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Reporter for The Associated Press covering the Rams, Lakers, Angels, USC football, LAFC/Galaxy, Ducks/Kings hockey, boxing & MMA. Desert-raised, Oakland-made.

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1 year
You need to look at what Caleb Williams had painted on his fingernails for Notre Dame tonight (photo by AP’s Mark Terrill)
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The vibe is “2 Dads Who Disapprove of the Marriage But Have Been Begged Not to Ruin the Special Day”
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8 years
So the trained bald eagle flying around Dodger Stadium pregame just flew past its handler, out of the park and didn't come back #Murica
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The USC band is doing a One Piece-themed halftime show, complete with taiko drums on a version of New Genesis. It’s really cool and I’m also guessing there are a lot of utterly baffled alumni in here
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2 years
Shohei Ohtani pitches 5 innings of 1-run ball, Mike Trout hits his 40th homer, and the Angels lose their 3rd straight game to the 102-loss Oakland Athletics. Just a cosmically appropriate way to end this particular season of Halos baseball.
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4 years
Ayyyy Naomi Osaka repping the Black Mamba while she watches Serena Williams at the US Open
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4 years
Jalen Ramsey and Golden Tate are fighting at midfield
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4 years
There's a guy outside Petco Park with a megaphone calmly heckling at the Astros: "Carlos Correa. You are a cheater. Shame on you. Josh Reddick. You are a cheater. Shame on you."
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Anthony Davis, Kawhi Leonard, Paul George, Jalen Ramsey, Chicharito, Mookie Betts, Matthew Stafford, Max Scherzer, Trea Turner, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Von Miller and now Odell Beckham Jr. All since July 2019. Cool time to be an LA sports fan.
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Greg Beacham
4 years
Dodger Stadium provides a helpful reminder to the faithful fans in attendance on this 100-degree Saturday
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Jared Verse got to the Rams’ house and immediately was handed a phone and told to talk to the Rams’ new draft pick: “Fiske, is that you??” “Hey, J.” “It’s going to be bad for opposing offenses.”
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3 years
Final numbers on who’s paying what part of Albert Pujols’ $30 million salary this season: Angels: $29,570,591 Dodgers: $429,409
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7 years
Kanye and Mike Conley talking at halftime
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2 years
This man just absolutely crushed the Kazakh national anthem. Seriously, nobody has gone harder on an anthem since Whitney Houston.
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2 years
Noah Syndergaard says Mike Trout was one of the first Angels to reach out to him after he signed. He calls Mike "the best player the game has ever seen, so I want to help get him a ring."
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2 years
Angels closer Raisel Iglesias is here. He says about 20 teams inquired with him in free agency, but he loves the Halos’ chemistry and wanted to stay. He’s looking forward to another year of staying close to Shohei Ohtani and learning from him.
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2 years
AL MVP Shohei Ohtani battering some baseballs in the Angels’ first full workout of spring (stay to the end)
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2 years
Justin Herbert is the first Chargers quarterback to be named the AFC's Pro Bowl starter since Dan Fouts in 1983. Philip Rivers never got the honor.
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2 years
Dante Fowler, Jalen Ramsey, Blake Bortles and now Allen Robinson. The Rams have gotten more out of the 2017 Jacksonville Jaguars roster than the Jags did.
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Shohei is at SoFi to watch the Rams
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"Anthony Davis is just playing free safety, sitting in the paint for 8 seconds at a time." -Denver's Michael Malone
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5 months
A major celebrity beloved on two continents is here at the Rams game tonight, and so is Shohei Ohtani
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2 years
Would you look at this mesmerizing photo of Shohei Ohtani in the shadows tonight from AP's @jaethephotog
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2 years
OBJ is talking up Cooper Kupp: "I chose to come here knowing that Coop is on pace to break a record. I didn’t come here thinking, ‘Oh, I’ve got to get my targets.’ Yeah, I’m a competitor, but I’m here witnessing greatness between Stafford and Coop, and it’s been fun to watch."
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All 5 Lakers starters are introduced as Kobe Bryant.
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Future Rams WR Harry Windsor. He’s already shown great breakaway ability.
