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Greater Los Angeles is home to 14 major sports teams, ten professional major league teams and four from the top level collegiate ranks—MLB, MLS, the NBA, the NFL, the NHL, and the Big Ten Conference (with both Big Ten members having moved from the Pac-12 Conference in 2024).
The Los Angeles Times Grand Prix was a sports car race held at the Riverside International Raceway. The race was held throughout the track's existence, from 1957 ...
Bill Dwyre (born April 7, 1944, in Sheboygan, Wisconsin) is a sportswriter and former newspaper sports editor. Notable for his long tenure as sports editor of the Los Angeles Times beginning in June 1981, he moved to the writing ranks full-time in June 2006, [1] but for virtually his whole career he has worked as both an editor and writer, and today [when?] writes several weekly columns for ...
The cream-based uniform paid homage to the city of Los Angeles and various chapters of the city's history that is connected to the team. The "Los Angeles" wordmark was inspired by the signage of the Dodgers' original home of Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, and was slanted upward. The number font was inspired by the mid-century typefaces that ...
Elzie Lee "LZ" Granderson (born March 11, 1972) [2] is an American journalist and former actor, currently writing for the Los Angeles Times as a sports and culture columnist. He was a senior writer and columnist for ESPN The Magazine , a co-host of SportsNation on ESPN , afternoon co-host at ESPN LA 710 and a columnist for CNN . [ 3 ]
According to a Los Angeles Times survey conducted eleven months after the riots, almost 40 percent of Korean Americans said they were thinking of leaving Los Angeles. [ 128 ] Before a verdict was issued in the new 1993 Rodney King federal civil rights trial against the four officers, many Korean shop owners prepared for violence.
The Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Mystery/Thriller, established in 2000, is a category of the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.Works are eligible during the year of their first US publication in English, though they may be written originally in languages other than English.
Los Angeles had several active "Vigilance Committees" during that era. Between 1850 and 1870, mobs carried out approximately 35 lynchings of Mexicans—more than four times the number that occurred in San Francisco. Los Angeles was described as "undoubtedly the toughest town of the entire nation."