Steve Nash loses all-time free-throw lead
NEW YORK -- Mike D'Antoni, Steve Nash's longtime coach in Phoenix, said he couldn't recall Nash ever missing one of two late-game free throws, much less both. D'Antoni hinted that maybe it was the...
View ArticleMiller: Coming clean in New Orleans
NEW ORLEANS – So, it took a night of long partying and short sleep to finally bring out the truth. This city is great for a lot of things – waistlines and livers not among them – but New Orleans...
View ArticleWizards too much for Griffin-less Clippers
WASHINGTON – The Clippers have been bad without Chris Paul of late, with losses in five of the last seven games he missed before Monday's game against the Washington Wizards. Turns out they're even...
View ArticleWhicker: It's rise and shine for Souray, Ducks
ANAHEIM – They say Nolan Ryan's fastball never really rose. It just appeared — or sounded — that way to the blinded batter. The puck that won Monday night's game, off the blade of Sheldon Souray, also...
View ArticleFasth gives Ducks happy sendoff
ANAHEIM – Viktor Fasth has announced his arrival in the NHL and the Ducks might be doing the same in this lockout-affected sprint of a hockey season. Fasth stopped 25 shots in his third consecutive...
View ArticleTending the Lions' den
Of the more than 100 career wins Mary Rossignol has piled up as head of the JSerra Catholic girls' basketball team, not many have come easy.When you inhabit a league that includes teams like...
View ArticleThomas Friedman: India's virtual middle class
NEW DELHI – I encountered something on this trip to India that I had never met before: a whole new political community – India's "virtual middle class." Its emergence explains a lot about the rise of...
View ArticleSokol: Fat shaming? Would it make a difference?
The more Jillian Michaels screams at us, the fatter we get. Michelle Obama is pulling up carrots in the garden and Dr. Oz is telling us to eat chia seeds, but we just aren't listening. According to the...
View ArticleSan Juan councilman wants meetings to start earlier
San Juan Capistrano's newest – and oldest – City Council member is trying to get council meetings to start an hour earlier to try to ensure they end by 10 p.m. Councilman Roy Byrnes, 88, who was...
View ArticlePlacentia calendar: Feb. 7 to 14
MARKETING SEMINARDave Sentenn of the marketing consulting and management company Local Monster, will give tips and advice on generating leads and online business on Thursday, Feb. 7 from 11:30 a.m. to...
View ArticleLuigi Zingales: Big spending stunts future growth
Every broken clock is right twice a day. This principle applies to economic policy, too, where broken clocks abound. For economist Paul Krugman and those on the Left, there is no economic problem that...
View ArticleJoy Pullman: Parent Trigger shifts balance
The nation's third invoking of a Parent Trigger, in Los Angeles, disproves the charges of many critics of the 2010 California law. Based on the first two attempts of parents to require their children's...
View ArticleGloria Romero: Foot-dragging on school reform
Faster than a speeding bullet train, Gov. Jerry Brown is headed on a collision course with the Obama administration. Embedded in his State of the State address last week were backhanded swipes at...
View ArticleEditorial: Income tax turns 100; good time to retire
When laws are arbitrary and indecipherable, public trust suffers. One hundred years ago, the 16th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution was ratified, creating the federal income tax. The law covered 400...
View ArticleEditorial: Has California learned its lesson?
Gov. Jerry Brown boasted recently that, on his watch, California had "wrought in just two years a solid and enduring budget." Some thought the governor given to hyperbole. But there is no dispute that...
View ArticleDan Walters: State's Ed Code too cumbersome
An amusing – or appalling – incident occurred in the California Legislature in 1995 involving the state's Education Code, the body of law that purports to manage how 6 million school kids are educated....
View ArticlePark security, parking permits on Laguna Niguel council docket
The following items are scheduled for the Laguna Niguel City Council meeting beginning at 7 p.m. Tuesday at City Hall, 30111 Crown Valley Parkway: • A security system for Crown Valley Community Park....
View ArticleFeb. 5 celebrity birthdays
These people of the present and past were born on this date: Session drummer Hal Blaine of the Wrecking Crew is 84. Baseball Hall of Famer Hank Aaron is 79. Actor Stuart Damon ("General Hospital,"...
View ArticleLit, Carl St.Clair land OC Music Awards honors
The Grammys may be all most industry types are concerned with this week, but there are other annual ceremonies rapidly approaching – like the OC Music Awards, now roughly a month away. And the...
View ArticleUncomplicated dinner ideas for Vietnamese New Year
Symbols of the Tet celebration abound in Little Saigon's shops and stores; weeks before the holiday there are colorful cymbidium orchids, blossom-filled twigs and diminutive kumquat trees. Intricate...
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