Category: Sports

Building a culture, a program, an identity — however you want to define it — usually doesn’t happen swiftly or haphazardly. It’s a piece-by-piece construction, not pre-fab. Jeff Falgien is […]

It’s unfortunate that gymnastics has become more of a niche, club sport in the US, seemingly appreciated only during the Olympic Games. The human vessel is rarely more graceful or […]

It was a few hours after Birmingham Community Charter High had captured a second consecutive Los Angeles City Section baseball championship, this time in the fledging Open Division that was […]

There’s no way to overvalue or underappreciate what winning a Los Angeles City Section baseball championship meant to Verdugo Hills High. Baseball is one boys’ varsity sport where this small […]

Verdugo Hills has been, as far as it’s concerned, trapped too long in a continual loop of a storyline it’s desperate to change. That of being the “small” school competing […]

Winning streaks are more fragile than spiderwebs. And the longer they stand, the more fragile they can become. It’s why what the Chatsworth High softball did to win the Los […]

When Cleveland High’s softball team met on Friday, May 18, for its customary team-bonding ritual of pizza and lemonade, and watching television before a big game, the event was to […]

Armando Gomez likes it when the San Fernando Tigers base-ball team plays with an edge. Not chippy or dirty, just hard and focused. And the San Fernando coach really likes […]

It was three years ago when Chatsworth had the Los Angeles City Section’s best softball team. And the Chancellors knew it. They drove their first-year coach John Fogerson — excuse […]