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• Whicker: A circle of life surrounds Tyler Hilinski’s death

  18-01-2018 22:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski (3) hugs teammate wide receiver CJ Dimry after an an NCAA college football game against Boise State in Pullman, Wash., Saturday, Sept. 9, 2017. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski (3) looks for a receiver during the second half of an NCAA college football game against Arizona in Pullman, Wash., Saturday, Nov. 5, 2016. (AP Photo/Young Kwak)Washington State quarterback Tyler Hilinski (3) walks on the field after an NCAA colle
  
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• Bellator 192: ‘Rampage’ vs. Sonnen is worth the weight

  18-01-2018 22:22 via ocregister.com
  
  One of the benefits of fighting as a heavyweight in MMA is a weight cut is usually not involved.
  Sure, some need to get under the 265-pound weight maximum. However, there is no minimum.
  So on Saturday in the main event at Bellator 192 at The Forum, Chael Sonnen will be likely be giving away about 40 pounds to Quinton “Rampage” Jackson in the opening fight of Bellator’s Heavyweight Grand Prix.
  For his part, Jackson isn’t sure what he’ll weigh Friday morning.
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• LAFC, Galaxy turn attention to Friday’s MLS SuperDraft with first two picks

  18-01-2018 22:18 via ocregister.com
  
  It has already been a busy off-season for both Los Angeles Football Club and the Galaxy and it continues today with the MLS SuperDraft.
  LAFC and the Galaxy have the top two picks in today’s draft, which begins at 8 a.m.
  The question surrounding both is will either team trade the pick.
  LAFC general manager John Thorrington confirmed last week that the club has received multiple offers for the first overall pick.
  The options at the top of just about every MLS mock draft include defender Joao
  
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• Football recruiting: Yorba Linda defensive end Michael Callahan offered by Harvard

  18-01-2018 21:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Rising Yorba Linda junior defensive end Michael Callahan (6-4, 240) has been offered by Harvard, Mustangs coach Jeff Bailey reports.
  Bailey was high on the lineman throughout the fall. Callahan finished with six sacks, 49 total tackles and earned first-team All-Crestview League honors.
  “Did very well against everyone,” Bailey said last month of Callahan.
  Please send football recruiting news to Dan Albano at [email protected] or @ocvarsityguy on Twitter 
  
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• Master Suite: why wallpaper makes this room

  18-01-2018 21:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Custom bedding by 27 Diamonds Interior Design adds textures and tones to the room. (Photo by Jeri Koegel)Modern wallpaper by Candice Olson anchors the bed and gives the room visual texture. (Photo by Jeri Koegel)Louisa Lam is a lead designer at 27 Diamonds Interior Design in Westminster. (Courtesy of Julia Va)Show Caption of Expand
  There was once a time when wallpaper was considered dated or “grandma-style,” but those days are long gone. In the realm of interior design — across
  
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• County monitoring Dana Point landslide site where 2-ton boulder smashed into public restroom

  18-01-2018 21:23 via ocregister.com
  
  DANA POINT — Orange County public works officials say they will monitor a cliff area under Cannons Restaurant, after a nearly two-ton boulder dropped Saturday, Jan. 13, smashing into a public restroom below.
  The restroom is across from Baby Beach at the north end of Dana Point Harbor. Since the rock slide, OC Public Works, which manages the harbor and surrounding area, has closed Cove Road and the nearby gazebo at the Sampson Overlook. The area near the bathroom also has been sealed off.
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• Laguna Niguel tables SunPointe development hearing on developer’s request

  18-01-2018 21:19 via ocregister.com
  
  Laguna Niguel City Council unanimously voted to table the public hearing for the controversial SunPointe project – a proposed development of 71 single-family homes – to an unknown date, at its meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 16.
  The developer, Euland Capital Enterprises, LP, requested the continuance and will notify the city when they are ready to place the project on a future City Council agenda. City Council added a caveat that the community and interested parties — including many r
  
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• TJ DeFalco will finish volleyball career at Long Beach State

