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SAN FRANCISCOΒ βΒ Bronny James made his 2025 summer league debut, scoring 10 points in 10 minutes during the Lakersβ win over the Miami Heat in the California Classic at the Chase Center on Sunday. The Lakers led for most of the game, rolling to a 103-83 victory. The Heat went on a 10-0 run to start…
An MP who decided until recently to “never speak” about the abuse he suffered as a child has shared his harrowing story so that “no kid has to go through” what he did. Josh Babarinde describes being physically abused by his mother’s former partner from the age of four, and remembers crying himself to sleep…
Clayton Kershaw was named to his 11th All-Star Game on Sunday by Commissioner Rob Manfred, who used his βLegend Pickβ to select the Dodgersβ left-hander. Kershaw (4-0) is one of just 20 pitchers in baseball history to strike out 3,000 batters. Heβll be joined on the N.L. team by right-hander Yoshinobu Yamamoto, who leads the…
When the Dodgers left Los Angeles for their final road trip before the All-Star break last summer, they had a 55-36 record and a 7 1/2-game lead in the National League West. That team went on to win the World Series. When this yearβs Dodgers land in Milwaukee on Sunday night to begin the last…
The Los Angeles sports world mourned the loss of one of its most beloved voices, Rolando βEl Velozβ GonzΓ‘lez, the longtime Galaxy broadcaster and a pioneer of Spanish-language sports radio, who died June 25. His legacy transcends generations on the microphone. GonzΓ‘lezβs career began almost accidentally. Although his dream was to play soccer, life had…
Dinosaurs ruled the box office once again this weekend as βJurassic World Rebirthβ hauled in a strong $147.3 domestically over the five-day Fourth of July period to kick off what industry insiders hope will be an impressive month at movie theaters. The holiday total for βJurassic Worldβ in the U.S. and Canada exceeded industry expectations….
It was 7 a.m., and Fremont Highβs Andrew Williams was sleeping at his grandmotherβs house in South Los Angeles when she woke him up to tell him a USC football coach wanted to speak to him on her cellphone before he went to school. Williams will never forget that moment on Feb. 12. Defensive line…
In common with many parents across the country, here’s a conversation that I have with my young daughter on a semi-regular basis (bear with me, this will take on some political relevance eventually). Me: “So it’s 15 minutes until your bedtime, you can either have a little bit of TV or do a jigsaw, not…
A British fintech which counts Standard Life among its key clients is close to finalising one of the industry’s biggest funding rounds so far this year. Sky News understands that Hyperlayer, which is run by the former Morgan Stanley executive Rob Rooney, is lining up a major equity injection led by CDAM, a UK-based investment…
LANGLEY, Va.Β βΒ At CIA headquarters, beyond the handsome granite seal on its lobby floor and a wall of stars carved in honor of the agencyβs fallen, experts are at work in the complex tasks of spycraft: weapons-trained officers, computer engineers, virologists, nuclear scientists. But there are also storytellers, makeup artists, theater majors and ballerinas β Americans…
