Box Score 1/12: Everyone is moving to LA again

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Good morning and welcome to the YB Box Score, what we're reading while wait for the Chargers to show up at our front door asking if we can help unpack some boxes for them here in LA.

Happy birthday to Dominique Wilkins, Tom Dempsey, Marian Hossa, Jocelyn Thibault, Dontrelle Willis, Daniel Sepulveda and Claude Giroux. On this date in 1946 the Cleveland Rams were given permission by the league to relocate to Los Angeles.

Huh. Sounds familiar.

Daily brain workout

Name the starting lining up for the the San Diego Chargers in Super Bowl XXIX.

YB ICYMI

• College football might be winding down for the season, but we're already tracking the players and teams we're going to keep our eyes on next season. 
• Now that players in the NBA have a call center in which they can lodge complaints about the officials, we wondered what the responses would look like. 
• We're picking the divisional round by one of the most important metrics: which city has the best beer.
• If beer isn't your thing, your rooting guide for the rest of the playoffs based players you should love. 

Around the league

• Speaking of LA, the city is going all in for the 2024 Summer Olympic bid. [Deadspin]
• Is supporting the WWE the same as supporting Donald Trump? [Paste]
• We tend to think of athletes as "old" the second they're 30, a number seemingly gets younger ever year. In Japan soccer star Kazuyoshi Miura just signed on for another year with the Yokohama FC which means he'll be playing when he's 50. [Vice Sports]

Jae Crowder goes 'Boop!'