INDIAN WELLS — Jack Draper toppled two-time defending champion Carlos Alcaraz, 6-1, 0-6, 6-4, on Saturday to reach the BNP Paribas Open final. The 13th-seeded Draper will face 12th-seeded Holger Rune on Sunday (2 p.m. PT). Rune beat fifth-seeded Daniil Medvedev, 7-6, 6-4, in the first semifinal for his 150th tour-level victory. In the women’s…
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Over three hundred people at a climate action conference had to be rescued on Thursday, March 13 after a heavy snow storm left them stranded at a camp near Big Bear. The group began to leave YMCA Camp Whittle in Fawnskin, where the conference was held, walking through roughly two feet of snow in an…
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Angel City Football Club enters the 2025 season without a permanent head coach, with several new pieces on the roster and a strong returning nucleus. It will certainly be an interesting start to the season, kicking off Sunday against San Diego Wave FC at BMO Stadium. Here are five questions facing the club, heading into…
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As a concept, “An Evening With Jason Isbell” was a simple one. On Friday, March 14, the singer-songwriter, dressed in a crisp dark suit and silver-tipped boots, walked onto the Walt Disney Concert Hall stage, sat down with his guitar and began to sing and play. Aside from an occasional pause to thank the audience…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — With a week to go before the Angels leave Arizona, they still aren’t sure who their everyday center fielder is going to be. At this rate, they may not have an everyday center fielder. “I want somebody to take over,” manager Ron Washington said. “I really do.” After the Angels said they…
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With multiple injuries in the midfield, the Galaxy have had to get minutes from several unlikely places, including midfielder Isaiah Parente. Parente spent the majority of the 2024 season playing with Galaxy II/Ventura County FC. He’s become a valuable fill-in so far with the first team, playing the full 90 minutes in each of the…
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Figure skating and throwing the shot put do not seem to have much in common. Aliso Niguel junior Jaslene Massey is proving otherwise. She threw the shot put 48 feet, 7 inches at the Irvine Invitational track and field meet March 8. That is the fourth-best mark in Orange County history. That’s better than the…
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Clippers veteran point guard James Harden has never missed the postseason in his 16 years and currently has the fourth-longest streak in NBA history at 15, and he is not about to break that run. “We don’t plan on it,” Harden said of the team’s chances of missing this season’s playoffs. Yet, at their No.…
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The Newsom administration just informed the Legislature that it needs to borrow $3.4 billion to pay unexpectedly high costs for Medi-Cal, the state’s safety-net health insurance program for low-income residents that is now open to all undocumented immigrants. As of Jan. 1, 2024, everyone in California who is in the country illegally is entitled to…
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TOKYO — The tone of his answer made it clear that there were times in the past week when Mookie Betts had his doubts. “I’m alive,” Betts said when he was asked how he was feeling as he left the Tokyo Dome on Saturday. A lingering virus has taken Betts out of action for a…
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