The Laguna Beach High girls’ water polo team won its fifth straight Holiday Cup title Saturday at Newport Harbor High.
The final against Mater Dei felt like anything but a holiday.
Leads didn’t seem to last long throughout the game, both teams taking whatever momentum they could get. The score...
Alex Hornibrook threw four touchdown passes, three of them to Danny Davis, and No. 6 Wisconsin capped off the winningest season in school history by topping No. 11 Miami 34-24 in the Orange Bowl on Saturday night.
Jonathan Taylor capped his record-setting freshman season with 130 rushing yards...
Now that the Ducks are close to full strength, they can begin to develop some chemistry.
Of course, Corey Perry still needs to return from a lower-body injury and reoccupy his rightful place on the top line.
But with No. 2 center Ryan Kesler back in the lineup, the Ducks are the healthiest they’ve...
Sam Darnold strode into a news conference following USC’s pounding in Friday’s Cotton Bowl under his own power. But he might as well have been carried in on a shield.
The Trojans’ quarterback committed three turnovers that led to two Ohio State touchdowns and was sacked eight times. But he didn’t...
It’s one thing to find out that Dave Chappelle knows all the words to the Radiohead song “Creep.” And it’s another to discover that the famous comedian gets a kick out of singing it at his favorite strip-club karaoke night in Portland, Ore.
As funny as this information is, though, the real comedy...
Authorities have identified the man who shot two others before turning a gun on himself Friday at a Long Beach law office.
John Alexander Mendoza, 58, of Redondo Beach killed 75-year-old Major Langer and injured another 64-year-old man “before shooting himself,” according to the Long Beach Police...
Andre Drummond had 14 points and 21 rebounds, and the Detroit Pistons held San Antonio to its lowest point total of the season in a 93-79 victory over the Spurs on Saturday night.
Playing without starting guards Reggie Jackson (right ankle sprain) and Avery Bradley (sore right groin), the Pistons...
Two security guards were shot dead inside a hotel room at a Las Vegas hotel-casino early Saturday morning before the gunman fled and ultimately shot and injured himself.
Las Vegas Police Lt. Dan McGrath said the shooting happened around 6:30 a.m. at Arizona Charlie’s Hotel and Casino on Decatur...
This month, Slate is republishing some of our favorite stories. Here’s today’s selection: The rate at which people share Linda Tirado’s piece, even today—three years after it was initially published—is astronomical. Too many Americans recognize the precarious lifestyle of the poor that Tirado lays out in “Why Poor People Stay Poor”: how something as dumb as getting your car towed or getting sick can leave you jobless, homeless, and even more broke than you thought possible. Given how the country is being governed in 2017, I don’t see the number of people sharing this piece declining any time soon. —Evan Mackinder
Shai Gilgeous-Alexander came off the bench to score a career-high 24 points, including 17 after halftime, and No. 16 Kentucky blew out Louisville 90-61 Friday in the annual showdown for Bluegrass supremacy.
Seeking to regroup after last week’s 83-75 loss to unranked UCLA, the Wildcats (10-2) blew...
Randy Carlyle called Wednesday’s performance from the Ducks a stinker.
This was anything but.
The Ducks had outshot the opponent just eight times in 38 outings entering Friday night’s contest with the Calgary Flames, but they made No. 9 count with a 41 to 23 advantage, eclipsing their previous...
Losing can amplify a team’s problems, and the Lakers have done a lot of it lately.
So on Thursday, with frustrations mounting among the players, the Lakers held a team meeting in lieu of practice to allow players to air their grievances with each other, with the coaching staff and with the organization.
...
A spinning windmill atop a Denny’s that is a popular local landmark in Arcadia broke off and fell onto the restaurant.
No injuries were reported after the windmill fell Friday morning.
It’s not clear how much damage occurred inside, but the restaurant was shut down for maintenance at noon with...
After playing Julius Randle only 11 minutes against Memphis, Luke Walton offered an explanation Friday morning.
“Julius has shown us how great he can be,” Walton said. “… Some nights when he doesn’t play big minutes is because other guys are rolling and some nights it’s because I don’t believe...
