Michael Goldsholl

Michael Goldsholl is a junior English major at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif. Follow him on Twitter @PURPLEGOLDsholl
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Everything Be OK Campaign to Inspire H O P E from K O B E

After a game one loss to begin the playoffs, and it’s starting to feel like all hell is breaking loose in Lakers Nation. Amid this tough time for Lakers fans, a helpful new tactic to ease the frustrations is on…

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Game One: It’s Not the End of the World, Yet

After nearly six months of hearing, "we'll be fine when the playoffs come around," and "our regular season performance won't determine how we play in the postseason," judgement day had finally arrived for the Los Angeles Lakers on Sunday afternoon.…

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Bynum Leaves Game With Hyper-Extended Knee

Midway through the second quarter of the Lakers' home game against the West-leading San Antonio Spurs tonight, Andrew Bynum suffered what is being reported as a hyper-extended right knee, forcing him to the locker room for the remainder of the…

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What Kind of Fan are You in Times of Laker Crisis?

Lakers Nation is full of fans from around the world. For the past 2 years, we have read a lot of comments from our 250,000+ members of our Lakers Nation FB Fan Page and @LakersNation twitter feed that we have been…

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Power Rankings: Race For Homecourt Heats Up As Season Winds Down

30. Minnesota Timberwolves (Last week's ranking: 30): Kevin Love has sat out seven of the T-Wolves' last 10 games and to no one's surprise, they are struggling mightily. It didn't seem possible for anyone to challenge Cleveland for the worst…

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Power Rankings: Bulls Claim No. 1 Spot, But Lakers Maintain Dominance

30. Minnesota Timberwolves (Last week's ranking: 30): At 17-50, it didn't appear possible for things to start unraveling faster for the Timberwolves. That was 10 games ago; now they are 17-60. Guess I was wrong, things were able to get…

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Tempers Flare, but Lakers Victorious in Playoff-Style Battle, 110-82

*Update - Score of 109-82 has been updated to 110-82 due to a error in Yahoo Sports. We apologize.* For the first and last time of the 2010-11 regular season, the Dallas Mavericks (53-22) took the floor in STAPLES Center…

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Power Rankings: Spurs Start To Struggle, Lakers Continue Rise

30. Minnesota Timberwolves (Last week's ranking: 30): The "Love" puns are getting old, but when the rest of your team's core consists of Michael Beasley, Darko Milicic, Luke Ridnour, Wesley Johnson and Anthony Tolliver, you gotta milk the "Love" for…

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Lakers ‘Clip’ Griffin and Clippers En Route to a 112-104 Victory

With "Battle: LA" hitting the big screen this past weekend, it only made sense for that theme to make its way to the hardwood, as the Los Angeles Lakers (52-20) played host to their locker room rival Clippers (28-45) on…

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Power Rankings: Lakers and Bulls Continue to Surge

30. Minnesota Timberwolves (Last week’s ranking: 27): After Kevin Love went down and out in yesterday’s game against Sacramento, the Timberwolves got a flash of what post-Love life will be like when he finally is able to take advantage of…

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