Jimmy Bramlett

The Santa Monica City Council approved a motion to move forward with soliciting request for proposals for a city-wide bike share program on Tuesday night according to Santa Monica Next.

Not only does Vin Scully not want a street named after him, he also avoids free hugs. Here's his story he told in the first inning of Tuesday night's game against the San Francisco Giants about "a group of ladies, from high school or college or a little older, maybe 50, 75 of them walking down the street beautifully dressed lovely people carrying big signs saying, 'Free Hugs.'"

That's how Jeanie Buss described the Lakers hiring Mike D'Antoni early last season in her upcoming memoir "Laker Girl" written with former L.A. Times sportswriter Steve Springer. An excerpt was published by the L.A. Times today.

Vin Scully has a new title to add to his vaults of accomplishments: he will be the Grand Marshal of the 2014 Tournament of Roses.

(Photo by pvsbond via Flickr.) "In a year that has been so improbable," Vin Scully intoned on the national NBC broadcast of Game 1 of the 1988 World Series when Kirk Gibson hit the walk off homer off of Oakland Athletics closer Dennis Eckersley. This Dodger season has also been improbable from the team with high expectations who failed miserably only to go on miraculous run to become World Series favorites. And after the...

"It's true," J.P. Howell confessed with his trademark jack o'lantern grin. I had read on the computer machine that J.P. Howell got his ass whooped by 1968 gold medal winning figure skater Peggy Fleming. Not content in trusting what others write especially since I have the key figure in the story in front of me, I had to confirm whether this was true.

For the first time in Lakers history, a free agent has opted to take less money to leave the team. Or did he?

Chris Paul's tweet this morning said it all:

"I don't really understand what all of the fuss is about," Clippers president Andy Roeser said during the press conference. And here I thought the Clippers finally decided to be a competent NBA team.

According to multiple reports, the Boston Celtics and the Clippers have reached an agreement sending head coach Doc Rivers to the Clippers.

I got bumped because of golf. I recorded a segment for this week's Going Roggin that airs on NBC4 at midnight on Sunday. But my little "Jimmy in Distress" segment got bumped because they were airing a very special episode at the conclusion of the US Open. So instead of my segment, they talked about golf.

It's one thing for me to rail against the NCAA and call them one of the shadiest cartels this side of Medellin. It's another to talk to a former "student-athlete" about what needs to be done about the system.