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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PHOENIX — Since he was sidelined by a back injury for the first time during the 2016 season, Clayton Kershaw has unfortunately become well-versed on the subject. “I’m pretty familiar with back pain and how to deal with it,” Kershaw said Thursday, currently on the injured list with sacroiliac joint inflammation in his lower back.…
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You might expect a master chef who co-hosts and co-judges a cooking television series to have an elaborate home kitchen, but Ludo Lefebvre has more of a modest French aesthetic. “It’s not big, but it’s functional,” acknowledges the classically trained culinary star who enjoys cooking in his Encino kitchen. “I love using my beautiful stove…
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Step into Old Brea Chop House and you’ll be transported to the kind of plush steak house experience you’d expect to find in Chicago or New York – a place where you wouldn’t be surprised if Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack magically waltzed right in and took a corner booth. The…
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As the dim lights of downtown Moshi disappeared in our rearview mirror, my husband squeezed my hand across the backseat and flashed me the look. The sun had set hours ago on this town at the base of Mt. Kilimanjaro. Our new friend Magembe drove – and drove and drove and drove – promising a…
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