HERMOSA BEACH — The Rams finally broke their streak of no first-round picks, selecting Florida State edge rusher Jared Verse at No. 19 on the first night of the NFL draft on Thursday. Verse, 23, is the prototypical build for an edge rusher at 6-foot-4 with a 79.5-inch wingspan. He had nine sacks in back-to-back…
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UCLA women’s basketball has landed transfer Charlisse Leger-Walker. The former Washington State guard announced the move on social media on Thursday evening. “Catch me in Pauley,” Leger-Walker said in a post on X. Catch me in Pauley #gobruins pic.twitter.com/G9smZJ4Hof — Charlisse LW (@Char_legerwalks) April 26, 2024 The 5-foot-10 guard who calls Waikato, New Zealand, home…
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GARDEN GROVE — A comfortable lead suddenly turned tenuous for the Cypress baseball team in the final inning of its Empire League finale against Pacifica on Thursday at Pacifica High School. A four-run lead shrunk to two and the Mariners had the bases loaded with no outs when Connor Artasere came in to pitch. He…
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El Modena’s London Aldridge, right, rounds third and sprints toward home with encouragement from the third base coach to score a run in the fifth inning against Foothill in a Crestview League baseball game in Orange on Thursday, April 25, 2024. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) ORANGE – El Modena’s baseball team was not…
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The Los Angeles Rams celebrated having a first round NFL draft pick for the first time since 2016 with a fan extravaganza on Thursday evening, April 25, in Hermosa Beach. Fans who attended the extravaganza watched the broadcast of the draft, which took place in Detroit, while also enjoying football-related activities, music — including a…
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LOS ANGELES — Lakers coach Darvin Ham had a clear message for his team ahead of Game 3 of their first-round playoff series against the Denver Nuggets on Thursday night: don’t lose the pace in the second half. Among the common themes in Games 1 and 2 in Denver, which the Nuggets won to take…
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During the two hours protesters at UC Irvine chanted and marched on campus calling for the university to divest financial ties from Israel on Thursday, there was zero visible presence of officers in uniform. That’s a far cry from the mass pro-Palestinian protest at USC yesterday, where over 200 people showed up and ultimately resulted…
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LOS ANGELES – Not long after he’d led a USC to a win in the 2002 Orange Bowl, the soon-to-be-drafted Carson Palmer sat down with newly-minted agent David Dunn, who pointed out a specific point on the pre-draft timeline: this is when you’ll get picked apart. This was a lay-everything-out conversation, and so Dunn went…
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In California, rattlesnakes bite about 800 people in a typical year; only one or two of those attacks are fatal. The threat usually begins in April and will decrease by September. Rattlesnakes are not confined to rural areas. They have been found near urban areas, rivers, lakes and golf courses. Rattlesnakes do not always rattle…
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LOS ANGELES — Not a twitch of muscle. Not a hint of movement. Ryan Poles’ face was perfectly still, sitting in the Bears’ draft room on Thursday night, as mere minutes ticked away towards a decision that would shape a town in dire need of a savior. The staff next to him, sitting in rolling…
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