Bryan Stow

An attorney representing the Los Angeles Dodgers said Bryan Stow might be held partially to blame for the beating that left him in a coma, saying that the San Francisco Giants fan was intoxicated at the time. Attorney Jerome Jackson's comments come as the team is mounting a defense against a civil lawsuit that Stow's family has filed against the Dodgers. Jackson said that if the lawsuit goes to trial, a jury may lay some of the responsibility on Stow. He cited a Sports Illustrated story that reported Stow's blood-alcohol level was more than twice the legal limit in California for driving when he was admitted to the hospital.

For the first time, Major League Baseball put a specific number on the amount it alleges Dodgers owner Frank McCourt took out of the team -- $189.16 million -- and described the distributions as "looting. " However, amid the legal and financial fine points of the Dodgers' bankruptcy, Bryan Stow could emerge as a pivotal face in the case at a critical hearing next week. Stow won't be there, of course. But, with his representatives sitting on the official committee of creditors, attorneys for the Dodgers and the league are expected to cite Stow in their arguments in a Delaware courtroom.

Bryan Stow is in a rehabilitation facility in the San Francisco Bay Area, seven months removed from the Dodger Stadium parking lot beating that nearly cost him his life. However, amid the legal and financial fine points of the Dodgers bankruptcy, Stow could emerge as a pivotal figure in the case at a crucial hearing next week. Stow won't be there, but with his representatives sitting on the official committee of creditors, attorneys for the Dodgers and Major League Baseball are expected to refer to Stow in their arguments in a Delaware courtroom.

For those who are cynical, including this card-carrying member, Ron Artest's recent name change to Metta World Peace was an eye roll. Spare us, Ron baby. How about just focusing on avoiding fighting with fans in the stands, as you did so notoriously in that game in Detroit in 2004, costing yourself a season-long suspension? Basketball peace first. Then the world. But let's look at this more closely. Artest's gesture, as wacky as the man making it, comes at a rather interesting time.

Tommy Lasorda was holding court in the dugout. Nancy Bea Hefley was waxing melodic by the camera well. Don Mattingly was talking ball by the batting cage. But before the final major league baseball game at Dodger Stadium this season, only one voice mattered. "Did you hear?" somebody said. "Bryan Stow talked. " And so, one of the most awful summers in the history of Chavez Ravine ended Thursday with the empty seats and broken promises dusted in hope. Stow, the Santa Clara paramedic who was beaten into a coma in the parking lot here after an opening day victory over the San Francisco Giants, spoke this week for the first time since then.

Attorneys for the Dodgers and owner Frank McCourt have asked a judge not to allow the children of San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow, who was beaten at Dodger Stadium, to sue over their father's injuries. The attorneys also asked that references to drinking at the stadium and to McCourt's wealth be thrown out, saying they were irrelevant to the case. McCourt's legal team also wants descriptions of the March 31 beating as "brutal and vicious" removed. The lawyers are trying to significantly reduce the scope of the lawsuit.

The Dodgers are on pace to lose more than $42 million in annual revenue since the team's last postseason appearance in 2009, according to data filed Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy Court. The Dodgers reported revenue of $282 million in 2009. On the eve of the National League Championship Series that year, owner Frank McCourt and his ex-wife, Jamie, announced their separation. Revenue dropped to $265 million last year and $120 million through the first half of this year, according to the filing.

The woman who drove the alleged attackers from Dodger Stadium after the beating of Bryan Stow will not be criminally charged, Los Angeles County prosecutors revealed Wednesday. Dorene Sanchez was arrested last month along with the two main suspects, Louie Sanchez, her brother, and her boyfriend, Marvin Norwood. Though Dorene Sanchez provided key testimony against the suspects during grand jury testimony, prosecutors said they could not prove that she knew about the beating when she drove the men home from the Dodgers' opening day game against the San Francisco Giants on March 31. Photos: Suspects in Bryan Stow beating charged Sources familiar with the investigation but who are not authorized to comment told the Los Angeles Times that she learned of the attack later and cooperated with police detectives when they approached her. "There is no admissible evidence to establish that Ms. Sanchez had knowledge of the felony offense," a prosecutor's document stated.

It was one of those phone calls a defense attorney could go an entire career and never receive: You might want to talk to this guy, Tony. I think he might be innocent. The guy was Giovanni Ramirez, a gang member and ex-convict arrested by an LAPD SWAT team on suspicion of the beating of a Giants fan in the Dodger Stadium parking lot. Tony is Anthony Brooklier, a blue-chip lawyer in Los Angeles whose clients have ranged from Mafia dons to petty thieves. Brooklier had heard about the arrest "just like everybody else.

San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow tried to escape a violent man attacking him and his friends outside Dodger Stadium, but his assailant pursued and assaulted him again, according to a court document filed Monday that provides new details about the beating that left Stow with serious brain injuries. Prosecutors allege that Louie Sanchez shoved Stow and punched one of Stow's friends after the Dodgers' opening day game against the Giants. After the assault, Stow, who was dressed in a Giants shirt, continued to walk with his friends toward the edge of the stadium parking lot, with Sanchez and his friend, Marvin Norwood, in pursuit, prosecutors wrote.