Derrick Rose fouled by wunderkind Sasha Vujacic. AP Photo/Chris Carlson LA Lakers defeat Chicago Bulls 116-109. I guess the Lakers don't like losing. They pounded the Bulls. But for some reason they just don't like to blow teams out allowing them to sniff some hope in the fourth quarter. As Nico would say, "What a tease." Pau Gasol led all scorers with 34 points while trying to prove he's not soft. The Bulls were......

Tampa Bay Rays defeat LA Angels 13-4. This Rays team is very good. The Rays got things started in the third inning with back-to-back-to-back homers by Evan Longoria, former Dodgers Willy Aybar and Dioner Navarro. The Angels would take the lead 4-3 in the bottom of the fourth, but the Rays came back in the top of fifth with five runs. The way the Rays are going, could a playoff appearance be in their......

LA Angels defeat Toronto Blue Jays 3-1. Angel's start John Lackey pitched a masterful game against the Chicago White Sox in his season debut on the 14th but didn't get the win. So Lackey came out Tuesday night and pitched just as well giving up one run on seven hits in seven innings while the bullpen pulled through to give him his first win. Things got interesting in the ninth inning when Angel's closer......

Kobe has been amazing. The only guy who has scored 50+points in more consecutive games than Kobe is Wilt Chamberlain. It’s heady company, basically the answer to every NBA scoring trivia question is Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt did a lot of things that were amazing. But not only has Kobe scored 175 total points the last three times he stepped on the court, he’s done it efficiently. Most players who score that much take and miss......

I’ve loved sports since I was 11 years old. No one else in my family was interested in sports, but I independently developed an obsessive love for the Chicago Bulls, who promptly won six championships in the next eight seasons, enough to cement a life-long affair. I grew to love all Chicago teams and then, when I started college at Michigan, found a school just as much in love with its football, hockey and......

For a little perspective on what lies ahead for the next 30 days for this season’s Lakers, let’s drift back in time to 1988, the year when Jerry Falwell and Larry Flynt were battling each other in court, Nirvana was formed and Paula Abdul was forever our girl. In the NBA, a young Michael Jordan was scoring 35 points a game and dragging his Chicago Bulls teammates close to the top of the league. So......

Just what do we know about this season’s Lakers after nine games? We know they can win with Kobe dragging one leg behind him (although he looked better Friday night against Toronto, to the point that Phil Jackson benched him for “imposing his will” on the game and ignoring teammates). We know that young guys like Andrew Bynum, Jordan Farmar and Ronny Turiaf can take on more than maybe we thought. We know Luke Walton......

Lamar Odom has been the John Travolta of the Lakers: For the first three games of the season it was an amazing performance, such as Pulp Fiction (or averaging 28 points per game); for the next three it was more like Battlefield Earth (averaging 13.3). It wasn’t just this season — inconsistency was Odom’s middle name last year as he deferred to Kobe and couldn’t find his space. The problem has been that Odom is......

Since the day Lamar Odom was drafted, we've been hearing the same thing: "He's the next Scottie Pippen." So, when Lamar Odom was traded to the Lakers a year ago, we all thought it might work out. Kobe, after all is like Michael Jordan. Odom could be like Pippen. And poof! You have the old Chicago Bulls. With Phil Jackson coaching the team, we're hearing the comparison more.......

Count on the Clippers to trade with a team that doesn't actually have players. If media reports are true, the Clippers have traded the No. 2 pick overall to the expansion Charlotte Bobcats along with Peja Drobnjak for the No. 4 pick overall and No. 33 pick. Is that the best Elgin Baylor could do? Obviously the Clippers have a glut of power forwards and have no use for Dwight Howard. And the Clippers need......