MB Tennis Open proves value of city Parks and Rec program
The Manhattan Beach tennis pipeline is starting to produce good players – even tournament-tested, college-level championship players – thanks to a comprehensive Parks and Rec kids program that enrolls several hundred beginners every year. Local legend Maegan Manasse started her career at Live Oak Park, dominated SoCal high school play while at Mira Costa and […]
Manhattan Beach Charles Reilly is MB’s Man of Letters
Retired Colonel Jim Montano of Huntington Beach came to Pages bookstore Sunday afternoon just as his fellow Vietnam veteran Charlies Reilly was finishing up a brief talk on why he started writing letters to the editor 20 years ago – and how he ended up as the Los Angeles Times undisputed champ of published letters, […]
Consolation Kids prevail at Manhattan Beach Live Oak Park 3 on 3 basketball tourney
“This is like watching the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons play the Bad Boy Detroit Pistons.” Three brand new Live Oak Legends – Jersey Joe, The Kid, and Turbo – were born last Friday afternoon during the 48th Annual Live Oak Park 3 on 3 Basketball Classic. They achieved legendary status by pulling off the […]
Redondo boys win seventh straight Bay League basketball championship
By Paul Teetor A star was born – for at least a day – Thursday night. It’s every end-of-the-bench scrub’s dream scenario, the fantasy that keeps them going through practice after dreary practice and endless games where they sit and watch: Come off the bench, hit the big shot, win the big game, take home […]
ES Sports – Pedaling back down Mainstreet
Jack Spiro’s Schwinn bike shop harkens back to when bikes were meant for pedaling
Hawks evokes mercy rule, Mustangs upsets Palos Verdes
Redondo center Chase Bowsher (left) and power forward Chimeze Maduno (center) led attack against Compton Centennial. Lucas Hobbs (left) led Mustang scoring with 18 points. Photos There’s an obscure CIF rule that says that if a basketball team takes a lead of 40 points in the fourth quarter of a game, the clock shall […]
Fundraiser helps Darfur refugees establish women’s soccer team
It’s a long way – geographically, demographically and spiritually — from the mega-mansions, upscale restaurants and seaside luxury of Manhattan Beach to the makeshift huts, long food lines and tattered tents of Darfur, a dusty, wind-blown war-torn region of Sudan. But in just three hours Saturday night, a bridge built upon the twin towers of […]
How the chicken man got famous
John Phillips is no celebrity chef, just a guy born and raised in South-Central LA who got into the chicken business after working as a machinist, a baker, and a few other odd jobs. There are no Michelin stars on his food truck, just a sign proclaiming him The Chicken Guy. And he doesn’t serve […]
Professionals, locals dominate MB Tennis Open
There was good news and even better news for Manhattan Beach tennis star Joey Rotheram this past weekend. Rotheram made his family and his hometown fans proud Sunday afternoon when he partnered with his college teammate Victor Krustev to win the Open Division doubles crown at the Manhattan Beach Open by upsetting the top-seeded team […]
Warrior coach picked to lead Mustang hoopsters
West Torrance boys basketball coach Neal Perlmutter, who turned around a losing Warriors program and led the team to a CIF title two years ago, has been hired as the new boy’s basketball head coach at Mira Costa High School. He replaces Jeff Amaral, who resigned last month after seven years on the job. Perlmutter […]
Amaral steps down as boys basketball coach
Mira Costa High School boys basketball coach Jeff Amaral, who achieved the rare distinction of coaching a team he once played for and led it to a consistent winning record until this year, has resigned after seven seasons on the job. The Mustang program is already facing the looming question of where it will […]
LA Lifeguards Max First, Katie Hazelrigg win Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race
Lifeguards Max First and Katie Hazelrigg push through punishing conditions to win the Catalina Classic Paddleboard Race.
Shooting star: the passing of 18-year-old Redondo Union student and basketball player Ryse Williams leaves the Sea Hawk community in shock
Shooting star Thursday June 22 was a long-awaited day of pride and joy for many high school basketball coaches as they watched young men they had coached get drafted into the NBA. Congratulations flowed on social media like confetti raining down on a parade. But for Redondo basketball coach Vic Martin June 22 was a […]
Redondo’s hoop dreams fall short after a surprising season under interim head coach Vic Martin
The Redondo boys basketball team lost its Division 1 second round regional game 72-64 to Corona Centennial last Saturday to end its season a little sooner than last year, when it went all the way to the southern regional final at the Pyramid in Long Beach. It was a game Redondo easily could have won: […]
Redondo Union boys hoops squad withstands Ridgeview comeback to advance to CIF southern regional
The Redondo boys basketball team – and the home crowd that had settled in for a comfortable first-round playoff blowout – watched in helpless horror Wednesday night as a 25-point lead over Ridgeview slowly but surely melted down to a barely-there 2-point lead near the end of the fourth quarter. With the Ridgeview side of […]
Redondo Union boys hoops team prevails over towering Santa Margarita lineup in CIF playoff victory
The Redondo boys basketball team was on the verge of a full-on meltdown Friday night as its 21-point lead over Santa Margarita shrank down to five with more than two minutes left – plenty of time for a team that had already beaten Redondo once already this year to do it again. That’s when super-sub […]