A Boeing Co. manager sought to halt production of the 737 Max over safety concerns before the first of two fatal crashes that led to the jet’s worldwide grounding, a top House lawmaker charged Tuesday.

Rep. Peter DeFazio (D-Ore.), the chairman of the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee, included the new allegations in a prepared statement for a hearing Wednesday at which Boeing Chief Executive Dennis Muilenburg will testify. The CEO testified Tuesday before a Senate committee about the 737 Max, which has been banned from flying since March.

“We now know of at least one case where a Boeing manager implored the then-vice president and general manager of the 737 program to shut down the 737 Max production line because of safety concerns, several months before the Lion Air crash in October 2018,” DeFazio said in his prepared opening statement, which was released by the committee.

DeFazio’s accusations pile pressure on Muilenburg as the embattled CEO prepares for a second day of grilling on Capitol Hill. Muilenburg is fighting to save his job amid heightened scrutiny from Boeing directors. He’s also trying to salvage the U.S. industrial titan’s reputation after months of bruising disclosures about shortcomings in the design and certification of the Max, Boeing’s best-selling jet. The crashes — one in Indonesia last October and one in Ethiopia in March — killed everyone aboard the two planes, a total of 346 people.

Even as senators peppered Muilenburg with blistering questions, Boeing stock rose as investors seemed convinced that the testimony wouldn’t impede the Federal Aviation Administration’s review of whether the grounded Max can safely resume commercial flight after a redesign of flight-control software. The shares climbed 2.4% to close at $348.93, the third-best performance in the Dow Jones industrial average.

DeFazio didn’t detail the nature of the safety concerns raised by the Boeing manager or how the company responded. The Chicago-based plane maker didn’t immediately comment.

At least one whistleblower also told the committee that the company sacrificed safety for cost savings, DeFazio wrote. Boeing also considered adding a more robust alerting system for the feature involved in two crashes before ultimately shelving the idea, according to DeFazio.

“We may never know what key steps could have been taken that would have altered the fate of those flights, but we do know that a variety of decisions could have made those planes safer and perhaps saved the lives of those on board,” DeFazio said.

DeFazio’s statement is the first detailed look at findings by the House committee, which is conducting what the chairman called the “most extensive and important” investigation he’s seen during his time on the panel.

Some of the statement was crafted as questions for Muilenburg.

“There are areas we are exploring that remain murky, and we need to bring clarity to those issues,” DeFazio said. “But there is a lot we have learned over the past seven months, and we expect you to answer a number of questions to improve our understanding of what happened and why.”

About 20 relatives of crash victims attended Tuesday’s hearing before the Senate Transportation Committee, whose chairman, Sen. Roger Wicker (R-Miss.) opened the session by promising the inquiry would get to the bottom of what went wrong.

“Both of these accidents were entirely avoidable,” Wicker said. “We cannot fathom the pain experienced by the families of those 346 souls who were lost.”

A flight-safety feature known as MCAS, designed to lower the nose of the plane in some conditions, was activated in both fatal crashes as a result of a malfunction, and in both cases, pilots didn’t respond and lost control.

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Boeing had successfully lobbied regulators to keep any explanation of the feature from pilot manuals and training. “Those pilots never had a chance,” said Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.). Passengers “never had a chance. They were in flying coffins as a result of Boeing deciding that it was going to conceal MCAS from the pilots.”

Muilenburg said Boeing had always trained pilots to respond to the effect caused by an MCAS failure — a condition called runaway trim — which also can be caused by other problems.

Muilenburg apologized directly to victims’ family members, many of whom had brought large photos of their loved ones, and said Boeing is committed to safety and to learning from the crashes.

We’ve been challenged and changed by these accidents. We’ve made mistakes and we got some things wrong,” Muilenburg said.

Boeing hopes that by year’s end, it will win the FAA’s approval to return the plane to flight. The agency is also coming under scrutiny for relying on Boeing employees to perform some certification tests and inspections. It’s an approach the FAA has followed for many years.

“We need to know if Boeing and the FAA rushed to certify the Max,” Wicker said.

The committee didn’t get an answer to that question.

Muilenburg sometimes fumbled his explanations of embarrassing internal messages and of the manufacturer’s close ties to U.S. regulators. And he didn’t rattle off changes made to improve safety with the aplomb and detail with which General Motors Co. CEO Mary Barra once addressed faulty ignition issues before lawmakers, said Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, senior associate dean for leadership studies at the Yale School of Management.

But Muilenburg avoided other traps, such as sounding defensive, dismissive or arrogant, Sonnenfeld said.

“I think he came across as genuine and contrite,” he said. “He wasn’t elegant, but he wasn’t arrogant.”

After the hearing, Muilenburg held a charged meeting with a group of victims’ relatives, his first such direct interaction since the accidents.

“It was very emotional in there to have the CEO of the company that had a substantial part in killing my daughter, Samya Rose Stumo,” Michael Stumo said in a news conference after the meeting.

“But he was there, he heard, and he expressed his sorrow appropriately, and expressed a desire to change the culture of the company to make it better,” Stumo said, vowing that the group would continue to press for legislation to change aviation safety rules.

The Associated Press was used in compiling this report.

WASHINGTON — 

The House on Tuesday overwhelmingly reaffirmed that the U.S. government should recognize the century-old killings of 1.5 million Armenians as a genocide.

The resolution, which is not legally binding, marked the first time in 35 years that either chamber of Congress labeled as genocide the mass killings of Armenians at the hands of the Ottoman Empire, which is now modern-day Turkey, between 1915 and 1923 . A similar House resolution passed in 1984.

Support for the measure — particularly among some Democrats — grew after Turkey’s recent offensive against the Kurds along the Turkish-Syrian border, which killed about 200 Kurds and displaced more than 200,000.

“Given that the Turks are once again involved in ethnic cleansing the population — this time the Kurds who live along the Turkish-Syrian border — it seemed all the more appropriate to bring up a resolution about the Ottoman efforts to annihilate an entire people in the Armenian genocide,” said resolution sponsor Rep. Adam B. Schiff (D-Burbank).

The vote on the bipartisan resolution came on the heels of House passage of economic sanctions against Turkey.

Turkey crossed the border on Oct. 9 and began attacks across a broad swath of northern Syria after President Trump’s announcement that U.S. forces would withdraw from the area. The United States had previously allied with Syrian Kurdish forces against Islamic State militants. The withdrawal drew swift condemnation from both Democrats and Republicans.

More than 40 states, including California, and several countries have recognized the genocide. But the Turkish government has refused to acknowledge it. And the U.S. government has stopped short of recognizing it by calling the deaths an “atrocity.”

The Turkish government acknowledges that the killings occurred but rejects the use of the term “genocide” to describe it, saying other countries should not pass legislation judging another nation’s history.

Schiff, who represents many of the estimated 200,000 Armenians living in Los Angeles County, has pushed the government for decades to recognize the genocide but hasn’t been able to overcome opposition from the Turkish government, a NATO ally.

Although there are no plans to bring the companion resolution up for a vote in the Senate, Schiff said the 405-11 bipartisan vote sent a strong message. “The Turkish lobby has few friends and allies anymore,” he said.