  18-01-2018 21:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Long Beach State coaches typically do not have to deal with stress over whether a star player is leaving early for the professional ranks, but it’s been on men’s volleyball coach Alan Knipe’s mind since last spring.
  After a stellar sophomore season in 2017 that saw him named the AVCA National Player of the Year, Long Beach State star outside hitter TJ DeFalco was offered a professional contract by a volleyball team in Italy. DeFalco spent a lot of time weighing the decision and
  
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• New restaurant outside San Juan Capistrano depot plans to showcase its fresh tortillas

  18-01-2018 21:07 via ocregister.com
  
  Step off an Amtrak or Metrolink train in San Juan Capistrano, and one of the first things you will see as you walk from the depot is a worker in a small room, in a patio just off the sidewalk, hand-making tortillas.
  Local restaurateur Rob Quest is hoping to make that a signature image for Bueno, Bueno Mexican Kitchen, a restaurant he plans to open at 26762 Verdugo St.
  It’s the vacated site of a former restaurant, Guapas Tapas and Wine Bar. Quest plans to give it a new look to differentiate
  
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• Mater Dei sophomore Cooper Haddad commits to UCLA for water polo

  18-01-2018 21:04 via ocregister.com
  
  Mater Dei water polo player Cooper Haddad, part of Orange County’s strong crop of sophomores, has committed to reigning NCAA champion UCLA, outgoing coach Chris Segesman confirmed.
  Haddad, a right-handed attacker, helped Mater Dei capture CIF-SS Division 1 and SoCal regional titles in the fall.
  A third-team All-County selection in December, Haddad finished as Mater Dei’s second-leading scorer with 49 goals. He also added 45 assists and played some of his best water polo in the p
  
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• Anaheim Hills teacher's lesson of giving inspires student to...

  18-01-2018 20:26
  Third grader Will Scott, center, receiving a check from GoFundMe for his Toys for Tots fundraising efforts. From left are his second-grade teacher, Linda Staake, Hephatha Lutheran School Principal Erik Dyke and the Scott family.
  
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• Corona del Mar man crashes into tree, dies near Temecula

  18-01-2018 19:25 via ocregister.com
  
  California Highway Patrol authorities are investigating a crash that killed a 68-year-old Corona del Mar man Tuesday in the community of De Luz near Temecula, officials said.
  The unidentified man was driving his 2007 Volkswagen south on De Luz Road near Via Vaquero Road around 11:45 p.m. Tuesday, according to a press release.
  The man was speeding, the CHP statement said, when for unknown reasons, he crossed the double-yellow line, went off the road and crashed into a tree.
  Paramedics took the ma
  
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• Best thing I ate: Japanese barbecue mushrooms

  18-01-2018 19:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Nobody goes to a Japanese barbecue restaurant for the vegetables. This is just a fact. If you find yourself eating Japanese barbecue, it’s because you like meat.
  And if you like Japanese Wagyu, the richly marbled beef at Tsuruhashi in Fountain Valley is some of the best in that genre. But it was something else on the menu at Tsuruhashi that made my recent meal here particularly memorable: mushrooms.
  I begrudgingly ordered the mushrooms because none of the other vegetables on the menu sound
  
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• Marine being held in connection with fatal stabbing of another Marine at Camp Pendleton

  18-01-2018 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  CAMP PENDLETON — Officials from the Naval Criminal Investigative Service are looking into to what led to the fatal stabbing of a Marine at the base’s School of Infantry.
  Another Marine is being held in a jail on base in connection with the fatal stabbing.
  The stabbing occurred Tuesday, Jan. 16, and left Marine Private First Class Ethan Andrew Barclay-Weberpal, 18, dead at the scene, said Capt. Joshua Pena, from the U.S. Marine Corps Training Command in Quantico, Va. First respon
  
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• Black Gold golf course is making a profit for the city of Yorba Linda

