St. Louis Cardinals defeat LA Dodgers 9-6. Four words: Albert Pujols grand slam. That effectively shut the door on the Dodgers. Derek Lowe made his shortest outing of the season (3 1/3 innings) while giving up the most hits and runs of the season (13 hits and eight runs). In the eighth inning with Jeff Kent on deck to pinch hit, the PA announcer announced Mark Sweeney would be the pinch hitter. Joe Torre......

Tired of bloated blockbusters? See this movie today. | Photo courtesy of Lionsgate They really don't make movies like The Bank Job anymore. In fact, it almost feels like a relic from another age with its focus on plot and character development instead of...well, lingering takes on movie stars (see Hancock). After a surprisingly strong theatrical run, The Bank Job is hands-down the movie you should be renting/buying today. If it has nothing else (and......

This has been a very difficult post to write. The completely embarrassing game six that ended the Laker’s season was just very hard to stomach and left a lot of questions. How does a team that two weeks ago was favored to win the NBA Finals against a Celtics team that struggled against the Atlanta Hawks and Cleveland Cavaliers go out with that little resistance? The Lakers were tough enough to beat the Utah Jazz......

Boston Celtics defeat LA Lakers 131-92. Did anyone tell the Lakers they had a game to play? It's over. The Lakers made it interesting in the first quarter being down only four points. After that it was all Celtics. It was a beat down of epic proportions, and I still don't know what to say. LA Dodgers defeat Cincinnati Reds 3-1. Should it count as breaking news when a Dodgers win a game? Given......

Maybe y'all should've played. AP Photo/Winslow Townson It's over, and I don't think I've felt sicker than I do now. 131-92. And to the fucking Celtics.......

Lamar Drives to the Basket against Kevin Garnett. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill One of the first things to remember about the Lakers is to expect the unexpected. Throw all logic out the window since what was thought to have been known was just an illusion to begin with. It was destined before the season began that Kobe Bryant would be traded away. It seemed inevitable the Lakers with minimal roster changes would barely be......

Pau Gasol and Kobe Bryant embrace in relief. AP Photo/Mark J. Terrill In a game that was almost a carbon copy of game four, the Lakers escaped with a 103-98 victory. The Lakers started the game in sync again ending the first quarter with a 17-point lead. The Celtics came storming back in the second quarter with a 15-0 run going into the locker room at the half with a three-point deficit. But the......

Kobe Bryant wonders why I am such a bandwagon fan. AP Photo/Kevork Djansezian As much as the Celtics ripped the Lakers the other day, deep down inside I still have some hope for the Lakers to pull it out. Like most people in this city, the spectacle of game four at the Staples Center disgusted me. It was incomprehensible how the Lakers could let a 24-point lead slip away in the NBA Finals. Now......

Eddie House beat the Lakers? For reals? AP Photo/Mark Avery Gutless. Pathetic. Pitiful. Sorry. And that’s being generous to the Lakers. Lamar Odom started out the game with a driving layup, and it looked like with that intensity it would be a foregone conclusion the Lakers would win. Lamar and the rest of the Lakers kept up the intensity in the first quarter pulling out to a 21-point lead, the largest lead at the......

Boston Celtics defeat LA Lakers 97-91. Objectively speaking, the Lakers are pathetic and pitiful. The 21-point lead they had at the end of the first quarter was the largest in NBA Finals history. They led by 20 points in the third quarter. Then they choked like they were sucking on a 13" dick. In the third quarter they took everything good they did in the first half and flushed it down the toilet. To......

It’s been a long time since a winning team of an NBA Final’s game looked like a team destined to lose the series. That game Tuesday night was atrocious. Dancers at Jumbo’s Clown Room look better than that game. The Celtics shot 35 percent from the field and the Lakers not named Kobe Bryant and Sasha Vujacic shot 28 percent. And to top it all off, the Lakers obviously weren’t used to getting foul calls......

LA Lakers defeat Boston Celtics 87-81. What an ugly game. Pau Gasol was Ga-soft again. Lamar Odom sat on the bench with foul trouble most of the game. So leave it up to Sasha Vujacic to take up the slack. With 20 points he was the only Laker not named Kobe Bryant to score double-digits. The Lakers were more aggressive as perfectly shown by Jordan Farmar in the second quarter. After getting pushed by......

James Posey Given a Free Lane to the Bucket. AP Photo/Winslow Townson People around the city are bemoaning about the horrible job the referees are doing in the NBA Finals. One of the more outrageous conspiracy theories involves the refs deliberately calling the game against the Lakers so that the series would go a full seven games. It’s amazing to hear how far people will go to justify the Laker’s awful play. Take this......

Boston Celtics defeat LA Lakers 108-102. The Lakers just stunk. They trailed by as much as 24 points in the fourth quarter but managed to get within four points in the final seconds of the game. But in the end they could not overcome their horrendous play. Although things looked good for the Lakers in the first quarter, Boston just came right back and were the aggressors. Yet again Boston kept Kobe out of......

Boston Celtics defeat LA Lakers 98-88. Well I called it didn't I? Two things hampered the Lakers: bad rebounding, and missing seven consecutive field goal attempts down the stretch in the fourth quarter. The Lakers were outrebounded 46-33 by the Celtics including giving up 10 offensive rebounds. The Lakers shot 41.6% while the Celtics shot 42.1%. So the Lakers know what lies ahead. And today should be a great day hearing what Vic the......

