Two remarkable events occurred this month involving major North American sports leagues. The NBA and Major League Baseball agreed to new collective bargaining agreements with their players. Before the old CBA ran out. No weeks or months of acrimony between deadlocked players and management. No games lost to a strike or a lockout. No seasons […]

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This disappoints me, and I assume it disappoints NBA fans, as well. Kevin Durant signs a two-year contract with the Golden State Warriors. Happy Fourth of July, hoops fans! Durant was a free agent, and could join any team he chose. He hosted presentations in the Hamptons, an upscale region near New York City, and […]

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Despite reading a dozen stories on Game 1 of the NBA Finals, I am still not quite clear on why the Cleveland Cavaliers lost by 15 points — even while limiting Golden State stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson to 20 points. Combined. I didn’t see the game because 1) it started at 3 a.m. […]

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How Clippers is this? Ten hours after learning yesterday that Stephen Curry, leading man of the Golden State Warriors, will be out for two weeks, setting up the possibility of the Clippers being able to beat a weakened Warriors team in the second round of the NBA playoffs … … Chris Paul suffers a broken […]

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Not a headline we could have written often over the past 30 years. The Los Angeles Clippers look to have been asleep at the switch as the Dallas Mavericks pursued center DeAndre Jordan and said he would sign a four-year, $80 million contract with them. The Clippers were pummeled by media, and even by one […]

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Well, this is embarrassing. Not that the Los Angeles Clippers are strangers to embarrassment. The best team the Clippers have had, the team that fell one victory short of the Western Conference finals, just saw their third-best player, 7-foot center DeAndre Jordan, leave for the Dallas Mavericks. –For $20 million less than the Clippers presumably […]

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It was a week ago that the Los Angeles Clippers, the city’s eternal “other” team, looked bound for the Western Conference finals. Much to our surprise. Up 3-1 on the Houston Rockets after a blowout victory in Game 4 … it was going to happen! The Clippers in the conference finals for the first time! […]

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Relegation would be a handy thing to have in U.S. sports. Most Americans, I think, understand the concept, by now. In nearly all global soccer leagues that aren’t Major League Soccer, two or three teams at the bottom of the standings go down to the next-lowest league. Which is pretty much a disaster. (And the […]

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When we left Southern California for Abu Dhabi, in October of 2009, the Los Angeles Clippers sucked. They had always sucked. They would always suck. It was in the stars. They were poorly run, under slum lord Donald Sterling, and unlucky as well, as the injury to their top draft pick of 2009, Blake Griffin, […]

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The Los Angeles Kings tonight wrapped up their second Stanley Cup championship in three years. And though I, like most native southern Californians, am not a hockey fan, we must concede this: Los Angeles would be confronting a potential championship drought, about now, if the Kings had not had not turned into world beaters.

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