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Fullerton soccer's Antonio Campos, son of star Jorge Campos, leans on family after fire
Antonio Campos carries the blood of his legendary father, former Galaxy and Mexican national team goalkeeper Jorge Campos. Perhaps more important, he carries his family's resilience after they worked to recover from the loss of their home in the Palisades fire. During Antonio Campos' first season with the Cal State Fullerton soccer team, he seeks to write his own story and help his team win. 'Just being in college is a success. I feel blessed,' said Antonio, who is studying business while fighting for minutes as a Division I goalkeeper. He was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the Pacific Palisades area, the second son of Jorge Campos and Canadian Marcy Raston. His sisters chose to focus on volleyball: Andrea, the eldest, recently signed with a professional club in France after a successful college career. Antonio, on the other hand, was torn between basketball and soccer. At Loyola High, he played point guard, although his height, at 6 feet, limited his minutes. 'Michael Jordan inspired me to play several sports,' said Antonio, who also played baseball and volleyball. Training sessions with his father during the COVID-19 pandemic led Antonio to eventually focus on soccer and the goalkeeper position. 'With my dad, everything is intense. Lots of training on the beach, reflexes, technique, cutting crosses. Things he did better than anyone else,' said Antonio, who does not shy away from his surname but does not want it to define him. 'I don't feel pressure. I prefer to teach the values my father instilled in me,' Antonio said. He is part of the first generation in his family to attend college in the U.S. and he knows that his path extends beyond soccer. In Mexico, Antonio also didn't feel he had much of a future, as his own father, Jorge, criticized goalkeeper trainers in that country last year. 'It's incredible that after 30 years, 40 years, we don't have a modern goalkeeper, of that style, like Manuel Neuer, Ter Stegen,' Jorge said in a recent interview with ESPN. Antonio was drawn to Cal State Fullerton as more than just a place to improve his soccer skills. The team's philosophy, focused on service, ambition and personal development, resonated with him and his family. 'We emphasize being good people. If you go far, you'll be better socially and culturally,' explained George Kuntz, the Titans' veteran coach. Read more: L.A. has never experienced loss on this scale. Measuring progress six months after the fires is hard and painful Antonio had had doubts about playing college soccer. 'I didn't want to play at the university level because first-year goalkeepers hardly ever play,' he said. However, he was assured that everyone would have real opportunities if they earned them through training. Between the posts, he will have to fight for minutes against quality teammates Eoin Kennedy, Asger Hemmer and Emanuel Padilla. Fullerton opens the regular season on Thursday at Oral Roberts in Tulsa, Okla. 'I want to play, yes, but I also want my teammates to improve. It's not just about me,' Antonio said. In 2024, the Titans stood out for their offensive prowess, but they also ranked among the worst teams in the country in goals conceded. That's why Fullerton reinforced its defense with four goalkeepers on the roster. Antonio is emerging as one of the promising players, with an athletic profile and an ambitious personality that has impressed the coaching staff. Read more: Miller Moss gives back to Palisades community by hosting youth football camp 'He's brave, has good technique and is improving tactically,' Kuntz said. Earlier this year, Antonio's focus was pulled away from soccer by a family emergency. In January, the Campos family home was one of more than 6,800 destroyed by the Palisades fire. 'We lost everything. I couldn't get anything out,' said Antonio, who still gets emotional while talking about his family's loss. That day, he thought about going home, but he decided to go to soccer training after receiving a message from a friend. The change of plans kept him safe. Antonio was accustomed to evacuations and didn't worry about the nearby fires. But after learning that his home had burned down, the loss was both material and emotional. Read more: WORLD CUP '94: 4 Days and Counting : Color Him Entertaining : The Outlandish Style of Goalkeeper Jorge Campos Adds Flair to the Game 'My mom was devastated. It was her first home in this country,' said Antonio, who highlighted his father's strength. 'What surprised me was seeing my dad laughing and joking the next day. I never saw him cry. He set an example for us." 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Brian Robinson Jr. and Terry McLaurin show the harsh business of the NFL
