This week’s top high school football games in the Southland

A look at this week’s top high school football playoff games: FRIDAY Corona Centennial (8-2) at Mission Viejo (10-0), 7 p.m. The two best public-school teams meet in a Division 1 opener. Centennial is finally somewhat healthy, with injured players back on the offensive line, plus quarterback Husan Longstreet and running back Malachi Robey. The…

Shohei Ohtani’s labrum surgery could delay return to pitching

SAN ANTONIO —  If you’re buying tickets to the Dodgers’ season-opening games in Tokyo next March, don’t count on seeing Shohei Ohtani pitch. Though the Dodgers slugger is expected to be in the lineup for the start of the season — which will begin with two games in Japan against the Chicago Cubs at the Tokyo…

How Jayden Maiava remained ready to seize the USC quarterback job

The competition was close. Closer than anyone expected it to be in late August, at least. Close enough that Jayden Maiava, the insurgent transfer from Nevada Las Vegas, believed at the time that he’d done enough to be named USC’s starting quarterback. The job ultimately went to Miller Moss, the redshirt junior whose six-score coronation…

Darren Romanelli makes an upcycled chair out of 1984 Olympics merch

I’ve been working on these lounge chairs for almost the last decade. I’ve been recycling materials, upcycling materials, into this lounge chair silhouette. For this story, I collected 1984 Olympics clothing and artifacts and all kinds of different objects and souvenirs. I worked closely with Goodwill on helping me source some of the materials. I…

Can UCLA get its first home win under DeShaun Foster? Five things to watch vs. Iowa

DeShaun Foster notched his first coaching and road wins simultaneously, UCLA surviving the heat and a special teams meltdown to beat Hawaii. His first winning streak came courtesy of back-to-back triumphs over Rutgers and Nebraska as part of a brutal travel schedule in which the Bruins will log an estimated 22,048 miles. One first that…

LAFC faces tough out in Whitecaps, a reflection of coach Vanni Sartini

Vanni Sartini, the Italian-born manager of the Vancouver Whitecaps, is both a socialist and an atheist, two attributes that are oddly relevant in his team’s MLS playoff game with LAFC on Friday at BMO Stadium. As a socialist, Sartini believes in cooperative effort, and he’s tried to mold his blue-collar team to reflect that. “My…

Oxnard Unified School District dealing with affects of wildfires

With the Southern Section football playoffs set to begin on Friday and a fast-moving wildfire destroying numerous homes in Ventura County, officials in the Oxnard Unified School District continue to work with families in need of help. Camarillo principal Matt La Belle, whose school was closed Thursday, said staff and students have been directly affected…

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