Today's video lunch could change your life. Nike is apparently unleashing a self-lacing "Marty McFly" shoe dubbed Nike Air Mag. more ›

Yesterday's Round 1 competition of the ASP PRIME Nike US Open of Surfing was a match-up between the sport's veterans and the up-and-comers of the next generation, recaps Surfline. more ›

Opening weekend of the Nike U.S. Open of Surfing paddled off to a wild start in Huntington Beach with crowd density and traffic usually reserved for finals weekend, according to the Orange County Beach Blog. more ›

Barre's newest resident, Jackie Tohn's, "There's a Big Show in Here" is more animated than a Saturday morning cartoon, funnier than a barrel of funny things and is clinically proven to stop your spring doldrums in a single bound. A musical story of guts and glory, the voice that launched a thousand, "Wow I wish I could sing like thats" is all yours, for a limited time. more ›

There are just a few days left to participate in the James Perse t-shirt recycling program "What Comes Around Goes Around." The promotion works like this: Donate your old Perse tees, get store credit, give recycled super lux basics to homeless families. more ›

Nike’s latest Southern California foray opened its doors last Friday to the large crowds gathered in Santa Monica for the grand re-opening of the renovated Santa Monica Place shopping center. If you are thinking this is just another Nike store, think again. more ›

Soccer fans still have another 27 days to wait until the big dance begins in South Africa on June 11th, but pre-FIFA World Cup events and parties are already starting to pop up all over town. more ›

Major League Soccer made history this past week, but for all the wrong reasons. Frustrated by the lack of progress towards a new Collective Bargaining Agreement between themselves and the league, MLS players overwhelmingly voted in favor of a strike. Through their vote, players have essentially told MLS that if an agreement is not reached by March 25th, clubs shouldn't expect to see them in their respective locker rooms. more ›

Next time L.A. Lakers Kobe Bryant's shoes are within sight, take a close look at his laces. Why? It could be one of those occasions on which Bryant wears his special (RED) branded laces. more ›

Tonight the entire fight world turns its attention to Las Vegas, the site of the highly anticipated fight between Manny Pacquiao and Miguel Cotto. Last week, however, Pacquiao stood center stage in his adopted city of Los Angeles before a packed crowd of supporters at the Montalban Theater. more ›

Early this morning at midnight, over 7,000 runners could be seen racing through the streets of Los Angeles as part of the 2nd annual Nike+ Human Race. Bringing over 140,000 participants worldwide in over 27 cities, the goal of the event was to celebrate runners and unite them globally in the earth’s largest one-day running event. In Los Angeles this meant starting and finishing at the Coliseum and running the 5 or 10K through the Figueroa Corridor and on streets just outside of the USC campus. One dollar of every entry fee was donated to USC Football Coach Pete Carroll’s philanthropy,A Better LA. more ›

With even more evidence of the population spending more time with programming and movies online, Lifetime, which I jokingly refer to as the most sexist network on the planet, is now launching programs on the web. If you weren't getting enough reality TV, first verify that you don't have testicles and then check out mylifetime.com and look for "That Magic Moment" which is about couples' first time in the sack and the "Clean Start Challenge” about 10 goody-two-shoes women who are sticking to their New Years' resolutions. more ›

I’ve never been one for New Year’s Resolutions – it just seems like paving the way to letting myself down sometime mid-February. Besides, if I can’t stick to something in, say, June, why would I be able to stick to it in January? more ›

If your not ready for the races mentioned in our Alt Races Guide, then maybe you are up to a race of a different breed: Nike's 5-mile Run Hit Remix: The PowerSong Edition featuring live performances along the route by Naughty by Nature, Sir Mix-A-Lot, The Sugarhill Gang, Dawn Robinson of En Vogue, and a finish line concert by MC Hammer on September 15th at 9 a.m. (you might also spot Caroline on Crack... more ›

We get a lot of email. Some people send us one or two things a month, some send us one or two things a day. Some send all the Internet myths and crap and scams. Some send us things that we really just don't understand. Today we got something that at first we tossed aside but later thought, we know this is a joke, but if it were real, MAYBE we'd have a slight... more ›

Is LAist stoked that Tiger Woods is back, and black, and Asian? Of course. What could be finer than the dominance of minorities in traditionally white sports? more ›