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The Sports Report: Intriguing meeting after Dodgers lose to Rockies
From Kevin Baxter: The half-empty Dodger clubhouse was so quiet you could hear a winning streak snap Monday. But amid the silence there was one conversation that spoke volumes. After a 4-3 walk-off loss to the last-place Colorado Rockies — a loss set up by two poor plays from right fielder Teoscar Hernández — Mookie Betts met with manager Dave Roberts and Andrew Friedman, the Dodgers' president of baseball operations, in Roberts' office. Betts, the Dodgers shortstop, is a six-time Gold Glove winner in right field. Hernández is not. On Monday, Hernández threw to the wrong base in the third inning, allowing the Rockies to score their second run, and in the ninth he was unable to hold Ezequiel Tovar's bloop double. Two pitches later, Warming Bernabel bounced a single up to middle, scoring Tovar to end the game. The Betts conversation afterward was private. But the circumstances that led to it were not. Clearly the bullpen is not the Dodgers' only problem. 'He's got to get better out there. There's just no way to put it,' Roberts said of Hernández. 'It's not a lack of effort. But, you know, we've just got to kind of get better. We do.' Continue reading here Doing away with traditional leagues could be in MLB's not-too-distant future, Rob Manfred says Dodgers box score MLB scores MLB standings Gavin Lux hit an early two-run homer and the Cincinnati Reds used three leadoff triples to beat the Angels 4-1 on Monday night. TJ Friedl had a leadoff single in the first inning off Victor Mederos, making his second career start, and Lux followed with his fifth homer for a 2-0 lead. Elly De La Cruz led off the fifth with his fourth triple this season before scoring on a sacrifice fly by Austin Hays to make it 3-1. Hays tripled in the third but was stranded. Scott Barlow replaced Luis Mey with two on and two outs in the eighth and struck out Jo Adell swinging to keep it 4-1. Barlow fanned three more in the ninth for his first save this season. Continue reading here Angels box score MLB scores MLB standings From Thuc Nhi Nguyen: The Great Depression threatened the 1932 Olympics. A pandemic raged during the 2021 Tokyo Games. Parisians planned a 'poop protest' in the Seine before the 2024 Games. From natural disasters, construction woes or unpopular opinion, every Olympics has faced threats in the planning process. Yet nearly every time, the city, ready or not, still hosted the Games. With less than three years before the L.A. Olympics, calls on social media for the city to withdraw or cancel have intensified. Wildfires devastated Pacific Palisades and Altadena in January. L.A. had to balance a $1-billion deficit. Immigration raids have put communities on edge while President Trump has threatened further military intervention. But Olympic preparations press forward. So invested in the success of the 2028 Games, the International Olympic Committee allowed venue naming rights for the first time in history. 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Continue reading here From Ryan Kartje: When they chose to continue their college careers, both USC offensive lineman DJ Wingfield and UCLA wide receiver Kaedin Robinson thought the courts and NCAA had cleared the way for them to play a fifth season of football. USC had told Wingfield as much, offering him $210,000 in NIL to join the Trojans' offensive line. UCLA, meanwhile, offered Robinson $450,000 to be one of the Bruins' top wideouts. But after first seeing their waivers rejected in the spring, then suing the NCAA this summer, a U.S. District Court judge has now shut the door on either Wingfield or Robinson suiting up this fall. Continue reading here 1909 — The first race is held at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Twelve-thousand spectators watch Austrian engineer Louis Schwitzer win a five-mile race with an average speed of 57.4 miles per hour. The track's surface of crushed rock and tar breaks up in a number of places and causes the deaths of two drivers, two mechanics and two spectators. 1934 — Helen Hull Jacobs wins the women's title in the U.S. Lawn Tennis Association championships. 1981 — Renaldo Nehemiah sets the world record in the 110 hurdles with a time of 12.93 seconds in a meet at Zurich, Switzerland. 1984 — Lee Trevino beats Gary Player and Lanny Wadkins by four strokes to take the PGA championship at Shoal Creek, Alabama. 