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After the Rams’ date with the Minnesota Vikings in the wild-card round of the NFL playoffs was cemented Sunday night, Sean McVay turned in. He wanted to make sure he got a full eight hours before he went about the task at hand.“You want to make sure that we’re getting rolling,” McVay said over Zoom on Monday.The Rams (10-7) have a week to prepare for the Vikings (14-3), a team they beat in Week 8 and have plenty of familiarity with given the former Rams staffers now in Minneapolis, first and foremost among them head coach Kevin O’Connell.But the Vikings…

By MIKE COOK The Associated PressMINNEAPOLIS — The Clippers were on the verge of a big road win, but Anthony Edwards took control late … again.Edwards scored 28 of his 37 points in the second half and the Minnesota Timberwolves overcame a 19-point first-half deficit to beat the Clippers, 108-106, on Monday night. Edwards also helped Minnesota hold off the Clippers by one point in an NBA Cup group-play game in the same arena earlier this season.Edwards, who had a career-high 53 points in Saturday’s loss at Detroit, finished 14 for 29 from the field in this one, including a…

LOS ANGELES — The distribution hasn’t changed, regardless of who’s behind center. It didn’t change for Caleb Williams. It didn’t change for Miller Moss. It didn’t change for Jayden Maiava.Ever since he arrived at USC, Lincoln Riley’s offense has been predicated on a spread-out target share, a rotating carousel of playmakers popping out one game and fading away the next. In three years, no single Trojan receiver has received more than a 17% share of USC’s total targets in the passing game, largely eschewing a No. 1 or No. 2 option at wide receiver in favor of a balanced attack.“Whether…

An extreme and rare wind event is on the way to Southern California this week, with 80-100 mile per hour winds expected in some regions.The National Weather Service Los Angeles/Oxnard noted on Facebook that areas not typically impacted by wind will be affected during this weather event.In preparation for what it is calling “critical fire weather,” Cal Fire is moving firefighting resources from Northern California to Southern California, deploying additional crews and engines to  Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties, according to a news release from the agency.Units in San Bernardino, San…

The Dodgers made a move to unclutter their middle infield logjam on Monday, trading second baseman Gavin Lux to the Cincinnati Reds for outfield prospect Mike Sirota and a Competitive Balance Round A draft pick, the team announced.Lux, who hit .251 with career-highs of 10 home runs and 50 RBIs last season, has been a potential trade candidate since the season ended.With Mookie Betts moving back to the infield next season, versatile Tommy Edman signing a contract extension and the addition of KBO All-Star Hyeseong Kim last week, the reigning World Series champions had a glut of middle infielders and…

By JONATHAN LANDRUM JR. and HALELUYA HADEROWill TikTok be banned this month?That’s the pressing question keeping creators and small business owners in anxious limbo as they await a decision that could upend their livelihoods. The fate of the popular app will be decided by the Supreme Court, which will hear arguments on Jan. 10 over a law requiring TikTok to break ties with its Chinese-based parent company, ByteDance, or face a U.S. ban.At the heart of the case is whether the law violates the First Amendment with TikTok and its creator allies arguing that it does. The U.S. government, which…

HOUSTON — JJ Redick has made it clear: he doesn’t just want the Lakers to be a good team; he wants them to be a great team.And not only does he want them to be great, but he believes they can be.But what does it look like for Redick to hold his team to a standard of looking to become great rather than simply trying to be good?In Friday’s home win against the Atlanta Hawks, it was criticizing his team’s lack of game-plan discipline.“Why that stuff matters, the reason why executing a personnel-based scouting report that we talked about, is…

By BERNARD CONDONNEW YORK (AP) — Your car is spying on you.That is one takeaway from the fast, detailed data that Tesla collected on the driver of one of its Cybertrucks that exploded in Las Vegas earlier this week. Privacy data experts say the deep dive by Elon Musk’s company was impressive, but also shines a spotlight on a difficult question as vehicles become less like cars and more like computers on wheels.Is your car company violating your privacy rights?“You might want law enforcement to have the data to crack down on criminals, but can anyone have access to it?”…

LOS ANGELES — Lincoln Riley has been saying it loud for months, in rooms private and public, as the NCAA’s definition of amateurism has been increasingly buried under a heap of pay-for-play cash: the current model of college football is now a professional model.“We’re having to make some tough decisions,” Riley said on an early-December appearance on USC’s radio show “Trojans Live.” “We’re having to decide where to allocate reps, or where to allocate resources, roster spots, all of those things. You’re getting ready to to reduce the roster size. You’re getting ready to have a salary cap, essentially.”“I mean,” Riley…

By Paige Smith | BloombergA lender owned by Warren Buffett’s Berkshire Hathaway Inc. knowingly issued “unaffordable” home mortgages by ignoring the insufficient income or assets of some borrowers, a top financial regulator alleged in a lawsuit Monday.The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau sued Vanderbilt Mortgage & Finance Inc. in US District Court for the Eastern District of Tennessee, claiming the firm’s lending process “ignored clear and obvious red flags that certain consumers would not be able to repay their loans according to their terms,” according to the complaint.“Vanderbilt knowingly traps people in risky loans in order to close the deal on…