Eric Sondheimer is the prep sports columnist for the Los Angeles Times. He has been honored seven times by the California Prep Sportswriters Assn. for best prep sports column. A graduate of Cal State Northridge, he joined the Daily News as prep editor in 1980. He left for 18 months in 1990 to be West Coast correspondent for the National Sports Daily. He returned to the Daily News in 1991 and joined The Times in 1997 covering high school sports. He has covered Southern California high school sports for more than 40 years.
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Sportswriters should make a commitment to readers so they know where they are coming from, Times columnist Eric Sondheimer writes. Here are his resolutions.
The son of former USC and NBA guard Harold Miner is coming on strong during his senior season for the Sea Hawks.
The Brentwood girls’ basketball team did not play for 13 days because of the Palisades fire. They split a pair of games against Buena Park and Sage Hill.
Soccer referee Rafael Bonilla is one of many contributing to high school sports in the Southland.
Brayden Miner, the son of former NBA dunk champion Harold Miner, scored 18 points in Redondo Union’s 76-64 win over Mira Costa.
At age 32, Patrick Vargas is taking over as Garfield’s new football coach, replacing Lorenzo Hernandez, and he’s embracing all the lessons he learned as a player at the school
Nikolas Khamenia leads 20-1 Harvard-Westlake to a 67-56 win over Crespi ahead of next week’s showdown against Sherman Oaks Notre.
JSerra coach Brett Kay has put together a 58-team winter tournament that will take place this weekend around the Southland, including at Corona High.
Jonathan Rabinovitch scored two goals and assisted on another in a dominating ECR win.
Senior Devin Moody of Manual Arts scores 64 points in 100-42 win over Rivera