L.A. as a sports town: We're in the Top 30!

This just in from ESPN's prodigious public relations department (and we're not making any of this up)!!!!

Los Angeles has been chosen as one of America's 30 leading sports cities! And ESPNEWS is gonna say so, on the air, for everyone (who has ESPNEWS) to hear!!!!

In another attempt to fill non-news during the slow summer months, ESPNEWS has announced it will feature 30 of the "leading U.S. sports cities" as part of a six-week city-by-city series starting Monday, July 9 ....
Oh, wait. So it's already started? Have we missed L.A.?
They're going in alphabetical order. So Los Angeles, thank goodness gracious, has its day on Monday, July 30!
(By the way, Anaheim had its day on July 9 ... That's Anaheim, not of Los Angeles, but of Anaheim. Probably no one watched).
So here's how to plan your Monday: The Hotlist (noon to 3 p.m.), the Pregame (4-5 p.m.) and the Gametime (5-7 p.m.) will have a "unique and customized" segment on L.A. during each of those shows!
Will it be something on Beckham! Kobe! Nomar! The turtle races every Thursday night at Brennans in Venice?
“City by City will take fans down memory lane to relive some of the biggest moments in each city’s sports history,” said Barry Sacks, senior coordinating producer, ESPN Studio Production, in a published statement that we have not doctored one bit.
Wow. L.A., one of the top 30. Still hard to believe.
Albuquerque can't say it. Nor can we spell it without spell check.