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Chip Kelly is reportedly set to add two more assistants to his coaching staff at UCLA, including a coach from another Pac-12 school.

Kelly will hire Washington State outside linebackers coach Roy Manning as the special teams coordinator and San Francisco 49ers assistant defensive line coach Vince Oghubaase for UCLA’s defensive line position, Sports Illustrated’s Bruce Feldman reported Wednesday.

Manning, a former Michigan linebacker, spent three years at Washington State where the Cougars ranked 16th nationally in total defense this season.

The Bruins have struggled on special teams in recent years and were ranked just 10th in the Pac-12 in kickoff coverage last year. UCLA was fifth in the conference in punting in 2017, but gave up the most yards per return (4.2) in the Pac-12.

Kelly’s staff is nearly complete with offensive coordinator and quarterbacks coach being the only vacancies left. He currently has nine positions filled and can hire a 10th full-time assistant on Jan. 9 to take over the remaining duties. The head coach was reportedly targeting Washington Redskins quarterbacks coach Kevin O’Connell as UCLA’s offensive coordinator, but the 32-year-old assistant was instead promoted to the Redskins’ passing game coordinator Tuesday.

Kelly is expected to retain defensive line coach Angus McClure, but move the longtime UCLA assistant to tight ends, a position he coached earlier in his 11-year tenure in Westwood. Kelly will also keep wide receivers coach Jimmie Dougherty, running backs coach DeShaun Foster and offensive line coach Hank Fraley for his new staff.

Oghobaase will be the youngest of Kelly’s new defensive coaches as the 30-year-old Houston native is the only one without prior coordinating experience. After serving as a graduate assistant at his alma mater Duke and Ohio State, he worked under Kelly for one season in San Francisco and stayed with the 49ers after Kelly was fired.

The defense will be led by coordinator Jerry Azzinaro, who has coached defensive line at all of Kelly’s head coaching stops. Kelly has also hired former Oregon assistant Don Pellum for the linebackers spot and former Arkansas defensive coordinator Paul Rhoads to coach defensive backs.

Feldman also reported that former UCLA quarterback Jerry Neuheisel will return to Westwood as a graduate assistant and former NFL quarterback Thad Lewis will join as an offensive analyst. After a brief professional career in Japan, Neuheisel was a graduate assistant at Texas A&M under former UCLA offensive coordinator Noel Mazzone last year. Lewis played under Kelly in Philadelphia and San Francisco in 2015 and 2016, respectively.

This season’s Canyon boys basketball team looks like a typical Canyon team of the past several years.

The Comanches hustle on defense, rarely get out-run in transition, and are very unselfish on offense.

They showed all of those attributes Wednesday in an 88-57 win over Buena Park in a nonleague game at Canyon High.

The Comanches are 15-1 and, at No. 3, the top-ranked public school team in the Orange County top 10. They are No. 1 in CIF-Southern Section Division 2-AA.

Canyon’s AJ Perry, a 5-foot-8 point guard,  scored a game-high 20 points. Perry, MVP of the Orange Holiday Classic tournament that the Comanches won last week, was 6 for 10 on 3-point shots.

Matt Williams, a 6-4 senior guard, scored 18 for Canyon, all on 3 pointers. He was 6 for 7 on 3-pointers. Jeremy Corson and Justin Williams added nine points each for the Comanches.

Buena Park (9-7), battling injury issues Wednesday as it has all season, was paced by Kevyn Scott’s 18 points and Cameron Dashiell’s 16.

The first shot of the game was a Perry 3-pointer that put Canyon ahead to stay. The Comanches led by 10 points at the end of the first quarter, by 24 at halftime and by 38 at the end of the third quarter.

Just like Canyon’s CIF-SS championship teams of 2009, 2014 and ’15, the Comanches made all of the correct decisions – taking the open shot when it was there, and if it was not there the Comanches worked it around to a teammate who had the better opportunity.

“I like the way we shared the ball,” said Perry after the game. “This was just a great game for our team.”

And it’s so far, so good in the view of Canyon coach Nate Harrison.

“At this point of the year,” Harrison said, “I’m happy where we’re at. We’re just trying to get better.”

In other nonleague games:

Beckman 61, Tustin 55: Dylan Thoerner’s 22 points led the visiting Patriots (7-8).

Yorba Linda 56, Great Oak of Temecula 43: Jake Miller scored 24 points for the victorious Mustangs (8-10).

In the Antelope Valley Tournament:

Saddleback Valley Christian 55, Buena of Ventura 46: Jonah Tolmarie scored 23 points and Jordan Taylor, a 6-10 senior center, added 18 for the Warriors (9-3).

