Ryan Young

Current Record: 29-30, 3rd Pacific, T-7th West Last Week: If LAist didn't know any better, we would have assumed the latest rash of injuries to hit sports stars across LA was just another insidious terrorist plot hatched up on 24, given the number of attacks our fair city has received over the years on the show. We saw Becks go down before even getting to LA. We saw Lamar Odom getting injured again and joining...

Winning never gets old. The UCLA men's basketball program has had more than its fair share of winning over the years, holding the majority of the major NCAA team records, including championships, Final Four appearances, consecutive winning seasons, consecutive games won, and weeks ranked #1. Nevertheless, last night's hard-fought win in hostile Pullman over an excellent Washington St. team, which clinched an outright Pac-10 championship (and likely top overall seed in the Big Dance),...

As if the Clippers haven't had enough challenges this season, the team was thrown another obstacle when Shaun Livingston went down with a dislocated knee cap during the first quarter of the Clips' 100-93 win over Charlotte. Livingston was going up for a layup and landed awkwardly on his left leg, causing a hush to fall over the Staples Center crowd as he was helped off the floor on a stretcher. If you happened to...

Current Record: 25-28, 3rd Pacific, T-9th West Last Week: While the rest of the league was focused on the festivities in Sin City, the Clippers got a much needed four days off to regroup. The Clips were one of only three teams that had exactly zero participants in the entire weekend's festivities (and justifiably so) which means they will not be suffering from any lingering effects of the around-the-clock drunken parties and hookups with tainted...

Current Record: 25-26, 3rd Pacific, 8th West Last Week: Just when you thought it was safe to support the Clippers again, they go and turn in a series of unwatchable performances to raise up all of the questions that were seemingly answered during the team's hot streak over the previous three weeks. Not sure if the team just doesn't sleep well in hotel rooms, but the Clips continued their year-long habit of sleepwalking on...

Current Record: 24-23, 3rd Pacific, T-7th West Last Week: The Clippers showed further signs of life, with a solid home performance over the Bulls, one of the stronger East teams, and a good win against the pathetic Celtics in Boston for their seventh victory in eight tries. However, Toronto torched the Clips defense for a season-worst 122 points, showing that the team still hasn't quite learned how to bring a consistent effort every game....

Valentine's Day is less than two weeks away and the scent of love is in the air. For some, it's a sweet smell of that someone special, and for others, it's a stench filled with the one that got away (or the one you never had to begin with). Regardless of whether 2/14 is a day of celebration or mourning for you, you've undoubtedly got a memory of a past relationship that fell by...

It's a story straight out of a Disney movie. Local college hoops star becomes an emerging star for the local pro team, falls out of favor and gets shipped away into obscurity, joins a chief rival and becomes persona non grata, begins to lose his game and is unceremoniously dropped from the league, then gets a last shot at glory with the other local team to help put them over the top, supported through thick...

Current Record: 22-22, 3rd Pacific, T-8th West Last Week: It was a good week, but not quite a great week. The one game that the Clips really needed, they struggled offensively against Minnesota, taking a double-digit loss on the chin against their primary competition for the last playoff berth in the West. However, the Clips did manage to get to .500 with two routs against undermanned Milwaukee and a crummy Seattle squad. The highlight of...

In case you missed the first half of the Clippers' midseason report, click here. In case you missed the first half of the Clippers' season, read on. Because the Clips are in danger of making last season a one-year anomaly if they don't turn up their play, and because LAist loves music, here's a few more key themes of the season, accompanied by some notable one-hit wonders and videos. "I want money, lots and lots...