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• Candace Parker scores 5,000th career point, nearly collects triple double in Sparks’ victory over Mercury

  05-08-2018 21:59 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Candace Parker had a big day on Sunday while leading the Sparks to a 78-75 victory over the Phoenix Mercury at Staples Center.
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  Parker had 14 points, 14 rebounds and eight assists and eclipsed 5,000 points for her career for the Sparks (17-11), who won for the third time in four games.
  Sitting on 4,999 points with 5:14 left in the second quarter, Parker hit two free th
  
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• Royer scores twice as Red Bulls beat LAFC

  05-08-2018 21:46 via ocregister.com
  
  HARRISON, N.J. (AP) — Daniel Royer scored two goals to help the New York Red Bulls beat Los Angeles FC 2-1 on Sunday night.
  New York has won four of its last five.
  Royer tapped home a pass from Bradley Wright-Phillips to give the Red Bulls (14-6-2) the lead for good in the 80th minute. Wright-Phillips ran onto a long, arcing pass from Marc Rzatkowski at the top of the box, took a couple dribbles and fed Royer for a first-timer into an open net.
  Royer opened the scoring in the 39th. Michael
  
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• O.C. surfers Courtney Conlogue, Kanoa Igarashi take US Open of Surfing titles

  05-08-2018 21:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Kanoa Igarashi is euphoric after winning the US Open of Surfing for the second year in a row in Huntington Beach on Sunday, Aug5, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  Courtney Conlogue of Santa Ana wins the US Open of Surfing for women in Huntington Beach on Sunday, Aug5, 2018. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCourtney Conlogue of Santa Ana wins the US Open of Surfing for women in Huntington Beach on Sunday, Aug5, 2
  
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• Whicker: Dodgers need everyone to follow Joc Pederson’s turnaround

  05-08-2018 20:43 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Matt Kemp was a .318 hitter on July. He hits .290 now.
  Max Muncy has one hit in his past 10 games, along with 23 strikeouts. Ross Stripling is out with a convenient toe injury, but he gave up nine earned runs in 8-2/3 innings before that.
  The saviors of the first half have stepped back.The Dodgers are back to their original cast, plus Manny Machado and Brian Dozier, their trade pickups.
  Machado probably had his most skilled offensive game since he’s been here, with thre
  
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• Dodgers being cautious with Yasiel Puig and the pain in his side

  05-08-2018 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – Not quite three weeks after he injured an oblique muscle in his right side, Yasiel Puig was back in the Dodgers’ lineup. It seemed like a short period of time for an oblique injury to heal.
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  Maybe it was.
  Puig was out of the Dodgers’ lineup Sunday and could be unavailable when the Dodgers face the Oakland A’s in a two-
  
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• Best bets for TV sports watching this week

  05-08-2018 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  TV BEST BET100th PGA Championship, Bellerive CC, St. LouisThursday-Sunday, TNT and CBS
  There was a moment in golf when fans and media observers worried that the success of Tiger Woods might have a negative impact on the future of the sport. While he certainly drew eyeballs, a dynastic player could make the competition less than relevant, which certainly was the case for the first decade of the new century.
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• Smaller fighters bring huge success to UFC 227 at Staples Center

  05-08-2018 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Two fantastic rematch title fights put an exclamation point on a sold-out UFC 227 on Saturday night at Staples Center.
  One bout brought a result the world hadn’t seen in nearly seven years.
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  Henry Cejudo ended Demetrious Johnson’s UFC record of 11 consecutive title defenses to wrestle the flyweight title away from 125-pound royalty.
  The other was eeri
  
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• Camp Pendleton fire quickly swells to 600 acres

  05-08-2018 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A brushfire broke out Sunday in the central area of Camp Pendleton and quickly spread to more than 600 acres.
  Officials at the sprawling U.S. Marine Corps base tweeted around noon that a three-acre fire had broken out on Wilcox Range. An hour later, they announced the fire had spread to 100 acres. By 3:30 p.m., the acerage had jumped to 600.
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  It wasn’t clear if any s
  
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• Camp Pendleton fire quickly swells, at 1,000 acres

