This is the place to find all of OCVarsity’s coverage of the high school football games on the first Friday night of the 2022 season. We have game stories, a complete list of scores, a photo gallery and more. On Saturday, we’ll be publishing our detailed roundup of other games Friday, plus the Week 0…
Day: August 20, 2022
Here is the latest U.S. State Department travel advisory after recent violence across Mexico
Confronting the cartels The U.S. continues to monitor drug gang activity in Baja California after a recent spasm of violence across Mexico. The Aug. 12 instructions to U.S. government personnel in the nation to shelter in place are no longer in effect. The good news is most of Mexico is safe to visit, but the…
Rancho Cucamonga football team opens season with victory over Servite
RANCHO CUCAMONGA — The C.J. Tiller era at Rancho Cucamonga high school began Friday and gave Cougar fans a taste of the highlights they can expect to see this season. Rancho Cucamonga’s Trey Wilson runs past Servite’s Tyler McCown during a Week 0 non-league football game at Rancho Cucamonga HS stadium on Friday Aug. 19,…
Trayce Thompson lifts Dodgers to win with bat, glove
LOS ANGELES ― After six innings of scoreless baseball, Trayce Thompson got the Dodgers on the board Friday night. Then in the ninth inning, he kept the Miami Marlins off the board. Thompson’s leaping catch at the fence in right-center field denied Nick Fortes a possible game-tying home run to preserve a 2-1 Dodger win…
Chicago White Sox begin a big series against the Cleveland Guardians with a 5-2 loss, falling 3½ games behind the division leaders
Reynaldo López’s slider was low and inside, well off the plate. It didn’t matter to Steven Kwan, who hit the pitch into the right-field corner for a tying triple for the Cleveland Guardians on Friday at Progressive Field. Amed Rosario hit López’s next offering to left for a run-scoring single. And just like that, a…
‘Just a brutal day’: Chicago White Sox close homestand with a lopsided 21-5 loss to the Houston Astros, settling for a 4-game split
The Chicago White Sox had an opportunity to inch closer to first place ahead of a big series against the division-leading Guardians in Cleveland. Instead, they closed out a homestand with a clunker Thursday against the Houston Astros. The Sox surrendered four home runs, including two two-run homers to Alex Bregman, in a lopsided 21-5…
‘I want to be in this environment’: Veteran SS Elvis Andrus joins the Chicago White Sox for another shot at the playoffs
Elvis Andrus has played well against Cleveland throughout his 14-year career, slashing .342/.409/.518 in 87 games. He’s hoping that success continues after signing with the Chicago White Sox. “That was one of the things I saw when I signed with the team, ‘Ah, we’re going to play in Cleveland,’ ” Andrus said before Friday’s game…
High school football: Scores from Thursday’s games, Friday’s schedule
The results from Thursday’s high school football games and the schedule for Friday’s games. THURSDAY’S RESULTS CIF-SS NONLEAGUE Adelanto 26, Castaic 7 Aquinas 28, Etiwanda 21 Bellflower 39, Pioneer 0 Bishop Amat 29, Valencia 6 Cantwell-Sacred Heart 38, Bassett 0 Capistrano Valley 45, Tustin 13 Carter 20, Los Osos 16 Chino Hills 13, Glendora 7…
Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Aug. 11-18)
Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Aug. 11 to Aug. 18. Kitchen at Dana Point Yacht Club, 24399 Dana Drive, Dana Point Closed: Aug. 17 Reason: No reason provided Thanh Long Maria Market, 12451 Westminster Ave., Santa Ana Closed: Aug. 16 Reason: Cockroach…
Cristian Arango, LAFC’s animated warrior, is setting the pace
LOS ANGELES — Throughout his soccer-playing life, Cristian Arango saw himself reflected in the fictional exploits of Tsubasa Ozora. And for the past 12 months, Arango has repeatedly delivered his best Ozora impersonations while playing forward for the Los Angeles Football Club. Regardless of where in the world people have been exposed to Ozora, whose rise…
Dave Hyde: If Miami Heat are dreaming big, why wouldn’t they wait out Kevin Durant?
