Santa Anita horse racing consensus picks, Friday, April 28, 2023

• April 28, 2023

The consensus box of Santa Anita horse racing picks comes from handicappers Bob Mieszerski, Art Wilson, Terry Turrell and Eddie Wilson. Here are the picks for thoroughbred races on Friday, April 28, 2023.

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NFL draft: Chargers select TCU WR Quentin Johnston at No. 21

• April 28, 2023

LOS ANGELES — The Chargers provided quarterback Justin Herbert with another weapon, selecting TCU wide receiver Quentin Johnston with the 21st pick in the NFL draft on Thursday night.

The 6-foot-3, 208-pound Johnston led the Horned Frogs in receiving the last three years. He had 60 receptions for 1,069 yards and eight touchdowns last season as TCU went from unranked at the beginning of the season to the College Football Playoff national title game, which it lost to Georgia.

Johnston joins a talented Chargers receiving room that already has Keenan Allen, Mike Williams and Joshua Palmer. General Manager Tom Telesco and Coach Brandon Staley were looking for someone who can stretch the field or generate mismatches for explosive pass plays.

The Chargers also need to build depth at the position since Allen is going into his 11th season and missed seven of the first nine games last season with a hamstring injury. Williams was sidelined for five games.

The Chargers selected Johnston over Zay Flowers (Boston College) and Jordan Addison (USC). Ohio State’s Jaxon Smith-Njigba was the first wide receiver to be selected, going to Seattle with the 20th pick.

Much more to come on this story.

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Linnea Johansson leads after 1st round of LPGA’s LA Championship

• April 28, 2023

By JILL PAINTER LOPEZ The Associated Press

LOS ANGELES — Linnea Johansson shot a 7-under-par 64 to take a one-shot lead after the first round of the JM Eagle LA Championship on Thursday at Wilshire Country Club.

Johansson had a bogey-free round, one of just five in the first round.

“Obviously a great day, great round,” said Johansson, who had a morning tee time. “Played fearless golf today and really went after a lot of pins and managed to hit them very close and roll in the putts. I actually managed to roll in the longer ones more than the shorter ones. It was just a great day.”

Minjee Lee, who won at Wilshire Country Club in 2019 when it was a different event, shot a 6-under 65 and is tied for second along with Gemma Dryburgh.

“I think it kind of reminds me a little bit of home, just the look of the bunkers and just how they’re situated on each hole,” Lee said. “Yeah, it just kind of gives me good vibes. I started pretty, just with pars, and then made three birdies in a row. That was nice to finish off my front nine. Then a couple more on the back nine. It was a nice, solid day.”

Lilia Vu, a Southern California native, won her first major at the Chevron Championship last week and shot a 2-under 69 to land five shots back. Both of her LPGA victories have come this season.

Nelly Korda, who just moved back to No. 1 in the world after a third-place finish at the Chevron Championship, also shot a 2-under 69.

NOTES

Eight of the top 10 golfers in the Rolex Women’s World Golf Rankings are in the field vying for the $3 million purse. … Just a few months ago, the underground tunnel that takes golfers from the front and back nines was under water because of the deluge of rain storms and some of the course was under water, too.

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Orange County scores and player stats for Thursday, April 27

• April 28, 2023

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Scores and stats from Orange County games on Thursday, April 27

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THURSDAY’S SCORES

BASEBALL

CRESTVIEW LEAGUE

El Dorado 4, Foothill 0

Note: El Dorado clinches CIF-SS playoff berth.

SEA VIEW LEAGUE

Aliso Niguel 6, San Juan Hills 0

Note: Aliso wins the Sea View championship, its first league title since 2019.

SURF LEAGUE

Fountain Valley 1, Corona del Mar 0

WAVE LEAGUE

Newport Harbor 2, Marina 1

GOLDEN WEST LEAGUE

Ocean View 4, Katella 1

ORANGE COAST LEAGUE

Orange 4, Santa Ana 0

Orange: Rodriguez 2-2, 2HR, 3R, 2BB. Laird (W, CG 7H 0R 1BB 5K).

