library has released a new batch of White House tapes and for my money the thrill is not in listening to the obvious mome ... More >>

Queer Town: Human Rights Campaign's Shameless Spin

Photo by Erin Broadley. Click image for entire slideshow. After spending several hours at the Music Box Theater in Hollywood last night, watching the voter totals for the passage or defeat of Proposition 8 fluctuate every few minutes, it finally became apparent by 12:30 a.m. that things weren't l ... More >>

Dodgers Win Big in Chicago

Before the Lakers took over the minds and hearts of sports fans in Los Angeles, there were the Dodgers. Players such as Don Drysdale, Sandy Koufax, Maury Wills, Ron Cey, Steve Garvey, Tommy John, and Fernando Valenzuela, among many others, were gods, and then things didn't go so well for the team in ... More >>

The Magic of Joe Torre

Twelve years ago, Joe Torre was hired by the New York Yankees to manage a team that was expected to be a contender, but not necessarily the next world champions. In his first year, Torre made all the right moves, and with some dramatic hitting in the World Series against the Atlanta Braves--Yankee f ... More >>

Confessions of a Promo-CD Junkie: Who Will Stop the Music Industry Gravy Train?

With so much music available at the click of a mouse, do tastemakers really need hard copies anymore? Is it worth the waste?

Donnie Baseball Comes to LA

At 4:57 p.m. on Wednesday, the Los Angeles Dodgers sent out a press release with this headline in big, bold letters: "MATTINGLY TO RETURN AFTER THE ALL-STAR BREAK." Donnie Baseball is coming to LA. Don Mattingly, left, watches the Dodgers practice at spring training with manager Joe Torre. (photo ... More >>

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