The past four years of Dione Barbosa’s life can be described as geometrical, going full circle into an Octagon. The former Brazil Judo National Team member embarked on an ambitious dream less than four years ago in pursuit of a pro MMA career. She left Brazil and moved to Huntington Beach to live and train…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, May 3 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. The deadline for submitting information is 10:45 p.m. Monday through Friday and 10 p.m. Saturday. FRIDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL…
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By BETH HARRIS AP Racing Writer LOUISVILLE, Ky. — Fate has not been kind to Mike Repole in the Kentucky Derby. The outspoken owner is 0 for 7, although he is perhaps best known for his two champions that never made the starting gate. In 2011, Uncle Mo was scratched the day before the race…
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EL SEGUNDO — On some alternate plane of reality, the Kings would have had a skate before Game 6 of their first-round playoff series against the Edmonton Oilers on Friday morning. In the here and now, they were taking physicals while soaking in the gloom of being eliminated by the same opponent for a third…
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LOS ANGELES — After nearly two years away, a major surgery that repaired two parts of his elbow and countless hours of rehab, Walker Buehler craves one thing the most as he gets set to take a major league mound again on Monday. Success and adulation can wait. What Buehler yearns to feel again is…
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CLEVELAND — José Soriano demonstrated immediately that he had corrected what was going so horribly the last time he pitched. One start after Soriano’s control was so bad he didn’t make it out of the second inning, he threw 14 of 17 first-inning pitches for strikes. It was the encouraging beginning to six scoreless innings…
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Los Angeles County probation officials claim the loss of 750 officers from their field offices is creating frustration, long court delays and a lack of oversight for thousands of convicted criminals in the region. Roughly 250 of the officers were temporarily reassigned in March to the county’s troubled, understaffed juvenile halls as part of a…
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Darvin Ham was the definition of Fired Coach Walking for weeks, as it turns out. Even 47 regular-season victories, good enough only for the play-in round in a rugged Western Conference, weren’t enough to save a second-year coach from the expectations of a legacy franchise and its entitled fan base. But the shame shouldn’t lie…
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Through the first third of the MLS regular season, the Los Angeles Football Club, on the whole, has been average. That’s the assessment of LAFC head coach Steve Cherundolo, whose team enters its 11th matchday this weekend situated fifth in the Western Conference and ninth in the Supporters’ Shield race with 15 of a possible…
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Cinco de Mayo celebrates the Mexican victory over the French at the Battle of Puebla, which took place on May 5, 1862. It is not observed as a national holiday in Mexico, but schools in Puebla, where the battle took place, are closed for the day. Mexico’s Independence Day is Sept. 16. A report published…
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