LECHER LAKER BUSS THE CONSUMATE TALENT SCOUT: I’ve lived in L.A. for seven years now, and I find myself gravitating to being a Lakers fan. How can you argue with the current stewardship of team owner Jerry Buss?

It’s no coincidence that his astute basketball acumen has lead the team back to respectability after his Italian […]

DODGERS FANS GET ERROR MESSAGE WITH T-SHIRT GOOF: SbB contributor and LOS ANGELES DAILY NEWS columnist Tom Hoffarth unearths yet another gem - courtesy the eternal incompetence of the Dodgers front office.
The team is abandoning its venerable Vero Beach digs for some anonymous Arizona suburb in 2009. But until then, the club continues to […]

REPORT - FOXSPORTS.COM TRAFFIC OVERTAKES ESPN.COM: The HOLLYWOOD REPORTER notes this week that FoxSports.com for the month of February “finished with more unique visitors in a month” than ESPN.com for the first time, according to Nielsen’s NetRatings.

ESPN.com had 13.2 million visitors, “more than 3 million fewer than in January.” Meanwhile, Fox Sports had 15.2 million […]

KOBE STAKES CLAIM TO FAR EAST; EASILY BEATS OUT YAO: Darren Rovell of CNBC reports that Kobe merch owns in Asia as his million-dollar marketing mojo has returned - at least in the Far East.

Rovell: “When the NBA announces its best selling jerseys in China on Tuesday, No. 24 will be No. 1. Bryant will […]

WILDCAT GIVES DEPAUL THUMBS UP … THUMBS WAY UP! I thought everyone was like me, enraptured and enthralled by early round NIT action. But apparently there is at least one person who might not share my zeal, Billy Walker of Kansas State.
While dressed out on the bench last night for the Wildcats in their […]