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Los Angeles Chargers quarterback Justin Herbert on the move against the Denver Broncos on Sunday, Dec. 27,2020. The Chargers defeated the Broncos, 19-16, at SoFI Stadium in Inglewood, California. Herbert broke the NFL’s rookie record for most passes thrown in a season. Herbert’s 9-yard touchdown toss to Austin Ekeler gave him 28 touchdown passes for the season.
Aaron Donald’s return talk intensifies A workout with team fuels speculation of a comeback...
Iron sharpens iron at Rams camp Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) - Training camp for every NFL team is to work out the kinks and get better in preparing for the upcoming season....
WR Smith is the Rams’ X-factor The third-year player could be a solid contributor...
Rams training camp brings 'excitement {Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) - The Los Angeles Rams go into training camp this season as the team most likely to play as Super Bowl LXI favorites. That’s not a far stretch of the imagination. The Rams have the NFL’s reigning MVP in quarterback Matthew Stafford. They picked up the league’s Defensive Player of the Year in edge rusher Myles Garrett in the offseason. That’s not to mention that the Rams also picked up a premier cornerback tandem in Trent McDuffie and Jaylen Watkins from the Kansas City Chiefs. That’s like stacking chips. https://news4usonline.com/rams-training-camp-brings-excitement/
Juju Watkins’ basketball camp is about ‘having fun’ Juju Watkins knows what’s it’s like to create buzz on the basketball court. On Sunday, the USC women’s basketball star extended that excitement to as many as 150 girls during her summer basketball camp at Galen Center on the campus of the University of Southern California. “It’s super exciting,” Watkins said during a short press conference. “The girls coming in here…they’re super excited. They’re curious, they’re asking questions. It’s really great to see. Yeah, they’re just having fun. I don’t know how else to put it.” Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) - Juju Watkins knows what’s it’s like to create buzz on the basketball court. ... https://news4usonline.com/juju-watkins-basketball-camp-is-about-having-fun/
Lakers re-sign Austin Reaves The guard is now poised to be the franchise's next star...
The promise of America
(News4usonline) - America is still trying to be a more perfect union. It has a long ways to go before it can ever get to that point. In the meantime, the America we know today is a country still trying to find its voice. The country is still figuring out who we are as a nation. The nation today is not the America that our parents knew when they were growing up. It’s not the country that our grandparents and forefathers had to come to grips with as they toiled to make a better way for us. Well, who are we? We’re a country of immigrants. Land of the free. Yet America remains a nation still ripped apart by racial and social injustice. America wears and has worn many hats in one form or another. Photo credit: Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline For 250 years, the molding of this great country has been shaped by events that we could control and by occurrences that were completely out of our hands. We’re the same country that profited mightily off of the backs of Black people by accepting and riding the coattails of slavery. We’re also the same nation that kicked that horrible inhumane practice to the curb. Thanks to the Civil War and President Abraham Lincoln signing the Emancipation Proclamation to free the slaves, those bounded by the shackles of indentured servitude no longer had that burden put on their backs. However, freedom came at a cost. For several hundred years, Black Americans paid the toll. Lynchings, scare tactics by armed night riders, Jim Crow laws and defacto dehumanization were the benefits of being free. Somehow, someway, America has been able to move past that dark stain. Or has it? The duality of America’s consciousness has been expressed since the nation’s birth in 1776. The same country that once told Black Americans that we were only part human (Dred Scott) can also brag about bringing about equality for all through desegregation laws and civil rights advocacy. Today, Black people can vote. It was not supposed to be that way. We were once servants. We had no rights. There was no right to vote. Learning to read was out of the question. You did so at your own risk. Joe Biden's selection of Sen. Kamala Harris as vice president choice was widely applauded and celebrated. Photo by Mark Hammond for News4usonline Socially, if you were Black, you could get strung up to hang or burned at the stake for the smallest of offenses. Like whistling or grinning at a white woman. Mixing (interracial dating) just was not happening. This was simply taboo. Today, interracial marriages and relationships have diluted themselves into the fabric of America. It’s all over the place. As society has evolved, America