Sunday was the Lingerie Bowl, and the Los Angeles Temptation made league history as they took their third consecutive championship by defeating the Philadelphia Passion 28-6 in Lingerie Bowl IX. more ›

For the most part this Super Bowl was a bit of a letdown for me. I was at a friend’s house. She is moments away from popping out an offspring from her loins, much like MIA was when she performed at the Grammys several years ago. Well MIA certainly did make a splash during halftime with her bird, but that’s beside the point. more ›

Are you ready for some football (and DUI checkpoints)? Football fans and those who are just along for the drinks, be smart this Sunday. According to a LAPD news release titled "LAPD vs. Drunk Driver's: Super Bowl XLVI Weekend," DUI saturation patrols and sobriety checkpoints will be enforced all weekend to keep the streets safe. more ›

While there are plenty of bars and restaurants that will have their TVs on and airing the game, a few Los Angeles-area places have come up with some specials to add some cheer to the day, and we've got our picks for seven spots where watching the Super Bowl is bound to be delicious. more ›

Forget football on February 5 (or just take a two-hour break). If "Cute VS Cuddly" isn't reason enough to tune into Animal Planet's Puppy Bowl VIII Sunday afternoon, we've got another reason, Los Angeles. One of our very own from spcaLA is representing this year. more ›

No one ever says, “Special teams win championships.” It’s always, “Defense wins championships,” which the NFL playoffs were trying to reassert after an offense-heavy regular season. But on Championship Sunday everyone witnessed in stark detail that whereas special teams can’t win a championship, it can sure lose a championship for you. more ›

The Raiders were in Los Angeles 1982 to 1994, and they got us the city's only Super Bowl back in '84, so what are the odds the National Football League team will make a comeback in the City of Angels? more ›

New court papers filed in the case against University of Southern California's athletic program include an expert's allegations that coaching mistakes caused football player Stafon Johnson's 2009 on-campus weightlifting accident. more ›

The UCLA football team is down three players, as was announced by new coach Jim Mora on Monday. Mora dismissed two players today, while a third failed to meet the school's academic standards and is no longer a UCLA student. more ›

Griffen Kramer, the 18-year-old Thousand Oaks High School quarterback found dead in October at a buddy's house, died of a heroin overdose, according to toxicology reports released by the L.A. County coroner's office. more ›

UCLA announced today that they have fired their head football coach, Rick Neuheisel -- or, in PR parlance, Neuheisel has been "relieved of his duties." The firing comes on the heels of UCLA's brutal 50-0 loss to USC over the weekend. more ›

The UCLA Bruins suited up in all-white last night in their game against the USC Trojans, and in retrospect it looks their uniforms were a white flag of surrender. The Bruins' 50-0 defeat certainly looks like it could be the end for coach Rick Neuheisel. more ›

Five people have been arrested in connection with the death last month of Thousand Oaks High School football player Griffen Kramer, reports the Ventura County Star. Kramer was found dead at the Agoura Hills house of 19-year-old David Nernberg, with whom he had once played football at Agoura Hills High School. more ›

Things are moving ahead for the proposed NFL stadium in Downtown Los Angeles, and today the firm commissioned to design Farmers Field revealed their official design. Gensler's current design (the initial one was the entry into the design bid competition) is characterized as being "light and airy" with "flight-like" attributes, according to Blogdowntown. more ›

An assistant high school football coach suspected of having sex with a 15-year-old student at the school where he coached was arrested yesterday at his home near Santa Clarita. School officials reported to sheriff's deputies that they suspected that the 20-year-old coach Nicolas Ovendale and a girl had sex. more ›

Football can be a dangerous sport, but we usually figure that the serious bumps and bruises are limited to those who play for the pros. Yesterday, though, a 13-year-old boy proved that the game has risks at every level -- CBS News reports that during a Pop Warner match-up, Donnovan Hill of Mission Viejo fractured his spine after taking a hit to the head. Doctors worry that he may face paralysis. more ›

Griffen Kramer, a backup quarterback for Thousand Oaks High School and son of former NFL quarterback Erik Kramer, was found dead on Sunday morning in Agoura Hills. The cause of death is still under investigation, but officials believe the 18-year-old football player may have died from alcohol poisoning. more ›

If you're going to streak across a sports arena, you should try to choose an opportune moment to do it. Unfortunately, things didn't work out that way for one local nudie as he ran around Arizona stadium in the buff yesterday during a UCLA-Arizona game. According to NBC Los Angeles, the streaker came out onto the field dressed as a referee. more ›

There was something heavenly about Sunday, so much so it almost made me a believer. A day after owner Al Davis died, it seemed like his hands were all over the Oakland Raiders’ 25-20 win over the Houston Texans. They were clearly struggling in the first half not getting their first first-down until 1:46 left in the first half. If not for the leg of Sebastian Janikowski and his 54-yard and 55-yard field goals, it would have been a rout. more ›

Anschutz Entertainment Group isn't the only big winner from a pair of bills Governor Jerry Brown signed on Tuesday that fast-tracks any lawsuits against the proposed downtown stadium. Supporters of the slow-going subway to the Westside believe these bills could help them out, too, according to The Daily News. more ›

A cheerleader collapsed and later died while cheering against her school's rival at a Friday night football game. Angela Gettis, 16, a sophomore at Washington Prep High School, collapsed on the sidelines around 9 p.m. while her team played rivals Fremont High School. She was revived briefly on the sidelines, but she went into cardiac arrest at the hospital later on Saturday morning. more ›

Governor Brown lived up to his no-nonsense governance approach Tuesday morning outside of the L.A. Convention Center. He penned his signature on two bills designed to expedite construction projects throughout California, one being the $1.2 billion Downtown L.A. NFL stadium, a little project proposed by the Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG). more ›

It’s week two of the college football season, and let’s face it: it’s a bit underwhelming. The two marquee matchups are Alabama at Penn State in the afternoon and Notre Dame at Michigan in prime time (on the East Coast.) 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 ›

On Friday, Senator Kevin de León plans to get the Senate Select Committee on Sports and Entertainment together in downtown's state building on Friday for a hearing about the proposed football arena at L.A. Live. The stadium is tentatively called Farmers Field, and a funding proposal from developer AEG recently passed muster from the L.A. City Council. more ›

At the Farmers Field media presentation on February 1, someone affiliated with the project asked me how excited I was about the NFL coming back to Los Angeles. It was clear by the joyful, upward cadence of her question that the correct answer was, “OHMYGODITHINKI’MGOINGTOPUKEI’MSOEXCITED!!!!!111” more ›

It was a unanimous set of "aye" votes at around Noon today by the Los Angeles City Council that helped the plans to put an NFL stadium on the L.A. Live campus in Downtown L.A. to move forward. more ›

Spanish football powerhouse Real Madrid traveled to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum to face off against the Los Angeles Galaxy in an international friendly as part of the 2011 World Football Challenge. The La Liga giants dominated the top MLS team winning 4-1 with a stunning goal from superstar Cristiano Ronaldo just after halftime. more ›

If you've seen TMZ, you've seen how their intrepid newsgatherers stand outside Los Angeles hotspots hoping to catch a celeb with their cameras. Last Thursday, outside WeHo's Voyeur, the cameras rolled on University of Southern California tailback Marc Tyler, who find himself suspended today for what he said in the mini interview. more ›