Chang Michael

Michael Chang broke his left hip in a freak mishap as he hit a tennis ball during practice in Florida Wednesday and might be out for eight weeks. Chang said he heard the sound of his hip breaking. "I went for a backhand deep in the corner and when I made contact, my hip cracked," Chang said Friday. "I heard it crack." X-rays have revealed a small crack about two millimeters wide in Chang's hip socket.

One gets the sense that Michael Huffington is still, all these years later, trying to set the record straight: He is not homosexual, as journalist David Brock so famously reported in the January 1999 issue of Esquire. He is bisexual. "I love women," he says. "And I love men." The former Republican congressman, who represented Santa Barbara from 1992 to 1994, says he did not squander $30 million of his family's fortune in his failed Senate bid against Democrat Dianne Feinstein in 1994.

Pastry, Anyone? Pastry chef Darcy Tizio, most recently at the remodeled-then-closed Jimmy's II in Beverly Hills, has joined Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica. One of her new desserts there is a 21-layer chocolate cake, created in honor of the restaurant's 21st year. It's seven layers each of cake, ganache and chocolate-covered feuilletine (chocolate crunchies, to you and me). As for future desserts, Tizio says, "I'm waiting for the stone fruits to come in."

Pastry, Anyone? Pastry chef Darcy Tizio, most recently at the remodeled-then-closed Jimmy's II in Beverly Hills, has joined Michael's restaurant in Santa Monica. One of her new desserts there is a 21-layer chocolate cake, created in honor of the restaurant's 21st year. It's seven layers each of cake, ganache and chocolate-covered feuilletine (chocolate crunchies, to you and me). As for future desserts, Tizio says, "I'm waiting for the stone fruits to come in."

Michael Gastelum is a soft-spoken man, quieter than the cooing pigeons and gurgling fountains that surround him. But today, the young bell ringer of Mission San Juan Capistrano intends to honor departed souls and arriving swallows by making a joyful racket. And residents who share his powerful sense of place will be all ears. Gastelum's grandfather, Paul Arbiso, rang the mission bells for as long as anyone can recall.

Sweeping away the last vestiges of the John Sculley era, Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Michael Spindler is implementing a broad reorganization of the personal computer maker. Apple said it hopes the restructuring will play to the company's historical strengths in certain market segments and in product development, where it is known for computers that integrate hardware and software.

One gets the sense that Michael Huffington is still, all these years later, trying to set the record straight: He is not homosexual, as journalist David Brock so famously reported in the January 1999 issue of Esquire. He is bisexual. "I love women," he says. "And I love men." The former Republican congressman, who represented Santa Barbara from 1992 to 1994, says he did not squander $30 million of his family's fortune in his failed Senate bid against Democrat Dianne Feinstein in 1994.

Larry Naeve had been there before, but it didn't compare to this. The La Canada High water polo coach had just watched his team come from behind to defeat two-time defending division champion Bell Gardens, 7-6, Tuesday night in the Southern Section Division III final at the Belmont Plaza pool in Long Beach. Naeve coached La Canada's last division champion in 1979. After his son Brendan was born in 1980, Naeve resigned.

His name is Sheng, but he hopes some day it will be mentioned in the same sentence as Chang. That day is surely a long way off, and it might never come. But Thousand Oaks teenager Philip Sheng is off to a good start in following Michael Chang's quick footsteps. He lost to top-seeded Cody Jackson of Westminster, 6-4, 6-4, Saturday at Libbey Park in the boys' 16-and-under championship of the Ojai Valley Tennis Tournament. But the story is that Sheng, 13, upset the Nos.

Self-doubt, a rare emotion for Michael Chang, surfaced months ago when the former No. 2 in the world lost in the first round of a challenger at Tarzana. "The low point of the low," said Carl Chang, Michael's older brother and coach. There was no way Chang, 30, could have realized then that being beaten by Brian Vahaly was not humiliating. Vahaly used the victory as a springboard, winning the event and earning a wild card at this year's U.S. Open.

Sweeping away the last vestiges of the John Sculley era, Apple Computer Inc. Chief Executive Michael Spindler is implementing a broad reorganization of the personal computer maker. Apple said it hopes the restructuring will play to the company's historical strengths in certain market segments and in product development, where it is known for computers that integrate hardware and software.

Michael Gastelum is a soft-spoken man, quieter than the cooing pigeons and gurgling fountains that surround him. But today, the young bell ringer of Mission San Juan Capistrano intends to honor departed souls and arriving swallows by making a joyful racket. And residents who share his powerful sense of place will be all ears. Gastelum's grandfather, Paul Arbiso, rang the mission bells for as long as anyone can recall.

Michael Chang broke his left hip in a freak mishap as he hit a tennis ball during practice in Florida Wednesday and might be out for eight weeks. Chang said he heard the sound of his hip breaking. "I went for a backhand deep in the corner and when I made contact, my hip cracked," Chang said Friday. "I heard it crack." X-rays have revealed a small crack about two millimeters wide in Chang's hip socket.

Runners from Riverside King did not win any of the invitational races contested in the Meet of Champions Distance Classic on Saturday at Azusa Pacific, but it was difficult to miss the team canopy in the stands because its metal frame was covered with a slew of 4-inch-by-4-inch pieces of paper with the letters PR or SR printed on them. The PR stood for personal record and the SR stood for school record.

La Canada goalie Russell Bernstein kept the Spartan water polo team close in its Division III quarterfinal game against El Segundo on Tuesday, but close just wasn't good enough as the Eagles squeaked out a 6-4 victory at the Rose Bowl Aquatic Center. Bernstein made the first of his 14 saves on Kyle Martin's penalty shot early in the first quarter, and made several other spectacular saves on close-range shots. But the Spartans relied on Bernstein a bit too much.