  18-01-2018 18:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Two key topics were among the several subjects covered in a recently released report on Yorba Linda’s city-owned Black Gold Golf Club: the 219-acre facility continues to return a profit and a seven-year transition to Kikuyu grass has saved millions of gallons of water.
  Revenue for the 2016-17 fiscal year approached $5.8 million, resulting in $629,719 in income after expenses. Course improvements totaled $267,761, leaving a net income of $361,958, according to the written report from Parks
  
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• Irvine misses on Amazon HQ2, but mayor offers to help Los Angeles

  18-01-2018 18:31 via ocregister.com
  
  While Orange County has failed to advance in the race for Amazon’s coveted second headquarters, the city of Irvine is not bowing out yet.
  The Seattle-based e-commerce giant announced Thursday, Jan. 18 it had narrowed its list of North American cities to 20 possible locations for what’s been dubbed “HQ2.” Los Angeles was the only California city to make the list.
  No. 8 Seattle: $330 billion in GDP, No. 11 in size. 5-year growth: 3.66 percent a year. (Photo by Elaine Thomps
  
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• Football: Westminster’s Ted McMillen resigns after 21 seasons

  18-01-2018 17:54 via ocregister.com
  
  Westminster football coach Ted McMillen, one of the longest tenured coaches in Orange County, has resigned, he confirmed Thursday.
  McMillen started at Westminster in 1997 and compiled a 136-99-1 record. He guided the Lions to nine league titles.
  “Twenty-one years is a long time,” he said. “It was a great run.”
  Westminster finished 9-3 this past season and reached the second round of the CIF-SS Division 11 playoffs, losing to Covina, 42-28.
  McMillen, 50, said he will remai
  
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• See you in September… Well, August, as Los Alamitos Unified moves up start date

  18-01-2018 17:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Following a trend set by other school districts in the state, Los Alamitos Unified will start its school year in early August – beginning this summer.
  The district’s recently announced 2018-19 calendar will hold big changes. School doors will open Aug. 8, ending summer vacation nearly three weeks earlier than this school year’s Aug. 30 start date.
  The school year will end May 30, 2019, two weeks earlier than this year’s finale.
  The new schedule also will include a bo
  
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• Brainiac considers In-N-Out burgers and marijuana cultivation

  18-01-2018 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  In-N-Out Burger CEO stands outside a restaurant in Rancho Santa Margarita. If all goes well she’ll soon be able to stand outside another new In-N-Out on Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove. (Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register)Servers dish out burgers and fries for customer’s during the grand opening of In-N-Out’s 300th restaurant in Anaheim several years ago. The company now is looking to open a restaurant on Harbor Boulevard in Garden Grove. (JOSHUA SUDOCK, STAFF PHOTOGRAPHER)
  
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• NAMM 2018: The annual trade show stays ahead of the curve in the ever-evolving music industry

  18-01-2018 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  As the music industry rapidly changes, the annual NAMM Show (National Association of Music Merchants) is evolving right alongside it. The trade show, which isn’t open to the general public, has taken place at the Anaheim Convention Center since 1978 and now draws more than100,000 registrants from the global music industry to check out and share the latest innovations in musical products, recording technology, sound, lighting and more.
  The NAMM Show will kick-off on Thursday, Jan.
  
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• In Fullerton, Maverick’s ‘Elvis ’68’ tops the charts

  18-01-2018 15:55 via ocregister.com
  
  Elvis Presley impersonators have proliferated for decades, but if you’re gonna re-create a crucial event in the mega-star’s life, finding a good one is a necessary evil.
  The Maverick Theater stage show “Elvis ’68” does exactly that, and in singer and actor Casey Ryan, writer-director Brian Newell has the ideal Elvis stand-in.
  Ryan isn’t a physical dead ringer, but his body language, gestures and overall physicality carry him, even where his vocals or expressio
  
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• Los Angeles a finalist for Amazon’s second headquarters

  18-01-2018 15:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon is narrowing the list of cities under consideration for its second headquarters to 20, with the largest concentration in the Northeast.
  Amazon, based in Seattle, plans to invest $5 billion in the new headquarters and could employ as many as 50,000 people in and around the city it chooses.
  Cities are in fierce competition to lure Amazon, which has revolutionized the way people shop.
  The list released on Thursday includes the cities of Atlanta, Austin, Texas, Boston, Chicago, Dallas, Denver
  
