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LINCOLN, Neb. — If the UCLA men’s basketball team thought it was cold arriving to Pinnacle Bank Arena, it was in for a rude awakening at the 3-point line Saturday.While temperatures hovered about 20 degrees outside, the No. 15 Bruins found no source of warmth from the arc Saturday, firing a season-worst 14% from 3-point range in a 66-58 loss to Nebraska.The Bruins played their worst offensive game of the season in their first Big Ten game not played on the West Coast. UCLA (11-3, 2-1) was 4 of 28 on 3-pointers, its most frigid performance from beyond the arc…

When artificial intelligence cameras spotted a wildfire in a remote canyon in early December, it was the first time the Orange County Fire Authority received an alert from AI without getting an emergency call from a person, authorities said.OCFA announced the discovery in an X post on Friday, Jan. 3.The University of California San Diego’s ALERTCalifornia camera network’s AI alerted the OCFA of an “anomaly” seen on video footage around 2 a.m. on Dec. 4. The network has several cameras located in wildfire-prone spots around Southern California.The anomaly turned out to be a vegetation fire in Black Star Canyon, east…

RIVERSIDE — Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk had already won a CIF State Cross Country title as a junior, but he had one thing to cross off his high school cross country bucket list: make the Nike Cross Nationals by getting one of the top five individual times at state among non-qualifying teams.Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk has been chosen the IE Varsity Boys Cross Country Runner of the Year for the third time in a row in Riverside on Wednesday, Dec. 18, 2024. (Photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG) Woodcrest Christian senior Eyan Turk has been chosen the IE…

Camp Pendleton has tightened access to the sprawling Marine base in North County in the wake of the New Year’s Day attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people.“Commander NORTHCOM has directed all military installations to implement heightened security measures at all entry gates to include 100% ID CHECKS, random inspections, and the suspension of the Trusted Travel Program until further notice,” Camp Pendleton said in a post on X, formerly Twitter.The message was referring to the U.S. Northern Command, a branch of the Defense Department that protects the U.S. homeland and surrounding waters.As of noon Saturday, the agency had…

Lauren Betts’ ninth double-double of the season helped the No. 1 UCLA women’s basketball team stay undefeated Saturday.The 6-foot-7 center scored 25 points and collected 12 rebounds as the Bruins came away 73-62 winners over Indiana in a Big Ten victory in Bloomington, Indiana.UCLA also got 11 points from junior guard Gabriela Jaquez and 12 points, seven rebounds and seven assists from junior guard Kiki Rice to improve to 15-0 overall and 4-0 in the conference.Betts, who shot 12 of 16 (75%) from the field in the win, came into the game third in the Big Ten in scoring at…

LOS ANGELES — The words that came out of JJ Redick’s mouth Friday night, after the Lakers’ eighth victory in 11 games – but one that featured kind of a sloppy start – were a challenge to his team.If you are a Laker fan of long standing, you might have heard the echo of another young coach with this franchise, one who ultimately became a coaching icon.“Our game plan discipline tonight was so bad, so bad,” Redick began, after the Lakers had pulled away for a 119-102 victory over the Atlanta Hawks. The criticism? The stuff was in the scouting…

Derwin James Jr. said all week that 11 was better than 10, which was precisely how the Chargers approached their regular-season finale against the Raiders on Sunday in Las Vegas. He and his teammates and the coaching staff made it clear they were playing to win Sunday.It didn’t seem to matter to them that they might be locked into the sixth-seeded spot in the AFC, rendering their game against the Raiders almost meaningless. It also didn’t seem matter that they could move up to fifth if they win and the Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers on Saturday.The Chargers’ stated…

CHARGERS (10-6) at RAIDERS (4-12) When: Sunday, 1:25 p.m. Where: Allegiant Stadium, Las Vegas TV/radio: KCBS (Ch. 2)/98.7 FM; 105.5 FM/94.3 FM (Spanish) Line: Chargers by 4.5 points Notable injury designations Chargers: OUT: RB Gus Edwards (ankle), WR Joshua Palmer (foot). DOUBTFUL: LB Denzel Perryman (groin). QUESTIONABLE: Alohi Gilman (hamstring). Raiders: OUT: RB Ameer Abdullah (foot). QUESTIONABLE: CB Nate Hobbs (illness), G Jordan Meredith (ankle). What’s at stake: The Chargers clinched an AFC wild-card berth with a 40-7 rout of the New England Patriots in Week 17. If the Cincinnati Bengals defeat the Pittsburgh Steelers in their regular-season finale Saturday,…

I was among those who had forgotten, amid all the single-minded focus on his “malaise” speech and its televised, cardigan-sweatered dourness, that the late former President Jimmy Carter was actually among the funniest of our nation’s chief executives.He was a lot of other things, too. He was an actual Christian, who lived his faith in extraordinary ways, rather than a pretend Christian who sells branded Bibles he hasn’t read, in a quest for votes, and cash.He was easily the most rock ‘n’ roll president, who forged a genuine, decades-long friendship with his home state of Georgia’s Allman BrothersBand, and installed…

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