Former England and Mexico coach Sven-Goran Eriksson is named coach of the Ivory Coast national side for the World Cup finals in South Africa.

I get a gift and everything.”*Trojan Coach Tim Floyd said he was not keeping an eye on other conference tournaments, even though they could impact whether his team receives an NIT bid.Under new NIT selection guidelines, teams that win their regular-season conference title but fail to win their conference tournament are guaranteed bids. I’ve heard there are some guys around here who get so carried away by the fawning media, it’s like they want to have an affair.*ON MOST days we go smart aleck to smart aleck with both later agreeing I’ve won because he gets no chance to respond publicly Tuesday was different. She had led virtually throughout when winning an optional claimer March 15 in Arcadia.”She’s a lovely filly,” said Bell, who purchased Heavenly Ransom partly because she was a half sister to Capitano, a horse with whom he had some success for the same owners.”Every time she runs, I look at the [Daily Racing] Form and say this is a tough race, but she came through again. I’ve always kind of hated that — using comics the same way you’d use soup can labels.”The art world, since World War I, has invited all kinds of objects and imagery into gallery and museum spaces, from Marcel Duchamp’s urinal to Andy Warhol’s soup cans and Brillo boxes to Mike Kelley’s stuffed animals. So it’s too early to count him out.But if he’s leaning that way, I may have to crank up another run for governor.Can you work with me, Oprah?*Steve Lopez writes Sunday, Wednesday and Friday. 1 when the Bradley fighting vehicle he was driving struck an explosive device while part of an Army convoy near Bayji, Iraq.Kynoch, who was promoted posthumously from the rank of specialist to corporal, is survived by his wife, Sarah, and their 6-month-old daughter, Savannah.The couple met at a local nightclub while Kynoch was home from his first tour of duty and married a year ago. He won the national bantamweight amateur title, then turned pro.

8 deadline: the Public Utilities Commission, the Coastal Commission and the Energy Commission.Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn, who represents Wilmington and San Pedro, said she does not plan to comment, although she still has questions.”We’ll all kind of clamoring for clean fuel,” Hahn said. It also provides the opportunity for people to make t’shuvah, to redeem themselves, to turn away from wrongdoing and to do good,” he said.”No one said they shouldn’t be held accountable and shouldn’t pay the price,” he said. He and his wife Marci befriended troubled children in two Orange County group homes, sharing their Christian faith, impressing a sense of responsibility and community on those kids, and on their own kids.”I felt like, from the standpoint of an athlete, it was important for me to be a role model,” Salmon said. The insurers negotiate how much they will pay for the medicine their Medicare customers take. 4, 1881: The first edition of the Los Angeles Daily Times, which later drops the “Daily,” is published.1884: The Times Mirror Co., owner of The Times, is incorporated.1910: Union extremists bomb the Times building, killing 20 employees and destroying the headquarters.1924: Tribune launches radio station WGN (for “World’s Greatest Newspaper”).1932: The Chicago Tribune wins its first of 24 Pulitzer Prizes.1942: The Los Angeles Times wins its first of 37 Pulitzer Prizes.1947: The Times become the largest-circulation newspaper in Los Angeles.1948: Tribune enters the emerging television market with WGN-TV, while The Times partners with CBS to create station KTTV.1960: Otis Chandler becomes publisher of The Times, launching the era of Times Mirror’s growth into a national media company.1980: Chandler retires as Times publisher.1981: Tribune buys the Chicago Cubs for $20.5 million.1983: Tribune, having grown into a media company with newspapers and TV and radio stations across the country, goes public, selling 7.7 million shares for $206 million.1985: Tribune buys KTLA-TV in Los Angeles.1990: The Times’ circulation reaches an all-time high of 1,225,189 daily and 1,514,096 Sunday, making it the largest daily metropolitan newspaper in the country.1995: Tribune launches its website, tribune.com.1996: The Times launches latimes.com.March 13, 2000: Tribune announces an agreement to acquire Times Mirror.April 5, 2004: The Times wins five Pulitzer Prizes, the second-most ever awarded to a paper in one year.April 13, 2004: Tribune stock reaches $51.90, its highest since buying Times Mirror.Summer 2005: David Geffen, entertainment mogul, tells Tribune CEO Dennis J. They understand little English and live in the building next door.Though the two boys can connect to the world, they cannot walk this neighborhood together.Fear of the 204th Street gang has forced Gary to live most of his life inside this apartment.

27 against the Chicago Blackhawks, has played in only 13 games and scored four points. If President Bush attacks Iran, it could help cool the situation, or we might have to hunker down for a longer, bigger war. Rain, wind and fog are par for the course, just about every year, but some of the weather-related circumstances here reach historic levels.For instance, in 1952, the tournament was shortened to 36 holes because of 45-mph winds on Friday (they played anyway), and the second round was canceled because three holes at Monterey Peninsula Country Club were under water.In 1962, the final round was canceled Sunday and was played Monday because rain, hail, sleet and snow made the course unplayable.Jimmy Demaret couldn’t believe his eyes. Really, I didn’t think I was doing anything [along the lines] of creative thinking.”Technically speaking, Texas’ media guide fits the new NCAA standard Closed, the book indeed measures 8 1/2 by 11. “They were just people who were” trying to send a message.Times staff writers Jenifer Warren in Sacramento and Stuart Pfeifer and Megan Garvey in Los Angeles and correspondent Robert Hollis in San Francisco contributed to this report..