The Lakers went up 30 in the second quarter, saw New Orleans close within a point with 3:57 to play … but hung on to defeat the Hornets 107-104 and clinch the Pacific Division — probably securing the MVP award for Kobe Bryant, in the process. They also moved within a half-game of New Orleans […]

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A designer for the San Jose Mercury News, one of the struggling newspapers in Dean Singleton’s Northern California pod … has put together a moving photo gallery of images from the Merc newsroom. Martin Gee’s photos are mostly about what is NOT there … which makes them haunting. Well, sad, too. To go to the […]

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The L.A. News Group is sending no one to the Beijing Olympics, barring some late change of heart. Meaning that the MediaNews-owned ring of suburban dailies has gone from three reporters at both the Sydney and Athens games (of 2000 and 2004) … to two at the Torino winter games (2006) … to zero at […]

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Jim Long may be the toughest, most resourceful and most relentlessly enthusiastic journalist I’ve ever met. Particularly when we take into account the hand nature dealt him. My history with Jim Long began when a woman named Joyce Miller, adviser for the Eisenhower High School paper, said she had a wonderful candidate for a part-time […]

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