Lakers get a visit from Tex Winter

Tex has been M.I.A. since the Utah series last season. Great to know he’s able to pay the team a visit. Get well, Tex! LA Times: The Lakers got a visit from an old friend at practice today, one that brought smiles to everyone’s faces. Tex Winter, the Lakers’ basketball consultant who suffered a stroke in April, attended practice and will be at the team’s ring ceremony Tuesday at Staples Center. Winter declined interview requests, but he did talk with some of the media members as well

AHRQ interviews Ornstein, talks medical errors

Robert Wachter, M.D., ( bio ), editor of AHRQ WebM&M (Morbidity and Mortality), interviewed AHCJ President Charles Ornstein , of ProPublica, for a recent issue ( get the audio version here ). Their conversation began as a general discussion of health journalism, then zeroed in on hospital errors and the Pulitzer Prize-winning series on King/Drew Medical Center in Los Angeles that Ornstein did with Tracy Weber when both were at the LA Times . The whole thing is worth a read. In this ex

David Beckham likes England’s chances in the World Cup

from the LA Times:England can win the World Cup in South Africa next year, Galaxy midfielder David Beckham said Wednesday. Of course, so can Argentina, Brazil, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain and possibly a dark horse or two, but confidence is riding particularly high on England’s national soccer team.“You have to go into a competition believing that you can go all the way,” Beckham said before the Galaxy’s morning training session.“I believe that we’ve got a chance — if we play l

Don’t Ask and Don’t Tell Facebook

The military is trying to devise policies to govern how our service people use social networking sites, according to a story by Julian Barnes in the LA Times . The article implies the Pentagon accepts that military folks are going to use these sites, and there may even be some good that will come from it, but the military is concerned about security. At the moment, the Marines have banned accessing Facebook, MySpace and Twitter from government computers, to make sure there’s bandwidth for mor

Time to Go Get a Back Rub From Ricky Williams

No, really - Ricky Williams is training to be a massage therapist. He even gave a rub-down to Sun-Sentinel columnist Dave Hyde . There’s video. This moment has to be right up there with the time Bill Plaschke of the LA Times ate a penis last summer in Beijing. Other news and notes to take you into this muggy summer night: * Fedor and the UFC - today, it doesn’t look goo d * We foamed at the mouth over the Orlando Magic yesterday; today, Kelly Dwyer di d * Matt Kemp of the Dodger