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Feelin' like royalty. #SBLVI
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3 years
Even on an 0-for-5 night at the plate for Shohei Ohtani, the AP's @LandisImages managed to get some photos you'll love:
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Sean McVay on Pete Carroll: "What a great coach. What an amazing leader of people. The ultimate competitor. ... Man, did his teams have an identity. Coach Carroll is a stud. If I'm sitting up here being able to do that as long as he did, holy shit will that be impressive."
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Greg Beacham
2 years
And like that, Sean McVay and Aaron Donald both essentially confirm they’re coming back for the Rams to try to run it back.
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2 years
The Rams’ Super Bowl parade is on Wednesday, Kevin Demoff says.
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5 years
Zlatan after criticizing the VAR decision on Houston’s goal in the Galaxy’s 2-1 win: “Maybe the MLS will punish me, but I am the MLS, so don’t worry about it.”
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3 years
The Rams have been doing business this way since they moved to LA and immediately traded 6 high draft picks to get Jared Goff. They're now in their 5th straight winning season. It's not Super-Bowl-Or-Bust. It's a different way of using draft capital, and it's undeniably working.
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Greg Beacham
6 years
One Charger leaving the locker room, shaking his head: “Buffalo. Buffalo. Buffalo. F*ck. We scored 50 on em, and they’re in the playoffs.”
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“Shohei is going to make the best decision for himself and his family, and we respect that. We hope he’s an Angel for the rest of his career. I’d love to be his teammate for a really long time.” -Angels OF Mickey Moniak
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4 years
The Lakers are all wearing 8 or 24 for warmups. This building is completely filled 30 minutes before tip.
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7 years
Lil Wayne was at the Lakers game tonight but I didn't see him because real G's move in silence like lasagna
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2 years
Rams COO Kevin Demoff says it’s up to Von, OBJ and the big free agents whether they want to run it back, because Stan Kroenke is ready to write the checks: “I know we always have the resources available from ownership to go compete at the highest level.”
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2 years
Bad news for the Bengals: The Rams' fastest player (below) says he's at 100% after getting this extra week off: "I feel fresh as ever."
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Heisman Trophy winner Caleb Williams is out to watch the Rams on Christmas
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4 years
Sean McVay confirms reports he talked with Arsenal coach Mikel Arteta recently. The Kroenke employees shared ideas about handling the current challenges: "He is really an impressive guy. I think he'll do a great job, I'm certainly a fan of Arsenal and love following them."
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5 months
Kevin Durant on the timeout “That's not the ballgame. That's 1 play. It's a 48-minute game. I don't like to complain about calls. Sometimes the ref ain't gonna get it right. Sometimes it's on us to play through all that stuff & not worry about putting the game in the ref's hands”
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3 years
Looks like the Rams' defense finished the regular season No. 1 in the NFL in total yards allowed (4,511) and points allowed (296). An absolutely incredible year from coordinator Brandon Staley's group.
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6 years
Chris Paul talked to Andre Ingram at the scorers’ table before they checked in: “Ten years grinding in the G League, and then to be able to play like that, it’s pretty special.”
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2 years
Steelers DT Cameron Heyward says the play on which he appeared to punch Justin Herbert on the ground was just a misunderstanding that looked weird on TV:
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2 years
“He carried us on his back.” —Angels manager Phil Nevin on Shohei Ohtani
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4 years
Ramsey has 2 children with Tate's sister, Breanna. They had a public breakup last year.
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2 years
Deebo Samuel is checking out the Lakers and Bucks tonight
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5 months
Shohei Ohtani is 6-foot-4, runs extremely fast and has a laser cannon for a right arm. If he'd grown up in California or Texas, we're thinking quarterback on offense and edge rusher on defense, right?
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"He's got 6, 7, 8 pitches, and he can change speed on all of them. It's special what he can do and how he can manipulate it. ... You never know what you're gonna get. It's the kitchen sink coming at you all the time." -Max Stassi, Shohei Ohtani's catcher
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2 years
Full quote from Rams LB Bobby Wagner about how he wishes Pete Carroll and John Schneider had handled his release better in Seattle after 10 seasons (re: black jerseys at the end, he always wanted to get Nike to make a black Seahawks jersey)
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3 years
I love a salty Jared Goff: "We come up here, and all week we were told how good they are, & how we snuck into the playoffs, & 2 weeks ago you saw them smoking cigars & getting all excited about beating us and winning the division, & we were able to come up here & beat them."