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Some lawmakers, including Rep. Michael C. Burgess (R-Texas) questioned why the House was taking time to debate a nonbinding resolution dealing with atrocities committed 100 years ago when Congress had a lot left to accomplish in scant days before the end of the year, including preventing the government from shutting down when its spending authority expires Nov. 21.

“It remains unclear why we are urgently considering this resolution,” he said.

But longtime supporter of the effort Rep. Brad Sherman (D-Northridge) said it was important for the United States to take a stance, even so long after the fact.

“It is critical that we counteract Turkey’s genocide denial because genocide denial is the last act of a genocide,” Sherman said. “First, you obliterate a people, then you seek to obliterate their memory, and finally you seek to obliterate the memory of the obliteration.”

Southern California is home to the largest Armenian community outside Armenia, and each spring, thousands march on a day of remembrance.

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Turkey’s foreign ministry said that it summoned U.S. Ambassador David Satterfield on Wednesday over two resolutions passed by the U.S. House of Representatives.

The Turkish ministry said in a statement that it rejects the nonbinding House resolution to recognize the century-old mass killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as genocide. The bill passed 405-11.

In another statement, the ministry said it condemned a bipartisan bill to sanction senior Turkish officials and its army for Turkey’s incursion into northeastern Syria, which passed 403-16.

Both bills, passed Tuesday, were a sign of further deterioration in Turkish-American relations, which have been strained over multiple issues, especially U.S. support for Syrian Kurdish fighters considered terrorists by Ankara.

American lawmakers have been critical of Ankara’s operation against Kurdish forces along the Turkish-Syrian border.

Turkey’s cross-border offensive, which Ankara says is necessary for its national security, began on Oct. 9 after months of Turkish threats and a sudden decision by President Trump to withdraw troops and abandon Kurdish allies against the Islamic State group. Trump’s move was widely criticized by both the Republicans and the Democrats.

Turkey and allied Syrian fighters paused operations with two separate cease-fires brokered by the U.S. and Russia to allow the Kurdish fighters to withdraw 19 miles away from the Turkish border.

The foreign ministry said both bills were fashioned for “domestic consumption” in the U.S. and would undermine relations. It said lawmakers critical of Turkey’s Syria offensive would be wrong to take “vengeance” through the Armenian genocide bill.

Turkey disputes the description of mass deportations and killings of Ottoman Armenians in 1915 as genocide and has lobbied against its recognition in the U.S. for years. It has instead called for a joint committee of historians to investigate the events.

“Undoubtedly, this resolution will negatively affect the image of the U.S. before the public opinion of Turkey,” the ministry said.

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A State Department foreign service officer will tell House impeachment investigators Wednesday that former national security advisor John Bolton cautioned him that Rudolph W. Giuliani “was a key voice with the president on Ukraine,” and that this could complicate U.S. goals in the Eastern European country.

The testimony from Christopher Anderson makes clear that administration officials were concerned about Giuliani’s back-channel involvement in Ukraine policy, and his push for investigations of Democrats, even before the July 25 phone call between President Trump and his Ukraine counterpart at the center of the House impeachment inquiry.

Anderson will describe a June meeting in which he said Bolton expressed support for the administration’s goals of strengthening energy cooperation between the U.S. and Ukraine and getting new Ukraine leader Volodymyr Zelensky to undertake anti-corruption reforms.

“However, he cautioned that Mr. Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement,” Anderson will say, according to a copy of his prepared remarks obtained by the Associated Press. Giuliani is Trump’s personal lawyer.

Another foreign service officer set to testify Wednesday, Catherine Croft, will say that during her time at the National Security Council, she received multiple phone calls from lobbyist Robert Livingston telling her that the-then ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, should be fired.

“He characterized Ambassador Yovanovitch as an ‘Obama holdover’ and associated with George Soros. It was not clear to me at the time — or now — at whose direction or at whose expense Mr. Livingston was seeking the removal of Ambassador Yovanovitch,” she will say.

Their testimony follows that of Alexander Vindman, an Army officer with the National Security Council who testified that he twice raised concerns over the administration’s push to have Ukraine investigate Democrats and Joe Biden.

Vindman, a lieutenant colonel who served in Iraq and later as a diplomat, was the first official to testify who actually heard Trump’s July 25 call with Zelensky. He reported his concerns to the NSC’s lead counsel.

Vindman also told investigators Tuesday that he tried to change the White House’s rough transcript of the call by filling in at least one of the omitted words, “Burisma,” a reference to the company that had Biden’s son on its board, according to people familiar with his testimony. But Vindman was unsuccessful.

His concerns, though, were far bigger than the transcript. And lawmakers said his failed effort to edit it didn’t significantly change their understanding of what transpired during Trump’s call that sparked the impeachment inquiry.

Vindman’s arrival in military blue, with medals, created a striking image at the Capitol as the impeachment inquiry reached deeper into the White House. He testified for more than 10 hours.

“I was concerned by the call,” Vindman said, according to prepared remarks. “I did not think it was proper to demand that a foreign government investigate a U.S. citizen, and I was worried about the implications for the U.S. government’s support of Ukraine.”

Vindman, a 20-year military officer, added to the mounting evidence from other witnesses — diplomats, defense and former administration officials — who are corroborating the initial whistleblower’s complaint against Trump and providing new details ahead of a House vote in the impeachment inquiry.

“That’s the story: There’s not like a new headline out of all of these,” said Rep. Tom Malinowski (D-N.J.). “Every single witness, from their own vantage point, has corroborated the central facts of the story we’ve heard.”

The inquiry is looking into Trump’s call, in which he asked Zelensky for a “favor” — to investigate Democrats — that the Democrats say was a quid pro quo for military aid and could be an impeachable offense.

With the administration directing staff not to appear, Vindman was the first current White House official to testify before the impeachment panels. He was issued a subpoena to appear.

Vindman, who arrived in the United States as a 3-year-old from the former Soviet Union, said that it was his “sacred duty” to defend the United States.

Some Trump allies, looking for ways to discredit Vindman, questioned the colonel’s loyalties because he was born in the region. But the line of attack was rejected by some Republicans, including Wyoming Rep. Liz Cheney, who said it was “shameful” to criticize his patriotism.

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Sen. Mitt Romney (R-Utah) called the slams on Vindman “absurd, disgusting and way off the mark. This is a decorated American soldier, and he should be given the respect that his service to our country demands.”

The testimony came the day after Speaker Nancy Pelosi announced the House would vote on a resolution to set rules for public hearings and a possible vote on articles of impeachment.

Thursday’s vote would be the first on the impeachment inquiry and aims to nullify complaints from Trump and his allies that the process is illegitimate and unfair.

White House Press Secretary Stephanie Grisham said the resolution merely “confirms that House Democrats’ impeachment has been an illegitimate sham from the start as it lacked any proper authorization by a House vote.”

The session Tuesday grew contentious at times as House Republicans continued trying to unmask the still-anonymous whistleblower and call him or her to testify. Vindman said he is not the whistleblower and does not know who is.

