Ron Cruz is very happy to be back in business. That would be the “hurt” business, better known as boxing. The North Hollywood resident and super welterweight will be fighting […]
Category: Sports
Getting Back Into the Game
The outdoor playing fields and indoor gymnasiums of most high schools around the Valley — and the state — have been silent and empty for most of 2020 after campuses […]
Holding On to Hope
It’s the nature of baseball, Matt Mowry says, that makes one believe the seemingly impossible is possible. “You can be down a couple runs in the last inning with two […]
Bringing Golf to a New Audience
The afternoon sunshine and gentle breezes have created some comfortable conditions this Sunday, March 8, at the Woodley Lakes Golf Course in Van Nuys. And the sounds emanating from the […]
A Neighborhood Showdown With a Bonus
It was looking bleak for City Section basketball fans in the Valley as team after team — boys and girls — was getting knocked out of the playoffs in the […]
Tigers Wrestlers are the Standard for their Sport
Dynasties, by definition, are about domination. The word comes from the Greek word “dunasteia,” describing lordship and power. It also speaks to a succession of people, heredity or otherwise, that […]
Chasing Down a Championship
Banners are not an issue for the girls’ basketball program at Harvard-Westlake High School. There are plenty of them adorning the gym walls on the Studio City campus, and at […]
Highlanders are Down…Only Slightly
The view from the top in sports is almost always glorious, and the stay there can be brief. Teams often work so hard to reach the mountain top, it’s difficult […]
The Parrots’ Game is Taking Flight
There’s a small, single poster attached to the wall of the Poly High School gymnasium as the Parrots’ boys took to the floor for their boys’ basketball game against Monroe […]
Staying Inside The Lines
Derrick Taylor, like many coaches, can have intense moments. And they can be visible to the public when one of his Taft High boys’ basketball players takes an ill-advised shot, […]
