Double-points finish on the cards for Williams in Hungary
Williams is targeting a double-points finish in Hungary this weekend, the last race before F1’s well-deserved two-week summer break kicks in. With rookie Lance Stroll’s series of recent breakthrough results and Felipe Massa’s consistent performance, and on a track where the Grove-based outfit has always done well, there’s no reason for Williams’ drivers to aim…
Boullier won’t rule out a McLaren-Honda divorce!
McLaren racing director Eric Boullier says that anything is possible when it comes to the future of the team’s partnership with Honda. Since the Woking-based outfit and the Japanese manufacturer renewed their successful partnership from the 1980s three years ago, performance has been massively disappointing. Honda’s power unit has not only under-performed, its reliability has…
Mercedes reveals new race number format on its W08
Mercedes has revealed the FIA’s new mandatory format for Formula 1’s racing numbers which will be introduced at this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix. The governing body is imposing a new set of minimum requirements for car numbers and driver names to provide better identification for fans. The German team has cleverly exploited the extra real…
Pence, in Iraq, works to reassure Kurds
Click:Gravity Concentration EquipmentIRBIL, Iraq — Vice President Mike Pence made an unannounced visit to Iraq on Saturday in the highest-level American trip since President Trump ordered a pullback of U.S. forces in Syria two months ago. Flying in a C-17 military cargo jet to preserve the secrecy of the visit to the conflict zone, Pence landed…
Column: Mick Mulvaney, please call your office
WASHINGTON — A long list of aides to President Trump could have appeared in the House impeachment hearings to defend his efforts in Ukraine, especially since the president insists everything he did was “perfect.” Gordon Sondland, Trump’s ambassador to the European Union, rattled off their names when he testified: Vice President Mike Pence, Secretary of State…
Etiwanda, St. Anthony win basketball tournament championships
Etiwanda and St. Anthony are off to fast starts and tournament champions in the opening week of the high school basketball season. Etiwanda (5-0) won the I.E. Classic with a 81-43 win over Colony. Jahmai Mashack scored 23 points and Tyree Campbell had 21 points. St. Anthony (4-0) won the Ryse Williams tournament championship, holding…
Leo Santa Cruz wins world title in fourth division
LAS VEGAS — The knock on boxing’s little guys is that they don’t have the bone-crushing knockout power the big boys do. Leo Santa Cruz was pegged to serve as an appetizer for the heavyweight championship showdown and main course between Deontay Wilder and Luis Ortiz on Saturday at the MGM Grand, and although he was…
With games like this, Shy Odom won't stay under the radar at Sierra Canyon for long
It was five hours before the Sierra Canyon boys’ basketball team took the floor against Cathedral Catholic and the line in front of the San Diego Montgomery High School gym was hundreds of people long. It had been like that all week as the Trailblazers, the star-studded No. 1 team in the state, played three…
Racing! A brief conversation with Aidan Butler
Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we send you a YouTube clip that is guaranteed to make you laugh. At the recent California Horse Racing Board meeting a bunch of reporters (including me) caught up with Aidan Butler, acting chief executive of California racing for The…
Suspect in fatal shooting of San Diego restaurant employee is arrested in Tennessee
SAN DIEGO — A man who is suspected of shooting three Church’s Chicken employees, killing one of them, over a dispute about money was arrested Friday in Tennessee, San Diego police said. Albert Lee Blake, 49, was taken into custody at a residence in Memphis, the U.S. Marshals Service said in a release. San Diego investigators…