Sports Stars

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 >>

Tiger Woods' P.R. Machine Hits Bogey After Bogey

Hollywood public relations guru Howard Bragman thinks sex scandal-plagued Tiger Woods and his media handlers have been screwing up royally.Tiger Woods​"The scandal wasn't about the scope of his transgressions," Bragman, who's widely considered one of the best crisis management publicists in the co ... More >>

Alleged Mistress Of Tiger Woods Pulls Out Of Press Conference

Tiger Woods Foundation​Gloria Allred canceled a press conference scheduled for Thursday that was to showcase Rachel Uchitel's denials of an affair with golfer Tiger Woods. TMZ managing editor Harvey Levin stated on KNX 1070 (AM) Newsradio this morning that Uchitel had an ongoing affair with Wo ... More >>

Tiger's Wife Is A Hero: We Look At Other Maligned Acts Of Bravery In Recent History

Tiger Woods Foundation​Tiger Woods' wife is a hero for rescuing the legendary golf pro after he crashed his SUV outside his Florida driveway early Friday morning. Standing over him, perhaps with golf club in-hand, Elin Nordegren was an image of selfless giving. She busted out a window with the ... More >>

Tiger Woods Controversy Heads To Southland

Tiger Woods Foundation​Rachel Uchitel, the woman reported in tabloids to have had an affair with Tiger Woods, came to Los Angeles over the weekend to meet with attorney Gloria Allred. "We're going to meet and at some point we'll decide what the next step is," Allred told reporters at LAX Sunda ... More >>

Tiger Skips Trip To The Land Of 'TMZ'

Tiger Woods Foundation​The big question on a lot of people's minds following Tiger Woods' bizarre accident over the holiday weekend was whether the golf legend would attend the annual tournament he hosts this week in Thousand Oaks. The answer came Monday in the form of a resounding 'no.' "I a ... More >>

Dodgers/Phillies Game 1: Haunted By a Familiar Name

​A couple nights ago, I listed the various Dodgers and Phillies who had previously played for the opposing team in this series. But I neglected to mention Chan Ho Park, who won 80 games for the Dodgers from 1994-2001, including a career-high 18 in 2000. He was the first Korean player signed by the ... More >>

Mannywood: Too Big to Fail

​L.A. Times columnist Steve Lopez makes what many Dodger fans will find an indecent proposal: Lopez says he will hand over a pair of World Series (Game 4) tickets worth $500 to the person who writes the best 50-word essay scolding Left Fielder Manny Ramirez for being . . . Manny Ramirez. "I can't ... More >>

Henry's Hat Monday Night Football Half-time Show: Stand-up Comics with Your Bar Food

This weekend marks the start of the NFL season, and Monday the beginning of Monday Night Football, and thus the onset of football-watching at local bars and eateries and pretty much any restaurant with a nice big flat screen television turned to the game. Henry's Hat, the new gastropub in Studio Cit ... More >>

Beckham Booed in Home Game

L.A. Galaxy fans got to see two sellouts Sunday -- the exhibition soccer match against ACCaleb Williams/WikipediaDavid Beckham Milan they attended and the first home appearance of superstar David Beckham since he negotiated his way out of his Galaxy contract to play with the very same AC Milan. A ca ... More >>

For Mets Fans, Hate Is a Manny-Splendored Thing

N.Y. PostNew York Mets fans (or at least the local sports writers) used the Los Angeles Dodgers' three-game visit to mix tradition with self-pity. On the one hand, there was the opportunity to indulge in the area's second-favorite pastime, L.A.-bashing; on the other, the return of Manny Ramirez (and ... More >>

Michael Jackson's Memorial Participants Announced: Kobe, Mariah, Stevie, Berry G., Brooke, John Mayer (?!), Jennifer Hudson, Magic, Rev. Al, Usher, More.

