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Brian Price, once a wrecking ball on UCLA's defensive line, has beaten long odds to return to the NFL after two off-season surgeries aimed at keeping his hamstrings attached to his pelvis, rather than breaking loose and coiling down the backs of his thighs. For Price, who will start at defensive tackle Sunday for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, his excruciating recovery was a 10-step process. Meaning just two months ago, he could run only 10 steps. "You have these doubts in your head at times," said Price, a second-round pick of the Buccaneers in 2010 who, because of his congenitally malformed pelvis, spent the last half of his rookie season on injured reserve.

Gene Kelly on Film "An American in Paris" Kelly sings and dances to Gershwin tunes in this 1951 Oscar best picture winner "Anchors Aweigh" Kelly meets Tom and Jerry in this 1945 musical, for which he earned a lead actor Oscar nomination "Cover Girl" Kelly and Rita Hayworth dance up a storm in this 1944 musical-comedy

Hey! What about Bill Lagattuta? He's the best anchor on TV. So smart and totally hip. Get with it. He's L.A.'s future in the news. Vicky Coburn, Malibu

In the early stages of the last few games, the Clippers have gone inside to center DeAndre Jordan and let him operate, with some success. But one of the main reasons for going to Jordan early is that he has been the defensive anchor for the team, and Coach Vinny Del Negro thinks it is only right to keep his man happy. "If DJ is going to cover everybody's back all the time, he needs to touch the ball a little bit," said Del Negro, whose team had won six in a row before playing the Lakers on Wednesday.

Diane Sawyer will anchor ABC's "World News" from Afghanistan tonight and Tuesday, her second trip abroad since taking the helm of the evening newscast less than a month ago. In her fifth trip to the country, which she last visited in April 2007, Sawyer will report on the status of the war effort as part of ABC's "Afghanistan: Where Things Stand" series. Her coverage will include an interview with Gen. Stanley A. McChrystal. "Good Morning America Weekend" anchor Bill Weir, embedded with U.S. forces, also will report.

A fired Philadelphia TV newscaster was charged with hacking into the e-mail of his glamorous younger co-anchor hundreds of times for more than two years. Leaked information about her personal life helped lead to her downfall. Federal prosecutors say former KYW-TV anchor Larry Mendte, 51, gained access to Alycia Lane's accounts from home and at work about 537 times between January and May alone, and shared some information with a reporter. Lane, 36, was fired in January after the revelation of a series of embarrassing off-camera incidents, including a scuffle with a New York City police officer.

Former KNBC anchor Tritia Toyota was hired Monday to join the anchor lineup at KCBS-TV Channel 2. Toyota, who left Channel 4 March 1, will begin work at the CBS-owned station Monday and will make her first appearance on the air June 17, KCBS general manager Frank Gardner said. However, a decision has not yet been made as to which newscast she will anchor, a KCBS spokeswoman said. The spokeswoman said that Toyota is an addition to the KCBS anchor team and will not be displacing anyone.

After 36 years as the anchor of "NewsHour" on PBS, Jim Lehrer announced Thursday that he will step down from his post, bringing an end to the longest run of a national anchorman. His last day in that role will be June 6, but he will continue to appear on many Friday evenings to moderate the program's weekly news analysis segment, which also features journalists Mark Shields and David Brooks. In an interview, Lehrer, 76, said he'd been planning his exit since 2009, when he took his name off the program (then called "The NewsHour With Jim Lehrer")

A 49-year-old Georgia man was arrested at a Burbank motel, accused of stalking and harassing television news anchor Kelly Mack, police said Wednesday. Gerald Bertolini had driven from his home in Alpharetta, Ga., to Burbank, where he called the local NBC affiliate Tuesday and asked if he could see Mack, police said. Mack alerted authorities to Bertolini's whereabouts, and police arrested him about 10 p.m. that night at the Burbank Inn and Suites.

Starting Monday, Charlie Rose, host of CBS News' struggling late-night "Nightwatch" interview series, will co-anchor the struggling "CBS Morning News" with Faith Daniels for two weeks, a CBS spokeswoman said Wednesday. The "Morning News," due to go off the air at the end of December, is being co-anchored until then by temporary substitutes for Forrest Sawyer and Maria Shriver, whose last broadcast was on Aug. 1.

