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After Retrial, T.J. Simers Wins $15.45 Million Judgment Against The <i>Los Angeles Times</i>Both sides eventually appealed a 2015 verdict that granted former Los Angeles Times hack sports columnist T.J. Simers $7.1 million in an age and disability discrimination suit against the paper. The Times appealed because holy shit, $7.1 million! Simers appealed because the amount was less than the...

<i>LA Times</i> Columnist Throws Temper Tantrum When Confronted With Undisclosed Conflict Of InterestLast night, after a big herb named Kevin Draper pointed out that a Los Angeles Times report about USC’s role in the college admissions cheating scandal was written by a USC professor and included no disclosure of this brazen conflict, the writer of the piece, former ESPN writer and current Los Angel...

What Does This Headline Mean?Sam Farmer wrote a column which started with the recent spate of injuries to playoff-bound NFL quarterbacks for Tuesday’s edition of the Los Angeles Times. The copy’s fine, but the headline has puzzled me and others on the Deadspin staff for a couple of days now....

T.J. Simers Wins $7.1 Million Judgment Against The <i>Los Angeles Times</i>

Former Los Angeles Times sports columnist T.J. Simers won $7.1 million in an age and disability discrimination suit against the paper, reports Law360. Simers initially asked for $12.2 million, but the jury decided to give him “$330,358 for past economic damages, $1.8 million for future economic dama...

The Wit And Wisdom Of The White Rat

Pat Jordan's 1992 L.A. Times story on Whitey Herzog:...

Never Underestimate The Importance Of A Good Blintz

Greg Cerio on a 2011 exhibition of Weegee's L.A. years:...

Lost and Found

Here's "Resurrecting The Champ," J.R. Moehringer's classic 1997 takeout piece for the Los Angeles Times. How about this for a lede?...

In Shocking Revelation, Some USC Trojans May Have Received Freebies

The Los Angeles Times appears to have stumbled into your USC athlete graft scandal du jour when it plumbed the records of a former county appraiser and found that he'd been shoveling money at a couple of Trojans....