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LOS ANGELES-There’s one Los Angeles professional sports team close to winning a championship, and that’s the Los Angeles Sparks. The Sparks are one game closer to winning back-to-back WNBA championships after winning Game 3 against the Minnesota Lynx with a 75-64 win at Staples Center. The Sparks lead the WNBA Finals 2-1 in a best-of-five […]
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Hollywood-Disney has become a master at the art of storytelling when it comes to making us fall in love with the many heroines they’ve been able to showcase throughout the years. Pick a princess, any princess, and chances are you’ll be on the money when it comes to choosing a fairytale that won’t fail to […]
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EL SEGUNDO, CA-The Los Angeles Lakers have officially began training camp, kicking off their preseason with media day on Monday at their brand-new UCLA Health Training Center in El Segundo. The camera circus marked Magic Johnson’s inaugural media day as president of basketball operations for the Lakers, pairing with the new facility to signify a […]
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CARSON, CA-The end goal for the Los Angeles Chargers is to get a win under their belt. Three weeks into the 2017 NFL season, the Chargers are still searching for that victory. Distractions aside, there was still a football game to be played at StubHub Center on Sunday afternoon. Judging by their play in the […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-The champagne popping in the Los Angeles Dodgers clubhouse is over right about now. The celebration has been tempered briefly. One day after winning their fifth straight National League West Division title, the Dodgers were reminded that some cleanup duty has to be done in order for the team to make a serious run at […]
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INGLEWOOD,CA-Learn first. Play later. Have fun. First impressions usually have a lasting impression. If that is the case, members of the Los Angeles Chargers made a pretty good one with students at Highland Elementary School with a recent visit. The shell-shocked looks on the students’ faces told the story of both wonderment and glee. Happy faces abounded everywhere. The youngsters […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-The smiles greet you at the door. The studious activity in the computer rooms suggest work in progress. Outside on the basketball court where homework is getting done and a game of hoops bring a spark of life to the Al Wooten Jr. Heritage Center, Naomi McSwain is somewhere packed away in her […]
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CARSON, CA-Wide right. Those are not the words that any football coach wants to hear at the end of a ballgame. But that was the call that Los Angeles Chargers coach Anthony Lynn got when placekicker Younghoe Koo missed a 44-yard field goal that would have clinched the team’s first win of the season. Koo missed […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-USC. Texas. Vince Young, Matt Leinart. Matthew McConaughey. Football in Southern California. Another nail-biter. What else would you expect? The USC-Texas football game didn’t have national championships ramifications riding on it as it did when Young’s spectacular one-man show did in the Trojans 11 years ago at the Rose Bowl. But it was […]
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Los Angeles Dodgers bright-eyed slugger Cody Bellinger has gone yard again. That’s nothing new for the rookie phenom. Hitting home runs seems like its what Bellinger is called to do. Bellinger continues to shatter through records with his hot bat. Just ask the San Francisco Giants or any other ballclub in Major League Baseball. The son […]
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COSTA MESA, CA-Russell Okung is a big man. At 6-foot-5 and 310 pounds, Okung is big enough to slap down Big Foot. That’s why the Los Angeles Chargers made a push to sign the veteran offensive tackle during free agency. Coach Anthony Lynn and the Chargers got their man, inking the much-hyped Okung to a […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-There was no Andrew Luck on the football field to worry about. Christian McCaffrey has officially taken his talents to the National Football League. What’s left of the Stanford Cardinal under the David Shaw era is going to be interesting to watch as this college football season unfolds. Even more fascinating is how well […]
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The National Football League’s flag issue was supposed to disappear with Colin Kaepernick out of the league. The NFL thought wrong. The problem has only picked up steam and is gaining an unforeseen momentum that the league owners didn’t anticipate. The recent detention by members of the Las Vegas Police Department of Seattle Seahawks defensive star Michael Bennett, will only add […]
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What is there to make of the Texas A&M late-game meltdown against the UCLA Bruins? Was this a proponent of Kevin Sumlin’s team not finding the backbone to step on the Bruins’ throats and close out a game? Could it be that the Bruins, back under the scoring guise of quarterback Josh Rosen, are just […]
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LAS VEGAS, NV-The UNLV Runnin’ Rebels just got their rear ends handed to them by the Howard University Bison football team. Howard who? Well, just in case you missed the memo, Howard University is the renowned historically black college in Washington, D.C., known more for its scholars and academia and societal movers and shakers. The institution […]
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