In the Academy League:

St. Margaret’s 80, Brethren Christian 22: Sophomore Will Kenner’s 20 points paced the visiting Tartans (6-10).

LAKE FOREST – El Toro’s Demetrius Jackson showed why he received a full-ride college scholarship in the Chargers’ 63-55 victory over Mission Viejo in a nonleague boys basketball game Wednesday at El Toro High.

Jackson, who signed in November to play at Metropolitan State University in Denver, Colo., scored a game-high 35 points and was arguably the fastest, most athletic player on the court.

The 6-foot-1 guard, whose brother and father played college basketball, scored by driving hard to the basket and by shooting well from long range, hitting three 3-pointers.

“It’s a great advantage when you show up at a new job when you have an athlete and competitor like Demetrius,” said Nick Sainato, the first-year head coach for the Chargers (7-9). “He is obviously one of the best players in the area and he is always willing to get better.”

The Diablos (8-9) fell behind by nine points early in the game and never let the game get out of hand, but they had to battle from behind the entire way.

They were led by 6-foot-6 senior Tristan Williams, who scored 19 of his team-leading 24 points in the second half.

The Diablos cut the Chargers’ lead to six in the fourth quarter and had possession when Noah Agular made a steal, saved the ball from going out of bounds, and rifled a long pass to Jackson, who scored on a driving layup to make the score 54-46.

“It was a four-point swing,” Sainato said. “We talked about winning the game, you have to make some hustle plays at the end.”

The Diablos stayed close to the end, partly because of Williams, who scored his team’s final 10 points.

The Chargers made four of six free throws in the final seconds to secure the victory.

A boys basketball rematch Wednesday night between Beckman and Tustin was closer than the first game.

But Beckman was still able to get past Tillers for the second time this year 61-55 in a non-league game at Tustin.

Beckman defeated Tustin 60-40 in the So Cal Elite Gary Raya Classic on Dec. 15 at Northwood.

“That’s a typical kind of Tustin game,” said Beckman Coach John Goins. “We let them dictate what was going on. They had their defensive plan coming and we need to be able to adjust to what they’re doing.

“In the first half, we weren’t. We were a little better in the second half. We have difficulty sometimes accepting the pressure that teams put on us and Tustin put a lot of pressure on. We had success when they were in their press. We did just enough and that’s all that matters this time of year.”

Junior guard Dylan Thoerner led Beckman (7-8) with 22 points, including 16 in the second half. Charlie Lee added 14 points for Beckman.

Beckman’s Dylan Thoerner (22 points) talks about the Patriots 61-55 victory over Tustin tonight. pic.twitter.com/lCwoMCgZ5K

— Tim Burt (@TimBurtIrvine) January 4, 2018

Tustin (7-7) was led by Isaiah Gonzalez, who scored 27 points and Brian Ramirez, who had 14 points.

“Obviously it was a much more competitive game tonight than a couple weeks ago,” said Tustin Coach Ringo Bossenmeyer. “We had it down to a two possession game on multiple occasions down the stretch but had a crucial defensive breakdown and an unforced turnover. That will not get it done against talented and well coached teams like Beckman. Isaiah Gonzalez’ will to win was exceptional tonight.”

The Tillers led 21-19 at halftime but Beckman outscored Tustin 20-15 in the third quarter to take a three-point lead into the final quarter.

Beckman moved ahead by nine points in the final quarter before Tustin rallied, cutting the lead to four points in the final minutes.

But Thoerner sank two free throws with 28.5 seconds left to seal the win.

“We definitely struggled in the first half, but coach got on us and I think we played a lot more assertive and we didn’t let their pressure get to us as much,” Thoerner said. “We started to play our game and take the initiative instead of second guessing ourselves and it paid off. We scored a lot more.”

Beckman defeated Tustin 61-55 in a nonleague game at Tustin. Here’s a brief highlight in the fourth quarter with Tustin’s Jerome Childs scoring on one end and Beckman’s Dylan Thoerner scoring at the other end. pic.twitter.com/Bl952USrDx

— Tim Burt (@TimBurtIrvine) January 4, 2018

Beckman competed in the KSA Events Holiday Tournament in Orlando last week but was winless in three games. However, Thoerner scored a school record 36 points in a 62-56 loss to Barnabas Christian Academy, breaking the previous Patriots’ record of 33 held by Michael Yee in 2016.

Thoerner had 14 points in the fourth quarter “on perfect shooting,” Goins said.

