Kotchman Gets the Offense Rolling. AP Photo/Charles Krupa LA Angels over Boston Red Sox 7-5. The Angels crushed Red Sox starter Daisuke Matsuzaka to the tune of six runs on seven hits in five plus innings. The small ball team went big ball as Casey Kotchman hit a two-run homer and Torii Hunter hit an Earl Weaver to account for five of the six runs in that fateful sixth inning. The Angels relievers did......

B-Dizzle Up-Dizzle - LA's last hope is out of the NBA playoffs. The Utah Jazz beat the Golden State Warriors 100-87 and took the series in five games. It was a battle until the end, and we mean battle.  There were 50 personal fouls, 31 against the Warriors. Several were flagrants and technicals. Ducks 5, Red Wings 0 - After stealing home ice advantage with a split in Hockeytown, USA, the Ducks were cooked when they......

The four-time Cy Young winner needs to fire his agent. How could Greg Maddux allow Scott Boras to trade him from one 5th place team to another when there are pennant races happening? Does the 40 yr-old Hall of Fame lock seriously have no interest in being a part of the Yankees run? Or even the Padres? Maddux has 9 wins on a Cubs team that has won only 43. He and ace Carlos......

Every week, it seems like a new problem costs the Dodgers wins. First it was starting pitching, then the hitting, then the fielding, then the hitting again, injuries all the way through, and now it's relief pitcher Yhencey Brazoban who blew yet another game last night. As the trade deadline rapidly approaches, the Dodgers find themselves 8.5 games behind the Padres in the NL West with a pathetic 41-52 record. Paul DePodesta now has......

Just a day after LAist criticized Angels management for its handling of draft pick Jered Weaver, the halos scored a coup. Not only did they get Jered Weaver signed, but they got him and agent Scott Boras to acquiesce to their lower $4 million minor league offer. We're not sure if it was Weaver who ignored Boras' advice and gave in, or if it was Boras himself who realized that Weaver would have no......

The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim have just one day to sign 2004 first round pick Jered Weaver, otherwise he will go back into the 2005 draft pool. The latter looks more likely. This represents a colossal failure by the Angels, Weaver, and Weaver's agent Scott Boras. The idea that a pitcher coming out of college is worth $6 million before he's ever played a minor league game is absurd. Highly touted pitching prospects......

Today is a dark day for Dodger fans. According to ESPN's Peter Gammons and The Sporting News' Ken Rosenthal, Adrian Beltre has signed a five-year contract with the Seattle for somewhere between $60 and $65 million. Come on, Frank McCourt. You can't compete with that? Paul DePodesta is an excellent general manager, who will maximize his resources as well as anyone in baseball. But if Frank McCourt wasn't going to raise payroll enough to......

Don't look now, but Adrian Beltre leads the Major Leagues in home runs. Beltre hit his 40th yesterday, in the Dodgers 10-2 rout of the Expos. At this rate, Beltre may become the first Dodger ever to hit 50 home runs one season. Who would have thought that a year ago? But at 25, it is now obvious that Beltre was called up to the Majors when he was too young, but at least......