LAS VEGAS — The basketball figures in Scotty Pippen Jr.’s life tower over him. This is figuratively true, but also quite literally. In his first game in the Las Vegas Summer League with the Lakers, his 6-foot-6 coach Jerry Stackhouse watched from a corner courtside seat sporting a Vanderbilt-branded polo. Later in that same game, his…
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ATLANTA – Max Scherzer delivered a brilliant performance in his most important start yet for the Mets. Badly wanting to begin the series with a victory, the Mets called on Scherzer to set the tone in a three-game set against the Braves. Scherzer answered the call with seven terrific innings, allowing just one run on…
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Dylan Cease ranks among the best in the American League in several pitching categories. He led the league in strikeouts per nine innings (13.01) entering Monday and was second in strikeouts (133) and fourth in ERA (2.45). Despite the impressive numbers, Cease’s name did not appear Sunday afternoon when Major League Baseball announced the pitchers…
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If you grew up in Southern California in the 1970s, you likely listened to the legendary KMET (now KTWV, 94.7 FM). And if you listened to KMET, you likely listened to one of the most famous programs to ever originate from album-rock radio, Dr. Demento. Born Barret Eugene “Barry” Hansen, Dr. Demento wasn’t heard only…
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By MSTYSLAV CHERNOV | Associated Press KHARKIV, Ukraine — Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a decree on Monday expanding a fast-track procedure to receive Russian citizenship to all Ukrainians, in yet another effort to expand Moscow’s influence in war-torn Ukraine. Until recently, only residents of Ukraine’s eastern Donetsk and Luhansk regions, as well as residents…
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For the past 30 years, British journalist Nick Duerden has interviewed musicians for both U.K. and U.S. publications, sometimes catching up with the same artists multiple times over the course of their careers. And as time passed between chats, Duerden noticed that the artists became more interesting as their lives continued to change. “We have…
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As kiteboarders, windsurfers and others compete on the ocean during the West Marine US Open Sailing Series in Long Beach, a small festival will make its debut with big hopes of making its mark on the environment. The Sea Change Festival is set to take place from 12-4 p.m. on July.16 to coincide with the…
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The effort is simple and the payoff is huge: By tossing that banana peel in the green bin with your yard waste rather than in the black bin with your trash, you can help reduce climate change. That’s the basic idea behind a key part of an ambitious California law that kicked in at the…
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By MARI YAMAGUCHI | Associated Press TOKYO — Days after his assassination, former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe’s party vowed to use its sizable victory in a parliamentary election to achieve his unfinished goals, including strengthening the military and revising the country’s pacifist, postwar constitution. The governing Liberal Democratic Party and its junior coalition partner…
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Welcome to the sixth installment in a Hotline series on the future of the Pac-12. Links to previous articles are below … Eleven months ago, the Pac-12 stood down. Believing itself stable and aligned, it passed on the opportunity to raid the teetering Big 12 following the announced departures of Texas and Oklahoma. Now, 319…
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