From the vintage globe projected behind the anchor desk to the Cronkite-era producers mixing it up at story meetings to the no-frills reports that fill 21 minutes and 16 seconds each weeknight, the "CBS Evening News" has made a determined effort to bring newsy back. A shift that began in the latter months of Katie Couric's five-year run has accelerated and taken on a new fervor in the last nine months since the ascension of Scott Pelley to the anchor's chair. When Pelley took the seat once occupied by Walter Cronkite last June, it represented a return to form at CBS News -- giving perhaps the network's most visible platform not to a celebrity host but to a longtime reporter best known for his work on "60 Minutes" and for dozens of forays to Iraq, Afghanistan and other world hot spots.

Kevin Graf has been a fixture at USC spring practice for 13 years. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, the over-sized grade schooler roamed the sidelines and end zone while his brother Derek toiled as an offensive lineman for the Trojans. The sounds of gravel-voiced defensive line coach Ed Orgeron and former offensive line coach Tim Davis still reverberate a decade later. "My earliest memories of 'SC are being out at practice and hearing them yelling at each other across the field," Graf said.

  Flip through the radio dial any given afternoon and you might hear an angry-sounding white man railing against the government, Congress and dastardly politicians. No, not Rush Limbaugh. This one criticizes Congress for not giving more help to the poor, the government for cutting off unemployment benefits, and politicians for pledging to dissolve unions. Ed Schultz has, over the last two years, made a niche in radio and on TV by talking about the poor and middle class, solidly gaining in ratings while more and more Americans lost jobs, benefits and middle class status.

Richard Threlkeld, a former CBS and ABC correspondent who covered the fall of Saigon and helped establish the CBS "Sunday Morning" show with weekly stories that showcased his prodigious energy and incisive writing, died Friday in a car crash on Long Island, N.Y. He was 74. Threlkeld was driving his 2008 Mini Cooper in Amagansett when he collided with a propane tanker, according to the East Hampton Police Department. He was pronounced dead at Southampton Hospital, not far from his home in East Hampton.

You know who I blame for the terrible tone in American politics? Tom Brokaw. No, not the man himself, but what he represents. Since Dan Rather famously beclowned himself, Brokaw stands as the last of the respected "voice of God" news anchors (CBS News executive Don Hewitt's phrase). These were the oracles who simply declared what was news and what wasn't. Walter Cronkite, the prize of the breed, used to end his newscasts, "And that's the way it is" — as if he were speaking not just with journalistic but also epistemological and ontological authority.

NBC News has given a muscular-sounding name to its new prime-time newsmagazine: "Rock Center With Brian Williams. " Williams, anchor of "NBC Nightly News," will host the hour-long, as-yet-unscheduled program, with reports from Harry Smith, Kate Snow and other network correspondents. The name, though, may take some getting used to, which Williams wryly noted in the news release Monday: "Hopefully our journalism will speak louder than any name. If it doesn't, perhaps people will tune in to 'Rock Center' hoping to see Tina Fey. " —Scott Collins Bob Seger albums go digital Just put those old records back on the shelf: Bob Seger is headed to iTunes.

The mothballed, mighty Iowa, one of the world's best-known and most powerful battleships, will be permanently berthed as a tourist attraction in Los Angeles on the San Pedro waterfront, Navy officials announced Tuesday. The World War II-vintage "Big Stick" could open to visitors as soon as next summer, according to supporters of the years-long effort to bring the ship to a berth at the Port of Los Angeles. "This is a huge win for Los Angeles and a huge boost for San Pedro," said Janice Hahn, the recently seated congressional Democrat whose district includes the port.

If quarterbacks, running backs and receivers who have been jolted by a tackle from Anaheim Servite middle linebacker Butch Pauu could see him in shorts holding a tennis racket, perhaps they'd feel a little better knowing their antagonist wasn't so tough after all. He's not so tough on a tennis court, but when the pads go on, Pauu becomes a 5-foot-11, 218-pound dynamo who always seems to be in the right spot at the right time. He has not missed a game the last two seasons, when, by no coincidence, Servite has won consecutive Pac-5 Division championships.