  05-08-2018 18:37 via ocregister.com
  
  A brushfire broke out Sunday in the central area of Camp Pendleton and quickly spread, and by Sunday night was at 1,000 acres.
  Camp Pendleton officials said it was 50 percent contained.
  Officials at the sprawling U.S. Marine Corps base tweeted around noon that a three-acre fire had broken out on Wilcox Range. An hour later, they announced the fire had spread to 100 acres. By 3:30 p.m., the acerage had jumped to 600.
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• Dodgers take narrow win to avoid sweep in rematch with Houston Astros

  05-08-2018 18:13 via ocregister.com
  
  Houston Astros’ Tony Kemp, right, celebrates his solo home run with Gerrit Cole during the fifth inning of a baseball game against the Los Angeles Dodgers in Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)
  Los Angeles Dodgers’ Manny Machado, left, gets tangled up with Houston Astros starting pitcher Gerrit Cole as he scores on an RBI double by Cody Bellinger during the third inning of a baseball game in Los Angeles, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018. (AP Photo/Kyusung Gong)SoundThe gal
  
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• UCLA tight end Caleb Wilson ready to recapture 2017’s early-season magic

  05-08-2018 17:20 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — A trainer chased Caleb Wilson into the Rose Bowl tunnel. Wilson, dressed in full pads with his right sock and shoe removed, hopped feverishly on one foot. His arms pumped by his sides, his hair flapped with each hop. He had worked too hard to be seen driving away on the back of an injury cart.Lord knows how hard I was trying to get back on the field with my brothers that night. Thankful to be back though #NoCart #NoCrutches pic.twitter.com/TEyIfKqA3Q
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• At International Surf Festival, the sand ‘castles’ are upstaged by octopus, mermaid, shark and more

  05-08-2018 15:35 via ocregister.com
  
   By Louis Casiano, contributing reporter
  Brian Denny and his two sons couldn’t contain their shock Sunday.
  The trio had just been announced as the group winner of the of the International Surf Festival’s sand castle design contest for their creation of a giant 10-tentacled octopus.
  Along with 200 competitors, teams and individuals gathered near the Manhattan Beach Pier. around 7:30 a.m. for the 58th edition of the sand castle contest. It was all part of the annual 5-day Internat
  
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• Injury-depleted Angels fall behind early, can’t catch up to Indians

  05-08-2018 15:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Cleveland Indians’ Leonys Martin reaches but can’t get to a ball hit by Los Angeles Angels’ David Fletcher in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, in Cleveland. Fletcher hit a single and advanced to second base on Martin’s error. (AP Photo/Tony Dejak)
  Cleveland Indians’ Melky Cabrera jumps to catch a ball hit by Los Angeles Angels’ Shohei Ohtani in the fourth inning of a baseball game, Sunday, Aug. 5, 2018, in Cleveland. Ohtani was out o
  
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• Familiar faces return to the winner’s circle at 56th Annual Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim in Manhattan Beach

  05-08-2018 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  By David Rice, contributing reporter
  MANHATTAN BEACH >> The seaside waters teeming with early-morning competitors, the 56th Annual Dwight Crum Pier-to-Pier Swim drew its biggest field ever Sunday
  More than 1,300 racers swam the 2.2 miles of open ocean from the Hermosa Beach Pier to the Manhattan Beach Pier, one of the marquee events of The International Surf Festival, the annual five-day celebration of seaside life in Manhattan, Redondo and Hermosa beaches.
  Ryan Bullock, 34 – a Fort
  
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• 5 killed in plane crash in Santa Ana parking lot

  05-08-2018 15:03 via ocregister.com
  
  SANTA ANA – Five people were killed when a twin-engine aircraft crashed near the South Coast Plaza shopping center today.
  It was not clear if anyone was hurt on the ground, as the plane went down and hit at least one unoccupied car, Orange County Fire Authority Capt. Steve Concialdi said.
  The plane went down at about 12:29 p.m. into the parking lot of a Staples Supercenter, 3861 S. Bristol St. The nearby intersection of Sunflower Avenue at Bristol Street was closed in all four directions n
  
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• Hard Summer Music Festival is back and these photos show you what it’s like