2017-18 O.C. GIRLS BASKETBALL STANDINGS, SCOREBOARD

Through Jan. 3, 2018

ACADEMY LEAGUE
Crean Lutheran 1-0
Sage Hill 1-0
St. Margaret’s 1-0
Oxford Academy 0-0
Brethren Christian 0-1
Calvary Chapel/Downey 0-1
Whitney 0-1

Scores for Jan. 3, 2018
St. Margaret’s 61, Brethren Christian 25
Crean Lutheran 78, Calvary Chapel/Downey 24
Sage Hill 47, Whitney 39

Three days into 2018, Amy Smilovic declared Tibi’s yearlong focus: “This is going to be the year of shoes, bags and China,” she said during a walk-through of the pre-fall collection. The lineup made clear her commitment to her first point with a tight but vibrant assortment of shoes in vivid colors and novelty styles including knee-high burgundy boots with Western details, purple pumps and strappy pink sandals all done in heel heights that were manageable without being mumsy. Smilovic reported exceptional growth in Tibi’s shoe business, crediting a tight offer true to her vision. “We did the same number of stockkeeping units. We don’t have to have a heel height for everyone under the sun,” she said.
As for the clothes, she mostly dashed up the label’s best-selling silhouettes — wide-leg suits; high-waisted pants; modest, midlength dresses with novel back details — with subtle Western references. An ivory dress with an open back tied with a fringed scarf was embroidered with colorful paisley patches. A chicly roomy suit came in mismatched tartan with a quirky Western belt. And if you thought the sweatshirt had reached peak ubiquity, Smilovic managed to make it look new as sophisticated, nylon blend dresses, cardigans

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Trina Turk is fully embracing a seasonless, buy-now-wear-now approach to design. She lives in Los Angeles, where it’ll be hot when pre-fall delivers in July, and her customers expect travel escapist fashion that’s lively and lightweight.
The theme for her latest collection was “Found in Translation,” culled from “Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA” exhibitions around Southern California celebrating the cross-pollination of Los Angeles and Latin American fashion. Vibrant splashes of red, pink and blue derived from architecture by Luis Barragán were found on graphic Azulejo Especial (special tile) and Flor de Jalisco floral prints cut into breezy georgette tops, cloth pants and faille dresses. The tile print was cut comfortably into a chic matching tunic and pant set easily imagined on a woman lounging poolside or exploring a bustling city. A punchy floral wrap dress could also transition day-to-night. Most playful were chenille-embroidered sweatshirts and tees that read “Hola LA.” A similar spirit of ease was seen in men’s tunics, two-tone shirting, printed pants and popular jumpsuits, cut this season with a bomber jacket collar. There was plenty of festive flair through textural play and embroidery while maintaining a signature element of lighthearted fun.

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PARIS — The Karl Lagerfeld label is heading to the Pitti Uomo trade show with a new unified men’s wear collection and a capsule line curated by the designer’s longtime personal assistant Sébastien Jondeau.
The label plans to fuse its Lagerfeld and Karl Lagerfeld labels under a single Karl Lagerfeld collection, which will be presented for the first time at the fair taking place in Florence from Jan. 9 to 12.
“Pitti represents an exciting platform to showcase our Karl Lagerfeld men’s collection and vision,” said Pier Paolo Righi, chief executive officer of Karl Lagerfeld. “It is our mission to continuously excite our consumers with great stories and make them a part of our brand experience.”
Jondeau, who has appeared in the label’s advertising campaigns and often flanks Lagerfeld on the red carpet, has designed a range of clothes spanning from sweatshirts to tuxedos, inspired by his multitasking lifestyle and love of sports such as boxing and motocross.
The Karl Lagerfeld Curated by Sébastien Jondeau collection, which includes ready-to-wear, accessories and footwear, will launch from August in Karl Lagerfeld stores worldwide, online at karl.com and via select wholesale partners.
“It’s everything I like to wear, like an ideal version of my wardrobe,” Jondeau told WWD

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WOMAN’S HOUR: Call it the Harvey Weinstein effect. Two-time Academy Award winner Cate Blanchett is to be president of the jury at the 71st edition of the Cannes International Film Festival, making her the 12th woman to fill the role in the festival’s history. Spanish director Pedro Almodovar occupied the seat last year.
The festival will be held from May 8 to May 19 – the day of Prince Harry and Meghan Markle’s royal wedding – and this year will open on a Tuesday and end on a Saturday.
The 48-year-old Australian actress, who has been vocal in her support of the women who have come forward in the Weinstein affair after a series of sexual assault statements were made against the producer, is also one of 300 female Hollywood actors, directors, producers, agents, writers and executives backing the recently launched Time’s Up initiative to help fight sexual harassment in the workplace.
Declaring she was “humbled by the privilege and responsibility” of the role, Blanchett in a statement on Thursday shared some of her own achievements as a festival regular. Most recently, in 2015, she attended the event for “Carol” by Todd Haynes, a film that she co-produced with the Weinstein Co. and

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