• Bubble Dribble: ‘NBA Summer Camp’ makes fun into serious business

    Bubble Dribble: ‘NBA Summer Camp’ makes fun into serious business
    Editor’s note: This is the Monday Aug. 10 edition of the Purple & Bold Lakers newsletter from reporter Kyle Goon, who is among the few reporters with a credential inside the NBA bubble. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here.LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — After a recent game between the Miami Heat and Boston Celtics, I was standing in one of the small back rooms that now functions as a Zoom press conference area. Jayson Tatum was answering questions about a 112-106
  • Sun will soon set on summer as kids head to back to class

    Sun will soon set on summer as kids head to back to class
    A kid wades into the water with her swan at San Clemente State Beach in San Clemente on Friday, August 7, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)
    Kids wade into the water with their swan at San Clemente State Beach in San Clemente on Friday, August 7, 2020. (Photo by Keith Birmingham, Pasadena Star-News/ SCNG)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsKids have fun with bubbles from Bubbleman Frenchie Monceaux at sunset at San Clemente State Beach in San Clemente on Friday, August
  • Clippers’ Ivica Zubac says basketball kept him motivated through 2020’s challenges

    Clippers’ Ivica Zubac says basketball kept him motivated through 2020’s challenges
    LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. >> This year that keeps giving and giving, it didn’t leave out Ivica Zubac.
    In the past few months, the Clippers’ good-natured center has been touched by a pandemic, an earthquake and a taxing case of FOMO.
    Now, at last, he has basketball back.
    That’s been the one thing, he said, that’s buoyed him and his teammates through recent challenges. And it’s been a glorious reunion for the Croatian big man, who’s attacked his time on the c
  • State reviewing how and when to reopen Disneyland and other California theme parks

    State reviewing how and when to reopen Disneyland and other California theme parks
    California state officials are reviewing how and when to reopen Disneyland, Universal Studios Hollywood and other theme parks based on COVID-19 health data as the tourist destinations prepare to head into their sixth month of coronavirus closures.
    “Theme parks are not permitted to open in California at this time, under current public health orders,” California Health and Human Services spokesperson Kate Folmar said via email. “We will continue to review health data to determine
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  • NAMM cancels 2021 convention in Anaheim due to coronavirus

    NAMM cancels 2021 convention in Anaheim due to coronavirus
    The 2021 NAMM Show, which was scheduled for the week of Jan. 18, 2021 at the Anaheim Convention Center, has officially been canceled due to the continued spread of COVID-19.
    Organizers announced on Monday that with the health and safety of NAMM members being a top priority, the in-person event would be canceled. However, they’ll be bringing music merchants, industry insiders and musicians together in a virtual space with the launch of its Believe in Music week.
    “While it remains unsa
  • Mater Dei football has lost three all-league players due to later start

    Mater Dei football has lost three all-league players due to later start
    When Mater Dei opens the upcoming football season it could be without three players who were expected to be back after being All-Trinity League selections as juniors in 2019.
    All three opted not to return after the announcement in mid-July that the start of the high school football season in California had been moved from August to January because of the COVID-19 pandemic.
    All-Orange County cornerback Jaylin Davies last month announced his intention to graduate mid-school year so he can enroll a
  • Coronavirus: These maps show every U.S. county’s 14-day case count and cases per 100,000

    Coronavirus: These maps show every U.S. county’s 14-day case count and cases per 100,000
    Pitch Interactive, a data visualization studio, and Big Local News, a program of Stanford University’s Journalism and Democracy Initiative, created COVID-19 case maps that track coronavirus cases around the globe. The map of U.S. counties and the world map shows how many cases have been reported in the last 14 days as well as the number of cases per 100,000 in the last 14 days. The collaboration is made possible by the Google News Initiative.
    Global data for coronavirus cases and fatalitie
  • Coronavirus pushes Pac-12 to brink of canceling football season

    Coronavirus pushes Pac-12 to brink of canceling football season
    The Pac-12 is expected to cancel the 2020 football season as early as Tuesday, when the university presidents and chancellors convene to discuss the feasibility of playing amid the pandemic.
    Multiple sources expect the conference to mirror the Big Ten’s decision.
    “They move in lockstep,” a source said.
    According to a report by radio personality Dan Patrick, the Big Ten presidents voted 12-2 on Sunday night to cancel the season, with the conference making a formal announcement o
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  • Watch a movie at these drive-in theaters to keep the summer fun