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• Amazon includes LA in top 20 contenders for second headquarters

  18-01-2018 15:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Amazon is looking for a second headquarters, and it encouraged cities across the country to make their case.
  By JOSEPH PISANIAP Retail Writer
  NEW YORK — Amazon, which is on the hunt for a second home, said Thursday that it narrowed its choices to 20 locations from the 238 proposals it received, and Los Angeles remains in the running.
  The online retailer kicked off its hunt for a place to build a second headquarters in September, sparking a fierce competition among cities across North Ameri
  
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• A roadmap to a third gate at Disneyland needs Gardenwalk

  18-01-2018 15:34
  The property Gardenwalk sits on today is key part of the future of the Disneyland Resort and the company might have a second chance at acquiring it. Sandwiched between two busy Anahiem roads where there isn't a lot of foot traffic, the GardenWalk complex has struggled with finding a profitable niche for its owners and vendors.
  
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• No-burn order due to high pollution covers most of Southern California

  18-01-2018 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
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  LOS ANGELES — A “no-burn” order will be in effect today across much of the Southland due to anticipated high pollution levels as colder and potentially wet weather approaches the area.
  The South Coast Air Quality Management District issued the order, which affects most residences in the South Coast Air Basin, nearly all of Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties. The ban will be in effect until 11:59 p.m. Monday.
  The order excludes
  
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• Pharrell and N.E.R.D., Barenaked Ladies and Fergie tapped for talent at the NBA 2018 All-Star Game

  18-01-2018 15:22 via ocregister.com
  
  For its 67th year, the NBA 2018 All-Star Game has revealed its national anthem singers and halftime performers for the game on Sunday, Feb. 18 at Staples Center in Los Angeles.
  Actress, singer-songwriter and former Black Eyed Peas member Fergie will sing the U.S. national anthem while Ontario-based rock band Barenaked Ladies will sing the Canadian national anthem.
  For the halftime talent, singer-songwriter, producer and former “The Voice” coach Pharrell Williams will perform solo as
  
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• Has #MeToo gone too far? Aziz Ansari story sparks debate

  18-01-2018 14:53 via ocregister.com
  
  The publication of an account by a woman identified only as “Grace” detailing her 2017 encounter with comedian Aziz Ansari intimated that Ansari deserved inclusion in the ranks of abusive perpetrators, yet many readers — women and men — concluded the encounter amounted to an all-too-common instance of bad sex during a date gone awry. (Photo by Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP)
  By DAVID CRARY and TAMARA LUSHAssociated Press
  The #MeToo movement has been embraced by legions of wom
  
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• Trump insists his views on a border wall have not ‘evolved’

  18-01-2018 14:40 via ocregister.com
  
  By ALAN FRAM and ANDREW TAYLOR
  WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump insisted Thursday his views on a border wall with Mexico have not evolved, pushing back against his own chief of staff’s comments to lawmakers.
  Trump said on Twitter: “The Wall is the Wall, it has never changed or evolved from the first day I conceived of it.”
  Some Democrats who met with White House chief of staff John Kelly on Wednesday say Kelly told them parts of the border don’t need a wall &mdas
  
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• Buena Park home prices up 53 % in 5 years: How’s that rank nationally?

