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• UFC 255: Alan Jouban in the ‘biggest fight of my life’

  20-11-2020 23:02 via ocregister.com
  
  Alan Jouban’s last fight left him frustrated. His fight Saturday night has him excited. And his next fight is a gigantic question mark.
  The Los Angeles welterweight finds himself at a potential career crossroads when he enters the Octagon for the first time in 19 months to take on Jared Gooden at UFC 255 at the UFC Apex in Las Vegas.
  Jouban calls this the biggest fight of his life.
  “This fight means everything to me. Because I don’t know if it’s the last one,” the L
  
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• Angels’ Jo Adell continues to find his stride after early career struggles

  12-05-2024 02:54 via ocregister.com
  
  ANAHEIM — Player development is rarely linear. For every Ronald Acuña or Juan Soto who becomes an instant star in the majors, there’s a Jose Ramirez or Austin Riley who takes multiple years to find their stride.
  Jo Adell appreciates that better than most. After years of struggling, the former top prospect is finally beginning to blossom.
  Adell, 25, has been a bright spot for the Angels this season. The 2017 first-round pick entered Saturday batting .267/.327/.529, all career-h
  
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• UCLA women’s water polo one win from a national title

  12-05-2024 02:27 via ocregister.com
  
  The UCLA women’s water polo team needs one more to retain its zero.
  The top-seeded and undefeated Bruins advanced to Sunday’s NCAA championship with a 10-8 semifinal victory over two-time defending champion Stanford on Saturday at Spieker Aquatics Complex at Berkeley.
  UCLA, which never trailed against Stanford, will face third-seeded Cal, a 9-6 winner over No. 2 seed Hawai’i, for the title.
  The Bruins defeated the Golden Bears (18-6) twice this season – 7-6 on April 13 at
  
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• St. Margaret’s sweeps San Clemente to win another CIF-SS boys volleyball championship

  12-05-2024 01:39 via ocregister.com
  
  San Clemente’s Kai Schmitt (24) sends the ball while St. Margaret’s players try to block his shot during the CIF-SS Division 3 boys volleyball championship at Cerritos College in Norwalk on Saturday, May 11, 2024. St. Margaret’s won the title. (Photo by Mindy Schauer, Orange County Register/SCNG)
  NORWALK – St. Margaret’s swept San Clemente in three sets, 25-22, 25-22, 25-20, Saturday in the Division 3 final at Cerritos College to win another CIF Southern Section boy
  
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• BeachLife announces refund policy after winds cut music festival short

  12-05-2024 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  BeachLife organizers announced they will issue refunds to some ticket holders after high winds caused the cancellation of performances by some top acts on Sunday, May 5, of the three-day music festival in Redondo Beach.
  Many musical acts performed on Sunday, with ZZ Top ending its set a few songs early as winds up to nearly 45 mph sent the performers’ legendary beards sideways. Sunday ticket holders did, however, miss key scheduled sets after 5 p.m. by Fleet Foxes, Trey Anastasio and Class
  
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• Sage Hills boys volleyball rallies to beat San Marino to win first CIF-SS title

  11-05-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  NORWALK — The Sage Hill boys volleyball program made history Saturday by defeating San Marino in five sets, 19-25, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18, 15-13, in the CIF-SS Division 5 final at Cerritos College.
  The opening match of the four-game slate at Cerritos College featured two teams looking for their program’s first CIF title and it did not disappoint.
  The suspenseful, five-set thriller was a back-and-forth affair that was a test of will and determination, and in the end the Lightning prevail
  
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• Sage Hill boys volleyball rallies to beat San Marino to win first CIF-SS title

  11-05-2024 23:56 via ocregister.com
  
  NORWALK — The Sage Hill boys volleyball program made history Saturday by defeating San Marino in five sets, 19-25, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18, 15-13, in the CIF-SS Division 5 final at Cerritos College.
  The opening match of the four-game slate at Cerritos College featured two teams looking for their program’s first CIF title and it did not disappoint.
  The suspenseful, five-set thriller was a back-and-forth affair that was a test of will and determination, and in the end the Lightning prevail
  
