PORTLAND, Ore. — For once, it wasn’t about who the Lakers didn’t have. Although they played their first game without Russell Westbrook, Portland’s roster, gutted by injuries and a flurry of trades, was resorting to rotation minutes from Trenton Watford, Greg Brown III and Keljin Blevins – all players that Blazers coach Chauncey Billups admitted would…
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By the time Nathan Chen landed the fifth at final quad jump in the Olympic Games free skate Thursday the gold medal was no longer in dispute. The only real question remaining is Chen the greatest of all-time in a sport he has revolutionized? Chen, the son of a daughter of Beijing, completed a journey…
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Chloe Kim’s continued domination of the halfpipe has left her so far above the rest of the sport that she needed just one run to defend her Olympic gold medal. But then again defying gravity has never been the issue for the 21-year-old from Torrance. It was life back down on earth that was the…
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Three years ago, Sean McVay’s voice didn’t show the wear and tear of coaching a Super Bowl team until after the game. This time, he started to lose it five days out from Sunday’s Super Bowl LVI between the Rams and the Cincinnati Bengals at SoFi Stadium. “I feel great, I just sound like (expletive).…
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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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