Mira Costa freshman Yeh’s two free throws send title game against Redondo into overtime
Photos by Ray Vidal by Paul Teetor It was exactly the situation every baller — high school, college or pro — dreams about and practices for in the backyard or driveway: you’re fouled on a buzzer beating shot and go to the free throw line with a chance to tie or win the game. All […]
All Ball: LA Times on losing run, Zimmerman sisters lead RBUHS
by Paul Teetor It’s been a brutal couple of weeks for the dwindling band of Los Angeles sports fans who still get the bulk of their news from the LA Times. First came the shocking news last week that the paper’s top editor, Executive Editor Kevin Merida, was resigning less than two years after taking […]
All Ball Sports: Rams get hosed, Chargers get their chance
by Paul Teetor With four minutes left in Sunday night’s riveting playoff game with the Detroit Lions, the Rams were marching toward a go-ahead score when, on third down, rookie receiver Puka Nacua ran a perfect route to get free for a first down catch, the kind he never dropped on the way to setting […]
MCH girls basketball surges, boys basketball on rebound
by Paul Teetor Monday night at home against Peninsula was supposed to be a get-well game for the Mira Costa boys basketball team. They were coming off the worst stretch of the season – four losses in five games – and they needed to get their mojo back after an 11-2 start that went off […]
All Ball Sports: Rams Revival
by Paul Teetor The Los Angeles Rams are in the playoffs. Let me repeat that astounding statement: the never-say-die LA Rams are in the frickin’ playoffs. The very same Rams who were 3-6 more than halfway through the season and left for dead by the entire LA media establishment, including All Ball, are in the […]
All Ball Sports: All Ball Predictions and Resolutions for 2024
by Paul Teetor It’s Taylor’s World; We’re only living in it The most important person in the sports world – I’m talking about Taylor Swift, of course – will marry her new boyfriend, Kansas City Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce after the Chiefs win the Super Bowl in February. And she never writes another breakup […]
All Ball Sports: Top 5 LA sports stories of 2023
by Paul Teetor It was a crazy year for local sports – and by that we mean sports in both Los Angeles and the beach cities. The biggest story of all was also the last big story, breaking in late December. And it didn’t matter if you lived at the beach or on Figueroa Street: […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs Trample PV
by Paul Teetor Preston “Master P” Ezewiro grabbed a pin-point pass that found him at the low post, wheeled around two Palos Verdes defenders, and threw down a monstrous dunk. The home crowd roared its approval as if to say, finally, this is what we came for. Thirty seconds later he snagged another clever pass […]
All Ball Sports: Happy Trails to Brandon Staley, Costa hoopsters growth spurt
by Paul Teetor The Chargers fired Head Coach Brandon Staley Friday morning – finally. The immediate cause was the 63-21 demolition Thursday night by the Raiders – who lost their previous game by the baseball-like score of 3-0. But there was a lot more going on than just that one, hugely embarrassing loss to a […]
All Ball Sports: Blue Jays blues, Sho time Dodgers
by Paul Teetor It will be Sho Time at Dodgers Stadium next season – and for the next 10 years. That was the bottom line after the stunning announcement Saturday afternoon that megastar Shohei Ohtani had signed a 10-year, $700 million contract with the Dodgers. The deal capped off a crazy, anxious 12 months for […]
All Ball Sports: Shohei coming and Caleb going
by Paul Teetor Will he stay or will he go? That is the biggest question right now in all of Los Angeles sports, and it applies to two of our biggest SoCal superstars: Shohei Ohtani, the 21st Century Babe Ruth, and USC quarterback Caleb Williams, who may or may not be the next Patrick Mahomes. […]
All Ball Sports: Mira Costa Mustangs’ miracle run undone
by Paul Teetor Mira Costa quarterback Nico De La Cruz dropped back and launched a 50-yard rainbow that seemed to hang in the inky-black, night sky forever before coming back down to earth and into the eager hands of star senior receiver Reese Leonard, who was tackled just short of the goal line. But everyone […]
All Ball Sports: Mustangs gallop from 0-7 to title game, UCLA, USC both lose
by Paul Teetor The comeback kids did it again. And now they’re in the championship game Saturday night. Believe it or not, the Mira Costa football team that could do nothing right for nearly two months has now done everything right for the last month and a half. The team that lost the first seven […]
All Ball Sports: Costa girls VB number 2, boys FBs plow ahead, Clippers ‘Fear the Beard’
by Paul Teetor The Mira Costa girls volleyball team had another opportunity Saturday night to win their first CIF-Southern Section championship since 2007, but they fell just short for the second consecutive season. Last year, the Mustangs lost the CIF final in three sets against Sierra Canyon. Saturday, the Mustangs suffered another finals sweep, losing […]
All Ball Sports: Mira Costa football makes history in Battle of the Nic(k)os
By Paul Teetor The Mira Costa High School football team completed the greatest comeback since Napoleon was sacked at the Battle of Waterloo with a 21-14 victory over arch-rival Redondo Friday night. Once left for dead with an 0-7 record, the Mustangs not only finished the regular season with three straight victories, but snuck into […]
All Ball Sports: Skechers: We Got Next; Sea Hawks, Mustangs Friday Night Lights [UPDATED
by Paul Teetor [UPDATE: Manhattan Beach-based Skechers announced on Thursday, October 26, that New York Knicks all star power forward Julius Randle, and Clippers fast rising shooting guard Terrance Mann will be the first NBA players to compete wearing Skechers new line of basketball shoes. Skechers already sponsors professional runners, golfers, pickleball players and soccer […]