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I’m fresh off my post as the local sports editor at the Daily Breeze, a mid-sized daily newspaper in the South Bay area of Southern California. I planned budgets, coordinated coverage for breaking news, features, games and events, and did my share of writing and editing. I was with the Daily Breeze for more than 10 years.
Previously I was the sports editor at the Palos Verdes Peninsula News for eight years. At the time, the PV News, as it’s known, was published twice a week, on Thursdays and Saturdays. It was a great place to break into the newspaper business and learn the ropes.
Job: Freelance writer and researcher. Formerly: Local Sports Coordinator, Daily Breeze
Twitter: @dthorpe888
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Phone: 310-970-4385
It was 1979, I was an 8-year-old kid attending my first Los Angeles Kings game at the Fabulous Forum. When I saw Marcel Dionne standing on the ice with his teammates during warm-ups, I didn't think he was an actual player. He was short and stocky and I had not seen him skate yet.
The Los Angeles Kings have had game-changing goalkeepers in the team's history, including Rogie Vachon, Kelly Hrudey and Jonathan Quick. But who came closest to mastering the dubious act of becoming a great backup netminder? Who played the meanest second fiddle and complemented an exceptional No. 1 goaltender?
So much for the Los Angeles Kings depends on a healthy, happy Jonathan Quick. If his health issues are not a thing of the past, the Kings appear equipped to handle the fallout.
It's not obvious what's going on at first because she's quick and fluid. She catches the ball with her glove on her left hand, then puts the glove to her right shoulder. She removes her left hand from the glove and cradles
Pat O'Brien coaches the boys and girls varsity water polo teams and teaches biology and marine biology at Palos Verdes High School. At age 31, O'Brien has already beaten cancer. He's young, athletic and full of energy. Perhaps that's why when O'Brien learned of his illness about one year ago, the news didn't faze him like it might most people.
The mood in the Torrance dugout was bittersweet, full of players wishing they were taking the field in another CIF Southern Section playoff game, but thankful for the cool event brought to them by former major leaguer and MLB Network analyst Eric Byrn
Ruben Marin was walking home from a graduation party with Narbonne High teammate Airan Martinez when he saw the gun emerge from a passing car.Marin, who had just turned 16 years old, instinctively tried to get out of the way while shielding Mar
TORRANCE >> The Torrance baseball team didn't wait long to make big plays in the first round of the CIF Southern Section Division 4 playoffs Thursday. Center fielder Noah Ishikawa threw a runner out at home and Konnor Smith delivered an RBI double in the first inning.
COSTA MESA >> When the El Camino College baseball team trailed by five runs after three innings, it needed someone to come in and shut down Orange Coast for a few innings while the Warriors' offense caught up. That player was fresh
Redondo Union High boys basketball standout Ryse Williams, the 2017 Bay League Most Valuable Player who was headed to Loyola Marymount in the fall, died early Thursday morning at age 18. Williams' coach at Redondo last season, Victor Martin, said his star player had been hospitalized a little more than a week ago after falling ill.