The Turf Toe: An Introduction.

A sports blog from the Weekly? Yes, a sports blog from the Weekly. But don’t sports suck? Well, no, sports don’t suck. That was when we were kids, when sports sucked. Now they don't. In fact, they're awesome.

And now, to assuage the fears of all the media people, fair-weather friends, potential dinner buyers and alternative weekly readers, it’s time to meet The Turf Toe.

What is the Turf Toe, besides a common sports-related ailment? Well, what folks around town are already colloquially calling 'The Toe’ is "one man's expedition into the heart of Los Angeles Sports, including public relation department fogs and smokescreens, misleading payroll numbers, inconsolable coaches and the players they hate, home team bashing, all knit together with the never ending love of what is hereby predicted to be the 4th seeded Los Angeles Clippers." AND: This is no bandwagon when it comes to the Clipps, dear friends. This being the Weekly, natch, we ran about four months behind schedule getting the Toe up, just in time for my boy C. Mag to finally come and play.

Also, since this is LA, there are high school sports, college basketball, the region's search for a football team and an occasional shout out to motor sports and cars to report on.  Because what goes better with a cup of sports than a dollop of automotive, right?

All of this shall be written with over-reaching grandiloquence and peppered with numerous grammatical and spelling errors on an almost daily basis!

I've got to run, that's the shot clock buzzer going off -- my first, and only, sports cliché.

Questions, comments, reservations, etc. are most welcome.