Three different players could have won NBA Most Valuable Player this season. But the candidate that best fit my definition of “value” this season, and whose value has been substantiated through two playoff rounds, did not hoist the award on Monday. Denver’s Nikola Jokic took the crown, according to ESPN, over Philadelphia’s Joel Embiid and…
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Editor’s note: This is the Monday, May 9 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. There is a scene in episode 8 of “Winning Time” – perhaps one of the best scenes in the show’s first season – that sees…
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The outdoor kitchen. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The primary bedroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The primary bathroom. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The gated courtyard entry. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The foyer. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The living room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The dining room. (Photo by Toby Ponnay) The kitchen. (Photo by Toby Ponnay)…
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Nestor Cortes, once known as the quirky lefty with the funky deliveries, is now simply known as the Yankees’ best starter. The left-hander delivered again, flirting with a no-hitter into the eighth inning as the Yankees edged out the Rangers 1-0 at the Stadium in a matinee make-up of Saturday’s rained out game. Cortes struck…
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LOS ANGELES — The Kings lived to fight another day, avoiding a harrowing 3-1 series hole and instead reducing their first-round playoff series to a best-of-three against the Edmonton Oilers. Yet there was no elation on the part of Coach Todd McLellan. “We won Game 1, and then we did nothing in Games 2 or…
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By Ana B. Ibarra | CalMatters Californians seeking to start a family with the help of in vitro fertilization are often on the hook for the full cost of treatment, in the range of tens of thousands of dollars. The cost could deter some people from having children, and it could leave others in exorbitant…
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Steve Fryer’s list of outstanding baseball players last week: Will Burns, Trabuco Hills, Jr., SS: He homered twice for the Mustangs in their 13-10 loss to Santa Margarita in a CIF Southern Section Division 1 first-round playoff game. Burns also is the Trabuco Hills football quarterback. Juan Gutierrez, Los Amigos, So., Inf.: He hit a…
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The Orange County baseball top 25 for this week. ORANGE COUNTY BASEBALL TOP 25 (Records through May 9) 1. Orange Lutheran (24-4) Casey Borba leads the Trinity League champion Lancers in home runs (5) and RBIs (26) as they go into the playoffs with their first game Tuesday against Bonita at Hart Park in the…
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The crown for “Prince of Public Pension-Spiking” would surely land on Bruce Malkenhorst’s head. Despite pleading guilty to misappropriating public funds, the Huntington Beach resident was collecting $551,688 a year from the California Public Employees’ Retirement System in 2015. How? By crediting himself with separate salaries for serving as the city of Vernon’s administrator, finance…
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By Manuela Tobias | CalMatters More than two dozen men and women clad in hard hats and safety vests filed into a crowded hearing room April 27 to cheer on yet another bill trying to solve California’s housing crisis. The Affordable Housing and High Road Jobs Act would allow developers to fast-track local approval to…
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