Jim Alexander
@jimalexander24.bsky.social
Sports columnist for Southern California News Group: https://www.ocregister.com/author/jim-alexander/ Author, "Dodgers! An Informal History From Flatbush to Chavez Ravine." https://authors.tertulia.com/jimalexander-draft3p7lmw
Today in The Audible, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I discuss USC's chances against Oregon, the Lakers with LeBron and the Rams and Chargers' chances.
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The Audible: Can USC take down Oregon and move into playoff position?
Columnists Jim Alexander and Mirjam Swanson discuss some of the week’s sports issues.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:10 PM
Today in The Audible, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I discuss USC's chances against Oregon, the Lakers with LeBron and the Rams and Chargers' chances.
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The Riverside Sport Hall of Fame inductees are announced ... and at least one of them will feel right at home.
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Alexander: Riverside Sport Hall of Fame’s Class of ’26 is unveiled
The five honorees, as well as the award winners, will be inducted during a May 4 ceremony at CBU’s Fowler Events Center.
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November 18, 2025 at 11:37 PM
The Riverside Sport Hall of Fame inductees are announced ... and at least one of them will feel right at home.
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A Rams-Seahawks NFC championship game? Sign me up.
(Sorry, Philly.)
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(Sorry, Philly.)
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Alexander: Give us more Rams-Seahawks, please
The Rams’ 21-19 victory over Seattle on Sunday could be only the appetizer to one thing – a thrilling NFC Championship game in January where they could have one more shot at each other.
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November 17, 2025 at 5:15 PM
A Rams-Seahawks NFC championship game? Sign me up.
(Sorry, Philly.)
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(Sorry, Philly.)
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If you saw Friday night's UCLA-Arizona men's basketball game, either in person or via Peacock ... didn't it make you miss the old Pac-12 even a little bit?
Regional rivalries have been diminished in college sports' new configuration. But they're not dead yet.
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Regional rivalries have been diminished in college sports' new configuration. But they're not dead yet.
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Alexander: UCLA vs. Arizona – a basketball rivalry that should never end
Friday night’s matchup between the former Pac-12 powerhouses at Intuit Dome reminds us again what fans, players, coaches and the sport are missing.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:28 PM
If you saw Friday night's UCLA-Arizona men's basketball game, either in person or via Peacock ... didn't it make you miss the old Pac-12 even a little bit?
Regional rivalries have been diminished in college sports' new configuration. But they're not dead yet.
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Regional rivalries have been diminished in college sports' new configuration. But they're not dead yet.
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Not only is greater L.A. savoring the Dodgers’ recent championship moment, but this region is enjoying a run of titles that could be unprecedented in SoCal sports history.
So, who’s next?
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So, who’s next?
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Alexander: Which sports team will be Southern California’s next champion?
With the Dodgers’ latest World Series triumph, no region has dominated the 2020s like ours with seven major pro sports titles in six years – so who’s next?
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November 14, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Not only is greater L.A. savoring the Dodgers’ recent championship moment, but this region is enjoying a run of titles that could be unprecedented in SoCal sports history.
So, who’s next?
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So, who’s next?
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With four MVP awards in five seasons, each time sweeping all 30 first-place votes … that sounds like a consensus opinion: Shohei Ohtani as not only the best player on the planet, not only one of one, but quite possibly the type of player we’ll never see again.
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Alexander: 4 MVPs for Shohei Ohtani, 4 unanimous votes
Honored again after another dynamic offensive season that included a successful return to the mound, the Dodgers star further cements his legacy as the consensus best player on the planet.
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November 14, 2025 at 4:11 AM
With four MVP awards in five seasons, each time sweeping all 30 first-place votes … that sounds like a consensus opinion: Shohei Ohtani as not only the best player on the planet, not only one of one, but quite possibly the type of player we’ll never see again.
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Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes was the unanimous NL Cy Young Award winner, as he should have been. It may well be the first of many.
So how long before he winds up someplace where ownership isn’t content to just field a team but actually, you know, tries to win?
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So how long before he winds up someplace where ownership isn’t content to just field a team but actually, you know, tries to win?
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Alexander: A unanimous Cy Young vote for Paul Skenes
The Pirates ace and former El Toro High star is honored for another dominant season – but what does his future hold?
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November 13, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Pittsburgh’s Paul Skenes was the unanimous NL Cy Young Award winner, as he should have been. It may well be the first of many.
So how long before he winds up someplace where ownership isn’t content to just field a team but actually, you know, tries to win?
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So how long before he winds up someplace where ownership isn’t content to just field a team but actually, you know, tries to win?
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Yes, it’s hard to say with authority, one day after, that a World Series is the best ever.
But you certainly can make that case about this one.
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But you certainly can make that case about this one.
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Alexander: Best World Series ever? It’s right up there
A classic Series, and a classic Game 7? How can you argue?
