I first heard about Shaquille O'Neal in middle school. Back then, he was more of a playground rumor than a superstar. The first kid to learn about him tried to tell the rest of us. 7'1"? Impossible. 375 pounds? Nah. Size 23 shoe? Are you sure that's not his jersey number? Clearly, he was telling tales. There was some giggling, name calling, and a serious demotion in the lunch seating hierarchy. Nobody could be that......

1812: A major earthquake struck Southern California, destroying the church at Mission San Juan Capistrano and damaging the San Gabriel Mission. 1873: J. R. Toberman, Mayor approved a franchise for a street railway which have a run "commencing at Temple and Spring Streets, and along Spring to First; First to Fort Street, (now Broadway); Fort Street to Fourth Street, Fourth to Hill Street, on Hill to Fifth Street; on Fifth to Olive Street; on......

Kobe Bryant and Shaquille O'Neal are talking like teammates, but this isn't how Los Angeles fans wanted it to go down. While local media outlets are buzzing with this morning's news that Kobe wants a trade, his hometown paper found a different angle on the story. According to the Philadelphia Inquirer, "I believe Kobe 100 percent," said O'Neal, reached yesterday while in Los Angeles on business. "Absolutely. There's no doubt in my mind Kobe is......

Even with LeBron leading his Cavs to much needed victory in the Eastern Conference Finals Tuesday night, the biggest story in the NBA is a team who has not played a game in exactly four weeks. The Lakers offseason has just been too wildly entertaining to take a backseat to the actual action on the court. And it just got better. Early Tuesday, team owner Jerry Buss was arrested in Carlsbad for suspicion of drunk......

Even though the Police have been practicing in Vancouver, BC, the band will be holding at least two public rehearsals here in Los Angeles, one on Monday at the legendary Sunset Strip rock club, The Whisky, made famous by bands like The Doors, Love, and Motley Crue. Sunday the band will rehearse as the opening act of the Grammys at Staples Center, made famous by Shaquille O'Neal. If for some bizarre reason you happen......

Kings 3, Blue Jackets 0 - Columbus lost their fifth road game in a row, and Mathieu Garon did everything he needed to make this one the third shut out during that stretch. He collected 26 saves for the Kings, while teammates Michael Cammalleri, Sean Avery, and Lubomir Visnovsky each notched goals. Next up, Detroit visits Los Angeles on Saturday. Clippers 110, Heat 95 - The Clippers were still without an injured Sam Cassell, but......

Miami Dolphin Head Coach repeatedly told the press that he would not jump ship and go coach college boys in Alabama for millions of dollars, today he announced that he is jumping ship and going to coach college boys in Alabama for $32 million dollars - USA Today Miami Herald headline: The anti-Shula bails out as a greasy, dishonorable coward Don Shula disses Saban on the way out: "My reaction is that Saban in......

Heat 101, Lakers 85 - Dwane Wade filled the Laker's stockings with 40 pieces of coal, errrr, points, and Kobe was about as useful as Rudolph on a sunny afternoon. In a game hyped by the NBA as a new Christmas tradition and hyped by commentators as a matchup of two top scorers, Miami took control early and never faltered. The Heat have now won three in a row against the Lakers on Christmas day.......

Like rewatching “The Year Without a Santa Claus” or drinking eggnog, ABC has decided that the Lakers playing the Miami Heat is a holiday tradition. That’s seriously how they’ve been promoting today’s Christmas Day match up (11:30 on ABC 7) for the past couple of weeks — “a game that has become a holiday tradition.” What this match up really seems is sad — more than three years after Shaquille O’Neal left the Los Angeles......

Now we all can just get along. In a scene befitting the legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Shaquille O'Neal and Kobe Bryant officially put to rest their past differences. Before last nights game during warm-ups, O'Neal came to Kobe and congratulated him on the birth of his first child and the upcoming birth of his next one. A move that Kobe says surprised him. "I think it's good for the city of Los......

While we're happy that the Clippers are doing much better than expected this year and haven't already given up on the season (and if they can just string a few more wins together might even compete for the 8th playoff spot in the West), we're heading to the Staples Center tonight to get our last chance to see Shaquille O'Neal play in Los Angeles this season. Your Los Angeles Clippers host the Miami Heat......

The Los Angeles Times reports today that Chris Webber would be willing to come to the Lakers in a trade for Shaquille O'Neal. Awww... that's nice of you, Chris. LAist didn't realize that you had to be willing to come to the Lakers in order to be traded to them. We seem to remember that you weren't willing to go to Sacramento, but the Wizards traded you there anyways, and you finally sort of fulfilled......