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It’s The End Of An Era In Los Angeles

It’s the end of a era for the Los Angeles Times, which announced it will no longer have box scores, standings or even game stories in its printed sports section.

The sports section is supposedly going to become more a magazine with one story on the cover, that will obviously not be anything that happened the night before. It sounds like this means even a USC football game that starts at 3 p.m. might not make the next day’s paper.

The actual reason for the changes is the Times sold its printing presses and must now print the paper in Riverside, at a facility where it no longer has priority and must be printed earlier in the day.

I’m sure the sports employees are aghast at these changes.

You might argue this was inevitable with the Internet, but try to find the standings or box scores on the Times’ website. It’s difficult, to say the least. No one goes there for those things.

And you won’t see this anymore: Fans holding a newspaper with the score of the game on the front page.

38 thoughts on “It’s The End Of An Era In Los Angeles”

  1. I have always preferred holding a newspaper or a book to read
    It’s a more intimate style of reading

    Oh, and that 14-12 SC over sucla headline must be from the 1969 game
    ‘We got– Trojan football’ was a much bigger deal back then

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    2. The box where we can see what games are on TV and radio and the specific station for the next week are also gone.

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  2. The blog homers are crying about this blog going to shit. Perhaps the real shit is the topic content, grievance after grievance after grievance. I can’t recall the last time Scott posted a one-on-one interview with a coach or player….even the equipment manager might have some worthy inside info.

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    1. Sad that Scott has lost interest in developing new sources, his heart is into the Friday column, which is tremendous, but the lack of “inside USC” info depreciates the blog.

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      1. Back in the day, Scott would post interview after interview with players and coaches. He had his female helpers handle some of the interview duties. Practices were open and the public could view them.

        Scott was at a better place in his life, less grumpy, and was occasionally complimentary regarding the football team.

        MG….help me out with the name(s) of the female understudies

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      3. Scott got [and continues to get deeper] into trouble for telling the truth about Max, Kiff, Helton, Sark, Swann, Bohn, Carol….. now he’s locked out…..
        ….”He who tells the truth will surely be hanged.”
        —Saint Joan of Arc
        [I come here for Scott’s cleverly snarky editorials and to hear from my pals —so I’m good with things the way they are]…..

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  3. I stopped subscribing years ago, when the print edition became smaller than the weekly advertiser. The LA Times has struggled for the last 20 plus years to carve out a profitable space, they just can’t seem to figure it out.

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    1. I remember as the content started shrinking with the Review-Journal, local newspaper in Las Vegas, they enlarged the font and double-spaced articles to avoid the appearance of a shrinking newspaper.

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      1. Just got back from Vegas, went there with my youngest son to watch NBA summer league, which we enjoyed. Had some great food, including sushi at Yu-Or-Mi. It is a bit toasty, about 40 degrees warmer than where we live.

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  4. read it 40’s-80’s , incl LA Co. edition, Orange Co. edition ,and San Diego Co. edition…stopped when democrat educated morons took it over 100%…used to be the best incl the La Examiner/Mirror.

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    1. Did you approve of the blatant conservative bias in the ’40s and ’50s when the Times never even mentioned the Democrat candidates and was far more slanted to the right than it ever got to on the left?

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        Did you approve of the blatant liberal bias of the 60’s, 70’s,70’s ,80’s , 90’s, 00’s, ’10s and ’20s when when the Times never even mentioned the Republican candidates, a ran a cartoonist named Conrad who despised Ronald Reagan and was far more slanted to the Left than it ever got to on the Right , Inquisytive Libtard? Maybe that’s why the Times is shrinking to nothingness.

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      2. I would state this…I read about Truman, Adali and Estes for Prez and Brown for Gov just as much as I did GOP, and those democrats were not the commies of the last decades of democrats…

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  5. The paper used to be printed over off Alameda just before where the 10 begins its’ curve to the NE and the 5 descends SE. It was just west of the massive Sears Roebuck Bldg.. The presses in Riverside are where the print editions of the WSJ and NYT are printed. The presses for the Daily Breeze are on 135th St. & Gramercy – Gardena.

    You had to wonder as neither and Kings or Ducks had a reporter for any road games and the Angels joined them this year.

    It serves the Times right – it was always a ‘progressive rag’ but it has now morphed into a journal of ‘woke’ Marxist ideology and take note class their columnists are all female.

    What’s Bill Plaschke going to do now that his ‘column’ will be seen by 5% of the former readers?

    Is the SCNG going to follow suit? (OC Reg, LB Press-Telegram, LA Daily News, SB Daily Breeze, Riv. Press-Enterprise, San Ber – Sun)?

    Bill Plant on CBS had a 20+ minute talk with the current owner of the Charleston, SC Post-Courier who told him he believed print was here to stay and described his paper assisting other smaller local papers in investigating issues of potential corruption that otherwise would not be known even after an official had been tried and sentenced and how much less if no 4th estate was even there to uncover the crime? It sounds like a pipe dream but who knows…..Does someone else step in to fill the void?

    Sports radio shows are also downsizing due to huge payroll obligations – I haven’t heard Brady Quinn on ‘Two Pros and a Cup of Joe’ in over a month on KLAC 570. Yet the return on subscribers for sports is the one constant for cable. Maybe ESPN will finally dump their agenda in trying to get anyone to give a ‘&^%$’ about the WNBA.

    So where does that leave what ‘beat’ reporters are left with? This, those born after 2000, is the last generation that will even have an inkling of what a daily newspaper looks like.

