RANCHO SANTA MARGARITA >> The Santa Margarita boys basketball team used clutch free-throw shooting to hold off a furious fourth-quarter rally by Los Alamitos to secure a 72-65 win in the first round of the CIF-SS Division 1 playoffs Friday night at Santa Margarita High. Rockwell Reynolds had a team-high 20 points for the Eagles, who…
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PASADENA — The Rose Bowl, one of college football’s great stadiums, once held the record for most Super Bowls hosted by one venue. But multi-billion-dollar, giant entertainment complexes like SoFi Stadium, and an array of other sports hubs, have local leaders scrambling to keep the 100-year-old complex relevant. The contrasts between the old and the…
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On Sunday, Feb. 13, California School for the Deaf, Riverside, football team’s historic year of highs and lows will end with one final peak: A Super Bowl appearance. The Cubs’ four co-captains will be on the field at SoFi Stadium during the coin toss for Super Bowl LVI. “The Rams are my favorite team, so…
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Jake Scott plotted to leave life as he lived it and asked friends around his world to help. Hawaii. Colorado. Georgia. They checked daily on the former Miami Dolphins great, performed small chores or even allowed Scott to move in for weeks at a time. “Jake knew of his problems, and he set it up…
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Editor’s note: Gilbert Manzano, SCNG’s NFL reporter, finally found the coffee station at Super Bowl radio row and he spotted several Hall of Famers and current NFL stars inside the Los Angeles Convention Center. Here’s what Manzano saw and heard from Day 5 of Super Bowl LVI week: LOS ANGELES — Washington Commanders coach Ron…
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THOUSAND OAKS — There have been enough unexpected heroes in Super Bowl history that the NFL could honor them with a short Walk of (Overnight) Fame. If any Ram plays that role in Sunday’s Super Bowl against the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium, he might properly be termed an unlikely hero – but not quite…
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China — Lindsey Jacobellis has won her second gold medal of the Olympics, teaming with 40-year-old Nick Baumgartner for the title in the new event of mixed snowboardcross on Saturday (Friday night PT). The 36-year-old Jacobellis took gold earlier this week in the women’s event; it came 16 years after a late showboat move…
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LOS ALAMITOS >> Playing on the road has proven to be an advantage for the San Clemente boys soccer team this season. The Tritons came away with their biggest road victory of the season Friday in the first round of the CIF SS Division 1 playoffs against Los Alamitos. The Tritons scored two late goals…
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ZHANGJIAKOU, China — U.S. Ski & Snowboard is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct by longtime coach Peter Foley and the use of racist language by Olympian Hagan Kearney, both of whom are in China this week. Former snowboardcross rider Callan Chythlook-Sifsof, a member of the 2010 Olympic team, wrote in an Instagram post that Foley…
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Opponents of a proposed desalination plant in Huntington Beach have released a 3-D simulation of how water inching inland as sea levels rise in the future could flood the area to help make their argument against the project. Poseidon Water’s proposal for the plant is working its way through various agencies getting approvals necessary to…
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