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• Dodgers’ Gavin Lux has ditched ‘safe swings’ for ‘doing damage’

  02-08-2024 00:29 via ocregister.com
  
  Gavin Lux is learning to trust again.
  He was minding his own business one spring afternoon last year, running the bases during a Cactus League game, when his right knee betrayed him. The ACL and LCL had to be repaired by a surgery that kept him out of a batter’s box for the next year.
  Back on the field this season, Lux’s knee was fixed but he still had to recover mentally. His knee might have been healthy but it took longer for his confidence in that knee to return.
  The result were w
  
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• Endorsement: No on Proposition 2. Yet another flawed, very expensive school bond.

  09-09-2024 06:48 via ocregister.com
  
  Going to the head of the class on the Nov. 5 ballot is Proposition 2, a $10 billion bond for school construction and repairs placed on the ballot by the state Legislature. As described in our discussion with several Proposition 2 proponents, the need definitely is there.
  “We’re really excited about Prop. 2 because it will provide $10 billion to repair, upgrade and construct schools and community colleges,” said Rebekah Kalleen, legislative advocate for the Coalition for Adequat
  
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• What Donald Trump and Kamala Harris need to do to win the presidential debate

  09-09-2024 05:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Just days ahead of the first — and perhaps only — debate between Vice President Kamala Harris and former President Donald Trump, polls show an extremely close race. As such, this debate is likely each candidate’s last best chance to turn the tides in their favor.
  However, both Harris and Trump have vastly different objectives and goals they must achieve if they want to be considered the winner.
  Certainly, the most pressure will be on Harris, who must show that she can present a
  
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• Short-handed Rams fight back valiantly, but fall to Lions in OT

  09-09-2024 05:51 via ocregister.com
  
  Los Angeles Rams running back Kyren Williams (23) celebrates his two-yard touchdown run against the Detroit Lions during the second half of an NFL football game in Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
  Los Angeles Rams linebacker Jared Verse (8) celebrates his sack with Byron Young (0) and Kobie Turner (91) during the first half of an NFL football game against the Detroit Lions in Detroit, Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024. (AP Photo/David Dermer)
  Los Angeles Rams running back Kyren Willia
  
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• Angelenos watch Rams’ opener in most unusual setting

  09-09-2024 05:44 via ocregister.com
  
  Rams’ mascot Rampage joins fans during a watch party on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
  Rams fans walk past tombstones as they enter a watch party on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in Los Angeles. (Photo by Howard Freshman, Contributing Photographer)
  Rams fans walk past tombstones as they enter a watch party on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2024, at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery in
  
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• Sparks sputter in fourth quarter, fall to Sun

  09-09-2024 05:36 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES — Odyssey Sims isn’t bashful and the Los Angeles Sparks want it that way.
  But Sunday’s matchup, against a Connecticut Sun team that boasts three starters standing over 6-foot-2, wasn’t one in which the shortest player in the Sparks’ starting lineup would be able to get simple shots off.
  Still, she needed to learn for herself. She attempted six shots in the first five minutes, making just one. Her speedy drives resulted in wayward heaves as the Sun’
  
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• Summer meeting over, Del Mar officials turn attention, excitement to Breeders’ Cup

  09-09-2024 05:13 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — Starting with the pandemic season of 2020, the Del Mar Thoroughbred Club produced some record numbers for four straight seasons.
  That didn’t happen in 2024.
  “But we had a solid summer meeting,” Del Mar president and chief operating officer Josh Rubinstein said Sunday night.
  “And given what’s ahead, we’re very excited by the big picture of 2024.”
  Come Nov. 1-2, Del Mar will host the Breeders’ Cup for the third time. And with the Bree
  
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• Flavien Prat rides Gaming to Del Mar Futurity win

  09-09-2024 04:56 via ocregister.com
  
  DEL MAR — Jockey Flavien Prat came west for closing day at Del Mar to find that one big thing here hasn’t changed: Trainer Bob Baffert still dominates the stakes for 2-year-olds, and it’s never a surprise when he does it with his “other” horse.
  Prat lent a skilled hand by riding Gaming to a nearly two-length victory in the Del Mar Futurity on Sunday, completing a Baffert sweep of the 2-year-old stakes on Del Mar’s closing weekend after Kazushi Kimura guided Te
  