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November 2, 2025 at 11:22 PM
Yes, it’s hard to say with authority, one day after, that a World Series is the best ever.
But you certainly can make that case about this one.
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But you certainly can make that case about this one.
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Reposted by Jim Alexander
Dodgers #WorldSeries artifacts coming to the Hall of Fame:
🔹 Freddie Freeman's G3 bat
🔹 Will Klein's G3 glove
🔹 Base from 18-inning Game 3
🔹 Dave Roberts jersey
🔹 Mookie Betts final out glove
🔹 Will Smith’s G7 spikes
🔹 Yoshinobu Yamamoto's G7 cap
🔹 Andrew Friedman's championship celebration shirt
🔹 Freddie Freeman's G3 bat
🔹 Will Klein's G3 glove
🔹 Base from 18-inning Game 3
🔹 Dave Roberts jersey
🔹 Mookie Betts final out glove
🔹 Will Smith’s G7 spikes
🔹 Yoshinobu Yamamoto's G7 cap
🔹 Andrew Friedman's championship celebration shirt
November 2, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Dodgers #WorldSeries artifacts coming to the Hall of Fame:
🔹 Freddie Freeman's G3 bat
🔹 Will Klein's G3 glove
🔹 Base from 18-inning Game 3
🔹 Dave Roberts jersey
🔹 Mookie Betts final out glove
🔹 Will Smith’s G7 spikes
🔹 Yoshinobu Yamamoto's G7 cap
🔹 Andrew Friedman's championship celebration shirt
🔹 Freddie Freeman's G3 bat
🔹 Will Klein's G3 glove
🔹 Base from 18-inning Game 3
🔹 Dave Roberts jersey
🔹 Mookie Betts final out glove
🔹 Will Smith’s G7 spikes
🔹 Yoshinobu Yamamoto's G7 cap
🔹 Andrew Friedman's championship celebration shirt
A Dodger dynasty? Three titles in six years, five World Series in a decade … why not?
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Alexander: A Dodgers dynasty? It’s hard to argue otherwise
They successfully defended their championship with some late-inning lightning, and with three titles in six seasons, who’s to argue?
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November 2, 2025 at 7:27 AM
A Dodger dynasty? Three titles in six years, five World Series in a decade … why not?
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A crazy and sudden ending to Game 6 means that this World Series will have a Game 7.
Regardless of your loyalties, this is a fitting way to end what has turned into a true Fall Classic.
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Regardless of your loyalties, this is a fitting way to end what has turned into a true Fall Classic.
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Alexander: Yes, Dodger fans, there will be 1 more World Series game
A massive defensive play by Kiké Hernández assures them of a Game 7 in Toronto, and a chance to play for a second straight Commissioner’s Trophy.
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November 1, 2025 at 5:41 AM
A crazy and sudden ending to Game 6 means that this World Series will have a Game 7.
Regardless of your loyalties, this is a fitting way to end what has turned into a true Fall Classic.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/31/a...
Regardless of your loyalties, this is a fitting way to end what has turned into a true Fall Classic.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/31/a...
No more margin for error. And - as well (and as intelligently) as the Blue Jays have played, the Dodgers have put themselves in this spot.
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Alexander: Dodgers have reached the edge of the cliff
An offensive slump at the worst possible time has led to two home losses and has the reigning World Series champs facing elimination in Game 6 on Friday night in Toronto.
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October 30, 2025 at 3:34 PM
No more margin for error. And - as well (and as intelligently) as the Blue Jays have played, the Dodgers have put themselves in this spot.
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For your pregame reading, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I are back with another Dodger postseason Audible.
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The Audible: Pregame World Series reading before Dodgers vs. Jays in Game 5
Columnists Jim Alexander and Mirjam Swanson discuss the World Series, which has become a best-of-three showdown.
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October 29, 2025 at 11:52 PM
For your pregame reading, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I are back with another Dodger postseason Audible.
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This is the worst part of having a shaky or at least inconsistent bullpen: It can let you down at the worst possible times.
Can the Dodgers hang on for two more victories?
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Can the Dodgers hang on for two more victories?
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Alexander: Is this familiar? Dodgers’ bullpen lets them down
Anthony Banda and Blake Treinen couldn’t contain the Blue Jays in the seventh inning of Game 4, so this World Series is even with a return trip to Canada for at least one game now a certainty.
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October 29, 2025 at 7:26 AM
This is the worst part of having a shaky or at least inconsistent bullpen: It can let you down at the worst possible times.
Can the Dodgers hang on for two more victories?
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Can the Dodgers hang on for two more victories?
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These 18-inning games are getting predictable, aren’t they?
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
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Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
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Alexander: World Series Game 3 was wild, weird … and ultimately wonderful for Dodgers
Another decisive Freddie Freeman home run, this one in the 18th inning, gave the reigning champs a 6-5 victory and the series lead over the Blue Jays.
