From loaning shoes to rehab tips, Harrison Hornery has become vital to USC’s rebuild - Anaheim news - NewsLocker (2024)

LOS ANGELES — At the start of the summer, USC forward Harrison Hornery was decompressing back home in Australia when he got a call from one of his new teammates. It was Josh Cohen, a transfer from UMass. He’d forgotten his shoes.
Hornery was with family, a day’s time zone away, 8,000 miles removed from USC. That was intentional. The program he had known for three formative years of his life had crumbled in a matter of weeks, former head coach Andy Enfield and his entire staff h

Trinity Rodman’s late goal sends U.S. women’s soccer into Olympics semifinals

PARIS — Trinity Rodman scored in extra time and the United States advanced to the women’s soccer semifinals at the Olympics with a 1-0 victory over Japan on Saturday.
The United States will face the winner of the later match between Germany and Canada in Marseille. The U.S. beat Germany 4-1 in the group stage.
The U.S. went into the knockout match undefeated and outscoring opponents 9-2 at the Paris Games under new coach Emma Hayes but Japan foiled the Americans with steady defense.

Simone Biles is golden again in winning vault final

PARIS — Simone Biles earned her seventh Olympic gold medal by soaring to victory in the women’s vault final at the Paris Games on Saturday.
The 27-year-old Biles averaged 15.300 for her signature Yurchenko double pike and Cheng vaults to claim a second gold on the event eight years after she triumphed in Rio de Janeiro.
Rebeca Andrade of Brazil, who finished runner-up to Biles in the all-around final on Thursday, took silver, just ahead of American Jade Carey, who captured the bronze

Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (July 25-Aug. 1)

Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from July 25 to Aug. 1.
OWA Mi Gia Ky, 4504 W. First St., Santa AnaClosed: July 31
Reason: co*ckroach infestationKitchen at Blessed Sacrament School, 14146 Olive St., WestminsterClosed: July 31
Reason: co*ckroach infestationPho The Bowl, 27660 Marguerite Parkway, Suite J-K, Mission ViejoClosed: July 30
Reason: Rodent infestation
Reopened: July 31Mimosas,8150 E. Santa Ana Canyon Road,

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California needs to do more to prevent suicide among Native Americans, tribal leaders say

In 2020, Assemblymember James C. Ramos, D-San Bernardino, celebrated the creation of the state’s new Office of Suicide Prevention.
Four years later, more work remains to be done, he and other Native American leaders say.
Despite making up only 3.6% of Californians in 2020, American Indians or Alaskan Natives made up 9.8% of those who killed themselves that same year, according to the California Department of Public Health. Nationally, Native American populations are more than twice as like

Susan Shelley: Biden’s attack on SCOTUS

Just three months after he was sworn into office in 2021, President Joe Biden disposed of a troublesome campaign issue using the oldest trick in the book.
Progressives wanted to overhaul the U.S. Supreme Court to undo the influence of former President Trump’s three appointees. Biden signed an executive order creating a commission to study the issue and report back.
The commission reported back in December 2021, and Biden sent the report straight to the shelf to collect dust.
But just recen

Photos: Hughes and Cheng remain unbeaten with victory Friday

Sara Hughes and Kelly Cheng, former USC national champions, completed pool play in Olympic beach volleyball in Paris undefeated with a 21-18, 21-18 victory over Germany’s Svenja Mueller and Cinja Tillmann on Friday.
Sara Hughes, left, hugs teammate Kelly Cheng of the United States after scoring against Svenja Mueller and Ninja Tillmann of Germany in the first set of a women’s beach volleyball match at the Eiffel Tower Stadium during the Paris 2024 Olympic Games in Paris on Friday, Au

Dispute continues over boarding at OC Fair equestrian center; some locked out of arenas for exercising horses

A 30-day deadline has passed for equestrians boarding horses at the OC Fair & Event Center’s stables to sign a new rental agreement, which includes a hike in prices, and a new pass system has been implemented restricting access to arenas for training and exercising the animals to those who are in compliance, administration officials said.
Several boarders unhappy with the rent increases being phased in and other details in the new rental agreements sent out in May have refused to sign

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Surfers’ Hall of Fame inducts inspiring wave riders

The three inductees newly minted into this year’s Surfers’ Hall of Fame all share a common bond – a life that revolves around the love of surfing.
Huntington Beach legend Jeff Deffenbaugh and Hawaiian surfers Ilima Kalama and Jaime O’Brien all put their hands and feet in wet concrete at the corner of Main Street and Pacific Coast Highway on Friday, Aug. 2, each leaving their mark in Huntington Beach across from the famed pier.
“This place becomes more special with e

Larry Wilson: Southwest Airlines, why ever change?

