UCLA Sports
Dramatic comeback: UCLA volleyball player Brian Boone, a former Edison High player, is among six finalists for the Festival’s Nuprin Comeback Award.
July 15, 1991
Angels
Blindfolded with responsibilities, spun around the country repeatedly on a mission that is becoming increasingly difficult, it is easy to get lost while trying to pin a championship on the 1990 major league baseball season.
June 13, 1990
Sports
NBA draft early entries (U.S. colleges only): LaMarcus Aldridge, soph., C, Texas Renaldo Balkman, junior, F, South Carolina Will Blalock, junior, G, Iowa State Josh Boone, junior, F-C, Connecticut Ronnie Brewer, junior, G-F, Arkansas Shannon Brown, junior, G, Michigan State Derek Burditt, soph., C, Blinn Col., Texas Travis DeGroot, junior, F, Delta State Guillermo Diaz, junior, G, Miami Quincy Douby, junior, G, Rutgers Mike Efevberha, junior, G, Cal St.
June 28, 2006
On Friday, God and Mike Port (who are sometimes interchangeable) willing, Bob Boone will be able to resume his place behind home plate at Anaheim Stadium.
April 26, 1987
Movies
Get past the wince-inducing premise of “Helicopter Mom,” in which an overbearing mother outs her sexually undeclared son as gay so that he qualifies for a college scholarship, and you’re still stuck with a forced comedy that mines uneasy humor from stale stereotypes.
April 23, 2015
High School Sports
This is a busy time of the year for Long Beach State’s Tayyiba Haneef.
April 16, 2001
Olympics
Placentia’s Michele Granger pitched two no-hitters in the 1991 U.S.
July 18, 1991
Coach: Don Stoll (16th year). 1995: 23-6, 5-0 in the Sea View League; lost in the Southern Section Division I semifinals to Foothill, 6-5.
Sept. 11, 1996
Thirteen was truly unlucky for Randy Johnson and the Seattle Mariners.
Sept. 17, 1992
Junior pitcher Jason Kelly led top-seeded Santa Maria St.
June 7, 1997