Step right up, Mr. Moneybags! The Dodgers are for sale, and there are quite a few bidders, like basketball legend Magic Johnson and retired Major League Baseball (MLB) Executive Vice President Joe Torre, who has teamed up with real estate developer Rick Caruso. more ›

Count Joe Torre among the hopefuls bidding for ownership of the financially distressed Los Angeles Dodgers. The former team manager, 71, has retired from his post as an executive vice president with Major League Baseball in order to be eligible to bid for team ownership. more ›

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim of Orange County of California’s newest slugger Albert Pujols’ wife Deidre is completely batshit. more ›

The Angels finally did it. They signed the big free agent: Albert Pujols. 10 years. $250 million. No-trade clause. Done. “It's a very exciting day for the Angels community, for Southern California as a whole,” Angels’ General Manager Jerry Dipoto told reporters in a press conference at the MLB Winter Meetings held in Dallas, TX. more ›

Basketball legend Magic Johnson is considering putting his immense fortune behind a different local sport: baseball. KTLA reports that Johnson has put in a bid to buy the Dodgers. The bid was announced today to the LA Times, and because he's so damn rich, Johnson has his money ready to go and is therefore ahead in the line-up of bidders. more ›

The Baseball Writers Association of America announced the winner of the National League Most Valuable Player is Milwaukee Brewers’ leftfielder Ryan Braun. The Granada Hills native became the first MVP for the Brewers since Robin Yount won the honors in 1989. more ›

I don't understand Matt Kemp. We have seen him have a tough season in 2010. We have now seen him respond with a transcendent 2011 season. We have seen him in a paparazzi-filled relationship with Rihanna. We have seen him in a spread in Flaunt Magazine. more ›

The Dodgers will announced in a press conference at Dodger Stadium at 11 a.m. this morning of an eight-year contract agreement with their All-Star centerfielder Matt Kemp. While rumored for over a week, the deal is worth a reported $160 million making it the largest deal done in the history of the National League and seventh-largest in Major League Baseball. more ›

It was a warm day at Dodger Stadium. The sun was shining down as season ticketholders, former and current Dodger players and us scum-sucking media folk gathered to celebrate Dodgers’ pitcher Clayton Kershaw’s National League Cy Young Award. more ›

We can add Clayton Kershaw’s name to Don Newcombe’s, Don Drysdale’s, Sandy Koufax’s, Mike Marshall’s, Fernando Valenzuela’s, Orel Hershiser’s and Eric Gagné’s today. Kershaw joined the fraternity of Dodger pitchers to win the Cy Young Award as awarded by the Baseball Writers Association of America. more ›

Now that Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Dodgers, high-profile Angelenos are coming forward with suggestions as to who should buck up and purchase the fiscally shaky Major League Baseball franchise. If you ask L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa (you didn't, but, no surprise, he's offered) the answer is it must be a local. more ›

Late Tuesday night came words that most Dodger fans had hoped to read or hear for quite some time:

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Major League Baseball announced that they have agreed today to a court supervised process to sell the team and its attendant media rights in a manner designed to realize maximum value for the Dodgers and their owner, Frank McCourt. The Blackstone Group LP will manage the sale process.

According to Bill Shaikin of the Los Angeles Times, embattled Dodgers' owner Frank McCourt has agreed to sell the Dodgers in bankruptcy court. more ›

Roger Guenveur Smith's energetic one-man biopic, Juan and John, is at Los Angeles Theatre Center. The show transverses the Civil Rights Movement, local Los Angeles history, and the relationship between baseball legends John Roseboro and Juan Marichal following their on-field fight in 1965. more ›

It's already a bargain by MLB standards, and now the Los Angeles Dodgers are making a good deal cheaper and upping the perks for 2012 season tickets. The Dodgers announced today that the lowered prices and their related benefits will be available for 96% of the seats in Dodger Stadium. more ›

It's been a long, arduous, and contentious battle, and it appears it's coming to an end: Frank and Jamie McCourt's high-profile divorce is about to be settled, reports the L.A. Times, and as part of the agreement, Jamie McCourt will agree to give up any claims on the Los Angeles Dodgers. more ›