GOP Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio acknowledged Republicans were trying to get Vindman to provide the names of others he spoke to after the July 25 phone call, in an effort to decide whom to call to testify. “He wouldn’t,” Jordan said.

Vindman testified that in spring of this year he became aware of “outside influencers” promoting a “false narrative of Ukraine” that undermined U.S. efforts, a reference in particular to Giuliani.

He first reported his concerns after a July 10 meeting in which U.S. Ambassador to the European Union Gordon Sondland stressed the importance of having Ukraine investigate the 2016 election as well as Burisma.

Vindman says he told Sondland that “his statements were inappropriate, that the request to investigate Biden and his son had nothing to do with national security, and that such investigations were not something the NSC was going to get involved in or push.”

That differs from the account of Sondland, a wealthy businessman who donated $1 million to Trump’s inauguration and testified before the impeachment investigators that no one from the NSC “ever expressed any concerns.” Sondland also testified that he did not realize any connection between Biden and Burisma.

A sore shoulder had made Anthony Davis a doubtful starter for the Lakers on Tuesday but he gave it a go and was cleared just before the game, a decision he followed up by playing a powerful first quarter against Memphis.

Davis collected all five of the Lakers’ offensive rebounds and nine of the 13 total rebounds they pulled down in the first 12 minutes, in addition to taking 13 of their 26 shots and scoring a game-high 16 points. He also was credited with a block, continuing his success in an area that has become a strength for the Lakers in this young season.

But then he vanished. Davis left the Lakers’ bench two minutes into the second quarter and all of a sudden it felt as if the team’s short-term future was hanging in the balance, not merely the outcome of a Tuesday game in October.

“I was prepared to go the rest of the game without him,” coach Frank Vogel said. “He went in the back and we were getting close to the time in the rotation where he was going to go back in and he wasn’t around. I thought all night there was a chance that we could have to play the game without him, so we were prepared to do so.”

As it turned out, Davis — who injured his right shoulder on Sunday — needed only to have his shoulder retaped, and he returned with six minutes and 34 seconds left in the second quarter. Initially, at least, he stayed on the perimeter and didn’t take a shot until 29 seconds remained in the half, when he hit a short turnaround, and he triggered loud cheers when he sent the Lakers into the locker room with a 49-47 lead on a tip with seven-tenths of a second left.

“I was really just trying to figure it all out. It bothered me a lot,” Davis said. “It was very sore but I didn’t want to come out of the game so I just came to the back [locker room] to adjust some things. It felt good to go back out and I went back out late in the second. It felt good. Went out in the third, it felt good.”

But before the Lakers broke the game open in the third quarter and completed a 120-91 rout, Davis gave the sellout crowd occasion to hold its breath a few more times, especially when he fell heavily to the floor and landed on his right shoulder late in the third quarter after he had pulled down his 17th rebound.

Teammate Dwight Howard extended an arm to pull him up, and fans exhaled heartily and collectively when Davis smiled at Howard’s offer of assistance.

Asked after the game how the shoulder felt, Davis was stoic. “I’m fine. Obviously it’s still a little sore. I hit it a couple times tonight,” he said. “But we’ve got a couple days before we play again.”

Davis showed little emotion on the floor as he absorbed a persistent pounding for 30 minutes while scoring 40 points — including a franchise-record 26 free throws made on 27 attempts — and pulling down 20 rebounds in addition to being credited with two blocks and two assists. It was the fourth 40-20 game of his career and the first by a Laker since Shaquille O’Neal had 48 points and 20 rebounds against Boston on March 21, 2003.

Davis was lucky that his absence in the second quarter turned out to be short and inconsequential, but the shoulder soreness he took into the game and the doubt that prevailed about his status before the game were painful reminders that one major injury to Davis or to LeBron James could derail the Lakers’ season.

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Lakers star LeBron James gestures next to Memphis Grizzlies forward Jae Crowder during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers star LeBron James, left, is guarded by Memphis Grizzlies forward Solomon Hill during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Memphis Grizzlies guard Ja Morant, right, tries to drive past Lakers guard Avery Bradley during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers coach Frank Vogel looks on during his team’s 120-91 victory at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers star Anthony Davis dunks during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers stars LeBron James, center, and forward Anthony Davis cheer during the Lakers’ 120-91 win over the Memphis Grizzlies at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers star LeBron James, second right, drives to the basket over the Memphis Grizzlies’ (from left) Jonas Valanciunas, Dillon Brooks and Jae Crowder during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory Tuesday. 

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Lakers guard Kentavious Caldwell-Pope dunks during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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Lakers star Anthony Davis grabs a rebound during the Lakers’ 120-91 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies at Staples Center on Tuesday. 

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One twisted knee, one wrecked wrist, one torn ligament suffered by Davis or James has the potential to turn the Lakers’ reasonable hopes of success into unreasonable dreams. Even a minor injury to either of them would stretch the team’s depth and undo the modest progress they’ve made under Vogel, who has had to undo years of defensive indifference and has pushed them to take pride in their work at that end of the floor.

Maybe Davis, who on Sunday in a 29-point, 14- rebound performance against Charlotte, shouldn’t have played against Memphis in order to be sure the soreness didn’t become something that might keep him out awhile.

In the fourth game of a Lakers season that at long last is expected to go well beyond 82 regular-season games — and with a trip about to begin on Friday that will have them play three games in five days — there was no reason to push him or take any chance the shoulder might become a chronic problem.

But Davis wanted to play and he wanted to be part of the atmosphere the Lakers are building, part of the swaying on the bench and cheering for each other as their lead ballooned.

“It’s fun,” he said. “We celebrate every shot, every rebound, every great play and coach sees it, we see it. We like doing it. We like cheering for our teammates.”

Davis gave them plenty to cheer about on Tuesday. But he and the Lakers were fortunate that his absence was brief and his injury manageable.

A serious injury and long absence could throw off what is shaping up as an entertaining season at the least and, at best, a remarkably successful one.

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Hello, my name is John Cherwa and welcome back to our horse racing newsletter as we do our second special edition of the week.

OK, let’s get back to the entries with the Breeders’ Cup races on Saturday.

