Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Newport Harbor’s senior duo of Morgan Netherton and Taylor Smith and Corona del Mar senior Claire Eusey have been selected CIF-SS players of the year in girls water polo. Netherton and Smith earned co-player of the year honors for the Open Division after…
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LAS VEGAS — Sometimes you win with incredible shooting. Sometimes you win by playing with elite execution and effort. And sometimes, you just win in spite of yourself. That was the case for USC on Friday, as the third-seeded Trojans barely escaped the Pac-12 Tournament quarterfinals with a 65-61 victory over No. 6 Washington. USC…
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LAS VEGAS — By earning the No. 2 seed for the Pac-12 Tournament, UCLA had the benefit of a bye into the quarterfinals. But there were two sides to that coin, as the Bruins looked like the rustier team at the start of their game against seventh-seeded Washington State on Thursday night. Shots weren’t falling,…
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March Madness fans are always on the lookout for a hot team that is hidden in the vastness of college basketball. And sometimes that team is just a freeway away. Cal State Fullerton (19-10) moved into the semifinals of the Big West Tournament on Thursday night, overwhelming UC Davis, 73-55, at Dollar Loan Center in…
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Jack Orr, 100, a World War II veteran, passed away in February and his family held a service and laid him to rest at Westminster Memorial Park in Westminster on Thursday, March 10, 2022. Orr’s grandson Eric Kauffman played Taps at the graveside. (Photo by Brittany Murray, Press-Telegram/SCNG) Diane West speaks of her father Jack…
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It’s expected to get windier as the weekend approaches, forecasters say, but the winds probably won’t last long. The gusty Santa Ana winds had already arrived in the mountains and valleys of Southern California Thursday afternoon, and were expected to grow stronger in the evening and into Friday morning, said Adam Roser, a meteorologist with…
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It’s settled – let the multi-tasking begin. For 99 days, Major League Baseball lay (for the most part) idle. The players were locked out by the owners, rosters were frozen and frustrated fans were left to roll their eyes as the two sides argued over how to slice up an $11 billion pie. With a new…
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There’s always frustration after a loss, but the kind felt by the UC Irvine players and coaches on Thursday afternoon came from a hole deep in their pride. The Anteaters work hardest on their defensive game and a commitment to team rebounding. It’s what has helped the program twice win the Big West Tournament title…
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Once a shopping and entertainment destination for south Orange County, the Laguna Hills Mall is going to become a neighborhood with homes and a park, offices and restaurants, and yes, still some spots for people to shop. The mall’s interior closed four years ago, as it owners prepared to renovate amid departing retail businesses, but…
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A Superior Court judge on Thursday, March 10, ordered the unsealing of “hundreds and hundreds of documents” related to Riverside County’s care of the 13 Turpin children who endured years of abuse in their Perris home before one snuck out in 2018 and called police. The records, which the county originally had refused to make…
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