  18-01-2018 09:59 via ocregister.com
  
  Some statistics on how Buena Park housing looks compared to the rest of the nation in Zillow’s eyes.
  The online housing tracker’s national databases can help add some perspective to the high price of local living.
  As of November, for example, Orange County real estate by Zillow’s math — the No. 5 nationally in housing market size — has a median home value of $696,200, 13th highest in the 1,700-plus U.S. counties tracked. That’s after surging 44.7 percent
  
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• Cal State Fullerton students get to tell businesses a thing or two

  18-01-2018 09:50 via ocregister.com
  
  Typically in this world, the old teach the young.
  The veterans train the novices.
  Jedi masters instruct padawans.
  But the CSUF Consulting program turns that on its head.
  Amanda Martinez, a stylist at Artistic Hair salon in Orange, led a student team from Cal State Fullerton’s business school that offered suggestions for improving hiring and training of millennials at the salon. (Photo by Kyusung Gong, Contributing Photographer)Amanda Martinez, right, is a stylist at Artistic Hair in Orange
  
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• Long Beach State can’t keep pace with UC Davis’ Siler Schneider

  18-01-2018 09:49 via ocregister.com
  
  DAVIS — Gabe Levin led Long Beach State with 18 points, but first-half foul trouble and a career night from UC Davis junior Siler Schneider helped the host Aggies defeat the 49ers 84-75 in a key Big West Conference game Wednesday night.
  Schneider scored a career-high 29 points to go with six assists and former Tustin High standout TJ Shorts II added 17 points for the Aggies (12-6, 3-1).
  Schneider had a traditional three-point play and a 3-pointer, A.J. John made a 3-pointer and a layup and
  
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• Cal State Fullerton student abroad finds world to be both vast and small

  18-01-2018 09:43 via ocregister.com
  
  By Tran Dang
  I was in for an adventure when my plane landed and I met three other Cal State Fullerton students who I would spend quality time with during the fall semester in a foreign country. The four of us had enrolled in a study-abroad program with limited information about the institute where we would be studying.
  Little did we know, Dong-Ah Institute of Media and Arts is one of the most prestigious art institutes in South Korea. According to some performing arts students, there is a one in
  
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• Cal State Fullerton student musicians jazz up the day for older adults

  18-01-2018 09:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Jazz pianist Christine Araoka, front, introduces her jazz trio, Inner Prism, to the audience at a CSUF School of Music concert for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Mackey Auditorium at the Ruby Gerontology Center at CSUF on Jan. 16. At left is Michael Barrera on drums and Freddy Uyehara on bass. (Photo by Leonard Ortiz, Orange County Register/SCNG)The jazz trio Inner Prism performs at a CSUF School of Music concert for the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute in Mackey Auditorium at the Rub
  
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• Cal State Fullerton event promotes making art inclusive

  18-01-2018 09:17 via ocregister.com
  
  Those who inspire the next generation of artists and art lovers gathered Jan. 13 at Cal State Fullerton to learn new techniques and trends.
  The “Arts at the Center” conference focused on the theme “Building Inclusive Practices,” emphasizing that the arts offer opportunities to build inclusive learning environments, said Andrea Guillaume, Cal State Fullerton professor of elementary and bilingual education.
  CSUF faculty and alumni, and artists from Segerstrom Center for the
  
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• Cal State Fullerton antibiotic-resistance researcher receives statewide award

  18-01-2018 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  This year’s Andreoli Faculty Service Award, open to faculty throughout the CSU system, went to a CSUF biological science professor who has dedicated more than 30 years to studying novel treatments in the global fight against bacterial diseases, especially antibiotic resistance, identified as one of the greatest threats to human health.
  Marcelo Tolmasky was chosen for his work in molecular microbiology, his “great dedication” to mentoring students in his biotechnology lab on cam
  
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• Antibiotic-resistance researcher receives statewide award

  18-01-2018 09:07 via ocregister.com
  
  This year’s Andreoli Faculty Service Award, open to faculty throughout the CSU system, went to a CSUF biological science professor who has dedicated more than 30 years to studying novel treatments in the global fight against bacterial diseases, especially antibiotic resistance, identified as one of the greatest threats to human health.
  Marcelo Tolmasky was chosen for his work in molecular microbiology, his “great dedication” to mentoring students in his biotechnology lab on cam
  
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• Cal State Fullerton women’s basketball off to 2-2 league start