The Southwest Airlines gate agent at Burbank’s A4 early Thursday morning, when I inquired about customer reaction to the company’s announcement that it would soon end its famous free-for-all open-seating policy in favor of assigned seats, quickly went on the defensive.
“Don’t blame me!” she said. “I didn’t make the call! I had nothing to do with it! Not my job!”
No, no, I tried to say soothingly, I’m not saying it’s your fault. I just w

Pin-demonium hits Paris: Inside the pin-trading market at the Olympics

By RAPHAEL LEICESTER, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — On the other side of the Atlantic from Wall Street, a market — more wholesome than cutthroat — has sprung up at the Paris Olympics. The commodity at the center of it all? Pins.
The city has seen an influx of collectors from all over the world, each eager to begin or expand their Olympic pin collection and share their stories.
“People are wired to trade. Human beings, we want to trade,” asserts Craig Robbins, a pass

Meet the artist whose job is to paint beach volleyball at the 2024 Olympics

By HANNA ARHIROVA, Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — He calls himself a “troglodyte” with his brushes, oil paints, and large canvas among the photographers with expensive cameras and long lenses. They’re all aiming to capture beach volleyball during the 2024 Olympic Games, but their approaches are quite different.
“It’s a collage of moments,” says 63-year-old British painter Peter Spens about his art. While the photograph is about a specific moment, “t

Matt Fleming: After PAGA reform, it’s time for ADA reform

Gov. Gavin Newsom and state lawmakers recently took a significant step toward protecting small businesses from frivolous lawsuits. However, more must be done.
Recently, the governor and state lawmakers took action to reform the Private Attorneys General Act, which allows predatory trial lawyers to take advantage of minor issues in employment or labor conditions and force egregious settlements that line the pockets of the attorneys and offer little reward for the supposed victims.
The new reform

Tahiti’s youth surf culture gets a boost as island hosts the Paris Olympics

By VICTORIA MILKO Associated Press
TEAHUPO’O, Tahiti (AP) — As the heavy, barrel-shaped waves of Teahupo’o, Tahiti — where the Paris Olympics surfing competition is being held — crashed in the distance, another, smaller surf session was underway just off the shore.
“Go, go, go!” one lanky teenager with sun-bleached hair yelled in French to another, sitting on their surfboards in the ocean. “Allez, allez!”
Seconds later, whoops and whistles of

Africa’s fastest man, Omanyala carries Kenya’s hopes for a first Olympic gold in the 100 meters

By TOM ODULA Associated Press
Ferdinand Omanyala’s status as Africa’s fastest man has many people believing Kenya’s push for Olympic gold medals isn’t entirely a long-distance objective.
The Commonwealth Games 100-meter champion doesn’t want to get ahead of himself, though, despite posting the second-fastest time this season of 9.79 seconds to qualify for Paris at the national Olympic trials.
“I won’t say I am thinking of the final,” Omanyala said.

As conflicts far and wide shake the planet, can the Olympics unite the world?

By MALLIKA SEN and HANNA ARHIROVA Associated Press
PARIS (AP) — More than 100 conflicts fester around the world. The Middle Eastteeters on the brinkof a regional war. In Ukraine, Russiaadvances slowly but steadilyin the east, reducing towns to rubble.
The “Olympic Truce,” clearly, is not being heeded.
In the run-up to every Olympics over the past 30 years, the United Nations passes a resolutionupholding the Olympic Truce,which in theory halts

Efforts to release prisoners from long sentences draw new interest

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Lawmakers across the country have considered legislation this year that would allow courts or parole boards to reevaluate a person’s long prison sentence and decide whether they can be safely released into society.
The bills, known as “second look” legislation, often focus on older populations, people sentenced as minors, or those whose crimes might have had a mitigating factor such as self-defense against domestic violence.
As Amer

In long-sought change, states must consider tribal rights when crafting water rules

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In the 1800s, the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa joined other tribes in signing a pair of treaties with the federal government, giving up massive swaths of land in return for the creation of a reservation in eastern Minnesota. The treaties included a guarantee: Tribal members would be able to return in perpetuity to the lands they were signing away to gather wild rice, known as manoomin.
“There’s a recognition that [manoomin] is a relative

Maternity care in rural areas is in crisis. Can more doulas help?

Jess Mador, WABE | KFF Health News (TNS)
WhenBristeria Clarkwent into labor with her son in 2015, her contractions were steady at first. Then, they stalled. Her cervix stopped dilating. After a few hours, doctors atPhoebe Putney Memorial Hospitalin Albany, Georgia, prepped Clark for an emergency cesarean section.
It wasn’t the vagin*l birth Clark had hoped for during her pregnancy.
“I was freaking out. That was my first child. Like, of course you don’t p

What Colorado can teach us about commercial real estate

My wife and I just spent a marvelous week in the Rocky Mountain area of Colorado.
Vail was our homebase from which we ventured out onto a number of remarkable excursions. We floated the Colorado river, we rode horseback through rolling hills to observe grazing elk, soaring eagles, and beautiful wildflowers.
We fished for the bounties of the Eagle and Colorado rivers. Finally, we practiced goat yoga in the shadows of Vail Mountain. We adopted the phrase baaaa-maste. Sorry!
So you may be wondering