1993 — Sergei Bubka wins his fourth consecutive pole vault title at the World Track and Field championships at Stuttgart, Germany. 1995 — Mike Tyson starts his comeback, knocking out Peter McNeeley in 89 seconds at Las Vegas. McNeeley's manager Vinnie Vecchione jumps into the ring to stop the fight after his boxer is knocked down twice in the first round. 2001 — Michael Schumacher gets his fourth Formula One championship and matches Alain Prost's series record of 51 victories by winning the Hungarian Grand Prix. 2004 — American swimmer Michael Phelps wraps up the 200/400m individual medley double at the Athens Olympics when he wins the 200m (1:57.14 OR) ahead of teammate Ryan Lochte. 2016 — Usain Bolt scores another sweep, winning three gold medals in his third consecutive Olympics. At the Rio de Janeiro Games, Bolt turns a close 4x100 relay race against Japan and the United States into a typical, Bolt-like runaway, helping Jamaica cross the line in 37.27 seconds. Allyson Felix wins an unprecedented fifth gold medal in women's track and field, running the second leg of the 4x100-meter relay team. 2018 — Novak Đoković beats Roger Federer 6-4, 6-4 in the final of the Cincinnati Masters to become the first player to win all 9 Masters 1,000 tennis tournaments since the series started in 1990. 2018 — Jockey Drayden Van Dyke wins a record-tying seven races at Del Mar, including the $200,000 Del Mar Mile. He ties Hall of Famer Victor Espinoza for most wins in a single day in the seaside track's history. Van Dyke's only loss in eight mounts comes when he finishes second in the sixth race. 1909 — The Philadelphia Phillies were rained out for the 10th consecutive day, a major league record. 1913 — The Chicago Cubs tagged Grover Alexander for nine straight hits and six runs for a 10-4 triumph over the Philadelphia Phillies. 1921 — Detroit's Ty Cobb got his 3,000th career hit at age 34, the youngest player to reach that plateau. The milestone hit was a single off Elmer Myers of the Boston Red Sox. 1934 — Moose Solters of the Boston Red Sox hit for the cycle in an 8-6 loss to the Detroit Tigers at Fenway Park. 1951 — Eddie Gaedel, a 65-pound midget who was 3-foot-7, made his first and only plate appearance as a pinch-hitter for Frank Saucier of the St. Louis Browns. Gaedel wearing No. 1/8 was walked on four pitches by Detroit Tigers pitcher Bob Cain and then was taken out for pinch-runner Jim Delsing. The gimmick by Browns owner Bill Veeck was completely legal, but later outlawed. 1957 — New York Giants owner Horace Stoneham announced that the team's board of directors had voted 8-1 in favor of moving to San Francisco. The Giants would start the 1958 season in Seals Stadium. 1965 — Jim Maloney of the Cincinnati Reds no-hit the Cubs 1-0, in 10 innings in the first game of a doubleheader at Chicago. Leo Cardenas homered in the 10th for the Reds. 1969 — Ken Holtzman of the Cubs blanked the Atlanta Braves with a 3-0 no-hitter at Wrigley Field. Ron Santo's three-run homer in the first inning provided the Cubs' offense. 1990 — Bobby Thigpen recorded his 40th save as the Chicago White Sox beat the Texas Rangers 4-2. Thigpen became the eighth — and fastest — to accomplish this feat. 1992 — Bret Boone made history when he became part of the first three-generation family to play in major league baseball. Boone is the grandson of Ray Boone, who played from 1948-60, and son of Bob Boone, from 1972-90. Bret, 23, completed the triangle when he started at second base for the Seattle Mariners against Baltimore. 2007 — Johan Santana finished with a franchise-record 17 strikeouts in eight innings to help Minnesota edge Texas 1-0. 2009 — Florida reached 10 hits for the 15th straight game in a 6-3 loss at Houston, matching the longest streak since the St. Louis Browns had one that long in 1937. The Marlins were held to four hits the next game. 2011 — LaGrange, Ky., starter Griffin McLarty struck out 12 and hit a homer in a 1-0 victory over the hometown favorites from Clinton County in the Little League World Series at South Williamsport, Pa. The game drew 41,848 fans, breaking the record of 40,000 set in the 1989 and 1990 championship games. 2016 — Jose Altuve homered and had five RBIs, and the Houston Astros beat the Baltimore Orioles 15-8 despite allowing four home runs in the first inning. The Orioles became the first team in the modern era (since 1900) to open a game with four home runs before making an out. Adam Jones hit Collin McHugh's first pitch into the seats in left field and Hyun Soo Kim singled before Manny Machado, Chris Davis and Mark Trumbo homered in succession. Compiled by the Associated Press That concludes today's newsletter. 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