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October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
These 18-inning games are getting predictable, aren’t they?
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
These 18-inning games are getting predictable, aren’t they?
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
Alexander: World Series Game 3 was wild, weird … and ultimately wonderful for Dodgers
Another decisive Freddie Freeman home run, this one in the 18th inning, gave the reigning champs a 6-5 victory and the series lead over the Blue Jays.
www.ocregister.com
October 28, 2025 at 9:58 AM
These 18-inning games are getting predictable, aren’t they?
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
Kidding.
Monday’s World Series Game 3 marathon was wild, sometimes weird, and ultimately wonderful for the home team.
www.ocregister.com/2025/10/28/a...
Are there Dodger fans who still have a grudge against Max Scherzer?
Here’s why they shouldn’t.
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Here’s why they shouldn’t.
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Alexander: Max Scherzer is the World Series opponent, not the villain
The Blue Jays’ Game 3 starter shouldn’t hear it from the fans about the 2021 postseason, because the Dodgers overused him.
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October 27, 2025 at 1:49 AM
Are there Dodger fans who still have a grudge against Max Scherzer?
Here’s why they shouldn’t.
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Here’s why they shouldn’t.
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Is Yoshinobu Yamamoto a throwback? He’s certainly seemed like it lately.
Is he, maybe, the Dodgers’ ace? You can make that argument as well.
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Is he, maybe, the Dodgers’ ace? You can make that argument as well.
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Alexander: Just like the old days, Dodgers’ Yamamoto finishes the job
After another complete game victory in Game 2 of the World Series on Saturday night, is the Japanese right-hander approaching – or has he already reached – ace status?
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October 26, 2025 at 5:35 AM
Is Yoshinobu Yamamoto a throwback? He’s certainly seemed like it lately.
Is he, maybe, the Dodgers’ ace? You can make that argument as well.
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Is he, maybe, the Dodgers’ ace? You can make that argument as well.
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No, this probably will not look like the previous playoff rounds for the Dodgers.
But…
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But…
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Alexander: The Dodgers are World Series favorites, and should win, but …
The Dodgers have had a smooth ride through the first three rounds of postseason play, but the Fall Classic won’t be the same type of walkover, the columnist says.
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October 23, 2025 at 8:04 PM
No, this probably will not look like the previous playoff rounds for the Dodgers.
But…
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But…
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Maybe this is the Dodgers’ advantage: While everyone else scuffles just to get to the postseason, they’re planning for October all season.
They’ve looked prepared so far, haven’t they?
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They’ve looked prepared so far, haven’t they?
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Alexander: Dodgers’ secret for great pitching might be good planning
The Dodgers are back in the World Series with starters Blake Snell, Yoshinobu Yamamoto, Tyler Glasnow and Shohei Ohtani healthy and dominant at the right time.
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October 19, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Maybe this is the Dodgers’ advantage: While everyone else scuffles just to get to the postseason, they’re planning for October all season.
They’ve looked prepared so far, haven’t they?
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They’ve looked prepared so far, haven’t they?
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For the Dodgers, there are four victories to go. Four victories to meet the team's internal expectations - and, by the way, to put themselves in the history books as the first World Series repeat champion in a quarter century.
Would you bet against them?
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Would you bet against them?
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Alexander: For Dodgers, there are 4 more victories to go
They finish a four-game NLCS sweep of the Brewers to advance to their fifth World Series in nine seasons … and why shouldn’t they repeat?
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October 18, 2025 at 5:14 AM
For the Dodgers, there are four victories to go. Four victories to meet the team's internal expectations - and, by the way, to put themselves in the history books as the first World Series repeat champion in a quarter century.
Would you bet against them?
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Would you bet against them?
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The Dodgers may be one win away from a return to the World Series, but Mookie Betts looks at it this way:
“… We’re five wins away from what we really want.”
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“… We’re five wins away from what we really want.”
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Alexander: The Dodgers’ juggernaut rolls on
One victory stands between the defending champs eliminating the Brewers and returning to the World Series – easy, right?
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October 17, 2025 at 5:35 AM
The Dodgers may be one win away from a return to the World Series, but Mookie Betts looks at it this way:
“… We’re five wins away from what we really want.”
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“… We’re five wins away from what we really want.”
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Today's Audible: Again, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I are at Dodger Stadium preparing for and discussing a postseason game.
What do you suppose our first topic is? Join us and find out.
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The Audible: From Dodgers vs. Brewers in Game 3 of the NLCS
From Dodger Stadium, columnists Jim Alexander and Mirjam Swanson discuss the National League Championship Series.
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October 16, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Today's Audible: Again, @mirjamswanson.bsky.social and I are at Dodger Stadium preparing for and discussing a postseason game.
What do you suppose our first topic is? Join us and find out.
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What do you suppose our first topic is? Join us and find out.
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