As I shared last week, I celebrated my 68th birthday recently. My wife treated me to a weekend at Pebble Beach. I know! But someone had to do it. We stayed in a spot overlooking the iconic Pebble Beach golf links — home of the annual AT&T Pro-Am and countless major championships over the years.…
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LOS ANGELES — After a stretch of the schedule in which the UCLA men’s basketball team played five of six games away or at a neutral site, the Bruins had four days at home to prepare for Iowa. They studied film of the Hawkeyes, head coach Mick Cronin pointing out their tendencies. They drive, Cronin…
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TUSTIN — Tustin’s boys basketball team stayed unbeaten in the Empire League with a convincing 67-42 win over Costa Mesa on Friday night at Tustin High. The Tillers (18-6, 4-0) were led by the trio of Yuri Klines, Ethan Contreras and Daniel Molina. Klines had a team-high 16 points, Contreras added 15 points and Molina finished…
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LOS ANGELES — The last time the Lakers were without Anthony Davis and in need of a player to step up offensively outside of LeBron James and Austin Reaves, they got a career night out of Max Christie. But this time, it was Reaves and James again doing the heavy lifting on Friday night, with…
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ALISO VIEJO — Capistrano Valley center Jake Davis picked a perfect time to make his first 3-point basket of the season. With 5.8 seconds remaining in the game, Davis intercepted an inbound pass by Aliso Niguel and made a game-tying 3-point shot that sent Friday’s Sea View League game into overtime. Capistrano Valley then took…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO — The St. Margaret’s girls basketball program added another milestone Friday to its impressive resume under fourth-year coach Josh Markum and his experienced cast of players. The host Tartans knocked off Orange County mainstay Rosary 53-42 in the schools’ first…
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IRVINE – It was unlikely that a boys basketball team would go undefeated in the Crestview League. The five-team league is just too good and too balanced for that to happen. Crean Lutheran made sure of that Friday with a 62-51 win over Canyon in a league game at Crean Lutheran High. Canyon guard Brandon…
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JSerra dual threat quarterback Ryan Hopkins has enrolled at Trinity League rival Mater Dei, the junior confirmed Friday night. Hopkins (6-3, 195) burst onto the Orange County football scene this past season as a speedy runner with a strong arm. In his first season as a full-time starter, he earned first-team All-Trinity League honors and…
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An ocean closure off Laguna Beach prompted by a sewage spill last week has been reduced in size. Officials with the Orange County Environmental Health Division said Friday, Jan. 17, the closure will remain in effect for Treasure Island Beach to 500 feet downcoast of Aliso Creek. The reduced area remains closed to swimming, surfing,…
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Cue the wailing, again. Roki Sasaki broke the news himself on Instagram on Friday afternoon, much the same way that Blake Snell announced his signing with a doctored photo of himself in a Dodgers uniform on Nov. 26. Baseball’s latest Japanese import is now a Dodger as well, and the club’s hold on Japan might…
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