Dodger Stadium Palm trees beyond the outfield, Vin crooning on the hand-held radios, 72-degree evenings, Dodger dogs, perfect sightlines, cheap tickets, all of it packaged with class and tradition. This is what all the new "retro" ballparks want to be, but can't. 2. Pickup hoops at Venice Beach 3. The scene around the pier in Huntington Beach. Aka "Surf City USA" 4. Rancho Park golf course. One of the finest municipal golf courses in the country, Rancho hosted the Los Angeles Open from 1956-72, including three victories by Arnold Palmer. 5. The Rose Bowl

Friday night on The Strip (aka Sunset Blvd.) This is where El Lay gathers to party hearty. Whatever you fancy can be found on this serpentine stretch of pavement. Feel like making the scene at a swank setting with hordes of Beautiful People all telling lies to each other? Get thee to Bar Marmont, Barfly, Skybar or Goodbar. Suffering from '80's "metal hair" nostalgia? Grub at the Rainbow Room to the melodic strains of Ratt, Dokken et al., and then walk next door to mosh at the Roxy or the Whiskey-a-Go-Go. Got a taste for the wild life? Wet your whistle at the Hustler Café, then proceed to the 7th Veil, a sweaty little strip joint famous for a shout-out by Motley Crue in Girls, Girls, Girls. 2. The Getty Center 3. Disneyland. Please refrain from shouting "I'm going to Disneyland!" when you arrive on the property. 4. The bike path in Manhattan Beach on Saturday afternoon 5. Hiking in the Malibu hills

Reign Greeting customers at the door is owner/USC alum Keyshawn Johnson, and his sense of style and narcissism define the place. With its sleek glass-and-blond-wood décor, Reign is one of most striking rooms in the city. Its neo-Southern cuisine as well as its smashing array of model-actress-waitresses earn high marks. But the scene's the thing here -- an endless parade of L.A.'s most famous sportsmen, rolling with their posses and strutting like peacocks in their gold jewelry and $3,000 suits. Sorry, no autographs. 2. The Cock 'n Bull, Santa Monica 3. Aunt Kizzy's Back Porch, Marina Del Rey 4. Trani's Restaurant, Long Beach. The Toots Shor's of the Southland. 5. National Sports Grill. Just outside the Big A in Anaheim.

Rodeo Drive A nauseating mix of overpriced designer clothes, bad art, tacky tourists and the most obnoxious, snobby storekeepers, all of them re-enacting that scene from Pretty Woman. Hello, people, you work retail. 2. Hollywood Blvd. Sure, the star-studded sidewalk is kinda cool -- if the bums aren't urinating on it, and the tacky T-shirt vendors stop haranguing you for a minute, and ... 3. Rockingham and Bundy. All the charm of an LAX terminal and even pricier parking 4. Staples Center 5. The HOLLYWOOD sign. Works as iconography, but the hike up is Amazonian.

Kirk Gibson's home run in the bottom of the ninth to win Game 1 of the 1988 World Series for the Dodgers It had all the stylings of a fatuous Bruckheimer/Bay summer clunker: the wounded warrior making his last stand, a wild-eyed villain with a nasty, uh, breaking ball (the A's Dennis Eckersley), and, of course, La La Land as the backdrop. Hard to believe it actually happened. 2. UCLA's basketball dynasty, 1963-75. A moment that lasted 12 years. 3. O.J. Simpson's 64-yard run to steal the annual USC-UCLA jihad for the Trojans, 1967 4. The 1984 Olympics 5. Magic Johnson's press conference announcing he was HIV positive. Sport's equivalent of "Where were you when JFK was shot?", 1991