itself has made tremendous strides as a young country. Think about where we are and where we were as a nation without the contributions of women. Up until the 19th Amendment was ratified, women had no more more right to vote than a pair of horse pliers. Once that matter came into fruition, the nation has become better for it. Women run corporations. They are civic leaders. They’re educators, ministers of the gospel, U.S. servicemembers, and yes, lawmakers. They are U.S. Supreme Court justices. Women have shown that they can hold down and raise a family and run a company successfully at the same time. This is an example of the growth of America. But whenever the country seems to take a step forward, there’s always individuals lurking around to take the nation backward. Political gerrymanderying and using the law through state interpretation to suppress voting rights is not a new phenomenon. Akin to a dictatorship or authoritarianism, these are tools for those in authority use to remain in power. We’re seeing this more and more at local and state levels around the country. The day after the U.S. Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade, protesters made their way to the steps of City Hall in Los Angeles on June 25, 2022, to voice their angst over the ruling. Photo by Dennis J. Freeman/News4usonline
So much so that this dangerous avenue of ultimate control could be leading this country into a dark, dark hole in which we may not be able to come out of. One person, one group of people controlling everything? This is not America. America is a living and breathing democracy. Whether some folks like it or not, America thrives on its multi-layered voices. This nation is powerful not because we just listen to a singular voice in a vacuum, but because we are one and because we are many. Collectively, as a people, we make America what it is. We have a lot of differences. Yet we are all the same. We laugh. We cry. We share stories. We love. Family is the tie that binds us all. The thing about family is that sometimes we don’t like each other. Sometimes we get on each other’s nerves. But at the end of the day, we come back together because we are family. That’s the promise of America.
America is still trying to be a more perfect union. It has a long ways to go before it can ever get to that point. In the meantime, the America we know today is a country still trying to find its voice.
Shakespeare meets ‘Macbeth in Compton’
Hollywood, CA (News4usonline) – Page Kennedy is a big fan of hip-hop. He’s an even bigger fan of Old School West Coast rap music. Kennedy is so into the 1990s Compton and South Los Angeles music sound that he decided to create a film short as an homage to that particular genre. “My favorite time of rap music came from the 90s and in LA,” Kennedy said. “This is kind of like my love letter to…
LeBron James closes out Lakers era
(News4usonline) - Whenever LeBron James stepped on the court, the Los Angeles Lakers knew they had a chance to win. That’s because James is a proven winner. He’s won four NBA titles. He’s an Olympic champion. He is a gold medal winner. For eight seasons, the Lakers could count on James showing up for work and putting in the sweat and effort to be better and make his teammates better. The Lakers are about to find out real fast of having life without LeBron. Without James dominating ball control, just how much spacing will players like Austin Reaves be able to create for themselves? How will they react when they discover that James won’t be there to bail them out anymore? Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) scored 31 points against the Washington Wizards on Feb. 29, 2024. Photo by Mark Hammond/Courtesy of The Bulletin for News4usonline It’s a different ballgame when you can play off a superstar than when you no longer have that option. The rules change and so does the way that opponents play you. With James, the Lakers were always in the conversation of possibly making a deep run in the postseason. The Lakers were considered championship contenders every year that James suited up for the team. At least James’ presence on the team presented that illusion. Moving forward, the Lakers won’t be afforded that luxury. Right now, at least on paper, the Lakers are nothing more than a mid-level team hoping to strike gold again without James. One could make the argument that the Lakers didn’t really achieve that gold standard status that the franchise was used to. In three seasons, the Lakers made the first round of the playoffs, but then got bounced. For two seasons, the Lakers missed the postseason entirely. That’s a total of five of the eight years that James played for the Lakers that Los Angeles didn’t measure up the team’s lofty ambitions. Was that on James or was that failure a collective team effort? For what it is worth, the Lakers never really surrounded James with the right pieces to win multiple titles. Anthony Davis was always hurt. Luka Doncic just arrived on the scene. And we really don’t