$1 million Filly & Mare Sprint (fillies and mares 3 and up, 7 furlongs)

1. Covfefe, (trainer) Brad Cox, (jockey) Joel Rosario, (odds) 2-1

2. Danuska’s My Girl, Dan Ward, Geovanni Franco, 20-1

3. Heavenhasmynikki, Robert B. Hess Jr., Ricardo Santana, Jr., 20-1

4. Come Dancing, Carlos Martin, Javier Castellano, 5-2

5. Lady Ninja, Richard Baltas, Drayden Van Dyke, 10-1

6. Bellafina, Simon Callaghan, Flavien Prat, 6-1

7. Selcourt, John Sadler, Luis Saez, 10-1

8. Dawn the Destroyer, Kiaran McLaughlin, Tyler Gaffaione, 12-1

9. Spiced Perfection, Peter Miller, John Velazquez, 4-1

$1 million Turf Sprint (3 and up, 5 furlongs on turf)

1. Totally Boss, George R. Arnold II, Jose Ortiz, 5-1

2. Pure Sensation, Christophe Clement, Paco Lopez, 5-1

3. Imprimis, Joseph Orseno, Lanfranco Detorri, 8-1

4. Shekky Shebaz, Jason Servis, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 12-1

5. Stubbins, Doug O’Neill, Flavien Prat, 12-1

6. Stormy Liberal, Peter Miller, John Velazquez, 8-1

7. Leinster, George R. Arnold II, Tyler Gaffalione, 8-1

8. Legends of War, Doug O’Neill, Rafael Bejarano, 20-1

9. Final Frontier, Thomas Albertrani, Luis Saez, 6-1

10. Eddie Haskell, Mark Glatt, Joel Rosario, 9-2

11. Om, Peter Miller, Manuel Franco, 15-1

12. Belvoir Bay (GB), Peter Miller, Javier Castellano, 12-1

13 (AE). Girls Know Best, Eddie Kenneally, Joe Bravo, 20-1

14 (AE). Double Touch (GB), John Sadler, John Velazquez, 30-1

$1 million Dirt Mile (3 and up, 1 mile)

1. Giant Expectations, Peter Eurton, Jose Ortiz, 12-1

2. Improbable, Bob Baffert, Rafael Bejarano, 3-1

3. Spun to Run, Juan Carlos Guerrero, Irad Ortiz Jr., 6-1

4. Mr. Money, Bret Calhoun, Gabriel Saez, 6-1

5. Omaha Beach, Richard Mandella, Mike Smith, 8-5

6. Ambassadorial, Jane Chapple-Hyam, Jamie Spencer, 30-1

7. Coal Front, Todd Pletcher, Javier Castellano, 6-1

8. Blue Chipper. Kim Yung Kwan, Flavien Prat, 20-1

9. Diamond Oops, Patrick Biancone, Julien Leparoux, 15-1

10. Snapper Sinclair, Steve Asmussen, Ruben Santana, Jr., 30-1

$2 million Filly & Mare Turf (fillies and mares 3 and up, 1 ¼ miles on turf)

1. Iridessa (IRE), Joseph O’Brien, Wayne Lordan, 8-1

2. Sistercharlie (IRE), Chad Brown, John Velazquez, 8-5

3. Fleeting (IRE), Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore, 6-1

4. Billesdon Brook (GB), Richard Hannon, Sean Levey, 10-1

5. Mirth, Phil D’Amato, Mike Smith, 20-1

6. Thais (FR), Chad Brown, Manuel Franco, 30-1

7. Vasilika, Dan Ward, Flavien Prat, 8-1

8. Castle Lady (IRE), Henri-Alex Pantall, Mickael Barzalona, 15-1

9. Villa Marina (GB), Carlos Laffon-Parias, Olivier Peslier, 8-1

10. Mrs. Sippy, Graham Motion, Joel Rosario, 8-1

11. Just Wonderful, Aidan O’Brien, William Buick, 20-1

12. Fanny Logan (IRE), John Gosden, Lanfranco Dettori, 15-1

$2 million Sprint (3 and up, 6 furlongs)

1. Catalina Cruiser, John Sadler, Joel Rosario, 4-1

2. Hog Creek Hustle, Vickie L. Foley, Mike Smith, 20-1

3. Firenze Fire, Jason Servis, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 12-1

4. Mitole, Steve Asmussen, Ruben Santana, Jr., 9-5

5. Engage, Steve Asmussen, John Velazquez, 15-1

6. Shancelot, Jorge Navarro, Jose Ortiz, 4-1

7. Whitmore, Ron Moquett, Flavien Prat, 15-1

8. Landeskog, SCRATCHED

9. Imperial Hint, Luis Carvajal Jr., Javier Castellano, 4-1

10. Matera Sky, Hideyuki Mori, Yutaka Take, 30-1

$2 million Mile (3 and up, 1 mile on turf)

1. Suedois (FR), David O’Meara, Javier Castellano, 20-1

2. Lucullan, Kiaran McLaughlin, Luis Saez, 12-1

3. Space Traveller (GB), Richard Fahey, Daniel Tudhope, 12-1

4. Trais Fluors (GB), Ken Condon, William James Lee, 20-1

5. True Valour (IRE), Simon Callaghan, Drayden Van Dyke, 20-1

6. Got Stormy, Mark Casse, Tyler Gaffalione, 7-2

7. Bolo, Carla Gaines, Julien Leparoux, 30-1

8. El Tormenta, Gail Cox, Eurico Da Silva, 12-1

9. Circus Maximus (IRE), Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore, 3-1

10. Without Parole (GB), Chad Brown, Jose Ortiz, 20-1

11. Uni (GB), Chad Brown, Joel Rosario, 7-2

12. Lord Glitters (FR), David O’Meara, Jamie Spencer, 12-1

13. Hey Gaman (GB), James Tate, Lanfranco Dettori, 12-1

14. Bowies Hero, Phil D’Amato, Flavien Prat, 12-1

15 (AE). Caribou Club, Thomas Proctor, Joe Talamo, 15-1

16 (AE). Next Shares, Richard Baltas, John Velazquez, 30-1

$2 million Distaff (fillies and mares 3 and up, 1 1/8 miles)

1. Paradise Woods, John Shirreffs, Abel Cedillo, 5-1

2. Ollie’s Candy, John Sadler, Joel Rosario, 15-1

3. Street Band, Larry Jones, Sophie Doyle, 10-1

4. Midnight Bisou, Steve Asmussen, Mike Smith, 6-5

5. Dunbar Road, Chad Brown, Jose Ortiz, 6-1

6. Wow Cat (CHI), Chad Brown, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 15-1

7. Secret Spice, Richard Baltas, John Velazquez, 10-1

8. La Force (GER), Paddy Gallagher, Drayden Van Dyke, 30-1

9. Serengeti Empress, Tom Amoss, Flavien Prat, 12-1

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10. Mo See Cal, Peter Miller, Paco Lopez, 30-1

11. Blue Prize (ARG), Ignacio Correas, Joe Bravo, 6-1

$4 million Turf (3 and up, 1 ½ miles on turf)

1. Zulu Alpha, Michael Maker, Joe Ortiz, 20-1

2. Acclimate, Phil D’Amato, Martin Garcia, 20-1

3. United, Richard Mandella, Flavien Prat, 20-1

4. Mount Everest (IRE), Aidan O’Brien, Wayne Lordan, 15-1

5. Anthony Van Dyck (IRE), Aidan O’Brien, Ryan Moore, 3-1

6. Channel Cat, Todd Pletcher, Luis Saez, 15-1

7. Alounak (FR), Waldemar Hickst, Clement Lecoeuvre, 20-1

8. Bandua, Jack Sisterson, Tyler Gaffalione, 20-1

9. Bricks and Mortar, Chad Brown, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 9-5

10. Old Persian (GB), Charlie Appleby, William Buick 4-1

11. Arklow, Brad Cox, Javier Castellano, 12-1

12. Channel Maker, Bill Mott, John Velazquez, 10-1

$6 million Classic (3 and up, 1 ¼ miles)

