Jerry Crowe  

Jerry Crowe

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Recent Columns:
August 27, 2008
UCLA might have waited until Rick NeuheiselRick Neuheisel had coached at least one game before proclaiming, "The football monopoly in Los Angeles is officially over." . . .

August 25, 2008
Aaron Rodgers is not the first man given the unenviable assignment of filling the cleats of a legendary former Green Bay Packers quarterback.

August 22, 2008
First-time Super Bowl champion Tom Coughlin says he reached out this summer to John Wooden and Dodgers Manager Joe Torre, seeking advice on how best to prepare a team to defend a title. . . .

August 19, 2008
Chad Johnson's shoulder injury probably ends all hope for what could have been a late-summer splash: Ocho Cinco vs. Michael Phelps in the pool. . . .

August 18, 2008
Her time in the sun as the first U.S. girl to play in the Little League World Series is long past, but Victoria Ruelas still loves mixing it up with the boys.

August 15, 2008
Before the term "walk-off home run" was added to the sporting lexicon, blasts such as Nomar Garciaparra's on Wednesday giving the Dodgers a 7-6 victory over the Philadelphia Phillies were known as game-winning home runs.

August 14, 2008
When Michael Phelps overtook Mark Spitz, Carl Lewis, Larysa Latynina and Paavo Nurmi to become the most decorated athlete in Olympic history, it would have been nice to see it unfold as it was happening rather than three hours later. . . .

July 25, 2008
The Lakers, in danger of losing Sasha Vujacic, probably wish they could get back the money they lavished on Luke Walton, who signed a six-year, $30-million contract last summer and then rarely lived up to it last season. ...

July 24, 2008
Be thankful, Dodgers fans, for the National League West, where even your running-in-place heroes are contenders in baseball's worst division. . . .

July 22, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO -- Prince Fielder of the Milwaukee Brewers is being introduced before last Friday night's game against the San Francisco Giants, and Johanna McCloy, otherwise preoccupied at AT&T Park, lets out a yelp.