know just how good Reaves is without James being out on the floor creating space for him. James leaving the Lakers was not personal. It was business. The move was calculated. It's well-thought out. And it should not come as a surprise. LeBron James and the Los Angeles Lakers play the New York Knicks at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, California on March 6, 2025. James scored 31 points and 12 rebounds in the Lakers' 113-109 win in overtime. Photo credit: Mark Hammond courtesy of The Bulletin for News4usonline James is pretty much at the end of his career. In the eight seasons he played for the Lakers, he can look back and say he gave it his all. He brought the team an NBA championship. This current form of a roster that the Lakers currently have in place is not going to win a title. Not unless they mange to land another superstar or two. Perhaps James saw the writing on the wall. Maybe that’s why he decided to go ghost on the Lakers. It was time. With James gone, reality for the Lakers probably won’t sink in until training camp. It’s going to take the Lakers a whole lot more than Doncic being the face of the franchise now to achieve a championship goal. Reaves signing that max contract was a nice gesture for him, but will that guarantee the Lakers advancing past the second round of the NBA playoffs? Nope, not at all. With that said, the James’ era is officially over for the Lakers. James has reportedly told the Lakers that he is not coming back. After eight years of wearing the purple and gold, James has decided he is ready to move on. What does that mean for the Lakers? It means they no longer have perhaps the game’s best closer at their disposal. It means that after bringing the franchise an NBA title in the time span he played, it felt like James never really got the reverence as other Laker greats that have been celebrated.
The Lakers got the most out of James, who filled that superstar void the team desperately needed at the time he joined the ballclub. Like the superstars before him, James gave the Lakers a fighting chance each and every night he laced up his shoes. That’s really all you can ask for. Cover Art/Lead Image: Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James (23) has hit another milestone during his NBA career. Photo credit: Mark Hammond/The Bulletin for News4usonline
LeBron James closes out Lakers era
(News4usonline) – Whenever LeBron James stepped on the court, the Los Angeles Lakers knew they had a chance to win. That’s because James is a proven winner. He’s won four NBA titles. He’s an Olympic champion. He is a gold medal winner. For eight seasons, the Lakers could count on James showing up for work and putting in the sweat and effort to be better and make his teammates better. The Lakers…
Clippers are excited about Keaton Wagler
Inglewood, CA (News4usonline) – The Los Angeles Clippers welcomed Keaton Wagler to his new home with a brief press conference at Intuit Dome. Wagler made his Clipper debut a day after he was drafted by the team with the No. 5 overall pick in the first round of the 2026 NBA Draft. Getting to the NBA Draft to being picked as one of the best players has been a whirlwind trip for Wagler. He spent a…
Betts go clutch as Dodgers win
Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) – Juneteenth turned out to be a pretty special day for Los Angeles Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts and his family. Betts’ son, Kaj Betts, was given the honor of throwing out the ceremonial first pitch. His family was then given the privilege of giving the usual pregame shoutout made famous by the late Vin Scully, “It’s time for Dodger baseball!” Pretty cool…
Filmmakers enjoy ‘Dances With Films’ platform
Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) – Dances With Films: LA 2026 is different. Let’s start with the titles of some of the movies being showcased at the nearly two-week film festival. Jump Scare, Into the Static, Four Itchy Boys, The Bones Exist, and Tame, gives you an alternative state of mind or something to think about. The film festival is a lot like a combo bowl of soup. It has a little of…
Kyle Tucker delivers for Dodgers
Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) – Sooner or later, you knew it was coming. That boom from Kyle Tucker’s bat had been expected. The Los Angeles Dodgers have been anticipating Tucker’s breakthrough moment would come in time. With way more than a quarter into the season, Tucker’s debut season as a Dodger, has largely been forgettable. A .239 batting average and 61 strikeouts in 69 games is not…
Sha’Carri Richardson got next
Los Angeles, CA (News4usonline) – Greatness should never be rushed. It comes like a flicker in the middle of the night. It can come quickly but then it can be gone instantaneously. It can also be sustainable. Sha’Carri Richardson proved at the 2026 USATF Los Angeles Grand Prix track meet that she is not an overnight sensation. She is still the one to beat. Richardson re-introduced herself to…