The scores from Wednesday’s CIF-SS girls water polo playoff games and the updated schedule for the next rounds Thursday and Saturday. CIF-SS GIRLS WATER POLO PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 First round, Wednesday San Clemente 9, Schurr 8 Yucaipa 12, Huntington Beach 8 Harvard-Westlake 18, Agoura 3 King 16, Edison 3 Oaks Christian 8, Santa Barbara 4…
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Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…
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LOS ANGELES — Clippers coach Tyronn Lu will join the coaching staff for USA Basketball, replacing Phoenix Suns coach Monty Williams who stepped down because of family commitments, the men’s national team announced on Wednesday. Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr will serve as head coach. “I am truly honored to represent our country and…
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By DAVE SKRETTA AP Sports Writer PHOENIX — Chris Jones claims to have very little memory of a relatively benign game in 2017, when the Kansas City Chiefs welcomed the Philadelphia Eagles to Arrowhead Stadium for the second game of the regular season. Jason Kelce remembers it quite well. The veteran Philadelphia center spent the…
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LOS ALAMITOS — With time winding down and no score in the CIF Southern Section Division 1 opening-round playoff game between the Mater Dei and Los Alamitos girls soccer teams, Griffins coach Pat Rossi had started to pencil in his lineup for overtime. But as it turned out, the lineup wasn’t needed after sophomore Natalie…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now ORANGE — Villa Park forward Rylie Whittaker didn’t want to face JSerra again in penalty kicks. The sophomore wanted her revenge in regulation Wednesday night, and her determination showed in a spectacular, game-winning goal late in the first round of the CIF-SS Division…
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CLAREMONT — The bump up to Division 3 proved to be a challenge for the Webb girls soccer team. The Gauls completed their first challenge in this year’s CIF Southern Section playoffs, but only barely. Senior Abbey Cook scored in the 92nd minute to lift Webb to a 2-1 overtime victory over Brea Olinda on…
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LOS ANGELES — This was an up-close glimpse of what could have been. A veteran point guard taking and making shots, in essence, making himself at home on the Crypto.com Arena floor. Kyrie Irving, the mercurial point guard, showed up in Los Angeles on Wednesday – not as a member of the Clippers but wearing…
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LOS ANGELES — Why not? That’s famously Russell Westbrook’s slogan, right? The genesis of it, he told USA Today once, came back during high school, when he and his friends “were just doing a lot of dumb stuff …” like, say, “‘Let’s run in the middle of the street.’ ‘Why not?’” OK, kids, let me…
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HUNTINGTON BEACH — Kaz Hampton had come close this season to breaking the Edison school record for most 3-pointers in a game, but he finally got over the hump Wednesday evening. The senior scored 29 points and made a school record nine 3-pointers to lead the Chargers to a 68-48 victory over Villa Park in…
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