Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. SACRAMENTO — As each winning basketball team stormed the floor in celebration, another “team” slipped off the Golden 1 Center floor and into the tunnel this weekend. Referees can draw the ire from a crowd for 32 minutes, but when the final buzzer…
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Luke Kennard’s default expression is often a smile. Anyone who watched him having a ball in the 3-point shootout at All-Star weekend knows that. It likely says something about Kennard, whose father raised him, Mark Kennard said, to practice the golden rule. That is to say: “If you want to act like an idiot, you’re…
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We often criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom for throwing money at the state’s problems rather than coming up with creative and cost-effective alternatives, so we’re pleasantly surprised by his recently announced “new strategy” for tackling the California’s growing homelessness problem. The proposal is remarkably innovative and reflects the best and latest thinking on the issue. The…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — A quiet winter is about give way to a busy spring training. The Angels, and the other 29 teams, were frozen for 99 days by baseball’s lockout, but Thursday’s agreement set in motion a last-minute scrambling, with general managers busy working the phones to fill out their rosters and players hurrying to…
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On Friday, March 18, Mexican rockers Maná will start a run of concerts that will make history at one of music’s most storied venues. The show will mark the first of eight concerts for the band at the 17,500-person capacity Forum in Inglewood that will take place over the course of four months. Maná, which…
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Miami Heat Erik Spoelstra tried to make it crystal clear: a pause does not mean a problem but rather progress when it comes to the prudence being practiced with guard Victor Oladipo. So on the sixth day of his comeback from May quadriceps surgery, Oladipo rested, with Spoelstra giving the 29-year-old veteran Saturday off on…
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By The Associated Press The latest developments on the Russia-Ukraine war: A deputy head of Russia’s flagship carrier Aeroflot says he has resigned and left the country. Andrei Panov, Aeroflot’s deputy director in charge of marketing, wrote on Facebook on Saturday that “the old life is over.” Earlier this month, Russian news reports claimed that…
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A year after it was first announced, golfers are teeing off at Topgolf in Ontario. The nearly 600,000-square-foot driving range opened Friday, March 11, near the corner of Archibald Avenue and Fourth Street. The three-story facility includes 102 climate-controlled hitting bays, a full-service restaurant and bar and more. Topgolf’s first Southern California location was built…
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“Bubble Watch” digs into trends that may indicate economic and/or housing market troubles ahead. Buzz: Southern California gasoline prices broke the $5 barrier in March’s first week, smashing a record high that had stood for nearly a decade. But what do today’s pump prices mean in the long run for the economy? Source: My trusty…
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I think I’m in love with Davide Martello. The German pianist loaded his trailer with a piano, a cat and his big heart and drove to Poland where he set up shop in the streets to bring the light of his music to the Ukrainian refugees arriving In Poland from Ukraine. Like the piano man,…
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