Dodgers owner Frank McCourt must have savored like a sugarplum the sensation of firing his wife Jamie as CEO of the team's organization.Who hasn't ever wanted to fire their spouse?
AP | Posted 12.01.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Dodgers have confirmed broadcaster Vin Scully will return to the booth for his 61st season in 2010. Scully alread...
Ken Levine | Posted 11.12.2009 | Sports
Next season will be here before you know it. Pitchers and catchers due in February. Manny Ramirez due in January.
Wayne Winston | Posted 11.11.2009 | Sports
The goal of my posts will be to show you how simple mathematical concepts can often lead to important insights about the burning sports questions of the day.
AP | GREG RISLING | Posted 11.05.2009 | Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES — The wife of Los Angeles Dodgers owner Frank McCourt lost her bid Thursday to be reinstated as the team's chief executive during a ...
AP | Posted 11.04.2009 | Los Angeles
MANAGUA, Nicaragua — Los Angeles Dodgers pitcher Vicente Padilla is recovering from a bullet wound in his leg after a target shooting instructor acc...
latimes.com | Bill Shaikin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Home
Dodgers owner Frank McCourt has fired his estranged wife Jamie from her position as the team's chief executive, triggering what her attorney said woul...
Joan E. Dowlin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Entertainment
The Phillies are en route to their second-consecutive World Series, and we can all learn from the qualities that got them there: patience, perseverance, hard work and the will to win.
Terry Gardner | Posted 10.14.2009 | Impact
The Dubnoff Center For Child Development plans to host its 7th Annual Charity Golf Tournament in hopes of offsetting the massive California budget cuts that have stripped our educational institutions bare.
Simon Sinek | Posted 11.30.2009 | Business
As people get more senior, they move from being doers to being thinkers and managers, but most companies don't train people how to manage or think.
Earl Ofari Hutchinson | Posted 06.09.2009 | Entertainment
Manny grabbed the headlines for a day. It drew solemn pledges from MLB officials to do whatever it takes to end the cheating. And just as quickly the Manny flap will blow over.
Jeff Kreisler | Posted 06.08.2009 | Comedy
Even if they close some loopholes, the Republican Party knows they can't catch us all. Just ask Willie Nelson and Wesley Snipes. You can't spell "making millions by cheating on taxes" with out "cheating on taxes."
Brandon Perkins | Posted 06.07.2009 | Entertainment
While the media may discuss how this affects the career .315 hitter's legacy, it may be more appropriate to ask how it affects baseball's legacy.
Michael Shapiro | Posted 04.02.2009 | Entertainment
We are left to assume that Ramirez, talented as he is, remains a child -- a moody, eccentric, if overgrown child. It was not always so.
George Mitrovich | Posted 01.31.2009 | Entertainment
We may achieve a new equity between players and fans, between the few who makes millions playing a game and the many who labor to survive America's economic nightmare.
Giles Slade | Posted 11.20.2008 | Politics
America can capitalize on its cultural assets by creating state-owned brands based on recognizable American symbols. I think we should start with the White House.
Dave Winer | Posted 11.19.2008 | Politics
I think people who say Obama is liberal haven't bothered to find out anything about him. It's my conservative side that's voting for him.
AP | JOHN NADEL | Posted 11.05.2008 | Chicago
LOS ANGELES — It's a century and counting for the Chicago Cubs. Manny Ramirez and the Los Angeles Dodgers shoved Chicago into another long winte...
Jon Greenberg | Posted 11.01.2008 | Chicago
This team has been so good all year, and the rest of the National League so average, it seemed predestined that in the 100th anniversary of the Cubs' last World Series title, they would win again and exorcise the old demons that have haunted this club and its fans for so long. This was a new team, you were told, a new beginning. So why does it feel the same?
Ken Levine | Posted 08.12.2008 | Entertainment
When the Red Sox unloaded Manny to the Dodgers for essentially a day pass to Universal Studios, it set off the kind of mass media hysteria normally reserved for the Pope's visit or the premiere of The Love Guru.
Vicki Iovine | Posted 12.05.2009 | Living