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Retired Major League Baseball player Royce Clayton was arrested early Sunday on suspicion of driving under the influence, according to booking records.Clayton, a former shortstop and current baseball coach at Oaks Christian School in Westlake Village, was recently caught up in the drama surrounding Hidden Hills socialite Rebecca Grossman, who is charged with murder in the deaths of two young boys in a Westlake Village crosswalk.He testified at her trial that he drank margaritas with Grossman and her then-lover, former…

When Los Angeles last saw Clayton Kershaw, his head was buried in his hands and boos were ringing in his ears.His shoulder was shot. His postseason was shredded. He was surely finished as a Dodger. He was probably finished as a pitcher.Kershaw trudged quietly out of Dodger Stadium that October night after giving up six runs to the first eight Arizona Diamondbacks hitters in a nightmarish playoff opener, his pitiful appearance draped with the saddest of questions.Is this really how a future Hall of Famer was going to walk…

(CNN) — Tom Wilkinson, two-time Oscar-nominated actor from films including “Shakespeare in Love,” “The Full Monty” and “Michael Clayton,” has died. He was reportedly 75. The news was confirmed by Wilkinson’s publicist Nancy Seltzer, who shared a statement with CNN. “It is with great sadness that the family of Tom Wilkinson announce that he died suddenly at home on December 30. His wife and family were with him,” the statement read. “The family asks for privacy at this time.” No cause of death was immediately available.…

Actor Tom Wilkinson, known for his BAFTA-winning role in The Full Monty and Oscar-nominated turns in Michael Clayton and In the Bedroom, has died at the age of 75. Wilkinson died “suddenly” at home on Saturday, according to statement from the actor’s family, who were with him when he died as was his wife. “The family asks for privacy at this time,” the statement continued. Wilkinson was nominated for six BAFTA awards over the course of his career, winning best performance by an actor in a…

DENVER —  Clayton Kershaw said his shoulder got “a little cranky” in the sixth inning of Tuesday night’s game against the Colorado Rockies and that he was diagnosed with inflammation. The Dodgers left-hander received a cortisone injection and remains hopeful that he’ll be able to make at least one more start before the All-Star break.“I’ve had some shoulder stuff in the past, like three or four years ago, and usually the shots help pretty good,” Kershaw said before Thursday night’s series finale against the Rockies. “So…

DENVER —  There was little mystery to Clayton Kershaw’s mastery of the Colorado Rockies on Tuesday night. The Dodgers left-hander pounded the strike zone, was pitch-efficient and induced plenty of soft contact while allowing one hit in six innings of a 5-0 victory in Coors Field.The real intrigue came after a game in which Dodgers slugger J.D. Martinez became the 156th major leaguer to hit 300 home runs, when manager Dave Roberts said Kershaw experienced considerable “fatigue” after losing a no-hit bid with two outs in…

Clayton Kershaw is nowhere near as dominant as he was from 2011 to ’17, when he went 118-41 with a 2.10 earned-run average in 207 starts and won three National League Cy Young Awards and a most valuable player award.But even at 35, with a sometimes balky back and nearly 2,700 innings on his odometer, the Dodgers left-hander has been the clear-cut ace of an injury-ravaged rotation that lost Walker Buehler to Tommy John surgery, Dustin May to a major forearm injury and has been without Julio Urías (left hamstring strain)…

Not long after we learned Adult Swim’s intriguing title for its much-anticipated Venture Bros. movie—The Venture Bros.: Radiant Is the Blood of the Baboon Heart—and glimpsed its first trailer, we now have a brand-new peek and a release date. It’s a good day to be a fan of subversive superheroes!Balancing Fan Expectations in The MandalorianThe release dates: digitally on July 21, Blu-ray on July 25. And here’s the excellently fun trailer.The Venture Bros.: Radiant is the Blood of the Baboon Heart | Official Trailer |…

When Clayton Kershaw took the mound Friday night, the typically regimented rotation of his world was suddenly spinning upside down.Off the field, the 35-year-old was under an unusually intense spotlight, thrusting himself into the middle of the Dodgers recent Pride Night controversy after publicly disagreeing with the team’s decision to honor the Sisters of Perpetual Indulgence — and pushing for the club’s relaunch of Christian Faith and Family Day — earlier in the week.On the field, the three-time Cy Young Award winner…

Hi, and welcome to another edition of Dodgers Dugout. My name is Houston Mitchell. I try very hard to focus on only on-field issues for the team and not write about political/religious issues, but recent events have made it necessary to write about a topic related to politics/religion today. If you don’t want to read about it, I highly recommend you skip to the next section, titled “The Yanks are coming.”The Dodgers created a gigantic public relations mess for themselves recently. For their annual Pride Night, they…