I love this story. I love it to death. USC and UCLA will revisit a grand tradition on Saturday when each team wears its home uniforms for their game at the Rose Bowl. They did this every year, for decades, the both-wear-home-unis thing, until the NCAA decided to make a rule prohibiting it. For no […]

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That would be me, actually. Me with a beard. The first I have ever had. Perhaps my last, as well. And I don’t know how long I will keep messing around with this. I know some guys, a lot of them, are tinkering with facial hair most of their adult lives. Mustache, then a goatee, […]

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I feel badly for all of you. Outsiders talk about earthquakes and ask people in Southern California how they can live with the threat … and someday (tomorrow? next year? 50 years from now?), when that 8-point-something quake pops on the San Andreas Fault, it will, in fact, be a disaster of biblical proportions. But […]

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Here’s something you don’t see every year. Somebody physically beating up the USC defense and driving the length of the field on it. Well, almost the length of the field. Just pounding it, mostly. That’s what Ohio State just did, however, going 68 yards in 17 plays and 8 minutes, 45 seconds to take a […]

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Former L.A. Times staffer Roy Rivenburg has put up a second edition of his “Not the L.A. Times” web page. It isn’t as ambitious as the first, and has less content. But, hey, if you’ve ever tried writing satire … you know how hard it is to come up with six ideas, never mind 26. […]

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I’m looking again at the medals standings. Apparently, the Associated Press is sending out standings ranked by total medals won. However, China (and the IOC) rank them by golds won. So those of you looking at American newspapers will see the USA leading the standings …. but pretty much everywhere else China is in the […]

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Well, I believe what I saw. What I don’t believe? That Usain Bolt, a 100-meter nobody barely a year ago, could get to the finish line in 9.69 seconds — a world record — without the aid of unnatural substances that ought to get him banned from the Olympics. If the dope cops were as […]

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That at one moment, when the thing was amping up … I now recall thinking — and it flashed through my mind — “what will it feel like if this building collapses and I ride it down to the ground?” I mean, no building is immune to earthquake … if the quake is big enough. […]

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After the quake of some 20 minutes ago … traffic is going on the streets, the Metro Blue Line is running. No observable damage out the window. Not much in terms of sirens. No more than usual. We’re having trouble loading the L.A. Times website (too much traffic?) and phones seem to be down. Or […]

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Or it sure felt like one, here on the eighth floor of our building in downtown Long Beach. If the epicenter was here … it’s pretty serious. If the epicenter were some distance away … there could be serious trouble wherever that was. It occurred at 11:42 a.m. (PDT), by my watch, and seemed to […]

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