LA Angels defeat Detroit Tigers 7-1. In this edition of Breakfast with the Angels, the Angels bats pounded the Tigers into submission. They drove Tiger's starter Kenny Rogers out of the game in the third inning after pitching to four Angels hitters and getting none of them out. He gave up six runs on eight hits in those two-plus innings and looked nothing like the dominant pitcher we know him to be. Angel's starter......

Phillip Rivers and the San Diego Chargers getting ready for the season. AP Photo/Denis Poroy The NFL season is a grind. Despite playing on 16 games, the ferocity of the action forces teams to rely on a bit of luck in order to get through the post season. Look at the New York Giants last season. They looked awful and good as dead after the first five games of the season. But they clawed......

LA Dodgers defeat San Diego Padres 6-4. The Dodgers sweep the Padres and are on a five game winning streak heading into a weekend showdown against the Arizona Diamondbacks. Nothing was more jaw-dropping than witnessing Angel Berroa hit his first homer since the bronze age. Starter Hiroki Kuroda wasn't quite so dominant as he had been at home giving up four runs on ten hits and a walk in 5 1/3 innings. But the......

LA Dodgers defeat San Diego Padres 8-4. Well the Dodgers figured out how to get hot down the stretch: keep Jeff Kent away. Since he left the clubhouse, the Dodgers have won every game handily. Listening to the game while stuck at work, the description of Clayton Kershaw's pitches did him no justice. Those pitches were outright filthy. Meanwhile the offense exploited all of the Padre's weaknesses. Andre Ethier was a double short of......

After UCLA's upset victory over the 18th ranked Tennessee Volunteers last night, head coach Rick Neuheisel got on the mike to Bruin faithful still at the Rose Bowl and gave a victory speech. Indeed it is great to be a Bruin. Video courtesy Adam Rose/LA Times......

USC Head Coach Pete Carroll in victory, which should be a familiar scene all season. AP Photo/Don Petersen The first college football Saturday has come and gone, and despite some of the lopsided scores provided by the top ranked teams there were some revelations learned. First of all, preseason rankings are bullshit. Case in point: Clemson. Ranked ninth in both the AP and Coaches polls, Clemson was talked up about how they would run......

It’s very very tempting to bury the Dodgers right now. With their lack of run production, bad defense and shaky pitching, the Dodgers should be dead. But being in the Loser’s Division, they still have a shot to play October ball. Everyone knows anything can happen in October. The 2006 St. Louis Cardinals struggled to 83 wins which won them the NL Central. They swept the San Diego Padres in the NLDS, won game......

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/travel_places/Hottest_Beach_Volleyball_Tournament_of_the_Year_2'; Kerri Walsh and Misty May-Treanor did us proud at the Olympics this year. The two Californians by birth brought us home the Gold. And just one weekend before the games began, Manhattan Beach put on their own famous "Six Man" Volleyball Tournament, which would definitely win the gold if tournaments would compete each against each other. The games are a mix of "world-class players, top college stars and disguised AVP pros"......

This is what a winning team looks like. AP Photo/Mark Avery LA Angels defeats Texas Rangers 7-5. The Angels were in an awfully similar situation Thursday night as they were Wednesday night. Angel's starter Jon Garland gave up a four-spot to the Rangers in the first inning. Unlike Joe Saunders the previous night, Garland would stay in the game for eight innings an shut down the Rangers for the remainder of the game with......

Joe Saunders left after only 1 1/3 innings. AP Photo/Gus Ruelas Oakland A's defeat LA Angels 6-5. Joe Saunders left the game in the second inning. Howie Kendrick and Erick Aybar left the game with sore hammies. Outfielder Juan Rivera forced to come into the game at second base. It was one of those games for the Angels yet they managed to make it close. With Joe Saunders pitching with an ailing hand, he......

John Lackey flirts with a complete game shutout. AP Photo/Jeff Lewis LA Angels defeat Oakland A's 5-1. Angel's starter John Lackey pitched a complete game giving up only one run in the ninth on seven total hits while walking no one and striking out five. This is Lackey's third complete game since coming off the disabled list in the middle of May. And how about some run support? The Angels gave Lackey a lovely......

Joe Torre wondering what in high holy hell is going on Friday night. AP Photo/Tom Mihale This is a familiar road all Dodger fans have been down. The Dodgers need to play well in all facets of the game down the stretch in order to win the division. The offense, defense, starting pitching and the bullpen all need to be playing well at the same time. But in the start of this crucial ten-game......

Phillies get the sweep. AP Photo/Tom Mihalek Philadelphia Phillies defeat LA Dodgers 5-0. Figure this one out. The Dodgers outhit the Phillies 13-10 but can't score one stinking run. Really? Is this how a team plays when they're in the heat of a pennant race? Chad Billingsley was not sharp throwing 107 pitches in six innings but gave up only three runs despite the seven hits and three walks he gave up. Phillie's starter......

Gene Upshaw Dead of Pancreatic Cancer at 63. AP Photo/Morry Gash LA Dodgers defeat Colorado Rockies 3-1. The final game of their successful 10-game homestand ended with a well pitched game between Derek Lowe and the Rockie's Jorge de la Rosa. Lowe just gave up the one run in the first inning and went on to pitch 6 1/3 innings giving up four hits and two walks with seven strikeouts. Meanwhile the Dodger bats......

Danny Ardoin makes a good play at the plate for the Dodgers. This trend would not continue throughout the game. AP Photo/Jeff Lewis Colorado Rockies defeat LA Dodgers 4-3. Impatient hitting, bad bullpen and awful defense doesn't help any team to win games. On the Kamenetzky Brother's Purple, Gold and Blue podcast Wednesday morning, I said the Dodgers have to be wary about a tired bullpen. The bullpen has been making games more interesting......

