Los Angeles Sports
No one ever thinks of Los Angeles as a great sports city. It's always Pittsburgh with its Steeler fanatics, New York with its Yanks, Green Bay with its Packers and its Cheeseheads. We think it's because the true Los Angeles sports heros are everyday folks. Maybe it's the weather or the culture of physical fitness, but Angelenos are get-out-there-and-do-it people. Summer or winter (yes, we can tell the difference), Angelenos are jogging, biking, surfing, swimming, roller-skating, perfecting their Capoeira moves, playing beach volleyball and holding skateboarding competitions on every empty sidewalk.
That doesn't mean we don't love our Los Angeles sports pros: our Dodgers, Lakers, Kings, and Clippers (especially since dunkmaster Blake Griffin joined the team); as a matter of fact, every tennis elbow and 19,000th place finish in the L.A marathon reminds us of our own physical limitations and helps us to more deeply appreciate a stellar athletic performance when we see it. That makes for an intelligent sports fan and a great sports town.
Find Metro Rail Accessible Los Angeles Sports Venues:
Red Line
One of California's newer multi-use sports venues, the Honda Center is the home ice for the Anaheim Ducks of the NHL. This 17,000 seat indoor arena also plays host to bull riding...
What can we say, they're the Dodgers. The team that integrated baseball, that broke Brooklyn's heart and brought the forever young voice of Vin Scully to L.A. |
Blue Line
Monaco comes to Southern California! The Long Beach Grand Prix is the longest running street race in the United States..
L.A.'s mega sports and entertainment complex, named after a corporation that's named after tiny fasteners that hold papers together, is home to both the LA Lakers and the LA Clippers and Kings... |
Green Line
Volleyball You can't get more Southern California than the Manhattan Beach Volleyball Open.
International Surf Festival Every summer Manhattan Beach hosts the International Surf Festival featuring body surfing competitions, beach sprints, pier to pier paddleboard races and the International Lifeguard Championships Purple Line
There’s something so L.A. about whacking a load of balls into the summer evening air, 4 stories above Koreatown.
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Expo Line
The massive red façade of the Galen Center dominates the corner of Jefferson and Figueroa, watched over by the looming landmark cat head of Felix, the mascot of Felix Chevrolet.
Home to USC Trojans football, the streamline-modern Los Angeles Coliseum is one of L.A.'s most recognizable sports and music venues and is a National Historic Landmark.
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