  05-08-2018 14:51 via ocregister.com
  
  The Hard Summer Music Festival celebrated its 11th installment by returning to Auto Club Speedway in Fontana for the first time since 2016.
  The festival, which had a lineup of both notable electronic dance music acts and rap stars, started in Los Angeles and has been staged around Southern California over the last decade.
  Fireworks go off as Troyboi performs on the Harder stage during Hard Summer at Auto Club Speedway inFontana on Saturday, August 4, 2018. (Photo by Watchara Phomicinda, The Pres
  
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• Video: Krys Barnes on UCLA’s new defensive mentality

  05-08-2018 14:33 via ocregister.com
  
  Linebacker Krys Barnes talks about the new, aggressive mentality the Bruins are taking on defense, working with Josh Woods at middle linebacker and how he battled pneumonia last year.Related Articles Video: Caleb Wilson talks about return from injury Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 3 Chip Kelly doesn’t have timeline for UCLA quarterback race Video: Dorian Thompson-Robinson calls UCLA training camp ‘a blast’ Video: Wilton Speight says transferring to UCLA was &ls
  
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• Video: Caleb Wilson talks about return from injury

  05-08-2018 14:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Tight end Caleb Wilson talks about the season-ending foot injury that stopped him last year, what it’s like to return to the field after so long and how he’s doing with the new tempo of practice.Related Articles Video: Krys Barnes on UCLA’s new defensive mentality Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 3 Chip Kelly doesn’t have timeline for UCLA quarterback race Video: Dorian Thompson-Robinson calls UCLA training camp ‘a blast’ Video: Wilton Speight s
  
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• Highlights from UCLA football training camp Day 3

  05-08-2018 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  UCLA’s put on shoulder pads for the first time during training camp Sunday, the third day of fall camp under Kelly. Here are a few notes from periods that were open to the media:
  Attire: Shoulder pads and shorts
  Injury notes
  Atonio Mafi was in a yellow noncontact jersey for the third straight day. The 380-pound defensive lineman is carrying an Achilles injury from high school. Chip Kelly said he’s “on a pitch count.”
  Receiver Audie Omotosho and defensive Otito Ogbonnia we
  
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• Rams training camp observations: Here’s what Aaron Donald has missed so far

  05-08-2018 12:52 via ocregister.com
  
  Running Back, Malcolm Brown runs the ball during Rams training camp on Saturday, August 4, 2018 in Irvine.
  (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)
  Running Back Todd Gurley II runs it up the middle during Rams training camp on Saturday, August 4, 2018 in Irvine.
  (Photo by Michael Fernandez, Contributing Photographer)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsQuarterback, Jared Goff runs a play during Rams training camp on Saturday, August 4, 2018 in Irvine.
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• Another heat wave brings high wildfire threat to Southern California

  05-08-2018 12:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Southern California is bracing for another heat wave of above-100-degree temperatures, hot winds, and low humidity, with Orange County fire officials warning people who live near wildlands to prepare for evacuation if a brush fire breaks out near their homes.
  Red flag warnings were set Sunday, Aug. 5 for Los Angeles and Ventura County mountains and for portions of Santa Barbara County, lasting into Tuesday.
  The National Weather Service issued an excessive heat watch from Santa Barbara to Sa
  
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• Struggling Luis Valbuena cut loose by Angels

  05-08-2018 11:44 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — The Angels could not wait for Luis Valbuena any more.
  On Sunday morning they designated Valbuena for assignment, ending a mostly disappointing two-season run with the Angels.
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  Valbuena, 32, hit exactly .199 in each of his two seasons. This year, though, his OPS dropped from .727 to .588, as he wasn’t even mixing in as many homers and walks as he had last year.
  Valb
  
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• Angels cut loose struggling Luis Valbuena

  05-08-2018 11:44 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — The Angels could not wait for Luis Valbuena any more.
  On Sunday morning they designated Valbuena for assignment, ending a mostly disappointing two-season run with the Angels.
  Valbuena, 32, hit exactly .199 in each of his two seasons. This year, though, his OPS dropped from .727 to .588, as he wasn’t even mixing in as many homers and walks as he had last year.
  Valbuena hit 22 homers last season, boosted by a hot streak just after the All-Star break. This season he hit nine
  
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• Venezuelan President Maduro says drone attack was an attempt to kill him

