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Brewers Sweep Dodgers without Braun

Brewers Sweep Dodgers without Braun

The Brewers didn't need reigning National League MVP Ryan Braun to complete a four-game sweep the Dodgers for the first time in their franchise history. The scrubs did a sufficient job backing up former Cy Young Award winner Zack Greinke beating the Dodgers 6-2. more ›

Kemp Re-Aggravates Hamstring, Dodgers Fall Flat Again

Kemp Re-Aggravates Hamstring, Dodgers Fall Flat Again

The misery continued for the Dodgers against the Milwaukee Brewers. It was bad enough they lost 6-3. It was bad enough they are on their first three-game losing streak. But the knockout blow perhaps came in the first inning when Matt Kemp left the game after re-aggravating his left hamstring. more ›

Kopitar the Overtime Hero in Game 1

Kopitar the Overtime Hero in Game 1

It didn't matter that the Kings had eight days off between series. It didn't matter that it took overtime, the first that was not a series clincher for the Kings in this postseason. The Kings proved that they were still comfortable on the road. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Angels Win Eight Straight

LAst Night's Action: Angels Win Eight Straight

LA Angels defeat New York Yankees 5-1. Don't look now but the Angels have won eight games in a row and are now armed with a winning record for the first time since their opening day win against Kansas City. Albert Pujols went 2-for-4 with a homer and two RBI lifting his batting average to .238. more ›

Dodgers Still Can't Beat the Brewers

Dodgers Still Can't Beat the Brewers

Why can't the Dodgers beat the Milwaukee Brewers? Coming into Tuesday night the Brewers were 20-28 and seven games behind NL Central-leading Cincinnati Reds. Yet with their 2-1 victory over the Dodgers, the Brewers clinched the seven-game season series for the second consecutive season. more ›

The (Not So) Secret to the Dodgers Success...

The (Not So) Secret to the Dodgers Success...

The Dodgers keep doing it. Thanks to A.J. Ellis' walk-off homer the Dodgers beat the Houston Astros 6-3. more ›

Are the Dodgers Starting to Fall Back Down to Earth?

Are the Dodgers Starting to Fall Back Down to Earth?

Perhaps this is Icarus falling to the ground. After an 11-4 hiccup Wednesday night in Arizona against the Diamondbacks, the Dodgers flailed against the Houston Astros losing 3-1 to start a seven-game homestand against the NL Central. more ›

Time Lapse Video Shows STAPLES Center Changing to Host Kings, Clippers, Lakers Over 4 Crazy Days

Time Lapse Video Shows STAPLES Center Changing to Host Kings, Clippers, Lakers Over 4 Crazy Days

Check out this time lapse video shot at the STAPLES Center from May 17 to 20 as the arena changed the floor (and fans!) for the LA Kings, the LA Lakers, and the LA Clippers, and back again a few times. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Kings Needed Overtime To Get to Stanley Cup Finals

LAst Night's Action: Kings Needed Overtime To Get to Stanley Cup Finals

The Kings are going to play for Lord Stanley's Cup. As improbable as that statement might have been when they were losing to the Columbus Blue Jackets 1-0 in January, it's real. more ›

LAst Night's Action: The Clippers Season Is Over

LAst Night's Action: The Clippers Season Is Over

San Antonio Spurs defeat LA Clippers 102-99. And so the charade that is the Clippers' season comes to a screeching end. Despite trying to make a game of it, the Spurs calmly took control of the final minutes of the game sweeping the Clippers out of the STAPLES Center. more ›

Van Slyke Helps Dodgers Eclipse the Red Birds

Van Slyke Helps Dodgers Eclipse the Red Birds

It was the eclipse. That's the only explanation for how the Dodgers keep winning despite losing players left and right. Well at least the eclipse could be mythological excuse the Dodgers had Sunday night in their 6-5 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. more ›

Coyotes Bite Back Kings to Send Series Back to Phoenix

Coyotes Bite Back Kings to Send Series Back to Phoenix

It was a bit premature to crown the ascension of the Kings. For the second time in this playoff run that began 39 days ago, the Kings have been staved off from sweeping a team. Like Vancouver did in Game 4 at STAPLES Center in the first round series, so too the Phoenix Coyotes have found a couple of breaths of precious life in their season with their 2-0 victory. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Clippers and Lakers Choke

LAst Night's Action: Clippers and Lakers Choke

San Antonio Spurs defeat LA Clippers 96-86. You remember how the Clippers overcame a 27-point deficit in the first game of the playoffs on the road against the Memphis Grizzlies to eke out a one-point victory? Well the Clippers sort of know how the Grizz felt now. more ›

Mark Ellis to Disabled List, Dodgers Keep on Winning

Mark Ellis to Disabled List, Dodgers Keep on Winning

These are trying times for the Dodgers. The Dodgers place yet another player on the 15-day disabled list as they continue their weekend series against one of the better National League teams in the St. Louis Cardinals. more ›

