Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Week 9 Downtown LA Sports Beats Report

Baseball
With Spring Training coming to a close, the Dodgers are packing their gear up and heading back to Los Angeles from Camelback Ranch to face off with the their freeway rivals in an expedition 3-game series, the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, this weekend. There are still six more roster spots that still needs to be filled between the bench and the bullpen. Opening Day is April 6th versus the an old friend, former Dodger, outfielder Matt Kemp and the San Diego Padres at 1:10 PST.


Basketball
The Clippers are coming off a tough loss from yesterday against the first place Golden State Warriors, 110-106 at Staples Center. The team flew to Portland today to get ready for another tough playoff team in Damian Lillard and the Trailblazers. The Clippers are currently (49-26) and will be going to the playoffs.


The Lakers are also playing tonight against all-star forward Anthony Davis and New Orleans Pelicans. The Lakers are playing without their star players, guards Kobe Bryant and Nick Young and rookie forward Julius Randle. The Lakers also waived retired all-star guard Steve Nash to make room for guard Jabari Brown, who signed to a multi-year deal today with the Lakers. The Lakers are currently in last place in the West division with a record of (20-53).

Galaxy
The Galaxy took a bad sting losing to D.C. United,1-0, at the 67th minute. D.C. United handed the Galaxy their first loss. The Galaxy were without their star players in Robbie Keane and Gyasi Zardes, whom were all called for international duty over the weekend. The Galaxy (1-1-2, 5 points) will be playing their next game at Vancouver against  Whitecaps FC (3-1-0, 9 points) on April 4th at 7 pm PST.


Football Stadium
A committee headed by owners Jerry Jones of the Dallas Cowboys and Robert Kraft of the New England Patriots have made endorsements to have a football team in Los Angeles. A sign that could help push plans forward to bringing a NFL team to LA. 



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