All Ball Sports: the end of the Clipper Curse, Nash’s Nets, and RUHS’s strong CIF run
by Paul Teetor From now on, the Clippers are officially more about their future than about their forgettable past. For the first time in their long and – dare we say it – cursed history, their fans have something solid and substantial to look forward to. Today, tomorrow, next week and next year their […]
All Ball Sports: Clippers close, Beach Cities Klineman and Sponcil clinch Olympic berths
by Paul Teetor “Playoff P” is alive and well and living in Staples Center. The question now, as always, is: can he keep on living – and winning? Return on investment is a business concept that multi-billionaire Clippers owner Steve Ballmer understands better than most people. This week, with his team down 0-2 to the […]
Mira Costa looking at #1 National Ranking after defeating Loyola for CIF Division 1 Southern Regional Championship
Championship game photos: Saturday June 12, Fisher Gym, Mira Costa High School. Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor [UPDATED] When the Mira Costa boys volleyball team lost the first set to Loyola in the regional championship game Saturday night and then were tied 11-11 in the second set, Coach Avery Drost called a timeout […]
All Ball Sports: Clippers are LA’s team to watch, Mira Costa Soccer #1 in California
by Paul Teetor When you strip away all the hot air rhetoric about “building the right culture,” and “getting high-character guys,” and “looking for players who play for each other,” there’s really only two ways to build an NBA championship contender. The first is to tank for several seasons in a […]
Tradition lends a hand in Mira Costa High School CIF volleyball championship
Mira Costa had a couple of extra ingredients that helped coach Avery Drost brew up a memorable title run for the team he has coached for the last four years
Mira Costa, Manhattan Beach defeats Loyola, Los Angeles, for CIF soccer title
by Paul Teetor Pressure can burst pipes and it can produce diamonds. Friday night it produced a diamond of a championship game. No matter how much they told each other it was just another game, so let’s not do anything different than we have all year, Thomas Southey and his Mira Costa boys soccer teammates […]
ALL BALL: Mira Costa basketball loses tough game, faces Redondo next
By Paul Teetor Two points, two (allegedly) clean blocks and 12 seconds. That’s how close the Mira Costa boys basketball team came to gaining a first-place tie with Culver City in a Bay League showdown Friday night. In the final 12 seconds, the Mustangs had 3 chances to tie […]
All Ball Sports: Klineman, Ross on way to Tokyo Olympics, Mira Costa Mustangs beat Santa Monica
By Paul Teetor There’s nothing like blowing a 15-point lead to bring out the sunny side of Mira Costa’s hard-driving boys basketball Coach Neal Perlmutter. “It was nice to see us lose a lead and then get it back and regain our composure,” Perlmutter said without a hint of sarcasm, moments after his team hung […]
All Ball sports: A line is drawn, from Kaepernick to Chauvin
by Paul Teetor Colin Kaepernick and Derek Chauvin will go down in the history books together, but for very different reasons. One took a knee during the national anthem in principled protest. The other gave a knee during an arrest made with mindless malice. One is a woke football player who led his team to […]
All Ball Sports: Mira Costa High School Mustangs bring down Redondo High Sea Hawks
Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor It was all over by halftime. You could tell it by the starkly different body language as the two teams headed for their respective locker rooms. Mira Costa football players strutted off Redondo’s home field Friday night with a 28-0 lead and the clear expectation of putting up […]
All Ball Sports: Tiger’s ‘Celebrity justice’; Costa-Redondo football Battle of the Beach
by Paul Teetor If you live up on Peninsula and you’re late for an appointment it’s perfectly okay to speed down Hawthorne Boulevard at nearly 90 miles per hour – double the posted speed limit — and crash so badly that your 5,000-pound beast of a vehicle goes flying right through and over the oncoming […]
All Ball Sports: UCLA From Now to Eternity; Mustangs break through; Sea Hawks emulate UCLA in final seconds
by Paul Teetor Three seconds. That’s how long it took for UCLA fans to go from jumping for joy to stunned silence. Still, for three wonderful, memorable seconds, Bruins fans knew the meaning of pure ecstasy. The hero: Bruins sophomore guard Johnny Juzang, who tied the big game at 90-90 with three seconds left. The […]
All Ball Sports: Bruins brewing; Help Me Rondo; Mustangs, Sea Hawks down
by Paul Teetor From the First Four to the Final Four. That was the highway to heaven that UCLA traveled on its five-game March Madness journey, and the trip ain’t over yet. The Bruins are moving on to Saturday’s national NCAA semifinals after a pulsating, heart-stopping finish to their 51-49 Elite Eight victory over top-seeded […]
All Ball Sports: Bruins, Trojans could make hoops history
by Paul Teetor April 3, 2021. Circle the date on your calendar because that’s when history could – repeat, could – be made if USC and UCLA each win two more games in the NCAA Tournament. They would then play in a national semifinal game, with the winner earning a spot in the NCAA Championship […]
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by Paul Teetor Next man up. That was the story Saturday night for Mira Costa as the Mustangs fell to St. Francis 38-35 on a last-minute touchdown and then missed what would have been a game-tying field goal as time expired. Hanging over the first game of the year was the shadow of a Mustang […]
All Ball sports: Rafters to ring in Fisher Gym, UCLA salvages USC season, listen to LeBron
By Paul Teetor Prep sports fans are about to enjoy an unprecedented all-you-can-watch buffet. Or it could just be an all-you-can-read buffet, as the final rules on fan and media attendance are still being worked out. Either way – fans or no fans, maybe only just immediate family with a limit of four — football, […]