When people find out I write about sports the question invariably comes up: what sport do you like the most? I always answer baseball which elicits strange looks. It’s as though they feel I’m strange because baseball is an old-timey sport that drags and is boring. After what happened on this final day of the baseball season, I hope people finally understand. more ›

Milton Bradley, a onetime Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder, is out on bail today following his arrest Tuesday on suspicion of felony battery. The 33-year-old ballplayer who is no stranger to law enforcement, was arrested at about 2 p.m. yesterday at his home in the 5300 block of Oak Park Avenue in Encino. more ›

LA Dodgers defeat San Diego Padres 6-2. Clayton Kershaw completed his Cy Young season with a 21-5 record, 2.28 ERA and 248 strikeouts with his 7 1/3 inning effort in San Diego having at least a share of the lead in each of the triple crown categories. more ›

Oakland Athletics defeat LA Angels 3-1. There is one word to describe the remaining teams fighting for playoff spots: choke. As bad as the Boston Red Sox have choked in September, it’s not like the Tampa Bay Rays or the Angels have lined right up there to overtake the Sox. more ›

Of course it was going to happen this way. In his first four at-bats, Matt Kemp was close to getting the ball out of the park. Four fly balls yielded a career-high three doubles and an out, yet he was still stuck on 35 home runs. more ›

Clayton Kershaw looked dejected. With his head bowed down in the dugout after making 115 pitches against the San Francisco Giants, the two walks he gave up in the eighth inning loomed large. They were what stood in the way between him and the first Dodger 20-game winner since Ramon Martinez did it on October 1, 1990. more ›

This was the kind of game it was for the Pittsburgh Pirates in their 15-1 loss to the Dodgers. In the first inning centerfielder Andrew McCutchen looked at the ball that came off Matt Kemp’s bat. He took a couple of steps back towards the wall as the ball was beginning its ascent into the hazy yet bright sky. As he continued to look at the trajectory, he stopped in his tracks realizing the futility of it and just went back to his position in centerfield. more ›

With the Pittsburgh Pirates in town for what are essentially meaningless games, it was amazing the Dodgers drew 41,148 to the park. But with the confluence of fireworks night, Star Wars night, singles night and the start of the Hello Kitty promotion for the weekend, the astonishment was downgraded to a mere nod of respect to the promotions department. While the game might have dragged on, at least the crowd got a 7-2 Dodger win out of it. more ›

With Dodgers’ starter Dana Eveland notching a 0.60 ERA in his two starts with the Dodgers, it was apparent that it was unsustainable considering his lifetime ERA of 5.52 in seven seasons in baseball. After breezing through the first inning, the law of averages got its revenge in the second inning in the Dodgers’ 6-2 loss to the Pittsburgh Pirates. more ›

From Southern California to Arizona, an odd celestial light was seen in the heavens. Perhaps this strange phenomenon is what caused the sixth inning outburst in the Dodgers’ 3-2 win over the Arizona Diamondbacks. more ›

Self-immolation. Defenestration. As the clock kept ticking through pitching change after pitching change during the Dodgers’ 7-2 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks, these thoughts creep into your head. more ›

On this Friday night, we were treated to two pitching duels with both the Angels and the Dodgers defeat the Yankees and Giants respectively 2-1. It seemed like a karmic gift for suffering through this little heat wave in Southern California this week. more ›

They say absence makes the heart grow fonder, and holy shitballs is my heart fonder of the NFL right now. The NFL schedulers were geniuses in scheduling the New Orleans Saints to visit the Super Bowl Champion Green Bay Packers. After the threat of a lost season, people don’t want to see 3-2 defensive quagmires. They want to see offense, offense and more offense. With the Packers beating the Saints 42-34, this game delivered. more ›

You know what’s sad? As anemic as the 2011 Angels have been, they might still make the playoffs. The only tough teams left on their schedule is this weekend’s three-game stand against the Yankees and the final three games of the season against the Rangers both at Angel Stadium. more ›