    Watch a movie at these drive-in theaters to keep the summer fun
    When the lock downs first started, all of the public events we were looking forward to were canceled for others’ safety. What we thought would only last one month has already lasted six. One of the first kinds of businesses to close were all the movie theaters. However, there is a safe way to adapt to social distancing rules to watch some of our favorite movies. Many companies turned their movie theaters into drive-ins – like the good old days! Drive to the venue, stay in your parked
  • Toledo and Ho named winners of Rumble at the Ranch, but ultimate winner is Surfrider’s LA chapter

    Toledo and Ho named winners of Rumble at the Ranch, but ultimate winner is Surfrider’s LA chapter
    After a hiatus on surf contests, pro surfers put on the jersey once again this weekend to compete – and while it wasn’t in the salt-water ocean like they are used to, a wave pool near farmland in Lemoore made for a competitive arena.
    The Michelob ULTRA Pure Gold Rumble At The Ranch on Sunday, Aug. 9, brought together 16 of the world’s best surfers, along with up-and-comers who got to showcase their skills, for the first contest held since earlier this year when the coronavirus
  • Anaheim to bring emergency medical transport in house, end contract with Care Ambulance

    Anaheim to bring emergency medical transport in house, end contract with Care Ambulance
    Taking a similar step to one Costa Mesa took in 2018, Anaheim Fire and Rescue will add emergency medical transportation to its public offerings and stop using a private ambulance company.
    Anaheim has contracted with Care Ambulance since 1998 and has always been pleased with the company’s services, city spokeswoman Erin Ryan said, but the switch is expected to save the city money – potentially as much as $2 million a year. Residents shouldn’t see any change in emergency response
  • 14 SoCal real estate twists: 2.88% loans, housing for San Juan Capo, San Pedro, Big Bear

    14 SoCal real estate twists: 2.88% loans, housing for San Juan Capo, San Pedro, Big Bear
    Here are 14 must-read stories about the local real estate market from the Southern California News Group Home Stretch newsletter.
    • To subscribe to the free, twice-weekly email publication, just CLICK HERE!
    1.This bill proposes ending HOA restrictions on rental units.Kelly Richardson’s thoughts on homeowner’s associations.2.Survival for some mom and pop landlords hangs in the balance.Jeff Lazerson’s thoughts on lending.3.San Pedro:Construction starts on 32-home, mixed-use
  • Coronavirus rebound? House hunters making deals faster than 2019

    Coronavirus rebound? House hunters making deals faster than 2019
    Local house hunters continue to sign to buy at a pace above a year ago, as a summer buying surge follows a historically slow spring.
    According to weekly data from Zillow, there were 3,717 new pending sales in the four-county Southern California region for the week ended Aug. 1. While that was one new escrow short of the previous week — only the second decline in the past 15 weeks — the buying pace was still 3.4% above the same time in 2019. That’s the fifth week of new deals to
  • Orange County public schools opening dates for 2020-21 academic year

    Orange County public schools opening dates for 2020-21 academic year
    First day of school for Orange County districts, 2020-21 academic year
    *all schools starting in distance learning model
    Anaheim Elementary, Aug. 13
    Anaheim Union, Aug. 12
    Brea Olinda, Aug. 17
    Buena Park, Aug. 11
    Capistrano, Aug. 18
    Centralia, Aug. 12
    Cypress, Aug. 26
    Fountain Valley, Sept. 9
    Fullerton Elementary, Aug. 11
    Fullerton Joint Union, Aug. 11
    Garden Grove, Aug. 24
    Huntington Beach City, Sept. 10
    Huntington Beach Union, Sept. 2
    Irvine, Aug. 20
    Laguna Beach, Aug. 24
    La Habra City, Aug. 17
  • Gas explosion levels 3 Baltimore homes; 1 dead, 1 trapped

    Gas explosion levels 3 Baltimore homes; 1 dead, 1 trapped
    BALTIMORE — A “major gas explosion” completely destroyed three row houses in Baltimore on Monday, killing a woman, injuring several other people and trapping at least one person in the wreckage, firefighters said.
    At least three dozen firefighters converged on the disaster scene, where the natural gas explosion reduced to the homes to piles of rubble and pieces of debris. A fourth house in the row was partly destroyed, and the neighborhood was strewn with glass from shattered w
  • Another fight may be brewing over John Wayne Airport’s small plane facilities