Day by day, the Clippers have inched closer to almost becoming a complete team, the return Friday night of Blake Griffin and Wesley Johnson from the injured ranks improving their fortunes.
But guard Austin Rivers suffered a strained right Achilles’ tendon during the third quarter and didn’t return...
For all the gaudy numbers Sam Darnold has put up in his two seasons as USC quarterback, there’s one statistic he would just as soon forget.
Darnold threw 13 interceptions and fumbled nine times this season, handing the ball over 22 times — that’s more turnovers than 95 teams committed. Three of...
A workplace shooting just before 2:30 p.m. in a quiet neighborhood of Long Beach on Friday left two men dead, including the shooter, officials said.
Long Beach police said they went to a law office in the Bixby Knolls neighborhood amid reports of an active shooter at large. They said they found...
ACL Hall of Fame New Year’s Eve This “Austin City Limits” presentation inducts the Neville Brothers, Rosanne Cash and the late Roy Orbison into the program’s Hall of Fame. Chris Isaak hosts, and Neko Case, Brandi Carlile, Trombone Shorty, Raul Malo, Ry Cooder and others perform tunes made...
The Arizona Bowl is not typically the type of game where fans storm the field. Certainly not for a team that finished 7-6.
But this has been a long, arduous wait for New Mexico State fans. All those losing seasons, all that disappointment, all that time between bowl games.
Storm away, Aggies. You've...
Kings coach John Stevens recently pulled aside some of his rookies to tell them they weren’t rookies anymore.
It was a breakfast conversation with Alex Iafallo and Kurtis MacDermid, who have passed the 25-game threshold that designates players as rookies. It was also a reminder that the learning...
The numbers are not eye-popping by Marshawn Lynch standards. The burly Oakland Raiders running back, whom the Chargers must corral Sunday to keep their playoff hopes alive, has rushed 188 times for 790 yards and seven touchdowns in his return from a year off, leaving him a long shot to reach 1,000...
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If you wanted to believe, 2017 was the year to do it. Thanks to an explosion of new discoveries of potentially habitable planets outside our solar system, a better understanding of how life might evolve on other worlds, and not inconsequentially a shift in the culture, aliens are no longer regarded as just another realm of paranormal craziness. We now have a modern-day NASA that is explicitly directed to look for life, billionaires pouring money into the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, and a Department of Defense that admits it was studying UFO sightings for some time.
This story is republished from High Country News as part of a collaboration with Climate Desk.
2017 may have been an insane, demoralizing year, but at least we still had the marvels above us. Throughout the year, the wonders—and wanderers—of space continued to offer excitement that nearly everyone could rally behind. Even if your interest in the night sky was only cursory, there was no denying how fun it was to watch SpaceX land a rocket on a drone ship in the middle of the ocean, to learn from NASA what planets it had discovered, and to join with millions to take in the eclipse.
Roy Moore, the former Alabama judge and accused molester, isn’t taking no for an answer. In a lawsuit filed this week, Moore, who lost a special election for the U.S. Senate by nearly 22,000 votes earlier this month, blames his defeat on electoral fraud and demands a do-over. A court has rejected Moore’s request to block certification of the election results. But the lawsuit, even if it goes nowhere, is a marvelous compilation of the derangements of the Trump era. Here’s a tour of its perversity.
Finally, 2017 is about to come to an end. Let’s wrap up the year with some reads.
The news moved quickly this year. From the Muslim ban to Mueller, from Garland to Gorsuch, it’s hard to believe so much could happen in 12 months. As we say goodbye and good riddance to 2017, we offer up a dozen stories with staying power.
Investors weren't challenged to make money in 2017. It was almost impossible to lose it.
The trading year that ended Friday was remarkable for the breadth of positive returns. Nearly every major category of investments — including U.S. stocks and bonds, foreign stocks and bonds, real estate and...
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The Rams lead the NFL in scoring, averaging 31 points a game, with one game remaining Sunday against the San Francisco 49ers. If the Rams maintain their mark and stay ahead of...
