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Yasiel Puig Makes Sensational Catch
Just the latest from the nightly highlight reel that is Yasiel Puig's rookie season with the Dodgers. In what was a nine-run game in the eighth inning, here's Puig running from somewhere near Montreal to take away extra bases from J.P. Arencibia, and a likely run from the Blue Jays. That's not a bad...
A Sad Pile Of Discounted Dwight Howard Laker Jerseys
Reader Bryan was at the Team LA store at the Staples Center yesterday, and reports that Dwight Howard authentics are going for $20 apiece. They're very prominently displayed....
Albert Pujols Gets Robbed At The Wall, Tries To Undress Bartolo Colon
In the seventh inning of yesterday's Athletics-Angels game, Albert Pujols sent a Bartolo Colon fastball deep into center field. Unfortunately for Pujols, Chris Young was there to snatch away what very well may have been a home run. That's when Pujols decided that Colon's jersey needed to pay the pri...
Never Underestimate The Importance Of A Good Blintz
Greg Cerio on a 2011 exhibition of Weegee's L.A. years:...
ESPN Reports Some Stupid Shit About Yasiel Puig
My stars! Yasiel Puig used his interpreter to try to pick up girls, and it was "not the first such occurrence," Pedro Gomez tells us darkly, citing "a source." But wait! It gets worse! Puig also failed to show proper deference when greeting Luis Gonzalez, according to Gomez, who on this count is me...
Report: Dwight Howard Wanted The Lakers To Phase Out Kobe Bryant
So, take this with a grain of salt as you would any other sourced report, but it jibes with public comments from both players as well as common sense: ESPN claims that a big reason Dwight Howard left the Lakers was because he didn't want to play with Kobe Bryant for another five years....
Metta World Peace Reacts Wonderfully To Reports Of His Pending Release
Now that it looks like the cap-strapped Lakers are going to amnesty Metta World Peace sometime in the next week to save $14.8 million, Metta World Peace has reacted on Twitter in the most Metta World Peace way imaginable....
Hey The Cubs, Heads Up!
Alberto Callaspo popped a foul ball toward the Cubs' bullpen in the top of the ninth. Things got a little chaotic. The ball was not caught....
Houston Rockets Get Fined For Announcing Dwight Howard's Signing
So Dwight Howard will be a Houston Rocket next year. We know because Dwight Howard changed his Twitter avatar and apparently woke up James Harden in Houston to take late-night selfies, and because Kobe Bryant unfollowed Howard and published this vaguely heart-wrenching photo of himself with another ...
Ice Cube Had Some Not-So-Nice Things To Say About Dwight Howard
Ice Cube, a popular Coors Light pitchman and former member of NWA, is a big fan of the Lakers, so it's not surprising that he's not too fond of Dwight Howard right now. During a show on Sunday night, Ice Cube took some time out of his performance to talk some shit about Howard, and he did not hold ...
Don't Look Now, But John Lackey Is Good Again
All of the signs were crossed when the Angels and Red Sox faced off last night. Los Angeles of Anaheim is now the club struggling to reach .500 despite its massive payroll; Boston, lean and mean (in comparison to previous years, anyway) after its salary dumps last August, is back in first place....
Yasiel Puig Not Named To N.L. All-Star Team (Yet)
Baseball, more than any other sport, is a gold mine of stupid arguments with no clear winners. Whether Yasiel Puig is an All Star is just the latest opportunity for people to yell at each other....
Laker Bros Featured In L.A. TV Celebration Of Being Named Bros Capital
Some website we've never heard of decided to rank the "best cities for bros," and Los Angeles unsurprisingly came out on top. After all, our favorite bros ever hail from the City of Angels. Laker Bros, indeed, found themselves featured this morning on KTLA's report about L.A. being named Capital Ci...
Clippers Swap Eric Bledsoe For J.J. Redick In Three-Team Trade
Yahoo's Adrian Wojnarowski is reporting that the Clippers, Bucks, and Suns have finalized a mini-blockbuster of sorts. The Clippers are sending young stud Eric Bledsoe and Caron Butler's expiring contract to the Suns in exchange for Jared Dudley. The Bucks are shipping J.J. Redick to the Clips, and ...
Grumpy Hater Jonathan Papelbon Doesn't Think Yasiel Puig Is An All-Star
Everyone loves Yasiel Puig, because Yasiel Puig has done nothing but be completely awesome since being called up by the Dodgers one month ago. Everyone except Phillies closer Jonathan Papelbon, that is, who thinks that it would be "a joke" if Puig made the National League all-star team....
Kobe Bryant Wants To Play Three More Years, Is Still A Bit Crazy
Not too long ago, Kobe Bryant was making some noise about the impending conclusion of his career, implying to CBS Sports that the expiration of his current contract after the 2014 season would likely give way to his retirement. But now Bryant has changed his tune, telling Lakers.com that he feels li...