It was Monday night, and Santa Monica High students had plenty of choices for entertainment. They could have been hanging at the pier or playing video games. Instead, the student section was filled as if it were a Friday night because the stateβs leading scorer in high school basketball, Jason Crowe Jr. of Inglewood, was…
Dodgers and Rams head team physician Neal ElAttrache was questioned by Major League Baseball investigators Friday following a detailed report by the New York Times that the renowned surgeon and sports medicine expert supported the therapeutic use of performance-enhancing drugs by UFC star Conor McGregor. MLB spoke with ElAttrache, according to a person familiar with…
MEXICO CITYΒ βΒ Mexican authorities have killed one of the worldβs most wanted drug-traffickers, Nemesio RubΓ©n Oseguera Cervantes, known as βEl Mencho,β founder and leader of the notorious Jalisco New Generation Cartel, which controls drug trafficking, extortion, fuel theft and other rackets throughout Mexico. Oseguera, believed to be 59, suffered fatal wounds during a Sunday morning military…
DENVERΒ βΒ Nobodyβs perfect, not even the Dodgers. Their steamroll hit a speed bump as they squandered opportunities in Saturdayβs 4-3 loss to the Colorado Rockies at Coors Field. Even the hottest of Dodgersβ hitters cooled off as the night did. Collectively, they went 0 for 7 with runners in scoring position and left eight runners on…
WASHINGTONΒ βΒ In his first formal address to the nation since launching a war on Iran more than a month ago, President Trump on Wednesday night repeated a familiar list of claimed successes β and brushed aside setbacks β while providing little clarity on a clear path to ending the conflict. βWe are going to finish the…
Two weeks ago, LIV Golf did its best to conceal the fact that the Saudi Public Investment Fund would cease to bankroll the league after the current season, only to have LIV CEO Scott OβNeill let the truth slip during a television interview. This week, the intentions of PIF and consequences to LIV are known…
Casey Wasserman, the embattled sports and entertainment mogul who is the face of the Los Angeles 2028 Olympics, is preparing to sell his talent agency. In a memo to his staff Friday, Wasserman acknowledged his appearance in a recently released batch of documents related to the late sex trafficker Jeffrey Epstein and his companion, Ghislaine…
For Hollywood, the state of big-screen comedies has been so grim you almost have to laugh. There are genres that have dominated the cineplex in recent years β special effects-heavy blockbusters, family films and scream-in-your-seat horror movies. But comedies? Not so much after the COVID-19 pandemic. A recent spate of theatrical funnies is trying to…
A system that thousands of schools and universities use was offline Thursday due to a cyberattack, creating chaos as students tried to study for finals and underscoring education’s dependence on technology. The hacking group named ShinyHunters claimed responsibility for the breach at Instructure, the company behind the learning management system Canvas, said Luke Connolly, a…
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