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Rich Hammond

Rich Hammond

Senior Editor at The Athletic Los Angeles

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United States
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Hockey

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Recent Articles

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Who would belong on the Mount Rushmore of Los Angeles sports? - The Athletic

The extraordinary numbers include 23 professional championships, 23 college basketball and football championships, 174 Hall of Famers and dozens of Olympic medalists and individual-sport champions. Los Angeles’ sporting history, from the 1888 Fighting Methodists of USC to current stars Clayton Kershaw and Todd Gurley, includes some of the world’s most-notable athletes. But who are the best? And how is “best” even defined? As part of the one-year anniversary of The Athletic Los Angeles, a panel o…
over 6 years ago
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A drug suspension helped lead Thomas Davis back to the NFL, and to ...

COSTA MESA, Calif. — Had the drug test come back negative, Thomas Davis might be retired now, enjoying the fruits of a 14-year career in quiet contentment with his wife and four children. Much changed that day in the spring of 2018 when Davis learned he would be suspended for the first four games of the 2018 season for a violation of the NFL’s policy on performance-enhancing drugs. Davis had spent more than a decade building up goodwill in Carolina as a hard-charging linebacker who overcame thr…
over 6 years ago
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The 2010s: Two-time Stanley Cup-champion Kings are L.A.’s team of t...

If the ever decide to establish their own Hall of Fame, the logical location would be a garage in north Manhattan Beach, which for the better part of this decade doubled as Dean Lombardi’s second office. It’s where Lombardi, then the Kings’ general manager, brainstormed many nights. Coaches swung by to chat. Beers got opened. Systems and ideas got scribbled on the wall. During some frustrating times, particularly in the 2011-12 regular season, Lombardi spent hours in that garage, trying to find…
about 6 years ago
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Insight into new Rams defensive coordinator Brandon Staley from the...

The Blue Streaks of John Carroll University needed a defensive coordinator in 2013, and fast. The one they had lined up bolted for the NFL early in spring practice, leaving first-year coach Tom Arth with a big void. A trusted colleague suggested Arth look to the University of Tennessee and at a 30-year-old graduate assistant named Brandon Staley. That started a six-year journey for Staley, one that culminated last week in the ’ decision to hire him as their new defensive coordinator. Advertiseme…
almost 6 years ago
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John Sullivan's Rams career ended prematurely but sparked an 80-pou...

Early in John Sullivan’s NFL career, his father died from a heart attack. So Sullivan always knew that when he finished pushing around nose tackles, he would push himself to get in better physical shape. Sullivan, uneasy about the health implications of weighing 320 pounds, overhauled his diet and workout routine in 2019 and lost 80 pounds. He looks great, feels great and enjoys spending time in Connecticut with his family and keeps busy as co-owner of a company that organizes hunting and fishin…
almost 6 years ago
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Kevin Demoff on the Rams’ new branding and overcoming ‘immense frus...

The Rams’ road to rebranding took many turns. The team initially intended to introduce the new look in 2019, but it also wanted the launch to coincide with the opening of the new stadium in Inglewood. Ultimately, both got pushed to 2020. A city-wide launch of the new colors and logos planned for this past weekend got undercut and then scuttled, first by the social-media “leak” of a , then by the COVID-19 pandemic, which led the Rams to cancel their public events and instead pivot to that will b…
almost 6 years ago
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My favorite player: Aaron Donald - The Athletic

Why do we watch sports? For the drama, the competition, the escape, the chance to see something we’ve never seen before. That’s what always leads me back to of the . My days of having true “favorite” players ended long ago, but it’s still fun to reminisce about the days when I could imitate the batting stances and pitching motions of my childhood baseball idols. So for My Favorite Player Week at The Athletic, I’m choosing Donald, the least imitable player in pro football and perhaps in all of s…
over 5 years ago
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Aaron Donald still trains six days a week while working to improve ...

is down in the “dungeon,” but he’s still reaching out. Donald’s legendary offseason training continues — six days a week, back where it started, in his father’s basement gym near Pittsburgh — although he doesn’t know when football will return. The ’ star defensive lineman can’t control that, but he’s been able to shift part of his focus to another passion: trying to straighten the trajectory of teenagers in the Pittsburgh area through a recently launched foundation. That work also continues. Adv…
over 5 years ago