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Bristolmetrics: Tiger Woods Rules The <em>SportsCenter</em> Leaderboard
This is a regular feature breaking down, minute-by-minute, the content that appears on ESPN's 11 p.m. edition of SportsCenter throughout the week. Graphic by Jim Cooke....
Ex-Dodgers Prospect Busted In Counterfeit Karaoke Scam
Bill Bene was a top five draft pick of the Los Angeles Dodgers and spent nine years in the minors—never making it to The Show. What's a baseball bust to do once his career ends? Rip off karaoke songs and get busted for not reporting the income on your taxes, of course....
Magic Johnson Has Bought The Los Angeles Dodgers For $2 Billion
After eight grueling years, Los Angeles is finally rid of Frank McCourt as Dodgers owner, and Magic Johnson has swooped in as the franchise's savior. The NBA Hall of Famer's bidding group, which includes film producer (and Golden State Warriors co-owner) Peter Guber, former Washington Nationals pres...
The Brooklyn Dodgers Did Not Mind If You Photographed Their Pubes And Asses
At least for the A's and Mariners in Tokyo, Opening Day is early Wednesday morning. With the return of baseball comes the return of casual nudity, an inescapable fact of locker rooms since the days before the West Coast had teams....
Unravelling The Con Man Who Wanted To Own The Dodgers
Josh Macciello came out of nowhere with a renegade bid to buy the Dodgers, his fortune supposedly based on owning gold mines, producing movies, importing rare earth minerals, and partnering with a mysterious Korean billionaire. Then, he made the single biggest mistake any fraud who doesn't want his ...
A Reminder That You Are Not Allowed To Blow A Ball Foul
Apparently, everything happened in that Dodgers-Royals game yesterday. With a KC bunt slowly rolling down the line and stubbornly refusing to go foul, Jerry Hairston dropped to all fours and blew....
Dee Gordon Walks, Keeps On Going To Second
Dodgers speedster Dee Gordon takes advantage of a Royals' lapse in concentration, and after drawing a walk, takes off for second before the next batter steps in. On one hand, that move relies on the element of surprise and can only be pulled off once in a blue moon, so why waste it in spring train...
We Will Never Be Rid Of Tony La Russa
La Russa "retired" after winning another World Series in St. Louis, but he may not be done. Like many retirees, he's seeking the warm weather and easygoing lifestyle of Southern California: La Russa could be a big part of the new Dodgers regime, if that team ever gets sold....
Tony Gwynn Is So Not Impressed With Your Baseball Analysis Technology
Bloomberg Sports must have developed one hell of a piece of baseball-analyzing software, because the Los Angeles Dodgers seem to be absolutely dumbfounded by its profound brilliance....
Professional Athlete Used Recreational Drug
Flame-throwing Dodgers reliever Ronald Belisario—who missed all of 2011 and part of the 2010 season—faces a 25-game suspension at the start of this season because of a positive cocaine test, he told reporters today. Belisario said he couldn't leave Venezuela last year because he had tested positive ...
The Mariners Probably Just Pulled Off The Best Signing Of The Offseason
Stand down, Edwin-Jackson-to-the-Nats. Relax, Broxton-to-the-Royals and Madson-to-the-Reds. We have a new steal in an offseason filled with ridiculous splurges (C.J.-Wilson-to-the-Angels, Pujols-to-the-Angels, Reyes-to-the-Marlins, Heath-Bell-to-the-Marlins) and not too many bargains. The Seattle Ma...
Tebow! Tebow! Tebow! (This Is A Dodgers Story)
Here is a story about Clayton Kershaw. He is a good pitcher, and he likes Jesus, but beyond that he doesn't have much in common with Tim Tebow. In fact, he's nothing like Tim Tebow. They play different sports and haven't met. Still: Tebow in the headline! Tebow everywhere. What do you have to say ab...
This Is Don Mattingly As Mother Ginger In A Ballet Rendition Of <em>The Nutcracker</em>
The Dodgers manager's wife, Lori, had introduced him to the ballet. He "thought it would be fun" to join the company in his hometown of Evansville (Ind.), and he made his debut on Saturday night—blonde wig, makeup, blue dress, and all, thinking it "would be funny." Mattingly didn't dance, but based...
Bryan Stow Speaks For The First Time In Interview With NBC's <i>Rock Center with Brian Williams</i>
Bryan Stow has given his first interview since being brutally beaten on Opening Day at Dodger Stadium. The full interview will air on the NBC magazine this Monday, but a portion is available on the show's website. NBC Bay Area has the above report with the brief portion of the interview therein. A...
Tommy Lasorda Needs To Be "In The Right Fuckin' Frame Of Mind" To Do Something
Here you can see a lively and virile Tommy Lasorda chewing out some hapless camera crew for wasting his time with a bunch of amateur mistakes, no doubt. It's as if none of these guys have ever worked on TV before, the fuckin' assholes....
Bryan Stow Has Left The Hospital
It's great that Bryan Stow is getting transferred from a hospital to a long-term rehabilitation center more than six months after getting beaten into a coma outside Dodger Stadium. Especially when the San Francisco Chronicle story about it contains this vignette:...
Matt Kemp Poses Shirtless, Sometimes Spends Too Much On Clothes, Wants A Woman He Can Shop With
Matt Kemp, the Dodgers outfielder who counts Rihanna among his ex-girlfriends, is having an MVP-caliber season. He recently gave an interview to Flaunt magazine in which he revealed a bit about his tastes in both clothes and women....
Dodgers Game Marred By Giants Fan Trying To Interrupt The "Don't Stop Believing Guy"
The blog "Vin Scully Is My Homeboy" started its Friday off with a post titled, "Giants fan tries to disturb 'Don't Stop Believin' Guy,'" with DSBG being somewhat of a Chavez Ravine Idol contestant who performs Journey for his fellow attendees. The horror. And at the last home game of the season, n...
Bryan Stow Speaks His First Words Since Dodger Stadium Beating
Great update via the website through which Bryan Stow's family keeps the world apprised of how his recovery from a brutal beating outside Dodger Stadium is going....
Today In <em>The New York Times</em> Answering Questions No One Is Asking
"'Ralph Branca is not a Jew,' said Alan Dershowitz, a Brooklyn-born Dodgers fan, lawyer and Harvard professor." [NYT]...