MELBOURNE, Australia — Learner Tien, a 19-year-old qualifier and Irvine native who played briefly at USC, became the youngest American man to reach the Australian Open’s third round since Pete Sampras in 1990, upsetting a racket-tossing Daniil Medvedev 6-3, 7-6 (4), 6-7 (8), 1-6, 7-6 (10-7) in a match that began Thursday night and ended…
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MALIBU — Junior TJ Wainwright scored a season-high 26 points, Devin Askew had 18 and Long Beach State outlasted Pepperdine, 79-76, to win its final nonconference road game of the season. Wainwright shot 9 for 14 from the field (6 for 8 from behind the arc) and grabbed eight rebounds for LBSU (5-8). Askew shot…
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The UC Irvine basketball team trailed for most of Thursday night’s game but used an impressive finishing kick to rally for an impressive road win. Bent Leuchten scored 21 of his 23 points in the second half, and UCI outscored Belmont 18-9 over the final three minutes to win, 92-84, in a…
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SACRAMENTO — The Lakers, who have statistically had the league’s third-best best defense over the last 1½ weeks entering Thursday, knew they would be tested in their consecutive matchups against the Sacramento Kings at Golden 1 Center. They passed the first leg of the exam, beating the Kings, 113-100, on Thursday night in the first…
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INGLEWOOD — What a response the Chargers mounted with their 34-27 victory over the Denver Broncos on Thursday night at SoFi Stadium. What a recovery. A wholesale turnaround from the Brandon Staley era, including that embarrassing 63-21 loss in last season’s Thursday night game against the Las Vegas Raiders, a defeat that dropped the Chargers…
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ALISO VIEJO — Segerstrom’s boys basketball team pulled off one of the biggest upsets of the season thus far by beating Aliso Niguel 53-42 Thursday in a nonleague game at Aliso Niguel High. Aliso Niguel entered the game with a 10-2 record, six straight wins and was coming off a win over Tesoro, which is…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Sonora girls basketball coach Melissa Barajas views mentorship as an important extension of her duties. “As a coach,” she said, “I’m driven to help empower these girls to reach their basketball goals and succeed beyond the court.” Barajas continues to rack up the…
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The Los Angeles City Council is hiking the minimum wage for hotel and airport workers to $30 an hour. It will turn out to be a five-diamond mistake. The vote wasn’t even close. By a 12-3 margin, the Council decided to give a raise to workers they don’t employ and bloated payrolls that will have…
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By Daniela Sirtori | Bloomberg The union representing Starbucks baristas plans to go on strike for five days from Friday after a final-stage bargaining session reached an impasse, the group said. Starbucks Workers United said its members are planning to walk out in unionized stores across Los Angeles, Chicago, and Seattle. The union, which represents…
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By ANTHONY SANFILIPPO The Associated Press PHILADELPHIA — Anze Kopitar and Kevin Fiala scored two goals each, and the Kings scored four goals in the third period to rally past the Philadelphia Flyers, 7-3, on Thursday night. Warren Foegele added a goal and an assist for the Kings, who won for the eighth time in…
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