STARTING POINTS: An air-ball for the USC football team
Happy Friday one and all. POINT ONE: Perfect metaphor People have been using the word “deflating” to describe the USC football season all year, and now this. The Trojans are fined and reprimanded by...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: Defending D’Antoni; Ailing Roethlisberger; Honoring Trout
Time to play a little Tuesday morning quarterback on the sports news of the day, and there was a lot fo it for a Monday: POINT ONE: D’Antoni reaction After everyone had a day to digest the suprising...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: Should NFL games be allowed to end in a tie?
If you think nothing happened in the world of sports Tuesday, well then I’ve got an empty baseball stadium to sell you in South Florida. POINT ONE: Tie food for thought I’m just going to go ahead and...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: La Quinta water polo, Clippers, Ibrahimovic all had winning...
For the first day since I started this daily blog three weeks ago, there isn’t a clear headline story emerging out of the sports world Wednesday. With that in mind, I’m just going to give some quick...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: A look back at the MVP race that wasn’t
POINT ONE: Voters throw Trout back The AL MVP race turned out not to be as close as many thought with Miguel Cabrera winning the vote over Mike Trout, garnering 22 of the 28 first-place votes. The...
View ArticleDodgers, Fox reportedly close to multi-billion-dollar TV deal
The Los Angeles Dodgers are reportedly closing in on a major windfall. Nikki Finke of Deadline reported Sunday that Fox Sports is nearing an agreement to pay at least $6 billion to retain the rights to...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: MLB Hall call? Sosa, no; Clemens, no; Bonds, yes
The list of Major League Baseball Hall of Fame nominees for the 2013 class was released Wednesday and it is positively bulging with big names. The list is much bigger than it was last year, almost...
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And the baseball money just grows and grows
Remember when Alex Rodriguez signed a 10-year contract with the Texas Rangers for an average of $25 million a year? Remember when everyone said it was the death blow to the sport, that it showed how...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: Angels trade of Morales a mistake
POINT ONE: One less Angel in the outfield OK, so Kendrys Morales was a DH/first baseman, but the movie wasn’t called Angels in the Infield, or Angels in the On-Deck Circle, so please allow me my forced...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: What’s Mayan is yours
Just a reminder that if nothing happens with this whole Mayan apocalypse thing, Hey, it’s not the end of the world. (ba-Dum-bum) But seriously folks, I’ll keep it brief just in case. POINT ONE: What...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: Hall of Fame; Lakers’ latest; Musburger’s gaffe
Another steroid-free edition of Starting Points where the only performance-enhancing drug is Diet Coke. FIRST POINT: Getting the Hall call At 11 a.m. this morning, the Major League muckety-mucks will...
View ArticleSTARTING POINTS: My Bonds-in-the-Hall idea was not well-received
The column I wrote in Wednesday’s paper, in which I said that I would vote for Barry Bonds to make the Baseball Hall of Fame, not suprisingly, drew a lot of ire from readers. I got 11 e-mails and two...
View ArticleTime Warner Cable launches new HD sports channels
Time Warner Cable Desert Cities launched three new HD sports channels on Wednesday, geared toward their season-long professional sports league offerings. Just in time for the NHL season that begins...
View ArticleReport: Time Warner Cable to televise Dodgers’ games
Time Warner Cable has reportedly struck a deal with the Los Angeles Dodgers to broadcast the Major League Baseball team’s games on a new channel starting with the 2014 season. Citing two sources,...
View ArticleDodgers, Time Warner Cable announce new channel: SportsNet LA
The Los Angeles Dodgers and Time Warner Cable officially announced their television deal Monday morning and the creation of the new channel SportsNet LA. The Dodgers-owned channel will debut in 2014....
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One of those slimy days in sports
There are times when being part of the sport world is tremendous fun. And there are days when you feel like you need to take a shower to get the slime off. Today is one of the slimy days. A group of...
View ArticleDish Network to carry Fox Sports San Diego; Time Warner Cable, Verizon FiOS...
Dish Network reached an agreement Wednesday to carry Fox Sports San Diego in time for the upcoming baseball season. The channel will launch on April 1 in time to carry the San Diego Padres’ opening-day...
View ArticleFOX Sports West to air 150 Los Angeles Angels games
FOX Sports West will televise approximately 150 Los Angeles Angels baseball games during the 2013 season. Regular season coverage begins on Opening Day, at 12:30 p.m. Monday from Cincinnati with a...
View ArticleMLB’s Extra Innings free preview begins Monday
Major League Baseball’s Extra Innings package that offers up to 80 out-of-market baseball games per week will offer a free preview beginning Monday. The preview, offered by Time Warner Cable, DirecTV...
View ArticleMLB scouts expected at La Quinta-Desert Christian Academy
For those interested in local baseball, La Quinta High School is the place to be this evening. Close to 20 MLB scouts will be in attendance in tonight’s La Quinta-Desert Christian Academy baseball...
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