The TEN: 7/7/2023

mvs on July 7, 2023 — 2 Comments

(“The TEN” is not a top ten but ten items worth being included in “The TEN”)

  1. The Atlanta Hawks are finalizing a four-year, $112 million contract extension with Dejounte Murray.
  2. Pasadena High School will host a youth football camp on July 8 and July 29 for grades 3-8. See details below.
  3. Former NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner at Alabama Mark Ingram is joining Fox Sports as a football analyst. 
  4. Ontario Christian at Village Christian (Glendale College) Friday night, October 13. 
  5. Dodgers’ pitcher Daniel Hudson sprained his MCL Wednesday night against the Pittsburgh Pirates and will be out for “some time” according to manager Dave Roberts. 
  6. The NBA announced the Final Four of its new in-season tournament will take place December 7 and 9 in Las Vegas. Full details of the competition will be announced Saturday night on ESPN’s “NBA Today”. 
  7. The Angels’ Mike Trout had surgery on his broken wrist and will be out 4-8 weeks. 
  8. The MLB All-Star game is set for Tuesday July 11 in Seattle at 5:00 p.m. on FOX.
  9. “Yeah he is a certified dog! We were just lucky he ran out of gas against us at the SGV Shootout. We had no answer.” -Village Christian head coach Richard Broussard on Twitter about Don Lugo WR Gavin Hrynezuk. 
  10. ESPN announced Thursday it is eliminating about 500 jobs worldwide including about 300 through layoffs. 20 on air stars were cut including Jeff Van Gundy, Max Kellerman, Keyshawn Johnson, Suzy Kolber and Jalen Rose. 

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  1. Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man's Gravatar Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man
    July 17, 2023 - 11:20 pm | Permalink

    Quick update: Today (Monday, July 17), the L.A. Times sports section brought back its local pro sports calendar and TV/radio listings. Those features had been eliminated due to the cutbacks at The Times, but they’ve been returned by popular demand. We’ll see how long they remain.

  2. Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man's Gravatar Ron Vrooman, AHS stat man
    July 16, 2023 - 6:30 pm | Permalink

    Starting last week, the print version of the Los Angeles Times’ sports section no longer includes game stories, box scores, or standings. The Times’ management intends to run only sports-related feature and human-interest stories in the print edition from now on.
    The newspaper cited staffing cutbacks and changes to its printing press operations as the reasons for the reduced sports coverage. (They can’t meet a late deadline anymore, so there goes all the coverage of night-time sporting events in the morning paper!)
    I’m not sure about the printing press mumbo-jumbo, but I am convinced that the layoffs of reporters and editors are the primary explanation for this virtual elimination of sports news at The Times. Subscribers like myself can still get game or event coverage at http://www.latimes.com, but it won’t be the same. We’ll have to search for our sports news now instead of having it delivered to us.
    If the letters from readers published in today’s Times were any indication, the newspaper’s loss of subscribers will only accelerate because of these changes. I’ve always appreciated the paper’s general news coverage and commentaries, but the sports section has also been one of my main reasons for subscribing.
    I’m willing to predict that there will be no sports section at all in the near future, and perhaps there won’t be a newspaper, either. Give it just six months or a year or two, and the L.A. Times will only be available online. Cutting costs seems to be the preeminent factor for the corporate media now.

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