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• Alexander: The Harbaugh Era with L.A. Chargers begins well

  09-09-2024 04:33 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD – In Jim Harbaugh’s debut as Chargers coach, he did indeed bring a Big Ten-style offense with him. Problem was, for a half 3 yards and a cloud of nylon wasn’t getting it done.
  At least it wasn’t until J.K. Dobbins, um, warmed up.
  But maybe that’s not the best descriptive term. It was more than sufficiently warm at SoFi Stadium Sunday afternoon, the greenhouse effect from the translucent roof contributing to the 97 degree temperature and not many cooling br
  
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• Chargers take advantage of Raiders’ decision to punt on late 4th-and-1

  09-09-2024 04:01 via ocregister.com
  
  INGLEWOOD — As pivotal decisions go, none was bigger than Las Vegas coach Antonio Pierce’s decision to punt on fourth-and-1 at the Chargers’ 43-yard line with his team trailing 16-10 with a little more than seven minutes to play in the season-opening game for both teams Sunday at SoFi Stadium.
  The Chargers had already stuffed the Raiders on a fourth-and-1 run earlier in the game, taking over on downs, and maybe that played into Pierce’s decision to punt instead of trying
  
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• 2 people killed in Huntington Beach collision involving Amazon delivery van

  09-09-2024 02:42 via ocregister.com
  
  Two people were killed in a collision involving an Amazon delivery van in Huntington Beach on Sunday, Sept. 8.
  The crash occurred around 10 a.m. at the intersection of Bolsa Avenue and Graham Street. The Amazon delivery van was eastbound on Bolsa when it entered the intersection at Graham on a green light and collided with a Toyota Sienna moving southbound into the same intersection, police said in a statement.
  The driver of the Sienna, a 61-year-old Garden Grove man, and his passenger, a woman,
  
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• Ohtani trying to stay focused on winning, and let 50/50 happen in the process

  09-09-2024 02:37 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – Shohei Ohtani says he’s not focusing on hitting a historic 50 home runs and stealing 50 bases, a feat no one in Major League baseball has achieved in one season. To do so would put him in the best-ever conversation.
  Manager Dave Roberts says Ohtani can focus on winning and 50/50 at the same time.
  “He cares. He wants to be the best player to ever have played this game and to do that he has to do something that no one has ever done.”
  Ohtani, however, maintains
  
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• Flaherty delivers another victory for Dodgers

  09-09-2024 02:08 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES  – His stay with the Dodgers has been brief, barely a month. But right-hander Jack Flaherty has quickly become a solid member of an injury-plagued rotation. In six starts with the Dodgers, he had gone 4-1 with a 3.18 ERA.
  Flaherty further solidified his reputation and importance to the Dodgers’ staff Sunday with a strong outing against the Cleveland Guardians as Shohei Ohtani moved closer to the 50/50 club with his 46th home run.
  Flaherty (12-6) shut out the Gua
  
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• No structures threatened as Camp Pendleton brush fire continues to burn

  09-09-2024 02:05 via ocregister.com
  
  Firefighters were making progress against a brush fire on Camp Pendleton that sparked Saturday and has charred around 900 acres.
  Fire crews had the blaze about 15 percent contained as of Sunday, a Camp Pendleton spokesperson said.
  There were five aircraft assigned to the blaze early Sunday, along with crews on the ground, Marine Capt. James Sartain, a base operations officer, said in an email.
  “The fire remains in a status of no threat to the installation or personnel,” Sartain said&
  
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• Bill Essayli: Authoritarianism turned to chaos at the Capitol

  09-09-2024 01:38 via ocregister.com
  
  The final week of any legislative session typically descends into chaos, and in a state as large as California, that statement is doubly true. Nevertheless, basic procedural rules and constitutional requirements should guard against the worst abuses by power-hungry tyrants desperate to achieve their agenda before the clock runs out. Unfortunately, Saturday, August 31st, proved that even those protections aren’t enough to stop Democrats in our State Assembly.
  It’s no secret that Repub
  
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• Chargers grind out victory over Raiders in Jim Harbaugh’s NFL return

