Mirjam Swanson
@mirjamswanson.bsky.social
Sports columnist. 🗞️ Southern California News Group. Trying to kick something that means something. Please, do tell. 🐙🍷😭🙏🏽🔑
🔗 https://www.ocregister.com/author/mirjam-swanson/
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Called my little brother today and he answered like this: “I better never hear you complain about your job!”
Our coverage of an epic night:
@billplunkettocr’s banger of a gamer: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
My column on GOAT stuff: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
Our coverage of an epic night:
@billplunkettocr’s banger of a gamer: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
My column on GOAT stuff: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
October 19, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Called my little brother today and he answered like this: “I better never hear you complain about your job!”
Our coverage of an epic night:
@billplunkettocr’s banger of a gamer: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
My column on GOAT stuff: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
Our coverage of an epic night:
@billplunkettocr’s banger of a gamer: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
My column on GOAT stuff: www.ocregister.com/2025/10/17/s...
MLB quick-change, courtesy of Shohei Ohtani.
June 22, 2025 at 8:36 PM
MLB quick-change, courtesy of Shohei Ohtani.
The left field corner scene pregame at Dodger Stadium before Shohei Ohtani’s second pitching start/open in blue… 🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳
June 22, 2025 at 7:50 PM
The left field corner scene pregame at Dodger Stadium before Shohei Ohtani’s second pitching start/open in blue… 🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳🤳
Fears and concerns gave way to celebration for a night at SoFi, as Mexico beat the Dominican Republic in its CONCACAF Gold Cup opener before a smaller-than-normal but still-spirited contingent of proud Mexican-Angelenos.
From the scene:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/14/s...
From the scene:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/14/s...
June 15, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Fears and concerns gave way to celebration for a night at SoFi, as Mexico beat the Dominican Republic in its CONCACAF Gold Cup opener before a smaller-than-normal but still-spirited contingent of proud Mexican-Angelenos.
From the scene:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/14/s...
From the scene:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/06/14/s...
If you’ve been to a USC game over the past four years, odds are Crash was there with you.
A bit about the student-superfan behind the caution tape in today’s @insidesocalspts.bsky.social newspapers and online:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/05/14/s...
A bit about the student-superfan behind the caution tape in today’s @insidesocalspts.bsky.social newspapers and online:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/05/14/s...
May 15, 2025 at 3:49 PM
If you’ve been to a USC game over the past four years, odds are Crash was there with you.
A bit about the student-superfan behind the caution tape in today’s @insidesocalspts.bsky.social newspapers and online:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/05/14/s...
A bit about the student-superfan behind the caution tape in today’s @insidesocalspts.bsky.social newspapers and online:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/05/14/s...
Autistic boxer Daniel “Boone” Moses: “Yes, I have my deficits. But it was also a gift to find something I absolutely loved to do and now, 14 years later, boxing is still here with me … It was destiny for me. It found me, I found it.”
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/04/29/s...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/04/29/s...
April 30, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Autistic boxer Daniel “Boone” Moses: “Yes, I have my deficits. But it was also a gift to find something I absolutely loved to do and now, 14 years later, boxing is still here with me … It was destiny for me. It found me, I found it.”
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/04/29/s...
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Sure, Caitlin is a star. But Sabreena! The New York Times does know how to sell newspapers … @sabreenajm.bsky.social
April 13, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Sure, Caitlin is a star. But Sabreena! The New York Times does know how to sell newspapers … @sabreenajm.bsky.social
Heck of a season, UCLA.
The Bruins weren’t ready for the run to end, but they weren’t ready to win either. Weren’t ready for UConn with all its baked-in experience to tap into on its mission to win a *12th* NCAA title.
“We’ll be better next time.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/04/04/s...
The Bruins weren’t ready for the run to end, but they weren’t ready to win either. Weren’t ready for UConn with all its baked-in experience to tap into on its mission to win a *12th* NCAA title.
“We’ll be better next time.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/04/04/s...
April 5, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Heck of a season, UCLA.