Newport Harbor quarterback Cole Leinart transfers to Redondo

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber.Subscribe nowOne of the widely-speculated football transfers of the offseason has clarity with the season fast approaching.
Newport Harbor junior quarterback Cole Leinart has transferred to Redondo and will observe a sitout period, according to the CIF-SS website.
Leinart, the son of USC Heisman Trophy winner Matt Leinart, transferred last fall to Newport Harbor from Mater Dei. Matt Leinart was a standout quarterback

NFL’s new kickoff rules a whole new ballgame for Chargers’ special teams

EL SEGUNDO — Instead of trying for extra hang time on his kickoffs, Cameron Dicker has been practicing placement. Instead of kicking to the end zone and beyond, he’s been experimenting with shorter ones. Instead of hitting the ball squarely and precisely, he’s been trying to intentionally mish*t it.
The NFL’s new kickoff rules have changed everything Dicker thought he knew about kickoffs. He’s not alone. Every kicker, every special teams player and coach has been tr

Tyler Anderson takes loss and Luis Rengifo gets hurt as Angels fall to Mets

ANAHEIM — Despite rumors to the contrary, both Tyler Anderson and Luis Rengifo remained with the Angels past the trade deadline on Tuesday.
The Angels’ 5-1 loss to the New York Mets on Friday night illustrated some of the reasons why.
Anderson likely didn’t attract a big prospect return because his peripheral numbers suggested the left-hander might be due for a regression. He gave up three runs in five innings in his first post-deadline start.
And Rengifo was having an impressi

Gavin Stone’s second-half struggles continue in Dodgers’ loss to A’s

OAKLAND — It’s not pretty – the crumbling infrastructure, empty spaces and focus on a future with more resources that can only get better.
That’s not just the soon-to-be-abandoned Oakland Coliseum and its one-foot-out-the-door occupants. It is also starting to apply to the Dodgers.
Getting by with spare parts and leftovers while an assortment of All-Stars and key players occupy the injured list is not going very well for them lately. They managed fewer hits (two) than the

Del Mar horse racing consensus picks for Saturday, August 3, 2024

The consensus box of Del Mar horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Terry Turrell, Eddie Wilson and Kevin Modesti. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Saturday, August 3, 2024.
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Angel City FC will meet Gotham FC in Summer Cup semifinals

Angel City Football Club will face NY/NJ Gotham FC in the first semifinal of the NWSL x Liga MX Femenil Summer Cup on Tuesday.
The game will be played at CPKC Stadium, home of the Kansas City Current with a 2 p.m. start time.
Angel City finished as the third group winner and Gotham finished second thanks to its 3-0 victory over Chivas de Guadalajara on Friday. Both teams finished with eight points, Angel City went 2-0-1 with a penalty kick win in Group B and Gotham also went 2-0-1 in Group E, bu

Despite poor results, Walker Buehler could rejoin Dodgers’ rotation soon

OAKLAND — Walker Buehler’s rehab outings with Triple-A Oklahoma City have left much to be desired, but the right-hander is one start away from rejoining the Dodgers’ starting rotation.
The right-hander started for OKC on Thursday and gave up four runs on seven hits and three walks in 3⅓ innings. He threw 86 pitches to record those 10 outs and has allowed eight runs on 15 hits and five walks in 6⅔ innings over two starts since rejoining OKC for a second rehab stint,

Crawford vs. Madrimov kicks off Riyadh Season in Los Angeles

HOLLYWOOD — Crammed into the courtyard in front of the TCL Chinese Theater, the last promotional event for Saturday’s boxing card featuring undefeated Terence Crawford came off like a blockbuster film.
“Jurassic Park,” to be exact.
No expense had been spared for the first international offering under the Riyadh Season banner, which, in part, seeks to market the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through combat sports.
Like the dinosaurs in Steven Spielberg’s adaptation of Mich

Man gets nearly 2 years in prison for trying to open emergency door during chaotic LAX-to-DC flight

A 52-year-old man who had to be subdued by passengers and flight attendants when he tried to open an exit door during a chaotic American Airlines flight from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., has been sentenced to 19 months in federal prison.
Juan Remberto Rivas of Los Angeles was sentenced Wednesday, July 31, by U.S. District Judge Roseann A. Ketchmark in the Western District of Missouri in connection with the Feb. 13, 2022, flight that was diverted to Kansas City International Airport.
Rivas, w

Lakers unveil 2nd Kobe Bryant statue, honoring his bond with daughter Gianna

LOS ANGELES — The Lakers on Friday afternoon unveiled the second Kobe Bryant statue, with the latest sculpture honoring the late Lakers icon’s relationship with his daughter, Gianna, and “his unwavering pride in being a “Girl Dad.”
The 1,800-pound bronze statue depicts Kobe and Gianna Bryant sitting courtside at a Lakers-Dallas Mavericks game on Dec. 29, 2019. Just like he was during the game, Kobe’s statue is wearing a Philadelphia Eagles beanie that Gianna g