  05-08-2018 11:29 via ocregister.com
  
  CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro dodged an apparent assassination attempt when drones armed with explosives detonated while he was delivering a speech to hundreds of soldiers being broadcast live on television, officials said.
  Caught by surprise mid-speech, Maduro and his wife, Cilia Flores, looked up at the sky and winced Saturday after hearing the sound of an explosion pierce the air.
  “This was an attempt to kill me,” he said later in an impassioned re
  
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• Angels manager Mike Scioscia denies report that he will step down at the end of this season

  05-08-2018 10:31 via ocregister.com
  
  CLEVELAND — A day after a report that Mike Scioscia is “expected” to step down as Angels manager at the end of the season, the longtime manager vehemently denied that he’s made any decisions, going so far as to call the report “poppycock.”
  On Saturday night, noted baseball writer Ken Rosenthal published a story in the Athletic citing major league sources who indicated that Scioscia was expected to to be done as Angels manager at the end of this season, which i
  
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• Don’t miss these 3 acts at the 2018 Long Beach Jazz Festival

  05-08-2018 10:11 via ocregister.com
  
  For fans of jazz, the Long Beach Jazz Festival is known as the place to go if you want a little bit of it all, from R&B, Latin, and funk, to smooth and straight-ahead subgenres.
  Once again the three-day festival will deliver that diversity when it returns to Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach Aug.10-12 with a lineup featuring more than a dozen musicians.
  It will be a full weekend of music, so just to give you a taste of the diverse jazz lineup, here’s our can’t miss artist for eac
  
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• This startup finds you a home and roommates – plus ‘kegs and eggs’

  05-08-2018 09:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Nick Woodward, a 29-year-old neuroscience researcher, has always felt cramped when he’s had to share an apartment.
  In April, he moved into a furnished, six-bedroom house in Silver Lake. He’s sharing it, too, but without that feeling of lost personal space. Or other headaches.
  For one thing, he didn’t have to find his roommates.
  That task was handled by Bungalow, a startup that leased the house, furnished it, then rented it to Woodward and other young professionals, including a
  
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• Lance Bass says he’s ‘heartbroken’ to lose the Brady Bunch house to a ‘Hollywood studio’

  05-08-2018 09:10 via ocregister.com
  
  A “heartbroken” Lance Bass took to Twitter late Saturday night to say bye, bye, bye to the Brady Bunch house.
  He’s losing out to a Hollywood Studio that wants to buy the iconic home, he said.
  “The agent representing the estate informed us we made the winning bid, which was WAY over the asking price,” the former *NSYNC singer said in a lengthy tweet.
  But he wrote, the following day, “The same agent informed us there’s another corporate buyer (Hollywood st
  
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• ‘Idyllwild wasn’t burning:’ Shops, inns aim to bounce back after Cranston fire

  05-08-2018 09:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Like many shop owners around Idyllwild, Bryan Tallent and John Stonitsch closed their unusual store that features dozens of varieties of jerky, jam and hot sauce while the Cranston fire raged recently near the artsy, rustic hamlet in the San Jacinto Mountains.
  After reopening a few days later, foot traffic at Coyote Red’s remained uncharacteristically slow for the busy summer season.
  “We just had our first sale this morning,” Tallent said Wednesday, Aug. 1. “And they were
  
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• OC Fair 2018: Things to do today, Aug. 5

  05-08-2018 08:30 via ocregister.com
  
  Headed to the fair today? Here are some things to know.
  Hours: 11 a.m. to midnight
  Admission: $14 adults; $7 ages 60 and older, $7 ages 6 to 12; free 5 and younger
  Deals:Free admission for veterans and active-duty military with ID.
  From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. general admission is $7 and it takes half the number of tickets for a carnival ride.
  $35 unlimited-ride wristband is sold until 1 p.m., can be used until 4 p.m.
  Ride the $2 OC Fair Express bus service and get $4 admission; find locations through
  
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• Median home price surpassed $1 million in 16 Orange County ZIPs. That’s nearly 1-in-5 neighborhoods!

