Dodgers’ Tommy Lasorda hardly slowing down at age 84 (Web links)

Tommy Lasorda is still going strong at age 84. Yahoo Sports’ Steve Henson hits it again with this wonderful piece detailing a spring-training day in the life of Lasorda.

Henson, describing the scene as Lasorda navigates a golf cart behind a spring batting cage, writes:

“This is Lasorda’s turf. So is the clubhouse. So is a podium at a corporate banquet or college commencement. So is a dugout. So is the head of a table at a restaurant. But the ballfield during spring training is Lasorda’s favorite place of all.

“I love to teach the game,” he says. “I love being out here with the guys.”

Also on the Web:

--One more reason to hope Steven Cohen isn’t the winning Dodgers bidder: The Times’ Bill Shaikin writes that if Cohen gets the team, he wants to bring in Tony La Russa to oversee its baseball operations.

--The current greatest pitcher on Earth? ESPN’s Buster Olney rates Detroit’s Justin Verlander No.1 and Clayton Kershaw No.1a (subscription required).

--ESPN/LA’s Tony Jackson on the continuing wild off-season of Kershaw as the reigning National League Cy Young winner.

--Dodgers.com’s Ken Gurnick writes that right-hander Fernando Nieve has emerged as a darkhorse candidate to make the bullpen.

--True Blue L.A.’s Eric Stephen isn’t liking the chances of reliever Ramon Troncoso, who is out of options, remaining on the 40-man roster.

--I despise Web slide shows as a cheap way to get hits, but this one from Fox Sports pairing pictures of seven Dodgers with older photos of their ex-major league dads is fun.

--Mike Petriello at Mike Scioscia’s Tragic Illness thinks the Dodgers need to reevaluate their budding bench.

--The Dodgers have made their first roster cuts. No surprises.

--In a Dodgers.com video, the boys talk of the need to carry over last year’s momentum into the start of 2012.