1. Math Wizard, Saffie Joseph Jr., Ruben Santana, Jr., 30-1

2. Seeking the Soul, Dallas Stewart, Brian Hernandez, Jr., 20-1

3. Owendale, Brad Cox, Javier Castellano, 15-1

4. War of Will, Mark Casse, Tyler Gaffalione, 20-1

5. Yoshida (JPN), Bill Mott, Mike Smith, 8-1

6. Elate, Bill Mott, Jose Ortiz, 6-1

7. Higher Power, John Sadler, Flavien Prat

8. McKinzie, Bob Baffert, Joel Rosario, 3-1

9. Mongolian Groom, Enebish Ganbat, Abel Cedillo, 12-1

10. Vino Rosso, Todd Pletcher, Irad Ortiz, Jr., 4-1

11. Code of Honor, Shug McGaughey, John Velazquez, 4-1

Jeff Siegel’s Breeders’ Cup analysis

Jeff Siegel of XBTV is back with his latest installment of his Breeders’ Cup reviews. In this one he talks about longshots in the Breeders’ Cup and even gives you a couple 20-1 shots to consider. Just click here.

In this one, he and Millie Ball look at who looks good, and who doesn’t. Just click here.

In this one he reviews Elate’s prospects in the Classic and other horses that worked on Sunday. Just click here.

Here’s a report on some of the horses that worked out on Saturday, which included Shancelot and Eddie Haskell. Just click here.

If you missed his first video, a look at some of the horses making their final works on Friday. Just click here.

Breeders’ Cup notes

As we’ve said the Breeders’ Cup notes team supplies us with lots of daily info. Some of it is perishable, some of it is good for a couple of days. It’s a great service that we like sharing with you. Here’s an edited version of what they came up with on Tuesday.

Classic

Code of Honor – Shug McGaughey said Code of Honor shipped well across country Monday and has settled into his new surroundings at Santa Anita. “He seemed to travel fine,” McGaughey said. “It’s a long day for him, but he seemed to come out of it fine. He was good [Tuesday] morning. We took him up there and galloped him a mile today and let him walk on through the paddock. It all seems to be good.”

“I think we’ve got a very, very good horse and he matches up with any of them in the race,” McGaughey said. “I love having Johnny Velazquez on him. All I’m going to do is try to keep him as fresh as I possibly can until Saturday. He’s coming off two mile-and-a-quarter races. Johnny worked him last Monday [at Belmont Park] and he worked very good (five furlongs in 1:00 1/5), so I think we’ve got him in a very good spot that way. All I’m doing is waiting to go over there.”

Elate/Yoshida – Elate returned to the track Tuesday after breezing three furlongs in 36 3/5 Sunday, turning in an easy gallop under exercise rider Juan Quintero. “I couldn’t have been more happy with her the way we came into the Personal Ensign (finishing second by a nose to Midnight Bisou),” trainer Bill Mott said. “I thought she was doing great and we got beat in a spectacular race. And I thought she went into the Spinster (second to Blue Prize) in good shape so you never know. But she is good right now. I’d say to me, she looks as good as she did going into those two races. We just hopes she holds that form.”

One of Elate’s top challengers Saturday is stablemate Yoshida. “He’s very good. He’s a good competitor and he’s done well at a mile and a quarter,” Mott said. “In the Breeders’ Cup at Churchill Downs, he got beat a length and a half and finished fourth but ran a very good race to a very good group. Thunder Snow and Accelerate were in front of us and I think Thunder Snow beat us a nose. If he repeats that race, that will put him in the mix.”

Higher Power – Higher Power galloped 1 ½ miles Tuesday morning under exercise rider David Pineda and is slated to gate school Wednesday. He comes into the Breeders’ Cup off a third-place run in the Awesome Again, he also brings with him a valid excuse as he stumbled badly at the start and nearly unseated rider Flavien Prat.

“He still got around there third with a big excuse so hopefully we’ll get a good do-over here,” trainer John Sadler said. “He’s a Medaglia d’Oro, he can run a mile and a quarter, he’s got a really good family and they kind of improve over time as they get older. And the people who had him before me did a nice job with him. I got him in good shape and we’ve just been able to move him up a little bit.”

McKinzie – McKinzie’s Tuesday consisted of walking outside trainer Bob Baffert’s barn. McKinzie had his final timed work on Monday with a bullet five furlongs in 1:00.20. “He’s a good horse and it’s a tough race,” Baffert said. “He needs to get away from the gate and get into the race early. That’s the way he wants to run and he gets stronger as he goes. But he’s got to show up that day. It’s all about showing up. I’ve seen great fields put together but a lot of horses don’t show up. It’s who shows up is going to get the big prize.”

Mongolian Groom – Trainer Enebish Ganbat said he is pleased with how Mongolian Groom, longshot winner of the Awesome Again, looks. He drew post nine in the field of 11 for the Classic Monday and Ganbat said that he is fine with that spot. “I’m OK with the post position. Nine is good,” he said. “I like being outside.”

Owendale – Owendale boarded an early morning flight along with a large contingent of Kentucky-based horses and arrived at Santa Anita just after noon.

Seeking the Soul – Seeking the Soul came on the track at 6:45 a.m. Tuesday and had an easy gallop under the watchful eye of trainer Dallas Stewart, who arrived from Kentucky on Monday. “He trained beautifully,” Stewart said. “He’s training really well since we left him here. He’s comfortable. He’s got three works over the track and is really doing well. We’re trying to win, that’s our goal, so we wanted to get a race over the track (in the Awesome Again). We were coming off a bad race at Del Mar (in the Pacific Classic), where he got the Thumps and it just didn’t work out. He’s healthy and he’s back at 100 percent. I’m happy. I’m happy anytime I’m in a big race.”

Vino Rosso – Vino Rosso galloped 1 ¼ miles Tuesday on the morning after arriving at Santa Anita from Belmont Park. “He shipped in great,” trainer Todd Pletcher said. “He settled in overnight. I thought he had a good gallop this morning, so things are going to plan so far. Knock on wood.”

Vino Rosso drew the 10 post for the race. “You get a good run to the first turn and we’ll try to establish position,” Pletcher said. “You can have your plan, but some of that is dictated by what some of the other horses do. I think we can get a trip where we’re in a good stalking position,” Pletcher said. “We know he likes the mile and a quarter. We’ll hope to put him in a position to where he can show his strength.”

War of Will – In his first morning see the colt in person at Santa Anita, trainer Mark Casse was reaffirmed in his belief that the West Coast is doing wonders for War of Will’s mental and physical state. Four days after putting in his second workout over the Arcadia oval, the bay sophomore again made his time over the deep surface look easy during a routine gallop and trip through the paddock Tuesday under Shane Tripp.

“You can tell after a race how he cools out how he handles a race and how he handles the track,” Casse said. “For instance … 15 minutes after the Preakness he was fine. It took him hours to get over the Belmont. He was just stressed. His second breeze [at Santa Anita] when he went, not a deep breath. He came back and he recovered quickly.”

