Gene Maddaus

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After Denying Doping Allegations, Armstrong Crashes

Gene Maddaus
Not a great day to be Lance Armstrong. First, former teammate Floyd Landis accuses him of doping.Then, he crashes near Visalia and has to withdraw from the Amgen Tour of California. That may screw up your weekend plans if, like thousands of others, you were expecting to see Armstrong at......
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Harvey Karp, M.D.: Happy Baby Daddy

Gene Maddaus
For new parents, Dr. Harvey Karp is something more than a household word. He's a verb. To "Harvey Karp" means to magically calm a screaming baby using Karp's techniques, which are explained in his 2002 book and DVD, The Happiest Baby on the Block. Since the book came out, Karp......
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Willy Leventhal: Civil Rights Shortstop

Gene Maddaus
Willy Leventhal wasn't the best shortstop in high school, just the most intense. He was compact — 5 feet 9, 155 pounds — without the broad shoulders and sun-kissed arms that would carry some of his teammates to the pros. Still, as a freshman at UCLA, in 1965, he remained......
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Tracy Gray: Hawking L.A.

Gene Maddaus
Tracy Gray is impatient for success, which makes her the kind of person you'd want managing your indie-rock band, if you had one. She did that for a while, before she grew tired of waiting around for the Next Big Thing and got hooked into venture capital. Gray liked the......
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Poll: Brown Benefits As Whitman and Poizner Battle

Gene Maddaus
A new PPIC poll out tonight shows Steve Poizner cutting sharply into Meg Whitman's lead in the Republican gubernatorial primary. The beneficiary, at the moment anyway, is Jerry Brown. In a general election matchup, Brown now leads Whitman 42-37. That's a 10-point swing from the last poll, taken in March,......
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Mayor Villaraigosa: If Suns Win, We'll Take Sheriff Joe

Gene Maddaus
Now that Los Angeles is boycotting the state of Arizona, it seems odd for Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa to be offering a wager with the mayor of Phoenix over the NBA Western Conference Finals.Apparently the embargo doesn't cover that. But this year's bet is no mere exchange of Laker jerseys for......
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Robot Sent From the Future to Eliminate Welfare

Gene Maddaus
Bill Clinton used to talk about ending welfare as we know it. Today, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger proposed ending it, full stop."We now have to use the ax to eliminate some of those programs," he said today.About 1.3 million Californians -- including 1 million children -- rely on the state's CalWORKS......

Me Llamo Steve Poizner Y Quiero Su Apoyo

Gene Maddaus
Steve Poizner has a message for that sliver of the electorate that speaks Spanish, votes Republican, opposes Pete Wilson and Prop. 187, but supports the Arizona immigration law:This is the political equivalent of a reverse triple backflip into a half somersault with no splash. English translation after the jump......
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Monrovia Track Coach Wins League Title, Loses PR War

Gene Maddaus
After 30 years coaching track, Monrovia High's Mike Knowles has learned a thing or two about the rule book.So when he spotted a friendship bracelet on the wrist of South Pasadena's top pole vaulter, Robin Laird, he sprang into action. Citing a rule that forbids athletes from wearing jewelry, Knowles......
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Who Would Lose the Most from an L.A. Boycott of Arizona? (UPDATE)

Gene Maddaus
Say hello to Swift Transportation. The Phoenix-based firm is one of the nation's largest trucking companies, and the biggest player in the Port of Los Angeles' Clean Trucks Program.It also has the most to lose from Councilwoman Janice Hahn's proposed boycott of Arizona -- $18 million, according to a report......