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The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, February 11, 2023. Trouble viewing on mobile device? See consensus picks Enjoy the consensus horse racing picks online? Subscribe Sign up for Ponies Express newsletter…
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Shortstop Zach Neto, the Angels’ first-round pick in the 2022 MLB Draft and their consensus No. 2 prospect, is among 38 players who received an invitation to big league camp as a non-roster player. Catcher Logan O’Hoppe, the Angels’ No. 1 prospect, will be in camp as a member of the 40-man roster. Among the Angels’ top…
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Members of the Pacific Symphony, Jennise Hwang and Agnes Gottschewski, both on violin, play a lunchtime concert titled, An Animal Adventure, at the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center in Mission Viejo on Friday, February 10, 2023. (Photo by Mark Rightmire, Orange County Register/SCNG) Members of the Pacific Symphony, Warren Hagerty, left, on cello,…
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Tiger Woods is returning to competition for the first time without the use of a cart since July, announcing Friday he will play at the Genesis Invitational in Los Angeles. Woods was hopeful of playing next week’s tournament at Riviera, where he is the host of an event that typically had the strongest field of…
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Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Feb. 2 to Feb. 9. Baby Nutrition, 628 W. Chapman Ave., Placentia Closed: Feb. 8 Reason: Rodent infestation Reopened: Feb. 9 Yu’s Garden, 5408 Walnut Ave., Suite H, Irvine Closed: Feb. 8 Reason: Rodent and cockroach infestation…
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EL SEGUNDO — D’Angelo Russell breezed through the Lakers’ training facility on Friday morning with the air of someone more than comfortable in his new surroundings. Why shouldn’t he? He’s been here before. The 6-foot-4 guard (who turns 27 next week) re-introduced himself this week to the franchise that drafted him No. 2 overall out of…
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Beginning Feb. 10 and running through this weekend, the 55th California International Antiquarian Book Fair returns to the Pasadena Convention Center and I’m looking forward to spending part of my weekend there. (For the book gawking, of course, but full disclosure, my wife’s colleagues from Occidental College have an exhibit there.) My own colleague Anissa…
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Eugene has not been good to UCLA men’s basketball coach Mick Cronin. The fourth-year coach – who has the Bruins 20-4 this season, marking their best start since the 2016-17 season – has never won at Oregon, going 0-3 in previous Pac-12 Conference games. The three losses looked like this: 96-75 on Jan. 26, 2020;…
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Disneyland has pushed back the grand reopening of Mickey’s Toontown by more than a week after a series of heavy winter storms that swept through Southern California slowed construction progress on the reimagined themed land. Mickey’s Toontown will now debut on March 19 at the Anaheim theme park instead of the previously announced March 8…
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Live Nation could pull out of an agreement with Irvine for a 14,000-seat amphitheater in Great Park if the city moves ahead with a proposed scaled-down venue. And Great Park residents are divided on just how big the concert venue should be. In September, Irvine’s council approved an agreement with concert promoter Live Nation for…
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