    Another fight may be brewing over John Wayne Airport’s small plane facilities
    Orange County’s recreational pilots and airport noise activists thought they had secured a promise in 2019 that would keep noisier corporate jets at bay and preserve space for smaller planes.
    Now they’re worried they may have to fight another battle for those objectives on Tuesday, Aug. 11, when the Orange County Board of Supervisors is expected to pick which companies will overhaul aging general aviation facilities at John Wayne Airport and operate them for years to come.
    The airpor
  • Status Update: BofA ATM out of cash? More is on the way, bank says

    Status Update: BofA ATM out of cash? More is on the way, bank says
    A number of residents across Orange County have noted on social media that their Bank of America ATM machines have been out of cash.
    Facebook posts from Santa Ana to Placentia and Orange lamented in recent weeks a lack of money available at local branch automatic teller machines. In some areas, branches were found to be closed with no warning.
    We put the ATM question to BofA representatives who told us the bank has seen a surge in demand thanks to the high volume of unemployment payments funded
  • Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell announces his return on social media

    Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell announces his return on social media
    “I’m back!!!!!!!!”
    “I lost my best friend my number one lady… So this next wave of greatness is coming with a lot of pain and passion”
    “This for you MA!!!!! IM DIFFERENT BELIEVE THAT!”
    Those Clippers fans who have been monitoring Montrezl Harrell’s social media posts, sympathizing with him after he lost his grandmother and wondering when they might see him on the court again, they got an answer early Monday morning.
    With a series of tweets,
  • Pomona’s Alejandro Aranda brings Scarypoolparty to City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC

    Pomona’s Alejandro Aranda brings Scarypoolparty to City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC
    Singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Alejandro Aranda, who goes by the moniker Scarypoolparty, will headline City National Grove of Anaheim’s Drive-In OC series on Friday, Sept. 4.
    Tickets are $150 for general admission and $250 for VIP and go on sale at 10 a.m. Friday, Aug. 14 via AXS.com. Ticket price is per vehicle and each patron inside the vehicle must be able to wear a seatbelt (up to 6 people).
    Aranda is a Pomona native who finished as a runner-up on the 17th season of &ldquo
  • 25 bargain shopping outlets for deals on furniture and home décor

    25 bargain shopping outlets for deals on furniture and home décor
    It’s not just you who’s been spending hours scrolling through websites full of tables, sofas, pillows, planters, wall art and more to freshen your home and spirits without breaking the bank.
    Affordable furniture and home décor is just a click away if you know where to look. For example, At Home, the “home décor superstore” that has two retail outlets locally in Foothill Ranch and Riverside, decided to make its products available online for the first time bec
  • Two 17-year-olds put pandemic downtime to good use, creating websites to help others

    Two 17-year-olds put pandemic downtime to good use, creating websites to help others
    What can two 17-year-old boys do to counter a raging pandemic while hunkered down for months at home?
    Plenty, if they happen to be Jay Doshi and Jackie Ni.
    The two teens don’t know each other — Doshi lives in Cerritos and Ni in Irvine; they attended different high schools. But they’ve been like minded of late, matching their considerable skills with a desire to help others as the coronavirus grips the nation.
    Each came up with an idea for a website to connect people in need to
  • New center in Santa Ana helps hard-hit transgender people during coronavirus pandemic

    New center in Santa Ana helps hard-hit transgender people during coronavirus pandemic
    When Monde Nolasco lost her job as soon as the coronavirus pandemic hit, there were few places she could go to for help.
    Nolasco, 42, of Anaheim is a transgender woman who used to work as a costume designer for showgirls,. When she lost her job, she found herself struggling to make rent and buy food.
    “As a transgender woman, it is also very difficult to find a job,” she said. “It’s really adding to my stress.”
    Nolasco and other transgender women who have been strugg
  • $1 dispute over car purchase price sparks 2-year legal battle between auto dealership, Army solider

    $1 dispute over car purchase price sparks 2-year legal battle between auto dealership, Army solider
    Army Maj. Edward Kim has braved mortars, rockets and ambushes from insurgents on some of the bloodiest battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Now safely back on U.S. soil, Kim is fighting a different kind of war in a staid Los Angeles County courtroom. His enemy is Norm Reeves Honda Superstore in Cerritos, a massive auto dealership that, according to the federal government, has a history of deceptive advertising practices.
    At the heart of competing lawsuits between Norm Reeves and Kim is a disput
  • $1 dispute over car purchase price sparks 2-year legal battle between auto dealership, Army soldier

