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Andruw Jones glided to a spot in the left centerfield gap on Friday night at the Ravine, and plucked the ball out of the sky with his usual effortless grace. But while Jones’ ability to track a fly ball is still strong, Dodger […]

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When West Virginia high schooler O.J. Mayo enrolled at USC last summer, we knew two things: He was the biggest “get” in the program’s basketball history and was only sticking around for one year. While his presence and NBA-ready talent brought immediate attention to the city’s other hoops program, he also brought trouble with him.
Now, […]

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It’s been a pretty good Western Conference semifinals thus far, though — and I know Utah fans will disagree — it seems like the Lakers are really losing games more than the Jazz are winning them. Give Utah credit, they’ve tied things up, but I have yet to feel like the Jazz can actually win […]

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First of all: Circumstances scuttled my scheduled recap after Game 2 of the Utah/LA series and for this I apologize greatly, especially because I promised the world a challenge between points by Kobe Bryant vs. ads for shows produced by Ted Turner. The problem? It’s finals week here in scenic Watts (that’s where USC is, […]

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The 18,977 fans who packed Staples Center Wednesday night witnessed a coronation.  The Master of Ceremonies, Mr. David J. Stern.
It was a declaration of a new king in the NBA.
 
This season, the building has experienced so many different feels, from the boos Kobe heard to start the year to the excitement around Andrew Bynum to the […]

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Like other Los Angeles-based media organizations, we here at SportsHubLA congratulate the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant on winning his first NBA Most Valuable Player award.
As you might imagine, Kobe has been the subject of many a column here on the Hub over the past season, and number of those columns generated some serious debate.
So on the […]

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A quick recap of how the local teams fared last week…
Los Angeles Dodgers
Highlights of the week: 50 runs scored on a 5-1 roadie that things are finally starting to look up for the boys in blue. James Loney continued his domination of the Colorado Rockies, driving in six runs in a 12-7 win Saturday night. […]

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With a little more than 24 hours remaining until the 134th Kentucky Derby, I was frantically catching up on handicapping the Derby Day and – to a lesser extent – the Kentucky Oaks (the yearly Friday card prior to the Kentucky Derby that features the female version of the Run for the Roses) at Churchill […]

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The Lakers neatly and economically wrapped up their first round series with the Denver Nuggets using a lot of Kobe, a healthy dose of Gasol, and strong play from Lamar Odom. Stop there, though, and you’ll miss some of the more valuable contributors by a supporting cast that has buoyed the Lakers all year.
It […]

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The seemingly endless debate between mainstream sports media and the blogosphere, generally as cordial as that of the mongoose and cobra, took another turn Wednesday night on the HBO show Costas Now, when Deadspin editor Will Leitch was thrown like a sacrificial lamb to a nearly salivating Buzz Bissinger. Click here to watch the […]

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