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By Joe Torosian

Kick it!
Do “City Connect” uniforms really connect with the city, or is it just another revenue stream?

The Rams having interest in bringing Jimmy Garoppolo back doesn’t exactly strike me as scoop.

I followed the Los Angeles Kings pretty close back in the day…but, on this day in 1982, after they fell behind the Edmonton Oilers 5-0…I walked away from the radio and missed the Miracle on Manchester.

“As The Russini & Vrabel Turns”—Full disclosure, I spent a season covering basketball and interviewed Paul Westhead countless times—but I never hung out with him by the pool or hugged him at sunset. (No matter what Scott Brooks may say.)

#22—May the San Francisco Giants rot and lie stinking in the earth…

Mark Jones, an ESPN play-by-play guy since 1990, will broadcast his last game this Sunday…This is one guy I never thought of as old. In fact, he always looked like he had just gotten there the day before.

I heard how important UCLA’s national championship was for girls everywhere. 

These days, is there ever a time when a women’s team wins a title that it’s not “important to young girls everywhere”…? 

I’m told—”This is so important for young girls everywhere”—so much, I’m beginning to think it’s not important at all…but merely a mantra to be repeated to stay employed.

Middle of a long drive, podcast ends, and I put on terrestrial radio, and I hear the voice of Steve Hartman.

When sports talk radio was at its zenith, the home was “The Mighty 690.”
Hacksaw Hamilton and the Loose Cannons were as good as it got this side of Jim Healy. 

Hartman hosted Loose Cannons, first with the legendary Chet Forte and then with ‘Philly’ Billy Werndl (“Hi-Ho Steverino!”)

Segments you’d never hear in 2026 were “The Jon Koncak Award” and “Stiff of the Day.”

(When “The Stiff of the Day” segment began, it started with this audio clip from “The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly.”

“Wanted in fourteen counties of this state, the condemned is found guilty of murder, armed robbery of citizens, state banks, and post offices, the theft of sacred objects…kidnapping, extortion, receiving stolen goods, selling stolen goods, passing counterfeit money, and contrary to the laws of this state, the condemned is guilty of using marked cards…Therefore, we sentence the accused to hang by the neck until dead. May God have mercy on his soul. Proceed.”

The segment, which ran for years until groups complained it was too cruel/harsh/incorrect, hit on who was the worst in sports from the day before.) 

Question to Lakers Fans: If he’s willing to take significantly less dough, and accept life as the third option…why wouldn’t you want to bring LeBron James back?

The Dude abides…
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