Kobe Bryant posing with the trophy. AP Photo/Hector Mata It’s here. After waiting for a week the NBA Finals start tonight in Boston and with it a heralded rivalry is renewed. Gone are the Forum and the dump that was known as the Boston Garden. A lot of people may remember the Garden fondly, but a place that had no air-conditioning or heat and a horrible uneven parquet floor that contained dead spots is......

It’s funny how things can change in the NBA Playoffs in the span of a month. Heading into the playoffs the Boston Celtics and their “Big Three” were preordained to have an easy road to the NBA Finals and maybe getting a challenge in the Eastern Conference Finals against the Detroit Pistons. I even said as much on this blog, though I did think the Pistons would end up defeating the Celtics. But something......

LA Angels defeat LA Dodgers 10-2. Derek Lowe started on three days rest due to Brad Penny getting an extra day off due to a sore forearm. Usually Lowe is good on three days rest, but I guess he wilted in the heat. Lowe gave up seven runs and ten hits in five innings, and the Dodgers bullpen didn't do much to stop the bleeding either. The Angels had been struggling offensively up to......

LA Lakers over Utah Jazz 120-110. The same script from game one followed in game two. The Lakers pulled away from the Jazz in the second quarter, but the Jazz made it close with five minutes left in the fourth quarter. The Lakers woke up and snatched the win convincingly in the final minutes. The biggest difference was in this game Kobe Bryant received his MVP trophy before the game and played like he......

LA Dodgers (18-14) over NY Mets (16-14) 5-1. If Rafael Furcal continues to produce how he has so far this season, he will hands down be the MVP of the league. Furcal led things off for the Dodgers with a lead-off solo homer on a 0-2 pitch, and NL player of the week Matt Kemp added a two-run shot in the fifth inning. But none was given as much fanfare as Blake DeWitt's first......

LA Lakers over Denver Nuggets 107-101. The Nuggets played some D. Well they didn't play D like the Detroit Pistons and they benefited from some very shaky Laker offense. But they played with enough desperation to put a scare in the Lakers. In the end, though, it was to be won by the Lakers who won their first playoff series since the 2004 Western Conference Final against the Minnesota Timberwolves and their first sweep......

The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission has launched an inquiry into allegations of racism and discrimination within the LAFD. Two men have filed suit against the L.A. Zoo and the city to stop construction of a $40 million elephant exhibit and to prevent it from having elephants on the grounds, alleging instances of abuse and neglect. Bring on the air pollution: the South Coast Air Quality Management District board voted to approve, 8-3, rule changes......

Yesterday morning we played a video of Clay Aiken singing the National Anthem and today we will play a video of Ms. Kelly Clarkson singing the same tune. This video was shot last year at a Boston Celtics game and what's interesting is those people were louder for the anthem than the entire Staples Center was last week when we saw the Lakers lose to the Jailblazers. What's up with that? Another Idol singing......

Lakers 122, Celtics 96 - Oh what a relief it is! The Lakers snapped their six game slide against the woeful Boston Celtics. Kobe showed why he earned the All Star MVP award last weekend by scoring 22 points -- in the first quarter. Phil Jackson, who just suffered the longest loosing streak of his career, only played Kobe for 31 minutes so his 38 points, 9 assists, and 5 steals seemed nearly mundane. In......

The trading deadline came and went Thursday with the Lakers' brass deciding to play the hand dealt them. Which has the fan base frustrated. Loudly frustrated. Angrily frustrated. Not so much that youngster Andrew Bynum wasn’t traded for Jason Kidd -- people seemed split on that and you could make a good argument either way -- but rather that nothing happened to give a team that has lost six in a row a swift kick......

Hawks 96, Clippers 93 - It was heartbreak hotel for the Clippers on Valentine's Day, getting outscored by 16 in the fourth quarter against Atlanta to squander a big lead. The Hawk's Joe Johnson had 6 points in the final 19 seconds to seal the deal. Los Angeles chose to wear red uniforms in honor of the holiday and Atlanta wore white. Of more pressing concern, the Clippers are heading into the All Star break......

If one thing could have brought late Boston Celtics legend Red Auerbach back from the great beyond, it was what happened Wednesday night in the house he built. Near the end of a Laker win where Kobe Bryant dropped 43 on Boston, Celtics fans started chanting “M-V-P, M-V-P” for Kobe. Somewhere in Indiana Larry Bird must have gotten a chill up his spine. A Laker winning over the fans of their most hated rival, the......

His IMDB page is not going to impress you, but Dr. Jerry Buss is a star in this city. By whatever nebulous definition we seem to have for it. So somebody bought him one — the Lakers owner gets a star on Hollywood Boulevard at Highland today (at noon, if you have nothing better to do). The official reason is for his help starting Prime Ticket, the local sports network that has morphed into......

The Gary Payton era in LA sure didn't last long. The playoff stiff was traded today to the Boston Celtics along with Rick Fox and a draft pick for Chris Mihm, Chucky Atkins, and Marcus Banks. The truth is that "The Glove" never fit in LA. Despite coming to the Lakers knowing they ran the triangle and that he'd be the third or fourth option, he complained relentlessly about the triangle and being the......