  09-09-2024 01:04 via ocregister.com
  
  The Raiders Jakobi Meyers (16) is tripped up the Chargers Alohi Gilman (32) during the first half at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, Sep. 8, 2024. The Los Angeles Chargers host the Las Vegas Raiders in a National Football League (NFL) AFC West Division season opening game for both teams. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG)
  Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert (10) hangs his head after another 3-and-out against the Raiders during the first half at SoFi Stadium in Inglewo
  
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• Teoscar Hernandez could be back in the lineup Monday

  09-09-2024 00:54 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – Left fielder Teoscar Hernandez was hopeful he would be back in the lineup as soon as Monday after learning he didn’t suffer a broken foot after getting hit by an 82-mph slider on Friday.
  He said a day later that while his foot was “pretty sore” it was nothing to worry about. And to prove that the rookie outfielder took part in light drills before Sunday’s series finale against the Cleveland Guardians.
  Hernandez underwent an MRI and a CT scan on his inj
  
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• Fastest Hands Win: Aliso Niguel High hosts a speedcube competition

  09-09-2024 00:44 via ocregister.com
  
  In a flurry of twisting fingers and rainbow-colored squares, the Aliso Niguel High School gym transformed into a battleground of brainpower Sunday as it hosted a regional cube-solving competition.
  About 175 competitors from across Southern California gathered for this official World Cube Association event to see who could solve five different cube puzzles the fastest, including working with a standard 3×3 cube (sometimes one-handed), a 2×2, a 4×4 and a pyramid-shaped puzzle. Th
  
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• Angels hit hard early, lose to Rangers

  09-09-2024 00:33 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) — Andrew Heaney snapped an eight-start winless streak as the Texas Rangers took an early five-run lead and beat the Angels 7-4 on Sunday.
  Heaney (5-13), one short of the major league lead in losses, allowed four runs, three earned, on three hits in six-plus innings to win for the first time since July 21. He was backed by home runs from Marcus Semien, Nathaniel Lowe and Ezequiel Duran.It was rare run support for Heaney. The 33-year-old left-hander received two runs or
  
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• From Hawaii to Vegas and back twice, QB Jayden Maiava has found home again at USC

  09-09-2024 00:00 via ocregister.com
  
  LOS ANGELES – For years, Jayden Maiava’s pride has lingered an ocean away, heartstrings tugged back to his second home nestled at the foot of the south stretch of the Ko’olau mountain range on O’ahu.
  He was raised there, in part, in Palolo Valley, in a wide stretch of state-funded housing projects well-known to Honolulu natives. Maiava’s uncle David Tautofi grew up there, too, in that community where all the units looked the same, families hanging on by government p
  
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• Paralympic Games end with a Parisian electro-dance party after 2 world records on final day

  08-09-2024 23:34 via ocregister.com
  
  PARIS (AP) — The Paralympic Games ended Sunday with two world records and a spectacular light show during a closing ceremony dominated by French electronic music
  Jean-Michel Jarre got the party underway at the Stade de France, coaxing dance moves from athletes, volunteers and spectators on a day when Morocco’s Fatima Ezzahra El Idrissi smashed the world record in the women’s marathon for runners with visual impairments and Nigeria’s Folashade Oluwafemiayo of Nig
  
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• Jannik Sinner beats Taylor Fritz in U.S. Open men’s final

  08-09-2024 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  By HOWARD FENDRICH | AP Tennis Writer
  NEW YORK (AP) — Jannik Sinner beat Taylor Fritz 6-3, 6-4, 7-5 with a relentless baseline game to win the U.S. Open men’s championship on Sunday, less than three weeks after being exonerated in a doping case.
  The No. 1-ranked Sinner, a 23-year-old from Italy, won the second Grand Slam trophy of his nascent career — the other was at the Australian Open in January — and prevented No. 12 Fritz from ending a major title drought for Am
  
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• 3-year-old girl left inside car in Anaheim dies from possible heat stroke complications

  08-09-2024 23:21 via ocregister.com
  
  A three-year-old girl died from possible heat stroke complications in Anaheim after she was found unconscious inside a car alongside her mother on Friday, one of the hottest days during this week’s heat wave.
  On Sep. 6, officers and emergency personnel responded around 4:20 p.m. to a medical emergency in a residential area on the 1300 block of Fashion Lane. Officers gave CPR to a 3-year-old girl after a family member pulled her out of a car and attempted to provide first aid. The child&rsq
  