    No wonder the Times had their whole front page in today’s print edition of their sports section, dedicated to Ohtani going to the Dodgers – their and Plaschke/Dylan Hernandez – dual ‘last hurrah’.

    Future is Facebook, Twitter, Tik Tok, The Athletic –

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    1. “it was always a ‘progressive rag’

      Are you aware of the Times extreme conservative slant in the first half of the 20th century?

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      1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

        No one is alive to remember those days, Inquisitive Libtard. We just remember the last 60 years of extremist libtard Democrat preaching.

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  6. The Riverside facility Scott mentions is probably the Press-Enterprise’s operation, which is owned by Los Angeles News Group. I interviewed a candidate for a job at my business 8 or 9 years ago, and he had worked for the OC Register. He told me most people would be surprised at the degree to which the different L.A. area newspapers were entangled with one another, no doubt due to the financial difficulties all of them faced.

    As for the Times getting rid of their presses, the end of an era indeed. My grandfather was involved in several printing and publishing businesses back in the 30s, 40s, and 50s, and one of his companies owned the first 4 color press west of the Mississippi River. One of his companies was the printer for the lifestyle magazine that was inserted in the Sunday Times, 800,000 copies a week back then. When he died, Times Mirror Corp. purchased a number of the assets of his businesses.

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  7. Gabby on KSPN this morning around 10:30 am they were talking of 1st year players in the NBA etc.. They were discussing Victor Wembanyama shoot around held yesterday and hearing him comment he was ‘tired’ on how much energy he’d used which made one of the commentators say “…if he’s gassed playing with a patchwork game imagine him against the pros and playing on the road…” might not be ready for prime time just yet – might have been better served playing a year or two in college as they said that was what Bryant and James looked like out the gated – not much for a couple of years.

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    1. Found this video….he’s very fluid for a guy his size. If he’s going to mix it up down in the blocks, night-in and night-in, he will definitely need to add some meat on the bones. He blocked 5 shots in his first half of NBA basketball. As a #1 pick there’s a lot of pressure to live up to that. Let’s see if his mental game holds up.

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  9. Chickenshit Gabby is your typical leftist – loser, low IQ but talks tough. The little shit runs away like the pussy he is once you respond to him and threaten to punch him in the mouth. And then he cries to whoever will listen to him saying he’s being mistreated. He should leave this blog since he has nothing to do with USC, and instead go be a loser with his Antifa friends.

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    1. Gabby aka The Guy who posts as So Cal's Wife & LawyerJohn & Plow Horse & Pudly & steveg49 & DOJ & Scott Wolf and Frank Young says:

      And Cowardly Gabby aka “steveg”

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  11. I guess it all goes to the way newspapers are sold in vending machines. You could (a long time ago)plunk a quarter in the machine and have access to all of the papers. I worked in downtown L.A in the 90s. A street person would always be selling papers a few steps away from the empty vending machine. I didn’t catch on until I was early one morning and bought a paper from the machine. The street person ran up and caught the door before it closed. “Its okay I got it,” he said, as he waved a quarter at me. After that I bought my paper at the train station . But imagine with the street people (look at me being politically correct about bums) numbers skyrocketing, vending machines have been removed from the street. Does it make me old to say I remember more than one daily edition of the paper? Or young to admit I read the paper on my iPhone?

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      1. Same with me. It was the Herald Examiner which didn’t have a large subscriber base but the work did result in me being able to buy a Cat minibike.

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      2. LIKED!…..but the work did result in me being able to buy a Cat minibike.

        My bike was a Suzuki RM50. For a kid at that age, it was a lot of motorcycle and I quickly learned to respect it.

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      3. Didn’t you love the subscribers who’d knock 10 cents off their bill at collection time cuz the paper didn’t hit their porch ONCE? Or the toughies who’d steal newspapers from you they didn’t even wanna read? There was a gang of 4 guys around Venice High School who’d take a bunch of newspapers from me every time they saw me…until somehow we all got to be friends [I think they began feeling sorry for me]….

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      4. My first route was an apartment complex. I quickly learned subscribers would move out with no notice to stop the paper. Often times I wouldn’t find you until collection time and a new tenant had moved in. Eventually, the kid doing the route in my neighborhood quit and I took it over. Homeowners, in the neighborhood, and more subscribers, I found my dream job(lol!)

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      5. I later transitioned to the Daily Breeze and could deliver the same number of papers in three blocks that took about twenty with the Herald.
        I also remember going out trying to sign up new Herald subscribers and having a lady angrily tell me she’d never ever read a Hearst newspaper. I guess it was a warning that some people take their politics seriously.
        I was just a kid trying to earn a trip to Magic Mountain.

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      6. I think they called it “crewing” during my delivery days. They also had incentives to reach a certain prize level. Boy have things changed.

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  12. The families that controlled the L.A. Times for most of the last century, the Otis and Chandler families, actually viewed their paper for many years as a vehicle to promote real estate development. The families owned large tracts of land in southern California, and naturally wanted to see them developed. Chandler Blvd. in the San Fernando Blvd. is named for Harry Chandler (I tried to convince my wife that Roscoe Blvd. was named for Roscoe’s Chicken & Waffles, but she didn’t buy it).

    Similarly, the Pacific Electric’s Henry Huntington thought of the PE as way to spur real estate development, and less a day-to-day conveyance for commuters. The idea was that people would take the PE to far flung parts of southern California like Bellflower and Santa Ana, see the new subdivisions being developed, and move there. So taking people from one place to another to make money was not really what PE was all about. PE also generated their own electricity to run their trains, and sold their surplus electricity to local utilities, including presumably the DWP.

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