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By BRIAN MAHONEY AP Sports WriterTyson Fury promises less clowning and more punching Oleksandr Usyk in the face during their upcoming rematch for boxing’s heavyweight championship.Usyk won a split decision in May in Saudi Arabia, and they get back in the ring there again on Saturday. Fury doesn’t plan to change much from his first loss as a pro, beyond doing everything he can to avoid leaving the result to the judges.“I’ll just throw more this time,” Fury said Wednesday. “Keep hitting him in the face more often than I did last time.”The first matchup made Usyk boxing’s first undisputed…

LOS ANGELES — Tyler Higbee considers his ability to be present, his mind only on the moment of time in which he finds himself, to be a gift.It’s helped the longtime Rams tight end approach every game, from the preseason to two Super Bowls, as the most important game, if only because it’s the next one. And it helped him, over the past 11 months, recover from two surgeries to repair four torn ligaments, even as he relived the same mundane, isolating day.But as he prepares to play in his first game this season as the Rams (8-6) travel to…

By FRED SHUSTERA federal judge in downtown Los Angeles on Friday ordered that convicted former attorney Tom Girardi undergo a mental evaluation at a medical facility to determine whether the 85-year-old cognitively impaired defendant should be sentenced to prison or hospitalized for the rest of his life.U.S. District Judge Josephine L. Staton said she would issue her order immediately so that Girardi can be flown to FMC Butner, a federal prison in North Carolina for male inmates who have special health needs, by Jan. 7 to begin what is likely to be a 30-day evaluation.After the psychological assessment is complete,…

The Dodgers paid the cost for their success in 2024.The World Series champions topped Major League Baseball with a $353 million payroll and a $103 million bill for exceeding the Competitive Balance Tax threshold. In both cases, the New York Mets were a close second – a $347.15 million payroll and $97.12 million luxury tax bill.The Dodgers’ payroll (and luxury tax) would have been much higher if not for deferred salaries included in several contracts (most notably Shohei Ohtani’s). The deferred salaries lower the average-annual value of those contracts as figured for CBT purposes.A record nine teams topped the CBT…

By JOSH BOAK, Associated PressWEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — The smooth economy that Donald Trump was poised to inherit suddenly looks a bit rockier — with critics saying the president-elect is contributing to the uncertainty.The Dow Jones stock index essentially ended Thursday flat after having posted 10 days of losses. The Federal Reserve now sees inflation as staying stubbornly elevated as it has become cautious about further interest rate cuts planned for next year.On Wednesday, Trump blew up a bipartisan budget deal, which means the government could shut down after midnight Saturday. He then promoted a deal reached with…

The Galaxy made three of their four selections in Friday’s MLS SuperDraft, traded one for General Allocation Money and picked one player from LAFC’s second team.Just a normal day in MLS.With the 20th pick in the first round, the Galaxy picked Michigan midfielder/defender Jason Bucknor. The 22-year-old made 19 appearances last season, scoring six goals. In four seasons, he played in 59 games, with nine goals and five assists.The Galaxy sent their second pick in the first round (No. 30) to Real Salt Lake for $50,000 in GAM. Thursday, MLS announced the amount of GAM that each team had heading…

By Anne D’Innocenzio | The Associated PressDiscount chain Big Lots is conducting going–out-of-business sales at its remaining locations after a sale of the company didn’t materialize.The Columbus, Ohio-based retailer, which sells furniture, home decor and other items, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in early September and said private equity firm Nexus Capital Management LP had agreed to acquire “substantially all of the company’s assets.”Also see: Party City closing all stores nationwide, at least 80 of them in CaliforniaBut on Thursday, the chain said it didn’t anticipate completing the purchase agreement. It said it continues to work toward completing an alternative…

By JOCELYN GECKERThe U.S. Department of Education said Friday it has reached an agreement with the University of California system resolving complaints from Jewish and Muslim students of discrimination and harassment during protests last spring over the war in Gaza.The department’s Office for Civil Rights said it investigated nine complaints against University of California schools in Los Angeles (UCLA), Santa Barbara, San Diego, Davis and Santa Cruz. The complaints alleged the schools failed to respond effectively to antisemitic and anti-Arab harassment.The civil rights office concluded the universities “appear not to have responded promptly or effectively” to allegations of discrimination and…

Here are the IE Varsity first-team selections for the 2024 high school football season.Grand Terrace’s Exzavior Oliver stiff arms San Gorgonio’s John Rubio in a CIF Southern Section Division 11 football quarterfinal game on Friday, Nov. 15, 2024. (Photo by Milka Soko, Contributing Photographer)FIRST TEAM, OFFENSEQB: Bryson Beaver, Vista Murrieta, Jr.QB: Husan Longstreet, Centennial, Sr.RB: Logan Barbour, Yucaipa, Sr.RB: Dorian Hoze, Murrieta Valley, Sr.RB: Exzavior Oliver, Grand Terrace, Sr.WR: Cory Butler Jr., Centennial, Sr.WR: Travon Garrison, Damien, So.WR: Sean McCullough, Vista Murrieta, Jr.WR: Amarion Orange, Rancho Verde, Sr.OL: Roman Angulo, Beaumont, Sr.OL: Derrick Cooper, Rancho Cucamonga, Sr.OL: Drew Hill, Centennial,…

By DAVID KOENIG, Associated Press Airlines WriterDrivers and airline passengers without reindeer and sleighs better make a dash for it: it’s beginning to look like another record for holiday travel in the U.S.The auto club AAA predicts that more than 119 million people will travel at least 50 miles from home between Saturday and New Year’s Day, which would top the previous holiday-season high set in 2019. The two weekends on either side of Christmas look to be some of the most crowded times on the road and at airports.Trade group Airlines for America also foresees record travel, saying it…