Volleyball and Only in LA

Not much going on over the last few days. Yesterday, I covered a volleyball game at North High School in Torrance against Palos Verdes Peninsula High. I just finished editing a package this week for The Sports Desk that has highlights from that game as well as South High's game against Bishop Montgomery on Tuesday. It also features postgame sound bytes from players and coaches. I will post the video when it goes online next week.

The last two episodes of the show have a combined 3 packages that I made, but the station is having some trouble getting the video up online. Once they do, I will post links to them. I appreciate your patience!

As for the rest of the weekend, I will be up early here on Saturday to listen to Ithaca's football game against Utica on the road. The Pioneers are a much better team this year, so the game should be a good one. If you haven't listened to a game yet, you should. 92 WICB puts on a great broadcast from pregame to postgame, and I'm proud to have called games on the station for two years. Take a listen Saturday!!

Finally, I have done a bit of observing over the last week or so around the city to try and determine some things I've never seen before. While I'm sure you can see some of these things outside of LA, I haven't, so they're on this list. Here it is:

Only in LA will you...
1) Sit in annoying traffic at 2:15 on a Thursday or 3:00 on a Tuesday
2) Eat a chili cheese french fry burrito

3) Not move while sitting in a car behind people at a green light
4) Constantly see beach balls being bounced around you when you try to watch a baseball game

5) Not receive a golf pencil at a baseball game when you buy a scorecard
6) Have a waiter named Johnny Smash ask you if you want to "Pack a Bowl"...Apparently, this is ordering a bowl of soup at Bob's Big Boy
7) Have to pay to park just about EVERYWHERE you go!!
8) Be less than 5 miles from Downtown and barely be able to see the skyscrapers

9) Be able to order Donuts and Chinese Food in the same place

10) NEVER SEE RAIN!!...Ok, maybe you will see rain in LA, but considering I haven't since I've been here (50+ days), I'm putting it on the list.