Former L.A. Times sports columnist J.A. Adande writes on ESPN.com that the Dodgers’ signing of Joe Torre as manager will do little to improve the team’s local standing. What’s to improve? Afterall, the Dodgers drew their usual three million-plus fans (3.8 milion to be exact) last season, which is pretty good for a fourth-place team [...]

SAT OCT. 20: PIPE BOMB! by DANIEL DEBOOM
Tues | Oct 16 Yesterday, we put the Best of Long Beach issue together inside a studio apartment in Bluff Heights, where we were joined by a desktop printer, one pizza, four laptops, a highlighter and two cats. This is all very unusual, of course . . . [...]

Some colleges unaware of their awareness
As Rachel Powers notes below, ‘60s leftwing radical turned rightwing radical David Horowitz is promoting an Islamo-Fascism Awareness Week at colleges nationwide. Unfortunately for Horowitz, he’s been caught padding the list of participating campuses.

Thoughts on losing, winning and overcoming my inner USC fan
“I can’t go in there.”
I say this from where I sit on the driver’s seat inside my car, to my friend reclining on the passenger side, staring at the neighborhood Albertsons as we pass it in the parking lot. I say this because it’s Saturday, Game [...]