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The Rams under Sean McVay: 2017: 7-game improvement, end 12-year playoff drought 2018: Super Bowl 2019: 3rd straight winning season, barely missed playoffs 2020: Playoff victory 2021: Super Bowl Champions 2022: Um 2023: 6th winning season & 5th playoff berth out of nowhere
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2 years
Mike Trout is back
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3 years
Boston manager Alex Cora on Ohtani: "He’s a different pitcher than in ’18. In '18 when we came here, his stuff was electric. Today, yeah, he threw hard, all that, but he pitched today. ... You see him out there & he knows what he’s doing. It’s amazing what he’s doing. Unreal."
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Shohei Ohtani becomes the first player in major league history with multiple seasons with at least 10 mound victories and 10 homers. Even the Babe never did it twice.
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2 years
Shohei Ohtani's ERA is down to 2.68 after his 4th consecutive victory (7-4). He's 8th in the majors with 101 strikeouts, and everybody above him has made at least 2 more starts than him.
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"I don’t know. It’s the Dodgers." --Colorado's Antonio Senzatela when asked why he's given up 24 runs and 10 homers in 26.2 career innings at Dodger Stadium
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2 years
Jalen Ramsey gets in front of Cooper Kupp for an end-zone INT and then unleashes a celebratory punt LOL
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7 months
Shohei Ohtani receives the Angels’ team MVP award for 2023. He gets more than one standing ovation.
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4 years
Ramsey and Tate walked toward each other after the final whistle. They both took swings almost simultaneously and then went down in a heap. Their teammates pulled them apart.
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2 years
Rams LB Von Miller: "I had never heard of Greg Gaines, but that changed the very first game I saw him play. ... You talk to him and you see him, and he sounds like a substitute teacher. But when he puts on pads, he's a totally different player."
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2 years
Turns out even Shohei Ohtani needs a little work in spring training 😁
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The locker that has had Odell Beckham Jr’s name on it at the Rams’ training complex since last season is now blank again. They are no longer saving OBJ’s spot.
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2 years
The Los Angeles Angels’ biggest star, and also Shohei Ohtani.
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Seattle mgr Scott Servais & Marco Gonzales both say it’s “obvious” the Angels used an opener so they could throw at the Mariners early. Servais calls it “a black eye.” Gonzales: “It shows us where they’re at. It shows us who they are.” Repeatedly calls the Angels “classless.”
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6 years
I love this AP photo of Shohei today in Seattle with firework smoke in the background. Ted Warren took another beauty.
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2 years
Von Miller says he wants to be a GM or a front-office exec after he retires, and this week's discussion about opportunities for Black coaches and execs has redoubled his determination to get into a position to make change in the NFL.
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2 years
Cam Akers and Nick Scott brought the Lombardi to the Ravine
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Shohei Ohtani is now batting .411 with 4 homers & 9 RBIs in the Angels' 5 Sunday games in May. He's driven in a run each Sunday and homered on 3 straight.
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Rob Pelinka on the deals he didn't make: "Doing trades is a lot like the LA house market. You can’t buy houses that aren’t listed. ... The last thing you want to do in the house market is overpay or spend all of your time and energy on a house that someone doesn’t want to sell."
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On the Rose Bowl concourse, I legit just saw an Iowa fan eating corn on the cob & 4 guys in Stanford shirts talking about Google stock price
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6 years
Floyd Mayweather wore my grandma’s couch to the Lakers game
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Utah's RB/CB Micah Bernard both caught a touchdown pass and led his team in tackles today. I believe he is the first player to do that in the Rose Bowl since Shohei Ohtani.
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2 years
Van Jefferson won the Super Bowl and had a child in a 2-hour span tonight. Good heavens.
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2 years
Sean McVay and Les Snead were talking to us, but they both yelped when they saw Cole Strange go to the Pats on the TV behind us. McVay: “How about that? And to think we wasted our time watching him, thinking he’d be available at 104.”
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Ryan Getzlaf tears up when thanking Corey Perry, his “best friend. … We started out on this journey together. It would have been nice to finish it together, but (hockey) is what it is.”
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3 years
Chris Paul just repeatedly brought up the fact he's lost 11 playoff games in a row in which Scott Foster was refereeing. "If I was a betting man, 11 games in a row. ... 11 in a row is tough."