  18-01-2018 08:53 via ocregister.com
  
  Cal State Fullerton’s record was 7-10 overall and 2-2 in the Big West Conference through Saturday.
  The Titans play at Cal State Northridge Thursday night.
  Fans cheer as Cal State Fullerton’s Daeja Smith leaves the court after the Titans’ 67-61 victory over Long Beach State in Fullerton on Thursday, Jan. 11, 2018. (Photo by Kevin Sullivan Orange County Register/SCNG)Cal State Fullerton cheerleaders entertain the crowd during the Titans’ 67-61 victory over Long Beach State
  
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• 1 dead, 2 injured in Norwalk shooting

  18-01-2018 08:18 via ocregister.com
  
  NORWALK — One man was killed and two others were wounded Wednesday afternoon in a shooting that occurred during a fight with another group of men in Norwalk.
  The shooting was reported at 5:07 p.m. in the 11000 block of Ferina Street, according to Deputy Trina Schrader of the Sheriff’s Information Bureau.
  The trio of victims engaged in an argument with another group of men, which then turned physical. One man in the suspect group pulled out a handgun and fired multiple rounds, Schrade
  
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• UC Santa Barbara hands Cal State Fullerton its first conference loss

  18-01-2018 08:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA BARBARA — The Cal State Fullerton men’s basketball team had a chance to do something it hadn’t done in nearly 40 years on Wednesday night, but a UC Santa Barbara team that hasn’t lost a home game all season quickly squelched that idea.
  Max Heidegger scored 24 points and UCSB dealt Fullerton its first Big West Conference loss, 83-64 on Wednesday night. The Titans were trying to start 5-0 in conference play for the first time in 39 years.
  Heidegger, the conf
  
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• Clippers rally past Nuggets for their 6th consecutive win

  18-01-2018 07:33 via ocregister.com
  
  LA Clippers forward Wesley Johnson #33 looks to pass the ball around Denver Nuggets forward Trey Lyles #7 in the first half. The Los Angeles Clippers played the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center in Los Angeles, CA 1/017/2018 (Photo by John McCoy, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)Denver Nuggets guard Jamal Murray #27 can’t rebound the ball against LA Clippers forward Blake Griffin #32 LA Clippers center Willie Reed #35 and LA Clippers guard Tyrone Wallace #12 in the 2nd quarter. The Los Angeles C
  
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• Roundup: Garden Grove stretches streak to 14 games

  18-01-2018 07:25 via ocregister.com
  
  Garden Grove pushed its winning streak to 14 games with an 85-78 home win over Santiago in a Garden Grove League game Wednesday.
  The Argonauts, 19-1 overall and 3-0 in league, were led by Sebastian Castro’s 28 points. Jordan Harris added 23 points for Garden Grove.
  In the Golden West League:
  Ocean View 74, Westminster 53: Paul Head scored 35 points with eight assists and Mehkel Harvey scored 13 with 20 rebounds for the visiting Sea Hawks (16-4, 3-0).
  In the Orange Coast League:
  No. 7 Lagun
  
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• Ducks stun Penguins with strong 2nd period to begin key homestand

  18-01-2018 07:15 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Biff! Bam! Pow! Wow!
  The Ducks are about grinding and grinding and grinding. Wearing teams down. If they could, they’d try to grind the opposition into the frozen ice. But with the Stanley Cup champions in town and a national audience watching, the hosts showed they had the capacity to unload on a foe.
  The Anaheim Ducks’ Antoine Vermette looks for the puck in front of the Pittsburgh Penguins’ Justin Schultz during the first period at Honda Center in Anaheim on W
  
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• Joey Davis hungry to keep winning at Bellator 192

  18-01-2018 05:56 via ocregister.com
  
  Joey Davis never forgets where he’s from. He’s Compton through and through.
  If you’re looking for a reason why and how Davis was able to go 133-0 at Division II Notre Dame College in South Euclid, Ohio — only the third collegiate wrestler at any level to go unbeaten all four years — it’s always been because of Compton.
  “People thought I was inhuman. I would do the same thing as every other kid. I just had a different motor in my brain,” the former
  
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• Kline, Esperanza find way to get 1-0 soccer victory over Villa Park

