SACRAMENTO – Longtime Anaheim watchers, myself included, need to restrain from schadenfreude – the German word for “pleasure derived … from another person’s misfortune.” We’ve eagerly read the details of a federal probe that touches on a “cabal” of city insiders who, to paraphrase H.L. Mencken, showed as much public-spiritedness as your average streetwalker. In…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Edison’s boys golf team left no doubt on Thursday. Powered by a deep and well-balanced lineup, the Chargers captured the CIF/SCGA SoCal regional tournament by five shots with a 1-under-par 359 at Brookside Golf Club in Pasadena one week after relinquishing the title…
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Sports Writer SAN FRANCISCO — Klay Thompson shimmied his way to 32 points and the Golden State Warriors advanced to their sixth NBA Finals in the past eight seasons by beating the Dallas Mavericks, 120-110, in Game 5 of the Western Conference finals on Thursday night. Thompson scored 19 points in…
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ANAHEIM — Shohei Ohtani had a rare rough night on the mound. Ohtani gave up five runs in six innings the Angels’ 6-3 loss to the Toronto Blue Jays on Thursday night. It was only the second time in Ohtani’s eight starts this season in which he allowed more than two runs. Ohtani actually had…
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The Round Mound of Rebound wasn’t having it after Thursday night’s Game 5 of the Wester Conference Finals. During TNT’s “Inside the NBA” post-game coverage outside the Chase Center in San Francisco following the Golden State Warriors 120-110 defeat of the Dallas Mavericks, people in the crowd began throwing t-shirts and other detritus at analyst…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now SOUTH EL MONTE — “Too good.” University’s doubles team of SangHyuk Im and Konrad Walter-Wu generated plenty of praise at the CIF-SS boys tennis individual championships Thursday, including that animated comment from across the net after they defeated the Corona del Mar’s Jack…
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The Yankees and Tampa Bay Rays shared facts about gun violence instead of baseball on their Twitter timelines during Thursday night’s game. “In lieu of game coverage and in collaboration with the Tampa Bay Rays, we will be using our channel to offer facts about the impacts of gun violence,” the Yankees said in a…
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PHOENIX — The Dodgers are ready to do what they probably should have done at the start of the season – put Max Muncy on the injured list. Muncy was not in the starting lineup Thursday against the Arizona Diamondbacks, his .150 batting average and .591 OPS reason enough to sit him down. But Kevin…
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USA Swimming appointed Teri McKeever to the 2019 World Championships coaching staff four years after the sport’s national governing body was informed of allegations that McKeever bullied and verbally abused swimmers at UC Berkeley, the Southern California News Group has learned. The U.S. Center for SafeSport is investigating McKeever after receiving reports of misconduct by…
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ST. PETERSBURG—Aaron Judge isn’t buying Nestor Cortes’ comments. After the left-hander went out and dealt another gem as the Yankees beat the Rays 7-2 at Tropicana Field on Thursday night, Cortes said he didn’t believe he was one of the best pitchers in the big leagues right now. Judge laughed. “I definitely disagree. But he…
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