It will be a rematch Tuesday when JSerra plays at Villa Park in one of the Division 1 semifinals of the CIF Southern Section baseball playoffs. Villa Park (25-4) hammered JSerra 11-3 in the Boras Classic South tournament championship game April 22. Britton Beeson homered, doubled and drove in five runs for the Spartans. “I…
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The Miami Heat are not alone with their injury concerns at point guard in the Eastern Conference finals. The Boston Celtics announced Monday that Marcus Smart, winner of this season’s Defensive Player of the Year award, suffered a mid-foot sprain in Sunday’s Game 7 deciding victory over the visiting Milwaukee Bucks in the East semifinals.…
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California Highway Patrol Officer Vincent Mendoza answered a desperate call for help after Officer Andre Moye Jr. was fatally shot during a traffic stop on the Eucalyptus Street off-ramp of the 215 Freeway in Riverside on Aug. 12, 2019. Moye’s backup officers, Ryan Smith and Robert Paul III, also had been shot several times, suffering…
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BALTIMORE — After taking over as the American League ERA leader on Sunday, Nestor Cortes took down his Twitter account. While the 27-year-old was on the mound in Chicago, fans had combed through his social media accounts and found Tweets and Instagram posts from 2012-2015 where he used a racial slur. Some of his tweets appeared…
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BALTIMORE — After playing 13 straight games, Aaron Judge was out of the starting lineup for Monday night’s series opener against the Orioles at Camden Yards. It is a preventative maintenance day, according to Aaron Boone. ”I was kind of targeting one day on this trip. I considered the [Sunday] day game [in Chicago] and he…
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LOS ANGELES — Luka Doncic did his part to make sure Kristi Toliver – the two-time WNBA champion guard who is also a Dallas Mavericks assistant coach – wouldn’t make it to the Sparks’ home opener Tuesday night at Crytpo.com Arena. Sparks coach Derek Fisher acknowledged Monday that, though he remains enthusiastic about his player’s…
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Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu is under federal investigation in connection with the city’s sale of Angel Stadium, according to information the city released Monday, May 16. An affidavit filed in federal court May 12 says authorities are investigating whether Sidhu “shared privileged and confidential information with the Angels during stadium sale negotiations, actively concealed same…
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Sorry if I’m distracted writing this Florida Panthers column. I’m on a second keyboard simultaneously writing a Miami Heat column. Both of our local teams are alive in the playoffs and — inexplicably and irretrievably — play Tuesday night to start an unfortunately overlapping schedule in what should be their rock fights of playoff series.…
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LOS ANGELES — A Westwood man was sentenced Monday to more than 17 years behind bars for his role in supplying the fentanyl-laced pills that led to rapper Mac Miller’s fatal overdose four years ago. Stephen Walter was sentenced to 210 months in federal prison, according to the U.S. Attorney’s Office. In September 2018, Miller…
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I remember when it happened. March 2, when the Dallas Mavericks played the Los Angeles Lakers. That’s when I realized Luka Doncic was a top-5 player. But Sunday night, after Luka Magic’s Mavericks ran up a 47-point lead to dismiss the league-best Suns in Game 7 — in Phoenix — I realized top-5 might not…
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