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5 years
Desmond King has 2 1/2 sacks, a TFL and a forced fumble today when the depleted Chargers secondary really needed a big game. This is your weekly Desmond-King-was-a-5th-round-pick-LOL tweet.
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1 year
Patrick Beverley, asked if Chicago is the perfect fit for him: "Yeah. If I'm a spoon, Billy (Donovan) is using me as a spoon. The Lakers, you know, I was a spoon and they used me as a fork."
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7 years
Ducks trail 1-0 in a Game 7 2013: 1:49 in 2014: 4:30 in 2015: 2:23 in 2016: 6:19 in 2017: 3:31 in
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Ducks GM Bob Murray says he spoke with captain Ryan Getzlaf about trading him, but Getzlaf only wanted to move if Anaheim could get something significant in return to help the franchise, "and it wasn't there. He is all about the organization, whatever is best for us."
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2 years
New Angels pitcher Noah Syndergaard says Shohei Ohtani is "the most exciting player in the game. I look forward to learning as much as I can from him and just being a good teammate."
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KC’s Salvador Pérez: “Ohtani is unbelievable. He’s the best there is right now. It’s impressive what he’s doing. Thank god I have the opportunity to watch him.”
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2 years
AP got another great selection of photos tonight of Shohei Ohtani being a good teammate and a sportsman and an all-around entertaining human being
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Shohei Ohtani just got a huge cheer when he was shown on the SoFi video board, and another when he opened his jacket to show the Rams jersey he’s wearing.
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The Angels have their greatest new Japanese corporate sponsor yet this season. Blinky and Pac-Man in Halos hats FTW.
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Matheny on Ohtani: "He was throwing 3 different sliders, plus a cutter & a curve. When the split started going, that’s when the strikeouts really started to happen, & he’s got 100 (mph) in the tank that he hardly ever showed. ... It's going to be a tough day at the plate." (2/2)
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The quarterbacks most frequently sacked by Aaron Donald in his career: Russell Wilson: 15 Kyler Murray: 6 1/2 Matthew Stafford: 6 Dak Prescott: 5 CJ Beathard: 4 (all in one game in 2018) Kirk Cousins: 3 1/2 Jimmy Garoppolo: 3 1/2 Carson Palmer: 3 1/2
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2 years
Shohei Ohtani remains the unanimous MVP of entertaining expressions
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North County native Mickey Moniak on joining the Angels and likely playing a lot: “The one thing I (want) is an opportunity, and to be so close to home with family and friends, it's just the cherry on top. My family's fired up. All my friends, grandparents, aunts, uncles.”
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KC manager Mike Matheny on Shohei Ohtani: "That was a display. It’s a very unique repertoire of pitches. I don’t think you’re going to find as many guys with as many weapons as what we saw today. He was throwing it all for strikes, and he mixed it up." (1/2)
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"He is fearless in the game. He goes out there and plays baseball. That cannot be emphasized enough. ... Shohei is always playing the game. You’re seeing him be so successful because he has true joy in what he’s doing." --Angels manager Joe Maddon on Shohei Ohtani
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2 years
Did you know Shohei Ohtani is the first major leaguer to make the All-Star Game as both a pitcher and a hitter since Shohei Ohtani (2021)?
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Rams CB Troy Hill loves playing the Seahawks: "Even when we were at our worst when Jeff Fisher was here, it was always an exciting game."
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2 years
RT Rob Havenstein on why so many Rams reported to voluntary offseason workouts: "We are a team. People do like each other. People like hanging out. When we're going out there and we're going to grind, that's who you want to do it with."
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2 years
Angel Stadium humor
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5 years
Pretty sure Jalen Ramsey, Derwin James, Casey Hayward & Desmond King in the same secondary would constitute an antitrust violation, but the Chargers should try to make it happen anyway
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Clayton Kershaw: “Detmers threw the ball really well. He’s got good stuff. Really, he pitched better than I did.”
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5 years
Mercedes-Benz Stadium’s shockingly reasonable concession prices say so much more about a sports organization’s respect for its actual fans than any catchy slogan, glossy hype video or upsold luxury amenity ever could. You sacrifice a little money, but you gain so much.
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The Rams' defense allowed 67 yards and 2 first downs in the entire 2nd half. Davante Adams did not make a catch on 3 targets. Derek Carr went went 2 of 7 for 11 yards.
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