Second baseman Chase Utley of the Philadelphia Phillies, a former UCLA and Long Beach Poly High star, is stalking a baseball immortal.
Utley, listed as the 4-1 favorite by bodoglife.com, could become the first former UCLA player to win the National League most valuable player award since 1949, when Jackie Robinson won it with the Brooklyn Dodgers. ...
Fred Lynn, MVP and rookie of the year with the Boston Red Sox in 1975, is the only former USC player to win baseball's highest regular-season honor. ...
Yankee Stadium is well deserving of the accolades being heaped upon it in its final year, but to call its historical significance unrivaled among U.S. sporting venues is to deny the existence of the Coliseum. ...
The Coliseum has been home to two Olympics, two Super Bowls and a World Series, not to mention countless classic football games involving the Rams, Raiders, USC and UCLA, landmark appearances by John F. Kennedy, Billy Graham, Charles Lindbergh, Dwight Eisenhower, Gen. George S. Patton, Nelson Mandela, Franklin D. Roosevelt and the Harlem Globetrotters, plus concerts featuring the Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Pink Floyd, the Who and U2. ...
Bernie Lincicome of the Rocky Mountain News, noting that the Denver Nuggets were "fleeced, swindled and hustled" in the Marcus Camby trade: "The Clippers have their own history of dunderheadedness and might still be leading the Nuggets in that department, but this time the clown nose is on the other face." ...
Former Clippers and UCLA coach Larry Brown tells the Sacramento Bee that he was ready to take over at Stanford this year before changing his mind and signing on with Michael Jordan and the Charlotte Bobcats. ...
Imagine that: Larry Brown changing his mind. ...
Speaking of flip-floppers, Brett Favre is showing a side of himself that, in terms of his everyman legacy, might have been better left unseen. ...
Ashley Harkleroad, scheduled to play in the WTA Tour's East West Bank Classic starting Monday at the Home Depot Center, will appear in an eight-page nude pictorial in the August issue of Playboy, which hits newsstands today. ...
In an interview that aired Tuesday on Comedy Central's "The Colbert Report," Donald Trump referred to Trump National in Rancho Palos Verdes as "the No. 1-rated golf course in the state of California, better than Pebble Beach." ...
Not according to Golf Magazine, which included 12 California courses in its 2007 list of the nation's top 100 but made no mention of Trump National. ...
