The murmur of a faint Los Angeles memory is still alive somewhere deep in the circuits of my aged neural synapses: Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum, 1970-something. With dad, a hot dog, and a dream come true — watching Wendell Tyler run. It was Rams against somebody — can’t remember who. But I can still remember…
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PORTLAND, Ore. — On Tuesday night, Russell Westbrook didn’t play in the fourth quarter. On Wednesday night, he didn’t play at all. The embattled 33-year-old star sat out for the team’s game against the Blazers with lower back tightness, his first missed game of the season. ESPN reported that Westbrook first felt the tightness toward…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now MISSION VIEJO — San Clemente’s girls water polo team faced massive challenges, on multiple levels, entering the season. There was a new coach. Only three returning starters. Covid concerns. Challenging nonleague games. The Tritons could have retreated but as they showed Wednesday night,…
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By Dana Hull | Bloomberg California’s civil rights regulator said it sued Tesla over claims of racial discrimination at the company’s facilities in the state. After receiving hundreds of complaints from workers, the state’s Department of Fair Employment and Housing “found evidence that Tesla’s Fremont factory is a racially segregated workplace where Black workers are…
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Noella Bergener started off this season of “The Real Housewives of Orange County” by telling the world, about the sex dungeon in her basement. She’s proudly declared herself bisexual, and good for her for knowing who she is. But this week, whoo boy, this week Noella may have broken your humble recapper’s ability to, well,…
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Jeremy Giambi, a former MLB player and a star at South Hills High who played six seasons in Major League Baseball, died Wednesday at age 47. Giambi, born in San Jose, died at his parents’ home in Claremont, agent Joel Wolfe told reporters. Giambi played in the majors from 1998 to 2003 with the Kansas…
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A construction project that begins Thursday, Feb. 10, is intended to deter drivers going from the 241 toll road to the eastbound 91 freeway from jumping the queue at the last minute when traffic is backed up. During the afternoon rush, cars on the northbound 241 often back up on the ramp to the 91…
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NFL commissioner Roger Goodell stepped away from the stage and toward Dr. Barbara Ferrer, the director of the L.A. County Department of Public Health. “Not one question about COVID,” he said Wednesday with SoFi Stadium, the home of Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI, as his multi-billion-dollar backdrop. It was one of the few things that went…
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On a normal day, the 80 small businesses on Fourth Street in downtown Santa Ana bustle with diners and shoppers. But on Wednesday the bustle wasn’t happening. “It looks like a ghost town now,” said business owner Ana Laura Padilla. Last week, Padilla and other merchants learned — without warning, they say — that the…
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Inglewood mayor James Butts, left, gives Clippers executive Jerry West a Rams jersey with his name on it on Wednesday during a tour of the Inglewood construction site of the team’s future home arena, the Intuit Dome. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG) Construction crews work at the Inglewood construction site of the Clippers’ future…
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