    $1 dispute over car purchase price sparks 2-year legal battle between auto dealership, Army soldier
    Army Maj. Edward Kim has braved mortars, rockets and ambushes from insurgents on some of the bloodiest battlefields of Iraq and Afghanistan.
    Now safely back on U.S. soil, Kim is fighting a different kind of war in a staid Los Angeles County courtroom. His enemy is Norm Reeves Honda Superstore in Cerritos, a massive auto dealership that, according to the federal government, has a history of deceptive advertising practices.
    At the heart of competing lawsuits between Norm Reeves and Kim is a disput
  • California’s immense pension dilemma

    California’s immense pension dilemma
    California’s public employee pension dilemma boils down to this: The California Public Employees Retirement System has scarcely two-thirds of the money it needs to pay benefits that state and local governments have promised their workers.
    Moreover, CalPERS’ official estimate that it is 70.8% funded is based on an assumption of future investment earnings averaging 7% a year, which probably is at least one or two percentage points too high. In the 2019-20 fiscal year that ended June 30
  • As college leaders meet, football players push to play

    As college leaders meet, football players push to play
    After the Power Five conference commissioners met Sunday to discuss mounting concern about whether a college football season can be played in a pandemic, players took to social media to urge leaders to let them play.
    Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby said no decisions on the season have been made, but conceded the outlook has not improved.
    “Are we in a better place today than two weeks, ago?” he said. “No, we’re not.”
    Bowlsby cited “growing evidence and the grow
  • Vote No on Prop. 14, a costly, unnecessary bond measure

    Vote No on Prop. 14, a costly, unnecessary bond measure
    California’s experience with a publicly funded stem-cell agency has been mixed but the promise of new treatments and possible cures was tempting enough that voters OKd a $3 billion expenditure in 2004. That money is gone and backers want $5.5 billion more. Voters should say no to Proposition 14.
    For one thing, times have changed and the original rationale — California doing what the feds wouldn’t — is no longer applicable. For another, private enterprise has taken a bigge
  • Clippers can’t catch Nets in loss

    Clippers can’t catch Nets in loss
    Brooklyn Nets guard Caris LeVert, left, battles for the ball with Los Angeles Clippers guard Reggie Jackson, right, in the first half of an NBA basketball game Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP)
    The Brooklyn Nets and Los Angeles Clippers kneel during the national anthem before an NBA basketball game Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in Lake Buena Vista, Fla. (Kim Klement/Pool Photo via AP)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsBrooklyn Nets center Jarrett Allen (3
  • Whicker: Collin Morikawa brings the noise at a quiet PGA, takes his first major title

    Whicker: Collin Morikawa brings the noise at a quiet PGA, takes his first major title
    Collin Morikawa holds the Wanamaker Trophy after winning the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)
    Collin Morikawa checks his shot from the tress on the sixth hole during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCollin Morikawa watches his tee shot on the third hole during the fin
  • Clippers’ Doc Rivers foresaw a coaching future for Nets’ Jacque Vaughn

    Clippers’ Doc Rivers foresaw a coaching future for Nets’ Jacque Vaughn
    Perhaps not specifically on Sunday evening, but longer term, Doc Rivers is rooting for Jacque Vaughn.
    Entering the game against the Clippers, Brooklyn’s interim coach — promoted in March following Kenny Atkinson’s midseason departure — is 5-2, including 3-2 in the bubble. Brooklyn clinched a playoff berth last week with a 119-106 win over the Sacramento Kings in Lake Buena Vista, Florida.
    It’s the second NBA head coaching stint for the Pasadena native, who starred a
  • US tops 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases, to Europe’s alarm

    US tops 5 million confirmed coronavirus cases, to Europe’s alarm
    By NICOLE WINFIELD and LISA MARIE PANE
    ROME (AP) — With confirmed coronavirus cases in the U.S. hitting 5 million Sunday, by far the highest of any country, the failure of the most powerful nation in the world to contain the scourge has been met with astonishment and alarm in Europe.
    Perhaps nowhere outside the U.S. is America’s bungled virus response viewed with more consternation than in Italy, which was ground zero of Europe’s epidemic. Italians were unprepared when the outb
  • There’s nothing new about federal meddling in protest movements