  18-01-2018 05:28 via ocregister.com
  
  ORANGE – Madison Kline’s goal in the 25th minute held up as Esperanza’s girls soccer team defeated Villa Park 1-0 in a nonleague match Wednesday at El Modena High.
  With the victory, the Aztecs (8-2-2) snapped the four-game winning streak for the Spartans, who are ranked No. 3 in CIF SS Division 2.
  Esperanza, the defending Crestview League champs, passed well and controlled possession throughout most of the match.
  Villa Park (13-4-1) had a golden opportunity to score 30 seconds
  
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• NBA suspends Rockets’ Trevor Ariza, Gerald Green 2 games for entering Clippers’ locker room

  18-01-2018 05:22 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin was in the Clippers’ starting lineup for Wednesday’s game against the Denver Nuggets at Staples Center, avoiding supplementary discipline from the NBA for his role during a heated ending to Monday’s victory over the Houston Rockets.
  Trevor Ariza and Gerald Green of the Rockets weren’t so fortunate. They will be suspended by the league for home games Thursday against the Minnesota Timberwolves and Saturday against the Golden State Warriors
  
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• Roundup: Esperanza water polo continues to emerge by defeating Valencia

  18-01-2018 05:15 via ocregister.com
  
  Esperanza’s girls water polo team on Wednesday continued to enrich a father-daughter tale that it hopes reaches the playoffs.
  Junior center Addison Scharr scored five goals and Lexi Raichel added 10 steals as the host Aztecs sprinted past Empire League contender Valencia 13-5 in a nonleague match at Esperanza.
  The Aztecs (11-5) have emerged as a potential playoff team in CIF-SS Division 4 under first-year coach Ashley Diaz, daughter of veteran Esperanza coach Galen Diaz, who led the school
  
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• Why can’t the Lakers win without Lonzo Ball, and will they ever?

  18-01-2018 04:56 via ocregister.com
  
  OKLAHOMA CITY — The Lakers are at their most consistent without Lonzo Ball.
  Eight games, eight losses.
  So, can it really be that simple? That despite all of the distractions that come with the 20-year-old point guard’s family, despite his screwy and often ineffectual jump shot, the Lakers need Ball to win?
  Or is it just a cause of correlation vs. causation?
  “I think it’s much harder to win without Lonzo, but it’s not impossible,” Walton said. “There&rsqu
  
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• Grandmother of 13 siblings found captive in Perris: ‘They are the sweetest family’

  18-01-2018 04:43 via ocregister.com
  
  The siblings called each other “sweetie.” They never argued. They looked healthy. And everything seemed to be fine.
  That’s how Betty and James Turpin remember their grandchildren from a five-day visit to California a half-dozen years ago.
  “We’re still in shock,” Betty Turpin said of allegations that her grandchildren were held captive, and in the wake of her son and daughter-in-law getting arrested on charges of suspicion of torture and child endangerment.
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• Lonzo-less Lakers struggle in another lopsided loss to the Thunder

  18-01-2018 04:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Oklahoma City Thunder guard Russell Westbrook (0) goes to the basket as Los Angeles Lakers guard Josh Hart (5) defends in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Oklahoma City Thunder forward Jerami Grant, right, dunks in front of Los Angeles Lakers forward Larry Nance Jr., left, in the first half of an NBA basketball game in Oklahoma City, Wednesday, Jan. 17, 2018. (AP Photo/Sue Ogrocki)Los Angeles Lakers forward Brandon Ingram
  
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• Former Angel star Doug DeCinces testifies in insider-trading trial that he made “a huge mistake”

  18-01-2018 04:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Faced with more than $1 million in stock-market profit tied to a merger involving a company owned by a close friend, former Angel star Doug DeCinces testified Wednesday that all he could think about was having made a huge mistake.
  DeCinces, 67, during his first full day of testimony in the federal insider-trading trial of Laguna Beach neighbor James Mazzo, admitted to receiving insider information about a pending buyout of a medical-device company that Mazzo owned –
  
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