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LOS ANGELES-The Los Angeles Lakers couldn’t find a way to beat the Los Angeles Clippers the first time the two teams met this season. Back then, the Clippers had their entire roster healthy when they handed the upstart Lakers a double-digit defeat at Staples Center. Since then, the Clippers have lost their starting point guard […]
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Awards season is upon us. The gates for films and filmmakers are all open for the accolades to be bestowed on them. A Gentle Night should be in the running for many of these honors. The drama short has the three ingredients to tug at award-voters and audiences’ hearts: intrigued, great script writing and powerhouse […]
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Don’t look now but the AFC West race has gotten tighter. A lot tighter. The Kansas Chiefs looked like runaway winners of the division in September. That was then. The Chiefs have posted a 1-5 mark in their last six games. As a result, the Los Angeles Chargers, fresh off of a Thanksgiving beatdown of […]
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PASADENA, CA-Black Friday turned out to be Sunrise Saturday for the UCLA Bruins football team. Playing its final regular season of the 2017 season, the only concern on the football field was for the players to play at their peak in hopes of beating Cal and keeping the possibility of a bowl berth alive. Just […]
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LOS ANGELES-The UConn women’s basketball team has not been dominant as it has been at the Division I level for no reason. Let’s get all the formalities out of the way: 10 consecutive trips to the Final Four, 18 in all. Eleven times the Huskies have been crowned as national champions, the last title coming […]
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LOS ANGELES-For the USC Trojans, they will fight on. A Pac-12 Conference Championship Game date and a high-profile bowl destination awaits them. For the UCLA Bruins, what started as a promising season have evaporated into rebuild mode for the football program. The Trojans are back in the national conversation as one of the top teams […]
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CARSON, CA-The Los Angeles Chargers hadn’t scored more than 27 points in a game all season. The Chargers matched that point total in the second quarter alone against the Buffalo Bills on their way to an easy 54-24 win Sunday at StubHub Center. It was not supposed to be this easy. But Bills head coach […]
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HOLLYWOOD,CA-What to make of the Roman J. Israel, Esq. drama is just as complex as the move itself. Better yet, let’s start with the leading character that the astute Denzel Washington plays to annoying perfection. First, this is not the suave and intimidating Washington we’ve seen in American Gangster. If you’re looking for the ruthless revenge-bent bodyguard from Man […]
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HOLLYWOOD CA-Sammy Davis Jr. was one of a kind. To be sure, there will not be another quite like him. For over six decades, Davis did thing on his own terms in the entertainment industry. The PBS American Masters produced film Sammy Davis Jr:. I’ve Gotta Be Me, which was recently showcased at the AFI […]
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Los Angeles, California-Before there was Lonzo Ball, there was Ben Simmons. Yeah, remember Simmons? Simmons is the one-time prep and one-year wonder college basketball whiz who had just about everyone praising his every move on the basketball court as Magic Johnson like. Simmons was the Next superstar to take over the NBA. Taking over the […]
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PASADENA, CA-The entire UCLA Bruins football season was summed up Saturday night in one capsule at the Rose Bowl against Arizona State. For stretches, the Bruins looked incapable of beating their Pac-12 Conference South Division opponent. That was pretty much illustrated when the Sun Devils went roughshod of over the Bruins on their first couple of […]
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Are the Clippers better or worse this season without Chris Paul? If I were to cut right to the chase, and I am, the Clippers ultimately were never successful in the playoffs mainly because of re-occurring injuries to Paul and Blake Griffin. No matter how well the team performed in the regular season, the two […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-Timing is everything. USC running back Ronald Jones II proved that in the Trojans’ 49-35 win at home Saturday. Just when things were getting a bit crazy for the Trojans at the end of the ballgame, just when Arizona star quarterback Khalil Tate was imposing his will on the contest by rallying his team from […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-There are a couple of ways of looking at the Los Angeles Clippers’ 104-101 defeat to the Miami Heat Sunday afternoon. The Clippers could probably find some kind of solace in their home defeat to Miami for the way they overcame a 25-point third quarter deficit to take a one-point lead with 17 […]
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LOS ANGELES, CA-Blake Griffin did his part in trying to lift the Los Angeles Clippers to a win against the visiting Memphis Grizzlies. Griffin scored 30 points and grabbed 11 rebounds for the Clippers in their Saturday matinee game against the Grizzlies at Staples Center. Griffin dunked. He made power moves, led the fastbreak at […]
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