    There’s nothing new about federal meddling in protest movements
    Within a democracy, free protests are absolutely vital. But the U.S. doesn’t seem to like them — in fact, the feds have been infiltrating the lives of protesters for a long time. Since the George Floyd protests swept the nation, and really for several years now, the FBI has been busy making things worse with its sweeping surveillance measures and campaigns to discredit American activists.
    It’s nothing new. As former FBI agent Mike German said, the FBI has spent years transformi
  • VIDEO: Collin Morikawa wins PGA Championship, drops Wanamaker Trophy lid

    VIDEO: Collin Morikawa wins PGA Championship, drops Wanamaker Trophy lid
    Local golfer Collin Morikawa could be considered the new king of the golf after winning the PGA Championship Sunday at the 23-years-old."The California kid is the new star in the game of golf!"@Collin_Morikawa is the winner of the 2020 PGA Championship. pic.twitter.com/KyCXV8cvyG
    — PGA TOUR (@PGATOUR) August 10, 2020But even the king can make a mistake, right?
    His memorable day included a small blunder with the Wanamaker Trophy. Hopefully, the kiss moments after made everything better.Coll
  • Collin Morikawa of Pasadena wins PGA Championship for first major title

    Collin Morikawa of Pasadena wins PGA Championship for first major title
    SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Collin Morikawa wins PGA Championship for first major title. The 23-year-old is the third youngest winner of the tournament in the stroke-play era.
    The La Canada High alumnus joins Rory McIlroy, Tiger Woods and Jack Nicklaus as 23-year-olds to win the PGA.
    Morikawa’s 7-foot eagle putt gave him a two-shot lead heading into the homestretch.
    He hit driver on the short par-4 16th hole, and watched as it bounced and headed straight toward the hole. That, plus a c
  • Collin Morikawa of La Canada wins PGA Championship for first major title

    Collin Morikawa of La Canada wins PGA Championship for first major title
    Collin Morikawa hits from the fairway on the second hole during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu)
    Collin Morikawa checks his shot from the tress on the sixth hole during the final round of the PGA Championship golf tournament at TPC Harding Park Sunday, Aug. 9, 2020, in San Francisco. (AP Photo/Charlie Riedel)SoundThe gallery will resume insecondsCollin Morikawa watches his tee shot on the thir
  • Cornavirus state tracker: Hospitalizations in California continue to decline, U.S. tops 5 million cases as of Aug. 9

    Cornavirus state tracker: Hospitalizations in California continue to decline, U.S. tops 5 million cases as of Aug. 9
    California reported 107 fewer hospitalizations, 6,849 Sunday, marking the fifth day straight that hospitalizations have been down. The state had 3,642 new cases and 69 new deaths, bringing the total cases to 557,690 and deaths to 10,370, according to unofficial counts from county websites on Sunday.
    The U.S. surpassed 5 million coronavirus cases with a total of 5,022,187 cases and world cases are nearing 20 million with 19,705,715 total cases as of Sunday.
    The state’s breakdown of cases by
  • Alexander: Sparks’ Seimone Augustus is on point in first game against her old team

    Alexander: Sparks’ Seimone Augustus is on point in first game against her old team
    Sparks’ coach Derek Fisher knows something about the stress of returning to face a former team, going back to his own NBA days. So if Seimone Augustus had any nervousness or apprehension about facing her former team Sunday, she was in the right place.
    Turns out, if she had any she didn’t let on. And none of it fazed her or her Los Angeles teammates, who withstood a third-quarter run from the Minnesota Lynx and went on to roll past their rivals, 97-81, in the WNBA’s bubble in Br
  • Cardboard MLB fans don’t cut it when players need a push from crowd

    Cardboard MLB fans don’t cut it when players need a push from crowd
    LOS ANGELES — Their jobs are difficult enough under normal circumstances. And these are definitely not normal circumstances.
    The adrenaline rush that comes with being a closer has taken a hit with no fans in the stands and all the cardboard cutouts can’t make up for the intensity of coming into a one-run game with a real crowd on its feet roaring.
    “Man, it’s hard. I’m not going to lie about that,” Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen said. “It’s an adjustm
  • A month into the bubble, the Lakers are feeling the strain away from home

