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After 10 episodes of “The Drill,” our crew took a week off, mostly because our schedules didn’t align quite right. But we also want to recalibrate how we want to drill forward with our little helmet lanters. We learn a lot from each episode — tighten it up, break out important issues, and keep bringing in raccoons.
The constructive response has been appreciated to our posts on Facebook and YouTube, and then distributed here with some context about what we are addressing in what we still like to think of as an L.A.-centric version of “Pardon The Interruption.”
If you’ve not seen any episodes since the first couple, we invite you to check these latest efforts out, ones that hold some shelf life and value (another key element) and realize you don’t have a lot of time in your day to sit through 40-plus minutes.
Enjoy and let’s touch base next week (and if you choose to click on a few ads that pop up on your screen, we’d appreciate it):

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For this year’s edition of a sports media-related Mother’s Day piece, we’ve focused on the work by Donna Moskal, a longtime stage manager on Kings and Clippers games for Fox Sports West and Prime Ticket who has also managed to raise four kids, all of whom have been, are currently in, or are headed for college.
The story on her is in the Southern California News Group Sunday editions is linked here.

Tom, Steve and Jon: Present.
Beto and Smedes: Absent.
They must not want to win. Time to call them out.
So, the 10th episode of The Drill becomes the three-man weave.

Here are the links that help put some of it into context:
= As for Zlatan calling out his Galaxy teammates story … Remember when Kirk Gibson screamed at his new Dodgers’ teammates in 1988 spring training — the last World Series title year? And Gibson’s regular-season MVP numbers were not all that impressive.
= How many teams has Ibra played for? Nine, by this count.
= Jim Thompson’s illustration that goes with LeBron James’ slicing and dicing of the Toronto Raptors, and will that success keep him in Cleveland or perhaps make it OK for him to join the Lakers/Clippers in L.A.?

= During the discussion on Mike Trout, we’ve got proof on how he resonates with today’s young players.

= At the 16-minute mark, up until the 31-minute mark: The sports media column that was the launching point — or follow up to a tweet — about objectivity lacking with a team-owned channel coverage.
= And finally … raccoons. Can’t live with ’em, can’t live with ’em.
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= Post script: If you care to listen to an hour long discussion of various aspects of the sports media that I tend to cover, please check out this (about an hour) podcast discussion with John Shrader, the one-time Long Beach State journalism professor now teaching and doing work at the University of Nebraska.

It all started with this:

And it didn’t end with this column in the Sunday editions of the Southern California News Group.
Because eventually there was this:

But circled around to this: