According to Jeff VanGundy and ABC and ESPN and Fox Sports Net and Co. … Kobe Bryant is the “best closer in the game.”
Well, Tuesday night he wasn’t. Two huge turnovers and missing 12 of your final 16 shots (not to mention 5 of 10 free throws) would suggest otherwise.
But does this make Kobe any [...]

Thoughts from Tuesday’s NBA Finals Game 3, which the red-hot Orlando Magic won 108-104 over the Los Angeles Lakers:

Where’s RK? Ryantific opts to hang out with the wifey rather than the boys and the Lakers lose their first game of the series. Coincidence? I think not. At least nobody threw garlic bread at the TV [...]

Tonight’s game was not a classic, be happy you didn’t pay $4,000 to see it in person – 15-15 after a quarter, 20 turnovers by the Magic, who got homered to death by the officiating crew in Los Angeles, and they still managed to force overtime … that’s how bad the Lakers played — just [...]

What the hell?
Ryantific and I just got done watching tonight’s Lakers-Rockets game and are trying to figure out how Los Angeles lost to Houston – a team the Lakers spanked during the regular season. Here are some of the reasons we came up with:

How many beers did we drink?
Was it the Swine Flu?
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Allen Iverson has averaged 27 ppg in his career, fifth all-time in the NBA. But apparently he’s “dead” like Tupac.

Sad news Thursday out of the OC about Anaheim Angels pitcher Nick Adenhart, who was killed along with two others by a suspected drunk driver early that morning.
We don’t tend to follow breaking news like this [...]

Great question posed on the Dan Patrick show today:Are Shaq and Kobe remembered for what they did together (three titles with the L.A. Lakers) or what they didn’t do together (nine titles?)? Reminds me of Billy Hoyle and Sidney Deane in White Men Can’t Jump. Those dudes coulda won so much more dough.
Then again, had [...]

While I was losing all of my money at a friend’s bachelor party in Sin City this past weekend, I was reminded by friend at the Las Vegas Review-Journal that Los Angeles Dodgers outfielder Andruw Jones is playing for the local minor league club.“Good to hear I’m not the only one striking out in Vegas [...]

In case you missed the big news out of L.A. yesterday, the Examiner is back in La-La land. Well, sort of.In a move that will be cheered and jeered by the two or three readers of this site, The Editor has signed on with Examiner.com to write about L.A. sports. Examiner.com is actually the offspring [...]

The Clippers have added another aging player to their lineup.Welcome “White Chocolate,” otherwise known as Jason Williams, to La-La Land.Since their woeful season mercifully came to a close, that other team in L.A. has added 10 new players to its 14-player roster.Problem is those players aren’t exactly “new.”Gone are Elton Brand and Corey Maggette, i.e. [...]

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. Well, here are a thousand reasons why Brett Favre went to the New York Jets.Everyone at ESPN was “stunned” last night when Favre signed off on a trade to the Jets over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.Why was this a surprise, just because everyone at the network [...]