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• California commission signals opposition to AT&T request to shut down wired phones

  11-05-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A request from telecommunications giant AT&T to withdraw itself from an obligation to provide landline and other traditional telephone services to large swaths of California customers appears doomed after the state commission responsible for considering such applications signaled its opposition in a news release Friday.
  The California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal to reject AT&T’s application to remove itself as a carrier of last resort provider after the request
  
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• California commission signals opposition to AT&T landline request

  11-05-2024 23:27 via ocregister.com
  
  A request from telecommunications giant AT&T to withdraw itself from an obligation to provide landline and other traditional telephone services to large swaths of California customers appears doomed after the state commission responsible for considering such applications signaled its opposition in a news release Friday.
  The California Public Utilities Commission released a proposal to reject AT&T’s application to remove itself as a carrier of last resort provider after the request
  
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• Orange County scores and player stats for Saturday, May 11

  11-05-2024 22:41 via ocregister.com
  
  Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe nowScores and stats from Orange County games on Saturday, May 11
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  SATURDAY’S SCORES
  BOYS VOLLEYBALL
  CIF-SS PLAYOFFS
  Finals
  DIVISION 5
  Sage Hill def. San Marino, 19-25, 25-22, 22-25, 25-18, 15-13
   
   
   
  
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• MMA Q&A with PFL founder and chairman Donn Davis

  11-05-2024 22:39 via ocregister.com
  
  Knowing three is a crowd, Donn Davis made it all about two being company – his company.
  Six months ago, the Professional Fighters League founder and chairman oversaw the acquisition of Bellator MMA, fortifying his burgeoning combat sports organization with an influx of top-quality fighters and further securing its place in the sport. While many appear eager to compare PFL with the UFC, Davis is quick to point out that it’s not so much about competing with the stalwart MMA standard be
  
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• Angel City FC rookie Madison Curry answering the call

  11-05-2024 21:28 via ocregister.com
  
  Angel City FC coach Becki Tweed started the scouting process on defender Madison Curry a couple of years ago.
  “I actually watched her a few years ago (when Curry was) at Princeton, against TCU, she was playing against (current Angel City FC forward) Messiah (Bright),” Tweed said. “Probably three years ago in the Elite Eight in New Jersey. I watched her, and I was like, ‘This Madison Curry, I think she could have potential.’
  “At that time, I was still in Jersey
  
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• 3 dead, 3 injured after Tesla crashes into light poles, building in Pasadena

  11-05-2024 20:40 via ocregister.com
  
  Three people were killed and three others were taken to hospitals after a single-car crash that briefly knocked out power to nearby homes and businesses in Pasadena on Saturday morning, May 11, authorities said.
  All six people, ages 17 to 22, were in a Tesla Model 3 sedan headed westbound on Foothill Boulevard when the driver failed to negotiate a curve, causing the car to hit the curb just after 2:35 a.m., Pasadena Lt. Anthony Russo said.
  “That put the vehicle into the air,” Russo s
  
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• Person arrested, removed from pro-Palestinian encampment at UC Irvine

  11-05-2024 20:27 via ocregister.com
  
  Campus police at UC Irvine arrested a person who exhibited “erratic behavior” and got into an altercation with members of a pro-Palestinian encampment, officials said.
  The person, whose age and gender were not specified, was arrested Friday on suspicion of illegal camping and removed from campus, according to a university statement.
  “The individual had joined an unauthorized encampment established on campus grounds, but was not connected with any of the student protesters or ot
  
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• Dutch contestant kicked out of Eurovision hours before tension-plagued song contest final

  11-05-2024 19:01 via ocregister.com
  
  By Jill Lawless | Associated Press
  MALMO, Sweden — The Netherlands’ contestant in the Eurovision Song Contest was dramatically expelled from competition hours before Saturday’s final of the pan-continental pop competition, which has been rattled by protests over the participation of Israel.
  Competition organizer the European Broadcasting Union said Swedish police were investigating “a complaint made by a female member of the production crew” against Dutch performer
  
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• Douglas Schoen and Saul Mangel: Biden’s misguided abandonment of Israel