Distaff

Blue Prize – Joe Bravo will be back aboard and Blue Prize and will break from post 11 in the 11-horse field. “Well, we know the speed is inside of us, everybody is inside of us,” trainer Ignacio Correas IV said with a laugh. “It is a mile track and you get a good run into the first turn. I thought it was bad last year in the Spinster [at Keeneland] when she had the 11 hole and she still won.”

Dunbar Road –Dunbar Road, winner of the Alabama at Saratoga, had an easy gallop on the main track. The $350,000 Keeneland September 2017 purchase enters the Distaff as one of multiple fillies with a chance to sew up a year-end 3-year-old filly championship with a victory.

La Force – She galloped 1 ½ miles early Tuesday morning at Santa Anita. La Force will break from post eight under Drayden Van Dyke. She was eighth in the Distaff last year at Churchill Downs.

Midnight Bisou –Midnight Bisou walked the shedrow on Tuesday morning. “She’s good today,” said Scott Blasi, assistant trainer. “She walked the shedrow. We’re just keeping her happy.”

Mo See Cal – Five-time winner Mo See Cal had a routine gallop of 1 mile at San Luis Rey Downs for trainer Peter Miller.

Ollie’s Candy – Ollie’s Candy galloped 1 mile over the Santa Anita main track Tuesday morning with exercise rider Juan Leyva in the irons. “She’s won on almost every surface,” said trainer John Sadler, who took over conditioning Ollie’s Candy this year from Bill Morey. “She’s won on (the all-weather) because she started out at Golden Gate so she can run a lot of different races. We put her on the dirt and she ran so big that we kept her on the dirt. I think she actually likes dirt a little bit better.”

Paradise Woods – Paradise Woods returned to the track after working 5f in 1:00 flat Sunday, galloping and schooling at the gate Tuesday under exercise rider Cisco Alvarado. “It’s a big advantage for Paradise Woods because she likes Santa Anita,” said trainer John Shirreffs. “Some of her best races have been at Santa Anita. How it goes in general for everyone else, other Breeders’ Cup horses, well these horses are at the top of their game. Many of them have shipped around and handled a lot of different tracks and surfaces. I don’t know that the home-field advantage is huge for a lot of horses but for Paradise Woods, I think it’s an advantage.”

Secret Spice – Secret Spice galloped on the main track at Santa Anita Tuesday morning for trainer Richard Baltas.

Serengeti Empress –Serengeti Empress left Louisville early Tuesday morning to come to Santa Anita. She will break from post position nine and be ridden for the first time by Flavien Prat. “The draw is fine,” trainer Tom Amoss said.

Street Band – The multiple stakes-winning Street Band landed at the Ontario airport shortly before 11 a.m. and made her way to Santa Anita along with trainer Larry Jones and a large contingent of Kentucky-based horses. She will have her first trip over the Santa Anita track Wednesday.

Wow Cat – At just past 8:15 a.m., Wow Cat left in tandem with Uni and galloped a mile on the main track for trainer Chad Brown. “She’s training well, ran well last time and I think she will improve off that race,” Brown said. “She didn’t have a good trip or post last year.”

Juvenile news

Maxfield, third choice in this 2-year-old race, scratched after he was off in his right front. Trainer Brendan Walsh discovered the horse was “not himself.”

“Terrible timing but it was really a pretty easy call, said Jimmy Bell, president of Godolphin USA. “Brendan said when he came out this morning and washed off the poultice that he said it was a little off. … So, we took him for a jog around there for whatever reason he wasn’t himself. … It could be as simple as a bruise in his foot. But what we do know is he’s not running.”

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LAFC

After the most successful regular season in MLS history, the playoff run LAFC figured would take it to a title ended prematurely in a 3-1 loss to the Seattle Sounders in the Western Conference final, played before an unhappy crowd of more than 22,000 at Banc of California Stadium.

It was a disappointing end to a magical season, one in which the second-year team broke the MLS record for points in a season and tied the record for goals while its captain, Carlos Vela, became the all-time single-season scoring leader.

But Vela didn’t score Tuesday for the first time in 11 starts, and his teammates failed to pick up the slack, with Eduard Atuesta’s bending, first-half free kick accounting for LAFC’s only score.

Seattle answered with goals from Raul Ruidiaz and Nicolas Lodeiro four minutes apart midway through the opening period, and a second score from Ruidiaz 19 minutes into the second half.

LAFC had beaten the crosstown rival Galaxy five days earlier in an emotional playoff game both the team and its supporters embraced with fervor. Banc of California Stadium seemed oddly subdued by comparison Tuesday, with many in the stands booing at the final whistle.

LAFC (22-5-9) got on the scoreboard first with Atuesta curling a long, right-footed free kick past a diving Stefan Frei and into the back of the net near the left post in the 17th minute. Vela set up the play by drawing a foul from Seattle midfielder Gustav Svensson about 10 yards outside the 18-yard box.

The lead lasted just five minutes though, with Ruidiaz, facing LAFC for the first time, spinning away from defender Eddie Segura at the top of the penalty area, then splitting Jordan Harvey and Walker Zimmerman on a dash into the box that ended with a right-footed shot over LAFC keeper Tyler Miller.

Four minutes later, the Sounders (19-10-8) took the lead for good with Lodeiro bouncing a low, left-footed shot by Segura and into the side netting from about 20 yards.

“It’s a season where there’s a lot of good things but it ends in a disappointing way,” coach Bob Bradley said. “We all feel that right now. In the moment the only thing every one of us feels is disappointment.”

Added Vela: “Nobody expected this end. In the playoffs we know it’s one game, 90 minutes. [But] in the end we have to be proud of what we did all year and learn.

“We have to come back next year and be better.”

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LAKERS

George Mikan. Elgin Baylor. Wilt Chamberlain. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. Shaquille O’Neal.

Now, Anthony Davis.

Lakers history is filled with big men who dazzled their fans and terrified opponents, and on Tuesday night Davis joined their very exclusive club. They are the only Lakers to have scored at least 40 points in a game where they also grabbed 20 rebounds.

Davis scored 40 points with 20 rebounds Tuesday night with two blocks, while playing only three quarters as the Lakers beat the Memphis Grizzlies 120-91. The Lakers improved to 3-1 for the first time since the 2010-11 season.

“It’s an honor,” said Davis, following his fourth game as a Laker. “Great company. To be here part of this franchise and do something special like that and be on that list with those legends, means a lot to me. but what’s more important, I’m happy that we got the win.”

Davis made seven of 17 of his field goals and 26 of the 27 free throws he attempted, setting a franchise record for made free throws in a game. LeBron James added 23 points with eight assists and two rebounds.

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CLIPPERS

The Clippers exercised its third-year option on Landry Shamet‘s contract. The 26th pick in the 2018 NBA draft will earn a little more than $2 million during the 2020-21 season.

Shamet, who has averaged 9.2 points per game for his career and shot 42% on three-pointers, earned NBA All-Rookie second-team honors last season.

The Clippers also picked up the third-year option on guard Jerome Robinson’s contract. Robinson, the 13th overall pick in the 2018 draft, will earn $3.7 million next season.

