Best Cities: L.A. beats Chicago, loses to Boston

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Does this sound familiar--Los Angeles beating Chicago but losing to Boston?

This isn’t about baseball playoffs, though. It’s the Sporting News’ annual rankings of the country’s best sports cities.

Nice things are said about Los Angeles:

‘The great thing about Los Angeles, as a mover and shaker in the business pointed out to me, is you’ve got such iconic teams: the Dodgers, Lakers, USC football and UCLA basketball,’ says Sporting News Chief of Correspondents Bob Hille. ‘It’s just a great sports city.’’

Then the website ranks Los Angeles at eighth. Eighth? Eighth!

Boston finished first for the third time in five years.

-- Randy Harvey