  05-08-2018 07:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Want another marker of just how expensive Orange County housing can be?
  In the latest homebuying report from CoreLogic, for the 22 business days ended July 11, there were 16 ZIP codes with median home prices in excess of $1 million. That’s almost 1-in-5 of the 83 ZIPs tracked.
  Just how many is that? Well, a year ago, there were just 11 ZIPs zips with a seven-figure median. And a decade ago, 2008 started with just seven million-dollar ZIPs.
  A seven-bedroom home in Newport Beach has sold for
  
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• 16 Orange County ZIP codes, nearly 1 in 5, have million-dollar median housing

  05-08-2018 07:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Want another marker of just how expensive Orange County housing can be?
  In the latest homebuying report from CoreLogic, for the 22 business days ended July 11, there were 16 ZIP codes with median home prices in excess of $1 million. That’s almost 1-in-5 of the 83 ZIPs tracked.
  Just how many is that? Well, a year ago, there were just 11 ZIPs zips with a seven-figure median. And a decade ago, 2008 started with just seven million-dollar ZIPs.
  A seven-bedroom home in Newport Beach has sold for
  
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• Ray Lewis urges togetherness and love in Pro Football Hall of Fame speech

  05-08-2018 02:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Former NFL players Ray Lewis, right, and Jonathan Ogden dance on stage during Lewis’ induction speech at the Pro Football Hall of Fame on Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Canton, Ohio. (AP Photo/David Richard)
  The Pro Football Hall of Fame class of 2018, minus Terrell Owens, poses with their busts following inductions Saturday, Aug. 4, 2018, in Canton, Ohio. From left are Bobby Beathard, Robert Brazile, Brian Urlacher, Randy Moss, Ray Lewis, Jerry Kramer and Brian Dawkins. (AP Photo/Gene J. Pusk
  
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• Nicholson’s 90th-minute goal lifts Rapids 2-1 over Galaxy

  05-08-2018 01:49 via ocregister.com
  
  COMMERCE CITY, Colo. (AP) — Sam Nicholson scored in the 90th minute and the Colorado Rapids ended the Los Angeles Galaxy’s nine-game unbeaten streak with a 2-1 victory Saturday night.
  Nicholson made a run into the middle of the area and finished Edgar Castillo’s cutback pass with just enough air under the shot to stay out of the goalkeeper’s reach.
  Kellyn Acosta leveled it for the Rapids (5-12-5) in the 50th minute with a sustained dribble across the field and a low hard
  
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• UFC 227: T.J. Dillashaw retains UFC Bantamweight title with first-round TKO victory over Cody Garbrandt

  05-08-2018 00:42 via ocregister.com
  
  T.J. Dillashaw (red) beats Cody Garbrandt (blue) in a first-round TKO during UFC 227 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Sat., Aug. 4, 2018. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)
  T.J. Dillashaw (red) beats Cody Garbrandt (blue) in a first-round TKO during UFC 227 at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Sat., Aug. 4, 2018. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht, Los Angeles Daily News/SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsT.J. Dillashaw (red) beats Cody Garbr
  
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• Del Mar racing consensus picks for Sunday, August 5

  05-08-2018 00:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Consensus box of picks come from Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for Sunday, August 5 at Del Mar.
  
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• Dodgers clobbered 14-0 by defending champion Astros

  05-08-2018 00:14 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Kenta Maeda wipes his face after giving up a solo home run to Houston Astros’ Marwin Gonzalez in the second inning of a Major League Baseball game at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 04, 2018 in Los Angeles. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/SCNG)
  Los Angeles Dodgers starting pitcher Kenta Maeda throws to the plate against the Houston Astros in the second inning of a Major League Baseball game at Dodger Stadium on Saturday, Aug. 04, 2018 in
  
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• Return of healthy running back Stephen Carr gives USC some relief

  05-08-2018 00:12 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — In a seven-on-seven drill late in USC’s practice on Saturday afternoon, Stephen Carr darted toward the sideline, looked over his left shoulder and snagged a pass in stride from quarterback JT Daniels.
  The timing was down. The catch looked easy.
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  Through a pair of practices to start training camp, the return of Carr has provided a source of optimism, if not a sens
  
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• Long preseason trip will be a happy homecoming for Rams safety Blake Countess

  05-08-2018 00:04 via ocregister.com
  
  IRVINE — A long preseason trip can inspire sighs and groans. NFL players, as a whole, wish they could shorten the training-camp experience, but Sunday will start a victory tour for Blake Countess.
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  Countess, a third-year safety for the Rams, is going home. Next week, the Rams will hold two joint practices with the Baltimore Ravens in Owings Mills, Md., at a facility five minutes fro
  
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