Archive for February 27th, 2008
Disarmed: Pitching, and Nothing Else, Sunk the Los Angeles Dodgers in 2007
By Phil Gurnee | Go Deep, Los Angeles Dodgers, ColumnI’ve heard this drivel before, and I just can’t wrap my head around it.
Last summer, Nomar Garciaparra was confronted about his hitting woes, and responded that the team was winning, and that was all that mattered. This spring, he is repeating the same mantra. From Ken Gurnick at Dodgers.com:
He’ll point out that […]
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The NHL Trade Deadline Passes: Kings and Ducks Make History!!!
By Marie Stiles | Los Angeles Kings, Anaheim DucksThe NHL Trade Deadline came and went on Tuesday. No deal produced the sort of “Where’s the nearest bridge?” reaction that we saw last year when, right up against the clock, Captain Canada Ryan Smyth was sent from the Edmonton Oilers to the New York Islanders, sending a nation into mourning.
There were some […]
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With All the Lakers’ Pretty Ponies, is Luke the Plowhorse?
By Ted M. Green | L.A. Confidential, Los Angeles Lakers, ColumnWith a very recent essay extolling the MVP virtues of one Kobe Bryant, I have been accused lately of being a Lakers’ publicist cleverly disguised as an aging sports journalist who needs to lose 10 pounds.
Judging from a bursting Inbox, some bloggers and e-mailers think I’m a Homer–doh!–never offering even a critical syllable about the […]
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Y E S T E R D A Y…
Lakers 96, Blazers 83: Things have been so good in Tinseltown recently that it’s a shock when the Lakers don’t absolutely blow a team out. Last night, the scrappy Blazers came into town — without their star Brandon Roy — and gave the Lakers all they could […]
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