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• LA28’s rainy Paris rerun: Bass again accepts flag for LA’s next games, this time for paralympics

  08-09-2024 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
  PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 08: Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee, hands the Paralympic flag over to Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, during the closing ceremony on day eleven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Stade de France on September 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Aitor Alcalde/Getty Images for IPC)
  PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 08: Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, walks onto the stage during the closing ceremony on day eleven of th
  
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• LA28’s Paris rerun: Bass again accepts flag for LA’s next games, this time for paralympics

  08-09-2024 23:13 via ocregister.com
  
   
  PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 08: Andrew Parsons, President of the International Paralympic Committee, hands the Paralympic flag over to Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, during the closing ceremony on day eleven of the Paris 2024 Summer Paralympic Games at Stade de France on September 08, 2024 in Paris, France. (Photo by Aitor Alcalde/Getty Images for IPC)
  PARIS, FRANCE – SEPTEMBER 08: Karen Bass, Mayor of Los Angeles, walks onto the stage during the closing ceremony on day eleve
  
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• Angels send down Victor Mederos, call up Hans Crouse

  08-09-2024 22:48 via ocregister.com
  
  ARLINGTON, Texas — The Angels called up right-hander Hans Crouse from Triple-A Salt Lake and optioned right-hander Victor Mederos before Sunday’s series finale at Globe Life Field.
  Mederos was struck for three runs on two hits and two walks in the seventh inning of Saturday’s 6-4 loss. All of the damage came after Mederos retired the first two batters. Mederos walked a batter on a pitch clock violation and it spun out of control after that.
  “He needs to get control of his
  
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• Letters: Don’t believe Kamala’s supposed ‘moderate’ policy shifts. She will be a far-left president.

  08-09-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Re “Kamala walks back yet another bad idea” (Sept. 8):
  If memory serves me, Joe Biden ran as a one term, centrist candidate that wanted to bring a fractured country back together.
  How did that turn out?
  Joe Biden flipped as far left as a split Congress allowed. Then again, I think Obama, Chuck Schumer and Pelosi were the real influence on policy.
  Kamala Harris, if elected, will go full throttle on leftist policy.
  — Bob Waters, Laguna Niguel
  Not buying it
  The SCNG editorial boar
  
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• Letters: Don’t believe Kamala Harris’ supposed ‘moderate’ policy shifts. She will be a far-left president.

  08-09-2024 21:58 via ocregister.com
  
  Re “Kamala walks back yet another bad idea” (Sept. 8):
  If memory serves me, Joe Biden ran as a one term, centrist candidate that wanted to bring a fractured country back together.
  How did that turn out?
  Joe Biden flipped as far left as a split Congress allowed. Then again, I think Obama, Chuck Schumer and Pelosi were the real influence on policy.
  Kamala Harris, if elected, will go full throttle on leftist policy.
  — Bob Waters, Laguna Niguel
  Not buying it
  The SCNG editorial boar
  
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• Magnolia High opens center dedicated to cybersecurity studies

  08-09-2024 20:37 via ocregister.com
  
  With the opening of the Jan & Ross Billings Innovation Center of Excellence, the Anaheim Union High School District is distinguishing itself as a leader in the preparation of future cybersecurity professionals.
  The 22,161-square-foot, two-story center at Magnolia High School, believed to be the first K-12 educational facility in the nation dedicated to a cybersecurity curriculum, was unveiled to the public on Thursday, Sept. 5.
  Jan Billings during the grand opening of the Jan and Ross Billin
  
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• JD Vance spends long weekend in Southern California, talking immigration and raising funds

  08-09-2024 20:32 via ocregister.com
  
  Republican Vice Presidential nominee JD Vance is spending spent a long weekend in Southern California, tackling the issue of immigration on the Mexican border and stumping for funds at two campaign events.
  On Sunday evening former President Donald Trump’s running mate was scheduled to speak at a campaign reception in Los Angeles as part of three-day fund-raising swing. Expected to join him was Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who recently ended his independent campaign and endorsed Trump.
  According
  
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