It is so perfect. Andrei Kirilenko. Utah Jazz forward from Russia who wears jersey number 47. Hence, AK-47 — his initials, his number — and the designation for the perhaps the most deadly assault rifle ever assembled, by the old Soviet Union.

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I just watched the Utah Jazz close out the Houston Rockets, with extreme prejudice (as they say in the CIA), in Game 6 of their first-round series, 113-91. And now things get difficult — very — for the Lakers. The Denver Nuggets were a test, in theory. But not in reality. They were over the […]

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Apparently, the L.A. News Group newspapers still are struggling to publish. This is Day 2 and it may be next week — Day 6 or 7, that is — before LANG’s overworked and underpowered (and shared) Unisys computer system comes up. (See techie updates over at the Reporter-G blog.) A former LANG layout editor told […]

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Is this how it works in all fantasy baseball leagues? Or does the venerable Sun Baseball League just happen to have a rare combination of two “glass-ain’t-just-half-empty … it’s-busted-and-shards-are-in-my-hand” owners who are deeply into the game … and like to share their pain? I’m guessing the latter. Though there may be more whiners and complainers […]

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I happened to be in San Bernardino this morning, and I saw the mess of a paper that was thrown on people’s doorsteps. I didn’t know it was an L.A. News Group-wide problem-cum-disaster until I got this link from Reporter G. He is a former staffer at the San Gabriel Valley Tribune, and has good […]

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