The Bruins weren’t ready for the run to end, but they weren’t ready to win either. Weren’t ready for UConn with all its baked-in experience to tap into on its mission to win a *12th* NCAA title.
“We’ll be better next time.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/04/04/s...
The Bruins weren’t ready for the run to end, but they weren’t ready to win either. Weren’t ready for UConn with all its baked-in experience to tap into on its mission to win a *12th* NCAA title.
“We’ll be better next time.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/04/04/s...
Watching USC fall in the Elite Eight to UConn without JuJu Watkins, it was impossible not to wonder: What if? But also: What’s next?
Little doubt the sun will come up on the Trojans’ program.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/31/s...
Little doubt the sun will come up on the Trojans’ program.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/31/s...
April 1, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Watching USC fall in the Elite Eight to UConn without JuJu Watkins, it was impossible not to wonder: What if? But also: What’s next?
Little doubt the sun will come up on the Trojans’ program.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/31/s...
Little doubt the sun will come up on the Trojans’ program.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/31/s...
SPOKANE, Wash. —
USC’s freshmen ride that “good juju” to Elite Eight. Monday vs. UConn.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/s...
*Today’s* Elite Eight game: UCLA badly wants its lick back vs. LSU.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/u...
USC’s freshmen ride that “good juju” to Elite Eight. Monday vs. UConn.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/s...
*Today’s* Elite Eight game: UCLA badly wants its lick back vs. LSU.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/u...
March 30, 2025 at 2:18 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. —
USC’s freshmen ride that “good juju” to Elite Eight. Monday vs. UConn.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/s...
*Today’s* Elite Eight game: UCLA badly wants its lick back vs. LSU.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/u...
USC’s freshmen ride that “good juju” to Elite Eight. Monday vs. UConn.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/s...
*Today’s* Elite Eight game: UCLA badly wants its lick back vs. LSU.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/29/u...
SPOKANE, Wash. — More LAUREN BETTS. Another third-quarter tear. And a ticket to the Elite Eight for the UCLA Bruins.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/28/s...
Also: USC’s JuJu Watkins, out of sight, front of mind. 💔
🔗 www.ocregister.com/author/mirja...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/28/s...
Also: USC’s JuJu Watkins, out of sight, front of mind. 💔
🔗 www.ocregister.com/author/mirja...
March 29, 2025 at 2:54 PM
SPOKANE, Wash. — More LAUREN BETTS. Another third-quarter tear. And a ticket to the Elite Eight for the UCLA Bruins.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/28/s...
Also: USC’s JuJu Watkins, out of sight, front of mind. 💔
🔗 www.ocregister.com/author/mirja...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/28/s...
Also: USC’s JuJu Watkins, out of sight, front of mind. 💔
🔗 www.ocregister.com/author/mirja...
No, thank YOU, Coaches.
Shoutout Cori Close and Lindsay Gottlieb for giving L.A. these impossible-to-ignore UCLA and USC women’s basketball teams at a time when women’s basketball has made itself impossible to ignore.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/27/s...
Shoutout Cori Close and Lindsay Gottlieb for giving L.A. these impossible-to-ignore UCLA and USC women’s basketball teams at a time when women’s basketball has made itself impossible to ignore.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/27/s...
March 28, 2025 at 1:03 PM
No, thank YOU, Coaches.
Shoutout Cori Close and Lindsay Gottlieb for giving L.A. these impossible-to-ignore UCLA and USC women’s basketball teams at a time when women’s basketball has made itself impossible to ignore.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/27/s...
Shoutout Cori Close and Lindsay Gottlieb for giving L.A. these impossible-to-ignore UCLA and USC women’s basketball teams at a time when women’s basketball has made itself impossible to ignore.
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/27/s...
The sad fact that JuJu Watkins’ season is over doesn’t mean USC’s is – and I don’t mean that only in the technical sense.
I mean it; it ain’t over till it’s over, stay seated until the ride comes to a complete stop…
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/25/s...