SAN JOAQUIN LEAGUE

Capistrano Valley Christian 11, Pacifica Christian 0

BOYS GOLF

SOUTH COAST LEAGUE

Tesoro 178, Dana Hills 188

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Land beneath Casa Romantica drops 10 feet, halts railroad service through San Clemente

• April 28, 2023

An already weakened bluff-top patio at San Clemente’s Casa Romantica cracked and fell about 8 to 10 feet down a hillside Thursday afternoon, April 27.

After cracking had appeared April 16 in the property’s ocean-view terrace, the City Council had approved on Monday spending $75,000 for a local geological firm to assess the extend of a landslide.

Crews from LGC Geotechnical Inc. had been drilling borings to install equipment in the ground to measure movement when the sandy earth began moving Thursday morning, said Councilmember Kevin Knoblock, who had been out to look at the damage to the patio at the back of the landmark.

At 1 p.m., the smaller terrace began slipping and then dropped; with it came the hillside, Knoblock said.

The drilling work had started Tuesday. Knoblock said crews from LGC were on site Thursday afternoon to continue to try and get better borings to assess the slide.

The area had been cordoned off, and nobody was injured. The debris field did get close to the railroad tracks that run at the foot of the hillside and passenger and freight service between Laguna Niguel and Oceanside was stopped “in an abundance of caution,” officials with Metrolink and the Orange County Transportation Agency said.

Service will only resume when it is determined safe, officials said. Updates can be found on the OCTA, Metrolink and Pacific Surfliner social media and website.

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San Juan Hills’ Taylor Fox outduels friendly rival Ella Roselli of Mater Dei for CIF-SS diving title

• April 28, 2023

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RIVERSIDE — The CIF-SS Division 1 girls diving championships returned to its familiar setting Thursday with ideal weather and tight competition but never stood a chance of really separating San Juan Hills’ Taylor Fox and Mater Dei’s Ella Roselli.

The training partners with the Mission Viejo Nadadores’ club are too close, and too supportive of each other, to be separated beyond the mandatory scores from the judges.

“I’m happy if she does good,” Fox said of Roselli.

“There’s no one better to lose to,” Roselli said of Fox.

So in some ways, the friendly rivals both won as they soared above the field at Riverside City College, which hosted the event for the first since 2019.

Fox’s clean technique and ability to adjust to the springboards contributed to a separation on the scoreboard. The junior committed to Texas delivered a consistent 11-dive list and claimed her second consecutive Division 1 title with a score of 582.85, outdistancing the Indiana-bound Roselli by about 30 points.

“(Her diving) is taking off,” Nadadores associate head coach Todd Mulzet said of Fox, who recently won U.S. regional titles on 3-meter and platform. “She’s very technical. All the mechanics are exactly where they need to be, and she is a competitor.

“If it comes down to ‘I got to hit this dive’ my money is on her,” he added of Fox. “She’s fierce.”

Fox showcased her technical side by earning several 9s and a 10 on a back dive on 1-meter.

She also was sound on more difficult dives, including a reverse 2 1/2 somersaults on 3-meter.

“I was happy with the consistency of my list,” said Fox, who improved her score from last season by almost 24 points. “One of my bigger goals is to be more consistent because I don’t do the hardest dives.”

Roselli, a senior, finished second with 552.80 points.

A former gymnast, Roselli started diving about 3 1/2 years ago and is headed to the Big Ten Conference. “I’ve come a long way,” she said.

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Fox and Roselli both said won’t compete at the section’s state qualifier on Tuesday because of diving conflicts.

Mater Dei freshman Gianna Kenrick placed third with 488.45 points and hoped to compete next week.

Fullerton senior Abigail Ekstrom and Cypress junior Isabella Chen finished first and second in the Division 3 final on Wednesday with scores of 533.25 and 528.70, respectively. The Penn State-bound Ekstrom claimed her second consecutive title.

In boys results Thursday, Capistrano Valley Christian sophomore Grant Schneider won Division 4 with a score of 576.90.

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Fox ratings plunge for Tucker Carlson’s old time slot

• April 28, 2023

By David Bauder | Associated Press

NEW YORK — Hundreds of thousands of Fox News viewers are reacting to Tucker Carlson’s firing by abandoning the network in his old time slot — at least temporarily.

