Around this time a year ago, complaints about the state of baseball were not limited to pedants, pundits, and old men yelling at clouds. The league-wide batting average by the end of April 2022 was .231. Mario Mendoza, the light-hitting infielder of the 1970s and 1980s whose name is synonymous with below-average hitting, batted .231…
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Prof. Dante Simonetti stood on a 100-foot barge Wednesday morning, tethered close to shore just outside one of AltaSea’s massive warehouses at the Port of Los Angeles. In one hand, Simonetti, who helps head up UCLA’s Institute for Carbon Management, held a copper block called an electrochemical reactor. When a jolt of electricity is applied…
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SAN FRANCISCO — The Dodgers have answered their leadership question – by not even asking it. With Justin Turner departed for Boston, a popular question this spring centered on who would fill his leadership role in the Dodgers clubhouse. Manager Dave Roberts acknowledged that it was an issue on his mind as spring camp opened…
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Fullerton coach Shaun Hill argues with the umpire about a balk call that gave La Habra a 1-0 win in a Freeway League game Wednesday. (Photo by Lou Ponsi) La Habra’s Jared Day pitched five innings in the Highlanders’ 1-0 victory over Fullerton in a Freeway League game Wednesday, April 12. (Photo by Lou Ponsi)…
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They’re homesick and sick with worry, stuck in a situation where the only recourse is to be a rock for their families, rock stars in their own orbits. To live well. To try to be happy. It’s an impossible mission, but Anastasiia Slivina, a rower at USC, and Yuliia Zhytelna, a tennis player at Cal…
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Oakland became the first jurisdiction in America to include social equity goals in its cannabis regulations in 2017. Since then, social equity has been a popular project for marijuana legalization supporters in Southern California and across the country. Yet, despite the rapid proliferation of social equity initiatives in cities and states, these efforts have mostly…
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LOS ANGELES — UCLA guard Tyger Campbell has declared for the NBA draft, joining teammates Jaime Jaquez Jr. and Jaylen Clark who already made the move. Campbell announced his decision Wednesday night on Instagram. “I take a lot of pride in the success we have had, and that’s the result of a lot of hard…
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IRVINE — In the end, Ducks coach Dallas Eakins simply wants to finish the job that has been started in Anaheim. Eakins will coach his 291st game with the organization against the visiting Kings on Thursday in the regular-season finale for both teams. With the final chapter of this season about to close for the…
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Katherine Legge and Sheena Monk are a couple of determined, resilient race car drivers. That they are women might be neither here nor there, but they are part of the growing population of women in motorsports. Legge, of England, has been around for quite a while, having made her first big splash as a driver…
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It doesn’t take much to get Jim Michaelian revved up this time of year, so it was no surprise to hear how excited he is about a couple of 20-minute Historic F1 Challenge races that will be among the support series for this weekend’s 48th running of the Acura Grand Prix of Long Beach. The…
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