The NBA star questioned the owner, called out his co-star, pressed to fire the coach and general manager he once helped hire and repeated a loud trade request to sweep everything into a messy public conversation. Kevin Durant in Brooklyn in the discontented summer of 2022? This was Shaquille O’Neal in 2004. It’s why Miami…
‘I want to be in this environment’: Veteran SS Elvis Andrus joins the Chicago White Sox for another shot at the playoffs
Elvis Andrus has played well against Cleveland throughout his 14-year career, slashing .342/.409/.518 in 87 games. He’s hoping that success continues after signing with the Chicago White Sox. “That was one of the things I saw when I signed with the team, ‘Ah, we’re going to play in Cleveland,’ ” Andrus said before Friday’s game…
Orange County restaurants shut down by health inspectors (Aug. 11-18)
Restaurants and other food vendors ordered to close and allowed to reopen by Orange County health inspectors from Aug. 11 to Aug. 18. Kitchen at Dana Point Yacht Club, 24399 Dana Drive, Dana Point Closed: Aug. 17 Reason: No reason provided Thanh Long Maria Market, 12451 Westminster Ave., Santa Ana Closed: Aug. 16 Reason: Cockroach…
Cristian Arango, LAFC’s animated warrior, is setting the pace
LOS ANGELES — Throughout his soccer-playing life, Cristian Arango saw himself reflected in the fictional exploits of Tsubasa Ozora. And for the past 12 months, Arango has repeatedly delivered his best Ozora impersonations while playing forward for the Los Angeles Football Club. Regardless of where in the world people have been exposed to Ozora, whose rise…
‘Just a brutal day’: Chicago White Sox close homestand with a lopsided 21-5 loss to the Houston Astros, settling for a 4-game split
The Chicago White Sox had an opportunity to inch closer to first place ahead of a big series against the division-leading Guardians in Cleveland. Instead, they closed out a homestand with a clunker Thursday against the Houston Astros. The Sox surrendered four home runs, including two two-run homers to Alex Bregman, in a lopsided 21-5…
High school football: Scores from Thursday’s games, Friday’s schedule
The results from Thursday’s high school football games and the schedule for Friday’s games. THURSDAY’S RESULTS CIF-SS NONLEAGUE Adelanto 26, Castaic 7 Aquinas 28, Etiwanda 21 Bellflower 39, Pioneer 0 Bishop Amat 29, Valencia 6 Cantwell-Sacred Heart 38, Bassett 0 Capistrano Valley 45, Tustin 13 Carter 20, Los Osos 16 Chino Hills 13, Glendora 7…
Cardinals WR Marquise Brown on trade from Ravens: ‘Sometimes they really didn’t need me’
When the Ravens face the Cardinals on Sunday night, wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown won’t be playing. But he will be a talking point. The Ravens traded Brown, Eric DeCosta’s first-ever draft pick as general manager, to Arizona for a first-round pick on the opening night of April’s draft. Sunday’s nationally televised game will be…
Coronavirus: Orange County reported 2,076 new cases and 29 more deaths, Aug. 19
The OC Health Care Agency reported 2,076 more cases of the coronavirus from Tuesday, Aug. 16, to Thursday, Aug. 18, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 653,562. There were 9,977 new cases reported in the last two-week period. The county is averaging at least 22.2 new cases a day per…
ESPN’s Stephen A. Smith is releasing a memoir, says ‘I’ll be damned if I’m holding back’
Stephen A. Smith promises he didn’t hold back in a new memoir about his life. The boisterous ESPN personality covers his childhood in New York City, his career as a journalist and issues he’s faced along the way in “Straight Shooter: A Memoir of Second Chances and First Takes,” publisher 13A announced Tuesday. The book…
Justin Herbert makes most of Chargers’ joint practices with Cowboys
COSTA MESA — Justin Herbert didn’t play in the Chargers’ exhibition opener against the Rams last Saturday at SoFi Stadium, the first of three preseason games before the regular season begins Sept. 11. He also won’t play Saturday against the Dallas Cowboys or Aug. 26 against the New Orleans Saints. Keenan Allen and Mike Williams,…