The Long Beach State women’s basketball team applied relentless defensive pressure against UC Davis on Wednesday night. LBSU forced 22 turnovers and held the Aggies to 36% shooting. It was Long Beach State’s misfortune that its offense was equally despairing all night. Third-seeded LBSU watched shot after shot clank off a rim, spin in-and-out or just…
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When you look back on how UCLA got here, it’s quite extraordinary. The Bruins started the year without Mac Etienne and Will McClendon due to season-ending injuries. They had a frightening trip to Milwaukee interrupted by their plane making an emergency landing in Denver. The team dealt with a COVID-19 outbreak that kept them from…
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Wednesday was a great night for Orange County women’s basketball. Just a little better for UC Irvine than Cal State Fullerton. The teams met in a Big West Tournament quarterfinal and put on an offensive gala, each team seeming determined to run the other out of the brand-new Dollar Loan Center in Henderson, Nevada. UCI…
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LOS ANGELES — Clippers win, on three. No. 1 – With 31.2 seconds left in the Clippers’ 115-109 victory, Nicolas Batum’s go-ahead 3-pointer gave his team a 111-109 lead. No. 2 – L.A.’s swarming defense thwarted Washington’s shot at a tie when Kristaps Porzingis missed a 10-footer with 17.7 seconds left. No. 3 – Reggie…
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Just as the momentum was shifting in the Orlando Magic’s favor in their 102-99 Tuesday loss to the Phoenix Suns, Markelle Fultz’s time had run out. Fultz led the Magic on a run that reduced Orlando’s 15-point third-quarter deficit to 82-77 early in the fourth — a period Fultz appeared to have found his rhythm,…
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LOS ANGELES – Still no. For the second consecutive day and the umpteenth in the past five months, Clippers coach Tyronn Lue said, no, he did not have an update on the status of superstars Kawhi Leonard and Paul George, both of whom are working their way back from injuries. Leonard is rehabbing from July…
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A preliminary report Wednesday by the National Transportation Safety Board revealed details of mechanical issues reported by the officers on the night a Huntington Beach Police Department helicopter crashed into the water in Newport Harbor, killing one officer and injuring the other. Around 6 p.m. on Feb. 19, the helicopter flew a routine patrol along…
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DALLAS — It was a miraculous display of misfiring. Rim clank after rim clank. The Mavericks could’ve built the Great Wall of China with all those bricks. The Knicks caught Dallas on the right night, at least the right first half, and, to their credit, fully capitalized in a 107-77 blowout victory Wednesday night. The…
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DeMar DeRozan’s late-game heroics have become almost commonplace for the Chicago Bulls. But in Wednesday’s 114-108 road win over the Detroit Pistons, the Bulls needed their star forward off the court as much as on it. The Bulls needed a win, but they weren’t playing like it. The defense was sluggish and shooting was frigid.…
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HOUSTON — As LeBron James and Russell Westbrook traded baskets with Jalen Green and Kenyon Martin Jr., it was hard to tell which team was which except for the names on the back of the jerseys. Which franchise entered the season with title aspirations? Which was built to lose? For much of the evening, the Lakers…
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