Jim Becker, an author and a newsman who covered numerous historic events around the world, but might be most remembered in Hawaii for his article titled “The day the Govs won it all,” died Friday in ...

A former NBA player repeatedly promised to build a resort-arena on the Las Vegas Strip. Investors and Nevada officials ...

Becker chronicled many watershed events, such as Jackie Robinson’s first major ... he grew up in Los Angeles and saw Robinson in college at UCLA. Later as a writer for Associated Press he ...

Before Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier ... My daughters – one who swam collegiately and one who played college basketball – would beg to differ. The irony of the president's ...

Jackie Robinson was an exceptional athlete and a ... Here's a look at his college career. Robinson was born in Cairo, Georgia, but his family moved to Pasadena, California in 1920.

Before Los Angeles Dodgers first baseman Jackie Robinson became the first Black ... arrived at UCLA after graduating from Pasadena Junior College in 1939 and it was clear from the jump the Bruins ...