Its star pitcher wears cleats that are falling apart.
Few players can afford to buy their own bats.
At this time next year, Lanai Road Elementary School teacher Dena Gershon will be teaching not from her cozy Encino classroom but on a tiny island in the Arctic. In casting about for a location for his eighth and final State of the City address, Mayor Richard Riordan couldn't resist the El Portal Theater in North Hollywood for next week's speech.