Lakers
LeBron James finishes with 30 points, breaking Michael Jordan’s record for most career 30-point games in the Lakers’ 119-102 win over the Atlanta Hawks.
Dodgers
Dodgers star Shohei Ohtani is the Associated Press’ male athlete of the year for a third time. He and Michael Jordan trail only LeBron James, Lance Armstrong and Tiger Woods.
Ben Casparius, the Dodgers’ rookie reliever, is dating Erin Matson, the field hockey coach at the University of North Carolina who had a decorated career as a player.
Food
Chef Jordan Kahn of Vespertine, Meteora and Destroyer makes Cubano sandwiches with crispy-skin pork belly, mojo rub, pickles, mustard and Swiss cheese.
UCLA Sports
Jordan Chiles, competing at Pauley Pavilion for the first time since the Olympics, scores a 9.950 in floor exercise to lead UCLA gymnastics past Illinois.
Letters to the Editor
The man who choked Jordan Neely was acquitted. “After all,” says a reader, Neely “was mentally ill and homeless, and he used synthetic marijuana.”
World & Nation
Powerful Arab nations have rejected President Trump’s suggestion to relocate Palestinians from Gaza to neighboring Egypt and Jordan.
Brooklyn Moors puts in strong performances on the balance beam and floor exercise for UCLA and Jordan Chiles earns strong marks on bars and vault.
Trump also said he’s ended his predecessor’s hold on sending 2,000-pound bombs to Israel, which Biden had implemented out of concern for civilian casualties in Gaza.
A Marine veteran who put an agitated subway rider in a chokehold on a New York subway has been acquitted in the man’s death.