Month: January 2020

San Diego State finally exorcized its recent demons against Fresno State, prevailing 61-52 on Wednesday afternoon to end the Bulldogs’ three-game winning streak at Viejas Arena and remain one of two undefeated teams in Division I. It was an ugly, sloppy, disjointed game with few offensive highlights. Fresno State didn’t reach 30 points until midway…

As Oregon and Wisconsin took the field Wednesday afternoon at the Rose Bowl, Knute Rockne’s voice blared from a tiny room in the bowels of the nearly 100-year-old stadium. After the Rose Bowl opened in 1922, the small space was used as a locker room for six years before being turned into a storage room.…

1/19 Oregon quarterback Justin Herbert scores the go-ahead touchdown in front of Wisconsin cornerback Faion Hicks during the fourth quarter.  (Wally Skalij / Los Angeles Times) 2/19 Wisconsin takes the field before the start of the Rose Bowl Game against Oregon.  (Luis Sinco / Los Angeles Times) 3/19 Oregon cornerback Thomas Graham Jr. intercepts a…

Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as Santa Anita suffers its first race fatality of the meeting. The Eclipse Awards are going to be announced in a few days and the voting ends today. Of course, I waited to almost the last minute to vote. It was…

Local Sikhs see the annual Rose Parade as an educational opportunity. For the sixth year, they created a dazzling float to highlight their faith and to promote ideas of “freedom, equality, compassion and service.” Miles Lhotka has performed in at least four musicals and knows how to capture attention with dramatic movements. But this was…

The smell of garlic and onions filled Layla Sewell’s kitchen in Leimert Park as her 13-year-old daughter, Nailah, added in chopped collard greens. Nearby, Sewell’s 11-year-old son, Taj, trimmed meat off of a smoked turkey bone that will also join the pot in a New Year’s ritual that binds generations of black families through time…

OAKLAND  —  California authorities have arrested two people suspected of stealing a laptop computer from a Starbucks customer who later died. The suspects were not immediately identified and specific charges were not disclosed. Authorities said the customer died after he chased down a suspect who stole his laptop at a Starbucks in an east Oakland…

A magnitude 3.9 earthquake was reported at 11:16 p.m. Wednesday about six miles from downtown Morgan Hill and about 11 miles from the southernmost neighborhoods of San Jose. Three hours later, a magnitude 4 earthquake in the Pacific Ocean was felt in Southern California, with people feeling weak shaking felt in Ventura County and western…

It was likely mere coincidence that the BBC premiered “Doctor Who” just a year after the arrival of the first James Bond film, the similarly titled “Dr. No,” released in 1962. But each series went on to create one of the United Kingdom’s great, global icons of world-saving heroism — which in the case of…

SERIES Click Here: New Zealand Rugby Shop Last Man Standing As Mike (Tim Allen) is helping Vanessa (Nancy Travis) deal with empty-nest syndrome, Kristin (Amanda Fuller) announces her pregnancy in the season premiere of the family comedy. 8 p.m. Fox Restaurant: Impossible In the first of two new episodes, chef Robert Irvine revisits Uncle Andy’s…