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CYPRESS — Twenty-five-year-old quarter-horse trainer Xavier Rodriguez added a thrill to a whirlwind year when the 3-year-old gelding Fdd Dreams and jockey Luis Martinez scored an upset win in the Champion of Champions Stakes at Los Alamitos on Saturday night. It was a bittersweet moment, though. Major-race-winning 4-year-old Stanley Cartel fell after finishing sixth in the race and had to be euthanized, a Los Alamitos spokesman said. Details on the horse’s injury were not immediately available. Jockey Juan Pulido walked away from the fall. Fdd Dreams paid $13.30 after winning the $700,000 race in a photo finish over 9-5 favorite…
SEATTLE — Graham Ike had 25 points and five assists and No. 8 Gonzaga beat No. 25 UCLA 82-72 on Saturday night to improve to 9-1. Ike scored 15 points in the first half, highlighted by a tomahawk dunk with 8:02 remaining that gave Gonzaga a 23-19 advantage. The Bulldogs took their first lead shortly before Ike’s dunk on a 3-pointer by Adam Miller, negating a 7-0 deficit. Tyler Bilodeau led UCLA (7-3) with 22 points. He was 4 of 6 from 3-point range. UCLA trailed 45-40 at halftime, then had a 9-0 run — capped by Donovan Dent’s layup…
Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now MISSION VIEJO — Santa Margarita’s football program completed the final stage of a radical transformation Saturday at a destination many believed wasn’t possible before the season. The Eagles played for the CIF State Open Division championship one season removed from a 5-7 finish, and just more than a year since an alleged hazing incident surfaced. De La Salle wide receiver Trisshon Wright, center, is stopped and brought down by Santa Margarita defenders in the CIF State Open Division football championship in Mission Viejo on Saturday, December 13, 2025.…
LOS ANGELES — The Kings white-knuckled their way through regulation, taking the Calgary Flames to overtime, losing 2-1, at Crypto.com Arena on Saturday night. Adrian Kempe scored a rare first-period goal for the Kings, who couldn’t muster another the rest of the way. Darcy Kuemper made 36 of 38 saves. Blake Coleman tallied shorthanded and Morgan Frost won it in overtime. Local product Dustin Wolf came up with 20 of 21 stops. The Kings extended their points streak to four games but lost for the eighth time in their past dozen games while Calgary won for the eighth time in…
INGLEWOOD — A purple haze hovered like a metaphorical halo over SoFi Stadium. How many times could Jedd Fisch set the record straight? Washington’s head coach had already addressed Friday that he was planning on remaining with the Huskies beyond the Bucked Up LA Bowl on Saturday night. Fisch had been linked to jobs across the nation as openings appeared — UCLA and Florida in particular — and the question is sure to arrive postgame once again after Arizona State coach Kenny Dillingham committed himself to the Sun Devils, denying Michigan, which fired former head coach Sherrone Moore on Wednesday…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded nine others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect. University President Christina Paxson said she was told that 10 people who were shot were students. Another person was injured by fragments from the shooting, but it was not clear if the victim was a student, she said. Officers scattered across the campus and into an affluent neighborhood filled with historic…
LOS ANGELES — The No. 1 Connecticut women’s basketball team came to L.A. on Saturday and demolished No. 16 USC, 79-51 – and I’m so sorry, UCLA. I watched the Huskies – who came into the nationally televised non-conference showdown as 20-point favorites – run the Trojans out of their own gym and couldn’t stop thinking about the No. 4-ranked Bruins. The better-than-ever Bruins. The big-dreaming Bruins. The now-or-never Bruins who came into this season with a senior-stacked squad, healthier and hungrier and with extended range and improved floor spacing. And, yes, national player-of-the-year candidate Lauren Betts back at center…
USC lines up before an NCAA college basketball game against UConn, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) USC guard Juju Watkins (12), second from the right, cheers on teammates before an NCAA college basketball game against UConn, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) UConn guard Azzi Fudd (35) dribbles the ball during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against USC, Saturday, Dec. 13, 2025, in Los Angeles. (AP Photo/Ethan Swope) USC guard Jazzy Davidson (9) dribbles the ball during the second half of an NCAA college basketball game against…
CYPRESS — After chasing the presumptive 2-year-old champion Ted Noffey and a $3 million colt named Brant in his earlier races, Litmus Test faced a decidedly less star-studded field in the Los Alamitos Futurity on Saturday. But that’s not why Litmus Test won the $200,000, Grade II race, trainer Bob Baffert insisted after sending out the 1-2-3 finishers. “He’s getting better,” Baffert said in the winner’s circle. “He ran better today than he did in the Breeders’ Cup.” Litmus Test, fourth behind winner Ted Noffey in the Breeders’ Cup Juvenile at Del Mar last time out, scored a solid 1-1/4-length…
By KIMBERLEE KRUESI, JENNIFER McDERMOTT and ALANNA DURKIN RICHER PROVIDENCE, R.I. (AP) — A shooter dressed in black killed at least two people and wounded eight others at Brown University on Saturday during final exams on the Ivy League campus, authorities said, and police were searching for the suspect. Officers scattered across the campus and into a neighborhood filled with stately brick homes, searching academic buildings, backyards and porches for hours after the shooting erupted. The suspect was a male in dark clothing who was last seen leaving the engineering building where the attack happened, said Timothy O’Hara, Deputy Chief…