Ducks must get mad enough to get up to even with Predators
ANAHEIM >> Anger, if cha eled correctly, can help a team pull out of a 0-2 playoff series hole. Rage, if provoked, can cause a team to fall further into that hole, and that’s the paradox the Ducks find themselves in as they head to Nashville for Game 3 of their Stanley Cup playoff series. The Ducks ...
Clippers believe in much improved bench
Austin Rivers doesn’t lack for confidence. The Clippers reserve guard once tweeted he was “straight up better” than a lot of the players competing for a spot on Team U.S.A. Monday, the bravado was still there. “I think we’re one of the best benches in the league,” he said. The confidence in the grou...
Split high court now holds fate of Obama immigration actions
WASHINGTON >> Conservative Supreme Court justices expressed sharp skepticism about President Barack Obama’s immigration efforts Monday, leaving his actions to help millions of people who are in the country illegally in the hands of a seemingly divided court. As hundreds of pro-immigration demonstrat...
Carson man gets 8 years for trying to run over U.S. marshal
LOS ANGELES — A Carson man was sentenced today to eight years in federal prison for trying to run over a deputy U.S. marshal who was attempting to arrest him for failing to abide by the terms of his release in a narcotics case. Keith Leon Smith, 47, pleaded with the judge for “leniency,” asking to b...