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ANAHEIM –– The Ducks have agreed to a three-year contract extension worth $18 million with winger Frank Vatrano, both the team and player announced on Sunday morning.According to multiple confirmed reports, the deal included $9 million in payouts during the pact’s duration –– between the 2025-26 and 2027-28 seasons ––and another $9 million in deferred payments over the decade to follow. The arrangement eases Vatrano’s cap hit downward from $6 million to $4.57 million in a hard-capped league and also gives Vatrano options to save on state income taxes down the line, according to TSN’s Pierre LeBrun.Vatrano, who will turn…

In an age where common sense is sacrificed on the altar of political correctness, female athletes are bearing the brunt of a misguided experiment. Policies that permit biological males to compete in women’s sports are not only robbing female athletes of their right to be champions in their own sports, but also endangering their physical safety and violating their privacy. These policies are unjust, unsafe, and antithetical to principles of fairness and truth.At Advocates for Faith and Freedom, we are dedicated to standing with brave female athletes who refuse to be sidelined by these ideological overreaches. Among these courageous individuals…

INGLEWOOD – Guess who’s back? Back again?Why, Kawhi of course.The Clippers have closed the phone book on the 213 era, but for them, it’s still Kawhi Leonard, on loop. Basketball excellence with a bad knee, potentially historic upside in a heartbreakingly uncooperative body. It’s getting knocked down and getting back up, over and over again.Because he “always comes back,” as he told us, in his most monotone, in that new New Balance ad. And so, like the pitchman said he’d be, there he was: The Clippers’ 33-year-old star, back on the court Saturday for the first time this season, clocking…

INGLEWOOD  — Lost amid the 19 minutes of Kawhi Leonard’s celebrated comeback was the less anticipated return of small forward Terance Mann.While Mann missed 11 games because of a broken finger – not nine months like Leonard – his play in Saturday’s 131-105 victory against the Atlanta Hawks showed how much the Clippers need him on the floor as well. He made all five of his field goal attempts and both 3-pointer tries to finish with 12 points. He added three rebounds, two assists, one steal, and a whole lot of defensive plays in 16 minutes.Coach Tyronn Lue, whose focus was…

LOS ANGELES — In his freshman year of high school, long before he was minted as Lincoln Riley’s next quarterback of the future at USC, Husan Longstreet was stuck behind Lincoln Riley’s first quarterback of the future at USC.Longstreet had enrolled at Los Alamitos, a kid who’d watch film for four hours straight since he was in middle school hoping for a fair shake at some snaps. Malachi Nelson, though, stood in his way in that 2021 season, a five-star prospect who had committed to USC and Riley as one of the top quarterbacks in the class of 2023. He…

The New Year’s Day terrorist attack in New Orleans by an Islamic extremist was horrific enough. More than a dozen people lost their lives and many more injured. It served as a reminder that extremists are still among us and willing to do great harm in the name of their deranged beliefs. The perpetrator, it turns out, was an American-born convert to Islam who once served in the U.S. military. But in the immediate response to the horrific attack, MAGA world couldn’t help but take to social media to scapegoat migrants for the terrorist actions of a full-blooded American. “New…

On Friday, President Joe Biden announced he was blocking the purchase of U.S. Steel by Japanese steelmaker Nippon Steel on dubious economic and national security grounds.“It is my solemn responsibility as President to ensure that, now and long into the future, America has a strong domestically owned and operated steel industry that can continue to power our national sources of strength at home and abroad; and it is a fulfillment of that responsibility to block foreign ownership of this vital American company,” Biden announced.The deal that Biden blocked would have resulted in Nippon investing nearly $3 billion in U.S. Steel’s…

Many Americans have never experienced a “good economy,” if a good economy is defined as one in which an individual can graduate from high school or college and find a job that pays four times the cost of housing.At one time that was considered a rule of thumb for personal finance — 25% of an individual’s monthly income was what could prudently be spent on monthly rent or a mortgage payment.Today that would make anyone laugh, or cry. And what’s worse, a rising number of working-age Americans have dropped out of the labor force entirely. According to the U.S. Department…

Donald Trump didn’t win Perris. It’s the way he lost it that helped him win the Inland Empire in 2024.By winning more votes in blue cities like Perris than he did in 2020 and flipping 13 cities won by Joe Biden, Trump became the first Republican in 20 years to win Riverside and San Bernardino counties, a Southern California News Group analysis of election results shows.Certified election results from both counties show Trump won 13 Inland cities he lost four years ago — Banning, Chino, Chino Hills, Corona, Eastvale, Grand Terrace, Hemet, Highland, Jurupa Valley, La Verne, Lake Elsinore, Rancho Cucamonga…

The holidays are over, and the new year is here. Most of us are still recovering from the frenzy — wrapping paper on the floor, leftovers in the fridge, and maybe a pile of thank-you notes waiting to be written.But before we dive headlong into resolutions and routines, let’s take a moment to reflect on something that often gets lost in the shuffle: gratitude.Gratitude isn’t just a polite thing to practice — it’s the secret sauce of meaningful relationships. It’s how we honor the thoughtfulness of others and how we cultivate a sense of joy and connection that can carry…