Month: November 2019

USC picked up its first basketball commit in the 2021 recruiting class Thursday when Santa Ana Mater Dei junior Harrison Hornery committed to the Trojans. The Australian native chose the Trojans over a double-digit list of scholarship offers that included Pac-12 competitors Arizona, California, Utah and Washington State. Hornery’s decision comes two weeks after he…

SOUTHERN SECTION ACADEMY LEAGUE Trinity Classical Academy 28, Fairmont Prep 22 AMBASSADOR LEAGUE Linfield Christian 85, Bermuda Dunes Desert Christian 0 BIG 4 LEAGUE Marina 28, Garden Grove 6 CITRUS BELT LEAGUE Cajon 41, Yucaipa 0 CRESTVIEW LEAGUE Villa Park 24, El Modena 7 Yorba Linda 51, Anaheim Canyon 29 DESERT SKY LEAGUE Granite Hills…

Clippers coach Doc Rivers walks with a deliberate, rocking gait that hints at the damage heavy landings on hardwood courts did to his hips and knees during his playing career. There was no load management in his era, no thought to sitting out the second night of a back-to-back sequence as many NBA players do…

Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome to our horse racing newsletter as we ready for the first five Breeders’ Cup races. It’s Breeders’ Cup Day One. It’s for nothing but 2-year-olds, so I won’t be mentioning that again. Let’s get right to the previews. $1 million Juvenile Turf Sprint (post 1:12 p.m.): This…

A magnitude 3.5 earthquake was reported at 2:33 a.m. Friday 63 miles from Ridgecrest, Calif., according to the U.S. Geological Survey. The earthquake occurred 64 miles from Porterville, 65 miles from Lindsay, 66 miles from Exeter and 70 miles from Farmersville. In the past 10 days, there have been two earthquakes of magnitude 3.0 or…

Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Friday, Nov. 1, and I’m writing from Los Angeles. Newsletter Get our Essential California newsletter Fires continue to dominate the California narrative, but life also marches on across the state. Before we get back to the flames, here’s a brief dispatch about a generations-old football…

On Nov. 2, 1927, Los Angeles city and county officials gathered with executives from the Pacific Electric Railway to dedicate a new 1,000-foot viaduct. An article in the Oct. 24, 1927, Los Angeles Times reported that the new viaduct cost $290,000 and was 1,160 feet long. It “was built to separate the street and railway…

With fire burning across the region, we would direct your attention to the cooler-headed offerings at L.A.’s small theaters this weekend. But the thing is, theater is often inspired by outrage, controversy and incendiary revelations. We’ll have to fight fire with fire: the American premiere of “The 7 Stages of Grieving,” a landmark play that…

Jeton Neziraj was only a tween when he witnessed Serbian nationalist Slobodan Milosevic’s campaign of war and ethnic cleansing in the Balkans. After Neziraj’s native Kosovo declared independence from Serbia in 2008, he rose to become one of the country’s preeminent playwrights, a political voice whose incendiary works have sometimes earned him the enmity of…

Andy Greenberg is a senior writer for Wired magazine, and he covered the unfolding stories of both Stuxnet and “Sandworm,” as the alleged Russian cyberwar unit linked to the Ukraine attacks was dubbed. Greenberg took a book leave from Wired to write “Sandworm,” a comprehensive look at the technical, military and political stories of this…