Fox drew 1.33 million viewers for substitute host Brian Kilmeade in the 8 p.m. Eastern hour on Wednesday night, putting the network second to MSNBC’s Chris Hayes in a competition Carlson used to dominate, the Nielsen company said.

That’s down 56% from the 3.05 million viewers Carlson reached last Wednesday, Nielsen said. For all of 2022, Carlson averaged 3.03 million viewers, second only to Fox’s “The Five” as the most popular program on cable television.

Carlson offered his own alternative to Kilmeade on Wednesday, posting a two-minute monologue on Twitter at 8 p.m. By Thursday afternoon, that video had been viewed 62.7 million times, according to Twitter.

Kilmeade had 1.7 million viewers on Tuesday and 2.59 million on Monday, when he told people who hadn’t already heard the news that Carlson would no longer be there.

Carlson had 2.65 million viewers on Friday for what he didn’t know at the time would be his last show on Fox. He was fired on Monday with no explanation given publicly, although there are no shortage of theories — including a former employee’s lawsuit that cited a toxic work atmosphere at his show, offensive statements by Carlson that came out as part of the Dominion Voting Systems lawsuit against Fox and his embrace of political conspiracy theories about the Jan. 6 insurrection.

The ratings slump echoes what happened at Fox following the 2020 election, when many viewers angered by the network’s crucial election night declaration that Joe Biden had won Arizona followed then-President Donald Trump’s advice to seek alternatives. That caused tremendous angst behind the scenes at Fox, which was illustrated in documents released as part of the Dominion case.

Asked for comment, Fox responded with a statement noting that Fox has been cable news’ most-watched network for 21 years with its team “trusted more by viewers than any other news source.”

In the wake of Carlson’s firing, viewing at the conservative network Newsmax has shot up for Eric Bolling, who hosts a show in the same 8 p.m. Eastern slot.

For example, Bolling had 510,000 viewers Wednesday night, compared to 168,000 on Wednesday a week ago, Nielsen said. On Tuesday, Bolling had 562,000 viewers, up from 122,000 the same day a week earlier.

The challenge for Newsmax will be making it last. Fox surged again following Biden’s inauguration as president, and Newsmax couldn’t keep up the momentum.

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Galaxy, LAFC add U.S. Open Cup games to their already busy schedules

• April 28, 2023

The Galaxy and LAFC learned their U.S. Open Cup opponents on Thursday.

Both teams enter the tournament for the Round of 32, which is set to be played May 9-10.

The Galaxy, which advanced to the quarterfinals last season, will host the Seattle Sounders on May 10 at Dignity Health Sports Park.

The Sounders entered the tournament for the third round and survived a wild meeting with San Diego Loyal of the Division II USL Championship league, winning 5-4. The Galaxy has been placed in group 3, along with the Sounders, Portland Timbers and Real Salt Lake.

The Galaxy hosts Colorado in an MLS match on May 6, followed by the Cup match against Seattle on May 10 and another MLS match against San Jose on May 14. A road trip to Columbus (May 17) and D.C. United (May 20) follows.

LAFC’s calendar is already crowded with CONCACAF Champions League play. MLS rescheduled this Saturday’s game against Houston because of the Champions League. LAFC opened the CCL semifinal round with a 1-1 draw against the Philadelphia Union on Wednesday night in Chester, Pa., and will play the second leg on Tuesday in L.A. That will be followed by a league game against San Jose on May 6 and their U.S. Open Cup game on the road on May 9 against Monterey Bay FC at Cardinale Stadium in Seaside.

LAFC is in group four with the Colorado Rapids, Sacramento Republic FC and Monterey Bay FC.

If either the Galaxy or LAFC win their Cup games, then another game will get added to their May schedule with the Round of 16 set for May 23-24. The quarterfinals are scheduled for June 6-7, followed by the semifinals on Aug. 23 and the final on Sept. 27.

The Galaxy last won the tournament in 2005 and followed that with a runner-up finish in 2006.

LAFC lost to the Galaxy in the Round of 16 in last year’s U.S. Open Cup.

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