Colorado Rockies defeat LA Dodgers 8-3. This time last year the Rockies were seven games out of first place, and after late season sweeps of the Dodgers in two series last season they propelled themselves to nab the NL pennant. Although the circumstances are different this year, it's hard to not to make parallels. While the Dodgers pitching was nothing to write home about, the Dodgers at bats were just plain atrocious. No patience......

Tampa Bay Rays defeat LA Angels 6-4. It seemed conceivable at the beginning of the season that the Angels would be fighting for the best record in baseball with a team from the AL East in August. The inconceivable part of this is the team they are fighting with is the Tampa Bay Rays. The Angels went into St. Petersburg trying to withstand the Rays who had swept the series back in May at......

According to Dylan Hernandez of the LA Times, the Dodgers have reacquired Greg Maddux from the San Diego Padres. No details have emerged of this waiver trade with the Padres, and no one with the Dodgers have confirmed the trade. Maddux, 42, was placed on waivers earlier this month, and no team has claimed him. He has 353 career victories. AP Photo by Larry Ignelzi......

It's finally official. Bruce Arenas was named head coach and general manager of the LA Galaxy. It seemed inevitable when Tim Leiweke gave a five-minute gush fest about Arenas in the press box Thursday night in their game against Chivas USA.......

LA Dodgers defeat Philadelphia Phillies 3-1. Dodgers pitching pretty much shut down the Phillies since the third inning of Wednesday's game. In this game the Phillies managed two hits off Hiroki Kuroda. Meanwhile the Dodgers got just enough timely hits to beat the Phils and get their first four-game sweep of the Phils since 1962. The Dodgers are now three games over .500 for the first time since May 25 and stay tied for......

FRAGILE: HANDLE WITH CAUTION. Note to the players. Please be careful with Nomar so he doesn't break. AP/Chris Pizzello LA Dodgers defeats Philadelphia Phillies 7-6. The Dodgers do it again. They comeback from a 6-1 defecit after two innings to tie it 6-6 off of a Jeff Kent two-RBI double in the bottom of the ninth. While they could have shut the door closed, they would go into the ninth inning with a tie......

This query made its way into the LAist inbox, and we tracked down the answer: Just wondering, is the Coliseum cauldron lit for the Olympics right now? First stop on the investigation (besides some people mentioning they've seen it lit during other Olympics before) was good old Wikipedia; the entry for the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum explains that the cauldron is lit on special occasions, such as "during the fourth quarter of USC football games,......

LA Angels defeat Seattle Mariners 7-4. The Angels looked like they would suffer a letdown after their weekend sweep over the Yankees by falling behind the Mariners 3-0. But aided with a Juan Rivera solo shot and Vladamir Guerrero two-run shot in the fifth inning, the Angels came back to show who's king of the AL West. They got three insurance runs in the eighth inning and just continue to steam through any and......

LA Dodgers defeat Philadelphia Phillies 8-6. The Dodgers were lucky to have a big lead going into the bottom of the ninth or these words would be talking about the Dodgers third consecutive game lost in the ninth inning. It seemed like the Dodgers had finally learned that one Manny an entire team does not make, but that ninth inning almost undid things. Jonathan Broxton gave up three hits and two earned runs in......

The Michael Phelps sweepstakes have begun. Phelps broke his own world record in the 400 meter individual medley to take his first gold medal. Coming into the games, this race was considered the trickiest for Phelps in his quest to break Mark Spitz's record. But he just demolished the rest of the pack and looked like he spent no energy by the end of the race. Chivas USA worked hard to come back, but......

US Sweeps Women's Individual Saber Medals. Gold medalist Mariel Zagunis (center) is flanked by silver medal winner Sada Jacobson (left) and bronze medal winner Becca Ward(right). AP/Andrew Medichini With so much going on in the world of sports right now with the Olympics, baseball, USC injuries and all, here's a list of things to keep an eye on. The USA got it's first medal sweep in women's fencing. Mariel Zagunis defended her 2004 gold......

Shocking news of a knife-attack on two Americans affiliated with the Olympics on the prestigious event's first day have local reverberations, as the victims' identities have been revealed. According to Associated Press reports, Todd Bachman and his wife Barbara were stabbed midday at the Drum Tower (pictured), a popular tourist location, by Tang Yongming, 47, from the eastern city of Hangzhou. Following the stabbings, the attacker committed suicide by leaping from the second level where......

LA Dodgers defeat St. Louis Cardinals 4-1. Six games, four home runs. Despite the Dodgers losing the last two games, Manny Ramirez has done everything he could to help the Dodgers win. Unfortunately he can only bat once every nine team at bats. He is batting .565 since coming to the Dodgers with an OPS of 1.745. Meanwhile Clayton Kershaw had another great outing going seven innings giving up only one run on three......

Okay Trojan fans, can you imagine your team taking the field (or court, etc.) in anything but the cardinal red and gold (and some white) colors that are quintessentially USC? Well, don't worry, you won't have to! Fears that the school would adapt an alternate uniform to align with the black and gold jerseys the athletic department has been selling are unfounded. USC coach Pete Carroll said "There's no way I would allow it." There......

Brett Favre at a news conference after their loss to the Giants in the playoffs. AP/Mike Roemer. This is absurd. This whole Brett Favre saga has now reached some sort of closure with his trade to the New York Jets, but the Four-Letter Network has whipped themselves up in such a frenzy it’s almost humiliating. The question that SportsCenter anchors Stuart Scott and Neil Everett would ask any reporters they could get their hands......