  11-05-2024 19:00 via ocregister.com
  
  President Biden has said he wants to help Israel defeat Hamas and rescue the hostages held in Gaza – including five Americans – and he also wants a second term in office. 
  However, his decision on Wednesday to place an arms embargo on Israel, just as Israel seeks to defeat Hamas’ last remaining stronghold in Rafah, makes it even more unlikely that Biden will achieve either of those objectives.
  Put another way, Biden’s decision to abandon Israel has immense political
  
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• Friendly mastiff mix Buster is a bit of a goofball

  11-05-2024 18:47 via ocregister.com
  
  Breed: Mastiff mix
  Age: 3 years
  Sex: Neutered male
  Size: 85 pounds
  Buster’s story: This gentle giant is friendly and mellow. He’s a bit of a goofball, rolling over for belly rubs. He loves walks, but is strong and could use some leash training. Because he’s a big boy, Buster will need a home with a yard. He would make a great addition to nearly any home.
  Adoption cost: Just $20 for an approved applicant; throughout May the shelter’s volunteer Dedicated Animal Welfare Grou
  
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• Photos: See rare sight as solar storm brings northern lights to Southern California

  11-05-2024 17:34 via ocregister.com
  
  Viewing the northern lights is a bucket-list life experience, a magical sight people travel to far, remote parts of the world to get a glimpse of — and even then, everything needs to line up just right.
  Some lucky people who were up in the early-morning hours throughout Southern California at about 2 a.m. got to witness the rare visual of  Aurora Borealis turning the sky a bright pink for just a few hours, a green glow dancing just above the skyline’s horizon.
  “This is abs
  
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• Swanson: On Mother’s Day, Sparks’ Dearica Hamby deserves a bouquet

  11-05-2024 17:30 via ocregister.com
  
  TORRANCE — This Mother’s Day, let’s give Dearica Hamby her flowers.
  Dearica, Mama, you are appreciated.
  This woman didn’t just give us an all-time sports moment: Her steal and one-legged, 38-foot buzzer-beater-type heave 7.6 seconds before the buzzer in a Las Vegas Aces’ 2019 elimination game. Delirium. Oh, how things will work out unexpectedly.
  She also stood up for herself – and, by proxy, for working moms more broadly, any of us who has had our livelihood a
  
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• Ballots out in recall election of Anaheim Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava

  11-05-2024 17:10 via ocregister.com
  
  Anaheim residents in the city’s District 3 will decide if Councilmember Natalie Rubalcava should be recalled from office with election day coming on June 4.
  Ballots have been mailed out for the election, where a labor union is leading the effort to oust her from office. Only residents living in the central Anaheim District 3, which includes the downtown area, can cast a ballot. Enough signatures were collected to force the public vote on the question of recall.
  In its argument for the reca
  
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• Alexander: Tyler Glasnow has established himself as Dodgers’ ace

  11-05-2024 17:00 via ocregister.com
  
  SAN DIEGO — By now, there should be no question. Tyler Glasnow, the guy the Dodgers acquired last winter and then signed to a five-year, $136,562,500 contract extension, has been a bargain so far. A steal, really.
  He is the ace. With a pitching staff that’s basically regenerating itself and will undoubtedly look a lot different, and likely even better, when all of its pieces are in place, the 6-foot-8 Glasnow has taken command at the top of the rotation.
  He was magnificent Friday nig
  
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• It takes $349,200 income to buy an Orange County home, 3.5 times the US salary

  11-05-2024 16:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Orange Countians need 3.5 times the annual income of a U.S. homebuyer to qualify for a typical house.
  A homebuyer would have to make $349,200 to buy the county’s $1.37 million median-priced, existing single-family home in the first quarter, according to affordability stats from the California Association of Realtors.
  My trusty spreadsheet found this mortgage-qualifying standard grew by $99,200, or 40%, since 2022’s first quarter. That’s when the Federal Reserve started its war
  
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• Susan Shelley: Did anyone in the Biden administration ever pass an economics class? Maybe not.