WORLD SERIES

This World Series between the Washington Nationals and Houston Astros lacked memorable games before Tuesday. There was little drama and few thrills. There were zero suspenseful late-game twists and turns to speak of, The road team had won each of the first five games, but moments to remember when the years roll by were sparse.

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Game 6 at Minute Maid Park changed all that. It featured a brilliant pitching performance from a former phenom and comedic petty showmanship from a current one. There were towering blasts off the bats of a few of the sport’s brightest stars, a controversial call that could have swung the series, and an enraged manager barreling through members of his coaching staff to prompt an ejection.

And when the wild night was over, once the 54th out was secured to conclude the three-hour-and-37-minute ride, the Nationals had won, 7-2, to force a winner-take-all Game 7 on Wednesday.

For the first time in history, the road team has claimed each of the first six games of a World Series. For the Astros to claim their second title in three years, they’ll have to break the pattern and win at home. For the Nationals to seize their first championship, they’ll have to extend it to the end and win their fifth elimination game of the postseason.

Washington’s chances of survival Tuesday depended on Stephen Strasburg. He needed to bookend his dominant October with one final dominant performance, and he delivered. The right-hander outdueled Justin Verlander, pitching into the ninth inning after overcoming rocky first inning. He held the high-voltage Astros to two runs on five hits across 8 1/3 innings. He struck out seven, walked two, and exited in the ninth inning after throwing 104 pitches.

Alex Bregman gave Houston the early lead when he hammered a center-cut fastball for a solo home run. Bregman admired his blast, but opted against the trendy bat flip. Instead, he carried his bat all the way to first base. He tried handing it to the first base coach Don Kelly, but botched the transfer. The bat rolled onto the field. Kelly scampered to pick it up as Bregman trotted to second base and Minute Maid Park rocked.

The Nationals made Verlander throw 75 pitches through four innings and the work bore fruit in the fifth. Adam Eaton ditched bunting to swat a home run to tie the game. Two batters later, Juan Soto was at the plate. On the fifth pitch, he demolished a fastball to the upper deck beyond the right-field wall. In response to Bregman, he carried his bat to first base and dropped it in front of Nationals first base coach Tim Bogar.

“I thought it was pretty cool,” Soto said with a smile. “I wanted to do it.”

WORLD SERIES SCHEDULE

All times Pacific. All games on Fox.

Game 1: Washington 5, at Houston 4

Game 2: Washington 12, at Houston 3

Game 3: Houston 4, at Washington 1

Game 4: Houston 8, at Washington 1

Game 5: Houston 7, at Washington 1

Game 6: Washington 7, at Houston 2

Game 7: Today, Washington at Houston, 5 p.m.

*-if necessary

DUCKS

Cam Fowler set a franchise record for career goals by a Ducks defenseman in their 7-4 win over the Winnipeg Jets.

John Gibson made 36 saves and Josh Mahura tied an Anaheim rookie mark with three assists.

Fowler tied it 1-1 at 10:01 of the first period, scoring his 61st goal to pass Scott Niedermayer for the team lead among defensemen. Fowler, who did it in 634 games, scored on a wrist shot from the right circle following a quick breakout by the Ducks from their own zone.

Niedermayer scored 60 goals in 317 games during five seasons with the Ducks.

KINGS

It only took one weekend to turn the early narrative of this Kings season on its head.

Entering play Thursday, the rebuilding club had authored an auspicious start. In their first nine games, the Kings had won four times (all against playoff teams from last season), made seemingly quick progress adapting to new coach Todd McLellan’s system, and had the best shot differential in the NHL — a statistic that usually correlates with success.

Then, in an untimely throwback to last season, they tripped over themselves. By the time they reassembled in Los Angeles on Tuesday — on the heels of a four-day stretch that saw them lose three games by a combined 15-4 — the Kings (4-8-0) had slipped to the bottom of the Western Conference standings, suddenly struggling to keep all their early progress from coming undone.

“We’re going to have to fix it,” McLellan said.

In the interim, they are stuck with a roster in transition, one still largely built under the guise of heavy, defense-first hockey — the decade-old ideology the franchise is trying to phase out.

McLellan believes the team can blend the two realities, broaching the question himself during his post-practice chat Tuesday with reporters.

“Are we equipped to play the structure we’re putting in place? The answer would be, yeah, for the most part,” he said.

USC FOOTBALL

It wasn’t a touchdown. It wasn’t even a first down. But Kedon Slovis’ 19-yard strike to Drake London on second and 20 against Colorado last Friday still sticks in Graham Harrell’s mind four days later.

To the first-year USC offensive coordinator, watching Slovis thread a ball up the seam to London may have been akin to a parent watching his child go from crawling to walking to running over the course of three weeks.

“In Notre Dame, we had that exact same situation and he didn’t throw it,” Harrell said of having London over the middle covered by just one defender whose back was turned to the quarterback.

Against Arizona, Slovis did throw it, earning a third-down completion in the 41-14 blowout. Then the freshman quarterback graduated to the highest level last week against Colorado as Slovis’ key pass to London contributed to USC’s game-winning drive.

“When the game’s up on the line in a big situation and [to] see him make that throw again and trust Drake and see Drake come up with it, I think it’s going to give them both a ton of confidence,” Harrell said Tuesday.

The Trojans, who host No. 7 Oregon on Saturday, are in the driver’s seat of the Pac-12 South with key freshmen emerging at quarterback, receiver and running back. Since returning from a concussion, Slovis has thrown eight touchdowns to just one interception in the last three games. London, a freshman from Moorpark High, has 137 of his season-total 199 yards receiving in the last two games. Injuries depleted USC’s stable of running backs, but they’ve revealed a budding star in freshman Kenan Christon, who has 179 yards rushing and two touchdowns in the last two games.

UCLA FOOTBALL

Sophomore running back Martell Irby made a career-high three catches out of the backfield against Arizona State last weekend as part of what might be called the team’s Demetric Felton Jr. package.

”It for sure has become a bigger part of our offense with the effectiveness Demetric showed coming out the backfield,” Irby said.

Felton’s 36 catches and 439 yards receiving lead the team, and with four games to play, he has already tied the school’s single-season record for catches by a running back. Irby had never caught more than two passes in a game before Saturday.

“It just so happened that the defense was dropping out and I was open in the middle of the field, or I was open in the flat,” Irby said, “so I just capitalized on the opportunities that I had.”

It was Irby’s first appearance since late last month after he tweaked a hamstring that began bothering him the week of UCLA’s game against San Diego State on Sept. 7. He had just one carry against Arizona State, gaining two yards, but said he was happy to contribute wherever he’s asked.

“I like doing anything that I could help this team,” Irby said.

TODAY’S LOCAL MAJOR SPORTS SCHEDULE

All times Pacific

Clippers at Utah, 7 p.m., Prime Ticket, ESPN, AM 570

Vancouver at Kings, 7:30 p.m., FSW

BORN ON THIS DATE

1898: Baseball player Bill Terry (d. 1989)

1916: Baseball player Leon Day (d. 1995)

1927: Baseball player Joe Adcock (d. 1999)

1950: Basketball player Phil Chenier

1960: Soccer player Diego Maradona

1989: Gymnast Nastia Liukin

DIED ON THIS DATE

2005: Baseball player/manager Al Lopez, 96

2015: Basketball player Mel Daniels, 71

AND FINALLY

Diego Maradona‘s “Hand of God” goal. Watch it here.