    A month into the bubble, the Lakers are feeling the strain away from home
    LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla. — Before the Lakers played the Pacers on Saturday night, Frank Vogel looked back behind his bench to see his 14-year-old daughter Arianna in the crowd.
    The actual seat was some 2,500 miles away in Los Angeles, but her picture was on the digital screen, over the Lakers’ bench. The Lakers’ coach was playing the team from Indiana, where he used to live, near Orlando, where he also used to live. But the home he longs for at the moment is on the West Coast. An
  • A.J. Pollock and Mookie Betts hit 3-run homers as Dodgers beat Giants

    A.J. Pollock and Mookie Betts hit 3-run homers as Dodgers beat Giants
    LOS ANGELES — Adam Hamari did him a favor.
    With the count 3-and-1 during his seventh-inning at-bat against side-arming right-hander Tyler Rogers, A.J. Pollock took what he thought was a fastball low, dropped his bat and started towards first base.
    But Hamari, the home-plate umpire, called it a strike, sending the count full and bringing an unhappy Pollock back to retrieve his bat. The next pitch was a hanging curveball and Pollock clubbed it onto the ad tarps in left-center field, awakenin
  • Pedestrian struck and killed on Costa Mesa, Newport Beach border

    Pedestrian struck and killed on Costa Mesa, Newport Beach border
    Coroner’s officials Sunday identified a 77-year-old man who died Friday night after he was struck by a vehicle on the border between Costa Mesa and Newport Beach.
    Carlos Romo of Newport Beach was walking near the intersection of 17th Street and Irvine Avenue that evening when he was hit by a vehicle at 8:34 p.m., Orange County Deputy Coroner Kelly Keyes said. He was taken to Orange County Global Medical Center, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later.
    The driver involved in the cr
  • California needs to get ethnic studies right before mandating it

    California needs to get ethnic studies right before mandating it
    A year ago, the California Department of Education released a draft of guidelines for implementing “ethnic studies” in public high schools.
    It unleashed a torrent of controversy — for good reason.
    The 303-page document was ersatz Marxist agitprop that, if adopted, would have drummed into young minds the notion that in America, anyone not a white male is virtually enslaved.
    “At its core,” the draft declared, “the field of ethnic studies is the interdisciplinary
  • Jo Adell’s rare four-base error punctuates Angels’ ugly loss in Texas

    Jo Adell’s rare four-base error punctuates Angels’ ugly loss in Texas
    No matter what happens in the rest of Jo Adell’s career, one that the Angels expect be a long and successful one, he will not live down an embarrassing moment from the first week.
    The Angels top prospect had a ball bounce off his glove and over the right field fence for a four-base error in the Angels’ 7-3 loss to the Rangers on Sunday in Arlington, Texas.
    It was initially ruled a homer by Nick Solak, but the official scorer — after consulting with the Elias Sports Bureau regar
  • Rams’ D-line loses A’Shawn Robinson for part of regular season

    Rams’ D-line loses A’Shawn Robinson for part of regular season
    As players came and went this offseason, one spot where the Rams seemed to end up with excess talent was the defensive line.
    No longer.
    Coach Sean McVay said Sunday that A’Shawn Robinson, the defensive tackle the Rams signed as a free agent when it appeared Michael Brockers was leaving, will miss games with a medical issue discovered in an examination at the start of training camp last week.
    McVay wouldn’t get specific about the condition, but The Athletic’s Jourdan Rodrigue re
  • Simon Cowell breaks his back while riding his new electric bicycle

    Simon Cowell breaks his back while riding his new electric bicycle
    MALIBU — Simon Cowell broke his back Saturday while testing his new electric bicycle at his home in California.
    Cowell was expected to have surgery Saturday evening, according to a spokesperson for the entertainment mogul. Cowell fell off the bike while in the courtyard with his family at his house in Malibu. He was taken to a hospital and was said to be under observation and doing fine.
    Cowell created “America’s Got Talent” and serves as a judge on the show. He has also
  • Coronavirus: Orange County reports 565 new cases and 6 new deaths as of Aug. 9

    Coronavirus: Orange County reports 565 new cases and 6 new deaths as of Aug. 9
    The Orange County Health Care Agency reported 565 new cases of the coronavirus as of Sunday, Aug. 9, bringing the county’s cumulative total to 39,641 cases.
    The agency noted that the California Reportable Disease Information Exchange has been experiencing issues with the application that receives test reports from laboratories and then sends them to CalREDIE.  The state health department is trying to resolve the issue, which may have resulted in a lower number of daily COVID-19 positi

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