So, the new Dodgers owner may buy the team and stadium only to be surrounded by a Frank McCourt-owned parking lot. There hasn't been such a blunder since General Custer.
Gary Stein
Westlake Village
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Letters: Lots more trouble from Frank McCourt
If McCourt is involved, it's enough to drive a Dodgers fan to not drive.
Dodgers fans are not thrilled to hear that Frank McCourt is thinking about… (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles…)
Frank McCourt's continued ownership of the Dodger Stadium parking lots could be the greatest boon to the use of public transportation this city has ever seen. The multitude of fans McCourt drove out of Dodger Stadium, all eager to come back this season, will find it a pleasurable act of defiance to avoid McCourt's parking lot. The buses will be full, car-pooling to the stadium will be hip and the only traffic jams leaving the stadium will be pedestrians.
Tim Healey
West Hollywood
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If McCourt has anything at all to do with the Dodgers in the future, any new owner will be buying a poisonous product. He and all of his family, including his ex-wife are essentially persona non grata in the Los Angeles sports community and should gracefully leave the scene. He has done more than enough damage to our beloved Dodgers.
William Bergmann
Hollywood
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Would you buy a home if the garage and driveway were not included in the sale?
Wayne Muramatsu
Cerritos
Picking the pros
Much kudos to Sam "Prognosticator" Farmer for correctly predicting all four winners last weekend and a 20-13 score for the Texans-Ravens game. Now that we all have come to the realization that you have a certified oracle on staff, I'd like to ask Sam a few simple questions for my benefit.
When exactly are we getting an NFL franchise in this town?
Is the Mayan calendar really correct about the events happening on Dec. 21?
If the answer to the previous question is no, could I have the winning Mega Millions lottery numbers for Saturday?
Mark J. Featherstone
Windsor Hills
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Wisconsin is the Dairy State, and the Green Bay Butterfingers got creamed by the Giants.
Kenny Johnson
Pinon Hills
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The media-manufactured "controversy" regarding Tim Tebow seems to be finally coming to an end. It's about time. Compared to all the other players doing backflips, dunking the football over the goal posts and dancing in the end zone, Tebow's brief kneel-down prayer looked downright dignified. As for his football career, I'm sure that with his work ethic, he'll improve on his skills and move up to the next level.
Charles Reilly
Manhattan Beach
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Personally, I believe in the separation of church and football. Good job, New England!
Bill Piercy
San Pedro
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I'm sure the NFL playoff system has its defenders. No doubt there were many football fans who enjoyed watching San Francisco's thrilling 36-32 victory over New Orleans, with its last-minute lead changes and late-game heroics. Notably, the game occurred 30 years to the week after "the Catch" that vaulted the 49ers past heavily favored Dallas into their first Super Bowl.
But the guiding lights who rule college football insist they have a better way. Instead of deciding their championship game's participants on the field in a multiteam playoff, in which anyone could potentially win and advance, the NCAA relies on a select group of sportswriters and computers to match the two best teams in a process that squeezes all excitement and suspense out of the process. Other elite teams are then paired in meaningless "bowl" exhibition games, with no opportunity to advance or play for a title.
For those who believe that too much excitement in football is a bad thing, the NCAA offers the perfect elixir to counter NFL playoff madness.
Stephen A. Silver
San Francisco
The (yawn) Lakers
Congratulations to Mike Brown. He has transformed the Lakers into the most boring team in the NBA. Now it takes two cans of Red Bull to get through one of their games. Can't shoot. Can't defend. Pass me the energy drink.
W. Lee Miller Jr.
Inglewood
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His recent scoring outburst may help cement his status as perhaps the most highly skilled shooter in NBA history, but if Kobe Bryant thinks his latest basket binge will culminate in another championship this coming spring he's a fool — as are the people who think it's OK if the Mamba continues to heave up an average of 28 shots per game for the rest of the season while ignoring his two 7-footers ... and everyone else.
Clifford Burton
Santa Monica
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"The reports of my death are greatly exaggerated." — Mark Twain, after reading his obituary in the New York Journal.
48, 40, 42, 42: Kobe Bryant, points scored in successive games after reading ESPN ranked him seventh-best among NBA players.
Tom Lallas
Los Angeles
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