I mean it; it ain’t over till it’s over, stay seated until the ride comes to a complete stop…
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/25/s...
March 26, 2025 at 4:55 PM
The sad fact that JuJu Watkins’ season is over doesn’t mean USC’s is – and I don’t mean that only in the technical sense.
I mean it; it ain’t over till it’s over, stay seated until the ride comes to a complete stop…
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/25/s...
I mean it; it ain’t over till it’s over, stay seated until the ride comes to a complete stop…
www.ocregister.com/2025/03/25/s...
I told you to put your shoes on. — we’re late, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill!!!
March 24, 2025 at 4:21 PM
I told you to put your shoes on. — we’re late, Miseducation of Lauryn Hill!!!
In print today, from Galen yesterday: @aaronheisen.bsky.social documented a suffocating route and I got to write about an iconic comeback.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/22/s...
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March 23, 2025 at 4:57 PM
In print today, from Galen yesterday: @aaronheisen.bsky.social documented a suffocating route and I got to write about an iconic comeback.
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/22/s...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/22/u...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/22/s...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/03/22/u...
I recognize that face!
Lupita Ruiz. Tough kid.
Our story, from December:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
Lupita Ruiz. Tough kid.
Our story, from December:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
March 8, 2025 at 1:02 AM
I recognize that face!
Lupita Ruiz. Tough kid.
Our story, from December:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
Lupita Ruiz. Tough kid.
Our story, from December:
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
Will Bermudez was 17 when he collided with a teammate during a travel ball game. Temporary paralysis, weeks of amnesia, an epilepsy diagnosis. Math stopped mathing and doctors told him he should quit baseball.
You wouldn’t guess, seeing him shining at UC Irvine.
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/27/s...
You wouldn’t guess, seeing him shining at UC Irvine.
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/27/s...
February 28, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Will Bermudez was 17 when he collided with a teammate during a travel ball game. Temporary paralysis, weeks of amnesia, an epilepsy diagnosis. Math stopped mathing and doctors told him he should quit baseball.
You wouldn’t guess, seeing him shining at UC Irvine.
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/27/s...
You wouldn’t guess, seeing him shining at UC Irvine.
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/27/s...
“We’re gonna be OK. I promise you guys, we’ll be OK. We’ll find a way. We’re going to be OK.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/12/s...
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/12/s...
February 12, 2025 at 5:05 PM
“We’re gonna be OK. I promise you guys, we’ll be OK. We’ll find a way. We’re going to be OK.”
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/12/s...
www.ocregister.com/2025/02/12/s...
What a whirlwind of a week it’s been here in L.A. Movers, shakers, Clippers, Lakers —
— who are the silly gooses trying to tell us the Lakers weren’t trying to win this year?
This is for you: 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/02/06/s...
— who are the silly gooses trying to tell us the Lakers weren’t trying to win this year?
This is for you: 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/02/06/s...
February 7, 2025 at 5:57 PM
What a whirlwind of a week it’s been here in L.A. Movers, shakers, Clippers, Lakers —
— who are the silly gooses trying to tell us the Lakers weren’t trying to win this year?
This is for you: 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/02/06/s...
— who are the silly gooses trying to tell us the Lakers weren’t trying to win this year?
This is for you: 🔗 www.ocregister.com/2025/02/06/s...
In print today — Merry Christmas! — Guadalupe Ruiz fought to live, now she’s fighting to make her boxing dreams come true. Just 15 and 12 national belts, 40-0, “young Amanda Serrano” comps. 🔥 🐝
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
December 25, 2024 at 4:12 PM
In print today — Merry Christmas! — Guadalupe Ruiz fought to live, now she’s fighting to make her boxing dreams come true. Just 15 and 12 national belts, 40-0, “young Amanda Serrano” comps. 🔥 🐝
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
🔗 www.ocregister.com/2024/12/24/s...
How it started …
… is going.
… is going.
November 30, 2024 at 1:44 AM
How it started …
… is going.
… is going.
And how you can help!
November 27, 2024 at 6:51 PM
And how you can help!
