LOS ANGELES — Hear me out, but what if defense … wins championships? Defense definitely won a first-round playoff game Tuesday night. Maybe that notion will help you cope with how offensive you’ve mostly found the Lakers’ offense through two games this postseason. Maybe it will even give you some hope for a run to…
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ANAHEIM — Momentum is only as good as the next game’s starting pitcher. The Angels demonstrated why that is one of baseball’s ultimate truisms on Tuesday night. All the good feelings from their comeback victory on Sunday vanished amid a poor performance from their starting pitcher. Right-hander José Soriano gave up five runs and didn’t…
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Lakers star LeBron James drives to the basket as the Minnesota Timberwolves’ Nickeil Alexander-Walker defends during the second half of Game 2 of their first-round playoff series on Tuesday, April 22, 2025, at Crypto.com Arena. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Orange County Register/SCNG) Lakers head coach JJ Redick calls out from the sideline during the first…
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LOS ANGELES — Heading into the final week of spring practice, the USC football team continues to progress as a whole, getting a better feel for one another while integrating new players and coaches into the program. One group in particular that has been making significant headway are the wide receivers. Standout receivers Makai Lemon…
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CHICAGO — The surrounding neighborhood has been thoroughly gentrified, but Wrigley Field can still show its rough side. Nine innings were barely enough to contain one of the worst starts of Dustin May’s career, a five-run inning from each team and a game-tying home run with two outs in the bottom of the ninth. But…
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LOS ANGELES — Remember the State Farm commercial from a few years ago in which a very-caffeinated and disheveled JJ Redick, who at the time was in the first season of his broadcasting career with ESPN, was in a dark room rambling about how the pick-and-roll is the Pythagorean theorem but in reverse? Redick shed…
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Federal immigration agents detained a group of day laborers on Tuesday morning in Pomona, activists said. “It is not a crime to look for work. It is not a crime to be a day laborer,” Jessica Bansal, an attorney with the National Day Laborer Organizing Network, said on KTLA. Los Angeles County Supervisor Hilda Solis…
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Servite’s Tomas Cernius slides head first to score ahead of the throw to Orange Lutheran catcher Brady Murrietta in the third innning in a Trinity League baseball game in Anaheim on Tuesday, April 22, 2025. (Photo by Paul Rodriguez, Contributing Photographer) Servite’s Nathan Kang, left, is lifted high by a teammate as he returns to…
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If you thought you knew the Stagecoach Country Music Festival, think again. For 2025, Goldenvoice’s beloved country sister festival to the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, the three-day weekend is boldly expanding its borders — not only musically, but culturally and creatively. With a lineup that spans from Zach Bryan and Jelly Roll to…
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Newly elected California Republican Party chair Corrin Rankin visited Orange County this week, urging local GOP leaders to double down on efforts to reclaim congressional ground in 2026. Rankin, who spoke at a meeting of the Orange County Republican Party in Costa Mesa on Monday, April 21, described the region as a launchpad for what…
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