A short field of five, headed by Californian Stakes winner Stilleto Boy, was entered Friday for Monday’s $400,000 Hollywood Gold Cup, one of three Grade I stakes scheduled for Memorial Day at Santa Anita. Overall, 11 stakes races will be held at Santa Anita over the next three days, beginning with five stakes for state-bred horses…
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Anaheim High handed diplomas to its graduating class on Friday, May 27. The commencement featured cheering families and smiling grads as the seniors marked the end of their high school careers and the beginning of their bright futures. Graduate Karina Lopez celebrates after receiving her diploma during the commencement ceremony for Anaheim High School at…
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The Sierra Club, founded in California, will be 130 years old on Saturday, May 28. It is one of the oldest environmental nonprofits but it is struggling with its history. The Sierra Club was founded May 28, 1892, with John Muir as its first president. Its first order of business was to defeat a proposal…
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After bowing out of the U.S. Open Cup tournament with disappointing performances earlier this week, Los Angeles FC and the San Jose Earthquakes meet on Saturday before a much-needed three-week international break. One-third of the way through a Major League Soccer season that featured a taxing cluster of eight matches in May for both of…
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Here’s the latest installment of our Miami Dolphins Q&A, where South Florida Sun Sentinel writers David Furones and Omar Kelly answer questions from readers. Q: If you had to guess, which rookie would you say will make the biggest contributions to the team this year? — @ayopyr on Twitter A: Channing Tindall seems like the…
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It will be a cool Memorial Day weekend in Southern California with gusty winds and fog already touching down in parts of the region on Friday. A marine layer lingered well into the afternoon Friday along the coastline, and temperatures had begun to dip into the mid-60s and low 70s thanks to strong offshore winds,…
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By HOWARD FENDRICH AP Tennis Writer PARIS — Rafael Nadal knew this was bound to happen. So, too, did his uncle, Toni Nadal, who coached Rafael to most of the nephew’s men’s record 21 Grand Slam titles. Also well aware this moment would come, of course, was Felix Auger-Aliassime, the promising player who brought aboard…
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The New York Yankees had something brewing early in Game 1 of Sunday’s doubleheader against the Chicago White Sox. Aaron Judge singled and Anthony Rizzo walked, putting Johnny Cueto in a bind with one out in the first inning. Cueto quickly worked out of trouble, striking out Giancarlo Stanton looking and getting Josh Donaldson to…
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By JIM VERTUNO and HEATHER HOLLINGSWORTH UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Distraught families gathered at a local civic center and turned to social media to mourn and to make desperate pleas for help finding missing children as the death toll in a gruesome school shooting at a Texas elementary school rose to at least 19 students.…
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There is, as Tracy McGrady explains, a difference between the best player in basketball and the best basketball player. In his era, for instance, LeBron James was widely viewed as the greatest because of his all-around game. But presented with a hypothetical one-on-one contest against another contemporary, McGrady doesn’t hesitate to pick against LeBron. “Kobe…
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