  11-05-2024 16:01 via ocregister.com
  
  Watching President Joe Biden sit for an interview always reminds me of “University Days,” a chapter in the great American humorist James Thurber’s 1933 autobiography, “My Life and Hard Times.”
  Thurber tells the story of a fellow student in his economics class who was one of Ohio State University’s outstanding football players, a tackle named Bolenciecwcz. “In order to be eligible to play it was necessary for him to keep up in his studies, a very difficul
  
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• Newsom finally aligns with Legislature’s gloomier budget outlook, blaming ‘massive volatility’

  11-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  When Gov. Gavin Newsom proposed a 2024-25 state budget in January, he declared that the state faced a $38 billion deficit and chided journalists for citing wider projections in the gap between income and outgo from the Legislature’s budget analyst.
  Nevertheless, state legislative analyst Gabe Petek stuck by his guns and a month later increased his deficit estimate during a three-year “budget window” to $73 billion, citing a $24 billion shortfall in revenue estimates over the pe
  
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• How much do your mayor and city councilmembers make? Check it out

  11-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Can any amount of money make those meetings about potholes, permits, policy and public pay worth it? Can dollars and cents salve wounds inflicted by steady streams of verbal invective during public comment sessions?
  It’s been a while since we sliced and diced pay data for elected mayors and city councilmembers, and as we’re helping a Corona del Mar High School student understand the glitz and glamour of accountability journalism, we figured a few hours with Excel spreadsheets might b
  
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• “Happy Mother’s Day, mom. I miss you,” he says amid tears and laughs

  11-05-2024 16:00 via ocregister.com
  
  For all the mothers we miss. For all the love they gave us.
  Hey, mom, it’s me, your firstborn checking in on Mother’s Day. I’ve been meaning to call. Yeah, I know, you’ve heard that one before.
  So, how is it up there in heaven? As good as they say? I’m turning 80 this year. Any chance you could put in a good word for me, just in case?
  Dad passed away last year, a year after you did.
  I hate to ask, but did he make it in? I know you always felt it was touch and go. He
  
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• Why this rainbow-colored succulent will make a bold statement in your garden

  11-05-2024 15:57 via ocregister.com
  
  From the moment I first saw it, I have been in love with it. 
  Its large, rainbow-colored obovate foliage — scarlet, gold, and bluish-green — makes a dramatic statement. Added to the delight of having it glow in your garden is its disdain for water since it is a drought-tolerant succulent plant. 
  The botanical gem I refer to is flapjack or paddle plant (Kalanchoe luciae). Like nearly all succulents species — with the exception of cactuses, which are indigenous to the w
  
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• Larry Wilson: The fight to keep a free press free

  11-05-2024 15:30 via ocregister.com
  
  When we were in our early 20s — that period when you’ve graduated from college, and are figuring out what to do — Susan Seager and I were copy messengers in the grand old Los Angeles Times building downtown.
  Really three buildings patched together over many decades, Times Mirror Square took up the entire block between Spring, Broadway, First and Second. It was an amazing maze, and the old and the new edifices were patched together with doors and hallways that sometimes it seeme
  
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• What you need to know about Southern California avocado trees

  11-05-2024 15:24 via ocregister.com
  
  Q. The house I rent has a mature avocado tree in the yard that produces big beautiful avocados that never seem to ripen. I’ve tried putting them in a brown paper bag and they turn dark but are hard as a rock. Any suggestions?
  There are different types of avocados that will grow and produce in Southern California, and each type will ripen at a different time. The trick is to figure out what type of avocado tree you have.
  Mexican avocados, such as Bacon, Duke, and Mexicola, are somewhat cold
  
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• What the Southeast teaches us about commercial real estate

  11-05-2024 14:00 via ocregister.com
  
  Semi-annually, an organization called Society of Industrial and Office Realtors – SIOR – gathers to compare notes on what’s happening around the country.
  This year’s soirée is in Florida and begins today, and I’ll have more on this year’s spring conference in next week’s column.
  However, having not seen places like Savannah, Charleston, and Hilton Head, we decided to get our wanderlust on and cover some turf.
  The weather cooperated as beautifully
  
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