Okay, this is an odd list. Is this not an odd list? Most specifically, John Mayer. Right? That's a left-field pick. Is he not the Leonard Zelig of our time? And Shaheen Jafargholi? Hmm. The rest is fascinating and spot-on. The participants for Michael Jackson's memorial tomorrow have been announced, ... More >>

Joe Torre Reflects

L.A. Observed's radar has picked up a Joe Torre interview from today's Fox Business News that's easily worth a few mouse clicks. The Dodger skipper, whose tell-all book, The Yankee Years, is still showing legs, might well have called his last year managing the Yanks A Season in Hell. Still, on Fox h ... More >>

Today in Photographs: June 15, 1968

Top of His Class: Lew Alcindor towers above fellow UCLA graduates, a year before joining the Milwaukee Bucks, where the future L.A. Laker would become better known as Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

A Little Something for the Lakers Fans: Great Songs About Our Team

It might be a hellish commute tonight with a host of Lakers flag-sporting vehicles anxiously crawling across the freeways in the hopes that their drivers can get home in time to catch the first game of the NBA Finals, where the Lakers square off against Orlando's Magic at 6 p.m. Instead of stressin ... More >>

It Ain't Necessarily So, Manny

MLB.comFor any sport there is a very finite number of puns and historical references that can be applied to the story of the day. Some writers, however, seem to have set their headlines and leads on autopilot when writing about Manny Ramirez, the disgraced Dodger leftfielder who's been benched 50 da ... More >>

Beckham Almost Gone

The L.A. Times says L.A. Galaxy midfielder David Beckham has reach a deal with his current team, the Galaxy, and A.C. Milan, for which he is currently on loan. Under the arrangement, Beckham will continue to play for the Italian club through its season, which ends May 31. Then he will return here an ... More >>

Manny Nearly Beaned by Angry Cubs Fan

There's no place like home. Especially for the Dodgers, who are not only coming back to L.A. with a 2-0 series lead, but will get at least a two game respite from crazed, drunken Cubs fans. On Wednesday, superstar outfielder Manny Ramirez nearly had his head taken off by a baseball thrown from the ... More >>

Remembering the Time: Minor Epiphanies Gleaned Upon Re-Watching Michael Jackson's "Remember the Time" Video 17 Years Later

In honor of poor Teddy Riley. Nothing says "epic video" more than a hourglass filled with shifted sands. Nothing. I'm fairly certain that "Remember the Time" is actually an alternative history suggesting the importance of New Jack Swing to the ancient Egyptians. Hieroglyphics that were o ... More >>

Shoe Gazers

The Ultimate Product Placement

Phil Anschutz takes a huge hit if Beckham tanks as L.A.’s soccer megastar. He’s not worried

Head Games

Zizou’s noggin and Mexico’s recount

Oh Shit! The Vultures Are Circling

CAA picks off Steinberg’s prime NFL meat

Sympathy for the Devil

Everything you thought you knew about steroids is wrong

Virgin Zombies

Why Moneyball Sucks

Or, the case for the Los Angeles Angels

You’ve Been Served

Reading tennis queen Serena Williams’ fashion statement

Ducking the Issue

How the Kobe case ended with a quack, not a roar

Jingo Bells

Prime-time pride, manly girls vs. girly girls and fear of a black dream team

A Fan’s Notes: Top Moments in Sports

The Nick Nolte Pride in Photography Collection

Bend Over

Who is David Beckham, and why should I care?

Chief of Police — It’s Never Been My Total Identity

Web exclusive: the L.A. Weekly’s interview with Bernard Parks, candidate for the 8th Los Angeles City Council District

The Empress’s New Clothes

Serena, to the dismay of many, makes the scene

American Fútbol!

The Weird Cup, week 3

Patriot Games

A Few Things You Should Know About the World Cup

Character of the Happy Warrior

The education of Mark “Mad Dog” Madsen

The Accidental Populist

Magic Johnson gives some back

91 Timeline

Councilman Fouls Magic

Ridley-Thomas fumes as Johnson passes on Coliseum

One World

The Sixth Pan African Film Festival