Takedown
Burroughs' Daniel Atlas brings down Glendale's Alex Manukian on Friday, October 30, 2009. (Roger Wilson/Leader)
Burroughs' Daniel Atlas brings down Glendale's Alex Manukian on Friday, October 30, 2009. (Roger Wilson/Leader)
La Cañada football pulled off the upset late Friday night, taking advantage of some key turnovers to beat Rio Hondo no. 2 team San Marino, 14-10, in a game that altered the league landscape and the playoff chances for both teams.
“We made it harder on ourselves to get to the playoffs tonight,” said San Marino Head Coach D.R. Mooreland. “We had a lot of miscues and a lot of penalties. That’s football. It’s a game of ebb and flow. This time around, we couldn’t get it done.”
“This means a lot to us,” said La Cañada running back Daleep Sandhu. “Everyone looks down on us and now we got a chance to get to the playoffs.”
La Cañada is now 4-3 overall, 2-1 in league, usurping San Marino as the no. 2 team in Rio Hondo standings. They play South Pasadena next week and a win there will put them in the playoffs.
The loss for San Marino drops them to 6-2 overall, 1-2 in league. If they’re to advance to CIF through the Rio Hondo standings, they need to beat both Blair and Temple City in their final two games of the season.
Read the full story here.
Glendale's Dillion Fuller evades Burroughs' Darrell Cunningham on Friday, October 30, 2009. (Roger Wilson/News-Press)
Flintridge Prep’s boys’ cross-country team is running for history today at the Prep League finals at Pierce College.
The boys’ team has won a mind-spinning 17 consecutive Prep League titles, but finds that streak in major jeopardy as it has finished second to archrival Pasadena Poly in each of the league’s previous two meets.
Former Burbank High and Glendale Community College standout Freddy Sanchez signed a two-year deal with the San Francisco Giants, the team that acquired the All-Star second baseman from Pittsburgh in a trade on July 29, according to a report by mlb.com on Friday afternoon.
Freddy Sanchez
Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed, with more information on the signing promised in a press conference including Sanchez, general manager Brian Sabean and manager Bruce Bochy scheduled for later Friday, but the deal is believed to have exceeded the $10 million two-year contract he was offered by the Pirates prior to being traded. The San Francisco Chronicle reported on Friday that the contract is worth $12 million.
Sanchez, a three-time All-Star and 2006 National League batting champion, hit .284 with one home run and seven RBIs in 25 games with the Giants last season and 293 with seven homers and 41 RBIs in 111 games overall. His season was cut short on Sept. 21 by a partially torn meniscus in his left knee.
Police arrested seven protesters at the California headquarters of health insurer CIGNA Corporation on Wednesday after they refused to leave the lobby of the Glendale building while chanting slogans like “Patients, not profits. Medicare for all.”
Here’s a video of the protest.
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Addys Gonzalez, an office assistant at Disney Elementary School in Burbank, was quoted on A1 of The New York Times today.
Image via Flickr (by Joe Shlabotnik)
“I didn’t think I was going to be in the newspaper,” Gonzalez said. “I was shocked when you told me. ”
The story by Jennifer Steinhauer examines Halloween protocol in school districts from Burbank to Illinois.
Steinhauer called Thursday and identified herself as a reporter with the Times. She had three questions, Gonzalez said.
She wanted to know Disney’s policy for its Halloween parade, the school’s relationship to Disney Studios and if the school was public or chartered.
It was Gonzalez’s first time in The New York Times.
“Anything to give our school some good news is great,” she said. “It’s awesome.”
Local welterweight prospect Vito “Casper” Gasparyan will return to the ring for a six-round bout against Pavel Miranda on Nov. 6 at the Doubletree Hotel in Ontario.
Gasparyan (11-2 with 5 knockouts), who now trains out of the Fortune Gym in Los Angeles after formerly training at the Glendale Fighting Club, last fought on Aug. 22, when he lost a controversial unanimous six-round decision against undefeated Jermell Charlo at the Toyota Center in Houston.
Miranda comes in at 16-4 with eight knockouts, but three of his losses have come in his last four bouts, including back-to-back TKO losses to Mauricio Herrera on Nov. 28, 2008 and Danny Garcia on June 12.
In his upcoming autobiography, former professional tennis star Andre Agassi admits he used crystal meth in 1997 and failed a drug test.
He claims he did the drug “for a year or so,” and lied about his positive drug test, telling tennis officials he “unwittingly” took the substance.
Coincidently, Agassi made a stop in Burbank in November of 1997 to take part in a tournament. After falling to a world ranking of No. 142 in 1997, Agassi road a win in the Burbank Satellite Tournament and finished the year ranked No. 5. He continued to improve and the winner of eight Grand Slam championships became the No. 1 men’s player in the world in 1999.
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For the cost of $100, parents can watch their kids’ every move with the Insignia Little Buddy Child Tracker.
The navigation system is designed so parents can keep tabs on their kids’ with real-time updates.
You can hide the small device in your kids’ school supplies and use your cell phone to track your offspring’s whereabouts.
I wonder what kids think about being spied on.
Fresh fruits and vegetables and a variety of other items like flowers and sprouts are available at the Glendale Farmers Market on Brand Blvd. on Thursdays.
Toll Middle School students held signs outside the Glendale school after class in support of their teachers. The students do not want their teachers to be laid off at the end of the year.
Burbank Leader reporter Max Zimbert appeared on CNN’s Headline News Wednesday to talk about Amy Beck, a teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student.
Click here to watch.
Third-graders at Valley View Elementary School in La Crescenta on Wednesday learned about evacuation and safety techniques from the Kid’s Safety House.
Awards were handed out Tuesday night to volunteers from throughout La Cañada Flintridge schools by the PTA at La Cañada High School.
From the Burbank Leader
[DEVELOPING] A Los Angeles County Superior Court judge on Wednesday postponed the arraignment of a Burbank Unified teacher accused of having sex with a 14-year-old student so that she can continue to work with authorities, her attorney said.
Amy Beck, a 33-year-old teacher at Jordan Middle School, will remain in jail and is [...]
The La Cañada High School PTA has endorsed legislation introduced last month by State Assemblyman Anthony Portantino (D-La Cañada) designed to encourage teens to call for help in emergency situations.
The bill, AB1999, would protect a minor from criminal prosecution if he dials 9-1-1 and remains with a friend during a medical crisis. The bill is [...]
The U.S. Supreme Court agreed Monday to hear arguments in a case involving employee background checks at Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
The Supreme Court justices will review an injunction issued by the 9th Circuit Court in January 2008 that barred NASA/JPL from requiring “low-risk” employees —those who do not handle classified material — to submit to extensive [...]
A singer from the pop group Girlicious was arrested Tuesday night after police allegedly found more than a dozen individual packages of cocaine in her Gucci purse, officials said.
Natalie Mejia, 21, of Diamond Bar is being held today in Glendale City Jail in lieu of a $30,000 bond, according to a Los Angeles County Sheriff’s [...]
From the Los Angeles Times
Actor Corey Haim, who starred in some popular movies in the 1980s and recently tried to relaunch his career with a reality TV show, has died.
The Los Angeles Police Department said Haim, 38, was pronounced dead after 3 a.m. at a Burbank hospital. He had been living in the San [...]
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