A Huge May Win for the Dodgers

A Huge May Win for the Dodgers

This series against the reigning World Series champs is a test for the Dodgers. Much has been made of their Major League-best 25-13 record and how the record was a bit of a mirage due to the inferior competition. more ›

The STAPLES Center Traffic Jam Starts Now

The STAPLES Center Traffic Jam Starts Now

Thursday night's Game 3 of the Western Conference Finals between the Kings and the Phoenix Coyotes marks the start of an unprecedented four-day span of sports in the 92-acre bit of Downtown Los Angeles that encomasses the STAPLES Center and L.A. Live complex. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Clippers Still Have No Answers for the Spurs

LAst Night's Action: Clippers Still Have No Answers for the Spurs

San Antonio Spurs defeat LA Clippers 105-88. The Clippers tried. After falling down 15 points in the first quarter, they managed to bring the deficit down to a point in the second quarter. But the Spurs were too good. more ›

Kings Put Coyotes on Brink of Extinction

Kings Put Coyotes on Brink of Extinction

The Kings are a scary team. After taking the Coyotes' best punch, the Kings responded in their stoic intensity taking Game 3 with a 2-1 win. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Play Their Game Plan, Still Lose Game 2

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Play Their Game Plan, Still Lose Game 2

Oklahoma City Thunder defeat LA Lakers 77-75. The Lakers played the game they needed to play. They slowed the tempo, turned the Thunder into a jump-shot team and limited the transition buckets. Despite all of that, the Lakers still lost. more ›

Kings Setting Records and Winning Angelenos Over

Kings Setting Records and Winning Angelenos Over

What the Kings are doing in this postseason is nothing short of amazing. Not only are they setting records, but they are also winning a portion of the hearts of Angelenos echoing the 1993 team. more ›

Manny Pacquiao's Anti-Gay Marriage Remarks Find Him Banned From The Grove (and Misunderstood?)

Manny Pacquiao's Anti-Gay Marriage Remarks Find Him Banned From The Grove (and Misunderstood?)

Boxer Manny Pacquiao's recent remarks regarding same-sex marriage has gotten him into some hot water, and out of one of L.A.'s trendiest shopping destinations. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Kings Take A Licking, Keep on Ticking

LAst Night's Action: Kings Take A Licking, Keep on Ticking

Stick a fork in them, the Coyotes are done. Granted the Kings only have a 2-0 series lead thanks to Jeff Carter's hat trick. But the clawing desperation shown by the Coyotes and their cheap hits in the latter stages of the Kings' victory was an indication that this was over. more ›

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Billingsley?

How Do You Solve a Problem Like Billingsley?

How do you solve a pitcher like Chad Billingsley? The lack of consistency is enough to make managers go mad. We can file the Dodgers' 5-1 loss to the Arizona Diamondbacks as maddening. more ›

Traffic in DTLA Is Basically Going to Blow This Weekend

Traffic in DTLA Is Basically Going to Blow This Weekend

If you have to drive in, to, from, near, or around Downtown L.A. this weekend, well...don't. Because traffic is probably going to blow. That's the official word (with some poetic license) from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department, who have their eye on four upcoming major events that will have the streets clogged with people taking part in the festivities. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Immobilized by Thunder

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Immobilized by Thunder

Oklahoma City Thunder defeat LA Lakers 119-90. With the exception of the diehard myopic Lakers' fans, no one expected a Laker victory in this game just two days after an emotional Game 7 win. But no one expected all the ugliness that bared its teeth in Oklahoma City. more ›

With Matt Kemp and Juan Uribe Scratched, Dodgers Need To Figure Out Ways to Win

With Matt Kemp and Juan Uribe Scratched, Dodgers Need To Figure Out Ways to Win

A day after I started wondering whether the Dodgers can be considered great this early in the season, circumstances will require for them to be great just to make it through a considerable stretch of games. A hint of what games will have to look like came in the Dodgers 3-1 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. more ›

Are the Dodgers a Great Team?

Are the Dodgers a Great Team?

Entering Sunday's matinee the Dodgers had a Major League-best 22-11 record. There has been a healthy dose of skepticism concerning the team given the level of competition they have faced and the overachieving performances. However the Dodgers 11-5 win over the Colorado Rockies showed they have something a little more. more ›

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Get Past Denver in Game 7

LAst Night's Action: Lakers Get Past Denver in Game 7

LA Lakers defeat Denver Nuggets 96-87. What a difference a Game 7 makes. While Andrew Bynum had to eat his words about close out games sometimes being easy the last two games, the entire Laker squad showed up to finally advance to the second round of the playoffs. more ›

Harang and the Dodgers on the Winning End of a Pitching Duel

Harang and the Dodgers on the Winning End of a Pitching Duel

"It's been one of the things we've tried to hang our hat on: pitching and defense," Dodgers' manager Don Mattingly told reporters after the game. The Dodgers did just that edging the Colorado Rockies 2-1 in a pitchers' duel. more ›

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