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When Lorenzo Hernandez was attending Huntington Park High, he was fascinated with the Garfield-Roosevelt football game — from the enthusiasm of the fans, to the sheer size of the band and drill teams arriving on multiple buses at East Los Angeles College, to the pride of the players walking onto the field in their school colors and the outpouring of community support.

“I was mesmerized,” he said.

In 2001, he became head coach at Garfield, calling it “a fairy tale to come here.”

The 85th edition of the East. L.A. Classic will be played Friday night at East Los Angeles College, and it will take place one week before release of a new documentary film about the game, “The All-Americans,” which opens in movie theaters Nov. 8.

Written and directed by Bill McMillan, the movie was filmed during the 2014-15 school year. Hernandez and former Roosevelt coach Javier Cid are featured prominently. The film focuses on two players from each team — Stevie Williams and Joseph Silva from Garfield, and Sammy Hernandez and Mario Ramirez from Roosevelt.

McMillan said he was relatively new to living in Los Angeles and didn’t follow sports when he heard an announcement on a radio station that the annual Garfield-Roosevelt football game would be played.

“I had wanted to do a project on immigration that was different than a lot of people were talking about,” he said. The idea was to make a film about “what it means to be an American and take the temperature down and help people understand how similar we are,” he said.

Sports is a uniter, so it makes perfect sense to tell a story of the East L.A. community while providing an inside look at the passion before, during and after the annual game.

I already learned something new from seeing a screening. There was Hernandez driving a police car with a radio clipped to his uniform. Who knew that he was a reserve police officer and dreamed of becoming a police officer before he became a teacher and coach?

“I try to guide the kids not to make the same mistakes I see out on the streets,” Hernandez said.

This year’s game will have added importance with the Eastern League championship on the line. Both teams are 5-2 overall and 5-0 in league. Hernandez faces real pressure each year from the person sleeping next to him in bed.

His wife, Martha, is a Garfield grad. She doesn’t like losing to Roosevelt.

“She doesn’t care about any other game except that one,” Hernandez said. “We’re trying to get into playoff contention and she’s worried about the Roosevelt game.”

McMillan said he followed the players for three years after filming began and provides updates in the credits.

Asked if there were any surprises, he said, “Everybody had told me how loud it was. Even though they had told me, I was not prepared how overwhelming it was. I didn’t grow up playing high school sports. The amount of cheering and booing is one of the interesting things about the Classic that I liked. The level of highs and lows fans get into is truly unique about the game.”

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Los Angeles City Council President Herb Wesson has called on the city to suspend the approval process for new shops selling cannabis products, arguing that the latest round of the licensing process was “compromised” by some people gaining early access to the application system.

In a letter to the Department of Cannabis Regulation, Wesson urged the department to stop processing applications for new marijuana retailers, refund the latest round of cannabis applicants, and get an independent audit of the process, “unless there are other options like processing every application” that would assure people that the process is untainted. Under the existing system, only a limited number of applications are slated to be reviewed, not every application that was submitted.

“These are the only options that will provide the clarity and time we need to ensure that the … process is fair, transparent, and has integrity,” Wesson wrote in his letter.

Department of Cannabis Regulation spokeswoman Michelle Garakian said the department “is committed to the most fair and transparent process possible” and would meet with Wesson’s office soon “to discuss their recommendations.”

So far, the city has granted approval to more than 300 existing cannabis businesses, including both retailers and their suppliers, according to the Department of Cannabis Regulation. It has faced a torrent of criticism over the latest round of the approval process, a first-come, first-served system for applicants seeking to open new pot shops that could grant approval to 100 more businesses.

At a Cannabis Regulation Commission meeting last week, marijuana entrepreneurs complained that some people had gotten advance access to the application system while others struggled with slower internet speeds. Many argued that the process put the entrepreneurs who were supposed to get an edge — people from communities hit hardest by the war on drugs — at a disadvantage.

Cat Packer, executive director of the Department of Cannabis Regulation, said just two people had gained early access, due to a staff error after resetting their passwords for the computerized application system, and that their applications had been pushed back in line to where they would have ended up if they had not started the process ahead of time. Packer also said there was no evidence of bots being used to submit applications more quickly, as some critics had feared.

“The system operated as planned,” she told a plainly dissatisfied crowd at City Hall last week.

Wesson, in his letter, cited concerns about people accessing the system ahead of its official opening, saying that “unfortunately these allegations have been substantiated.” It is “paramount that the application process have the utmost integrity, be transparent, and fair,” Wesson wrote, and “there appears to be no scenario in which the … process can meet those three principles currently.”

When the latest round of applications opened in September, the city was flooded with more than 300 applications within three minutes, according to the Department of Cannabis Regulation. Adam Spiker, executive director of the cannabis industry group Southern California Coalition, complained that the process had amounted to a “fastest computer contest.”

“It’s a game of musical chairs with a horrifically low amount of chairs in the middle,” Spiker said Tuesday. “And when the music stopped, a lot of people were upset and felt the process was flawed.”

California Minority Alliance co-founder Virgil Grant, whose group advocates for minority participation in the cannabis industry, had publicly raised concerns about the number of applicants with Armenian surnames who had gotten prime spots on the city list, saying that did not reflect the population in communities hit hardest by the war on drugs, which L.A. had vowed to prioritize.

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Grant said Tuesday he was “ecstatic” that Wesson had asked to halt the process. “It has to be done,” Grant said. “They have to stop everything, refund everybody the money and get this done right.”

Others were concerned by the idea of further delays, which they said could be devastating to applicants who had been paying for leases to hang onto eligible storefronts.

“Any more delays would be unacceptable,” said Kika Keith, whose organization Life Development Group advocates for applicants in L.A.’s “social equity” program, which is aimed at helping communities disproportionately affected by the criminalization of marijuana.

Keith was pleased, however, that Wesson had also suggested reviewing all of the applications from this round, which she described as the best solution. Roughly 800 applications were submitted in this round, but Keith argued that many would not ultimately be eligible because of problems with their applications.

L.A. still has another phase of approval for retailers ahead, one that could provide spots for at least 150 more new businesses. Under city rules, it can also allow additional marijuana businesses to open in areas that have hit neighborhood caps for such shops if the City Council does not balk at those proposals.

Authorities have released the identity of a second woman killed when a wildfire tore through a mobile home park in Riverside County this month.

Hannah Labelle, 61, of Calimesa died after the Sandalwood fire erupted Oct. 10, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department confirmed Tuesday. Her remains were found inside the Villa Calimesa Mobile Home Park.

Authorities previously identified another woman whose body was found inside the mobile home park as longtime resident Lois Arvickson, 89.

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The fast-moving fire burned more than 1,000 acres and destroyed at least 76 structures, decimating the mobile home park. Investigators believe it was caused by a dump truck driver who hastily offloaded burning trash on the side of a highway.