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Phil Mickelson is a cheater. John Daly is a quitter. Or maybe not, though Scott McCarron did assert Mickelson's use of a controversial club was cheating and Daly did tell a producer for the Golf Channel that he was done with golf after rounds of 79 and 71 left the 43-year-old Daly not close to making the cut for the final two rounds of the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines. "I'm done," Daly said on camera. "I can't compete. I can't play like I used to." D.A. Points and Ryuji Imada, meanwhile, are your co-leaders after two rounds, at 11-under-par 133. Points had an eagle and a birdie on his last four holes on the South Course to finish with a 65 Friday.

Question : As an employee of a hotel, I wonder what is the proper way to offer an accessible room to someone I think might need something other than a standard room. I don't want to offend that person if he or she doesn't want that kind of room. Is it rude to offer alternative accommodations when they have not been requested? Russell Daly Salt Lake City Answer: It's not rude, but it could be a bit risky. When Daly asked this question, I wondered whether there were legal ramifications.

John Daly left Torrey Pines on Friday saying he was done with golf. He had missed the cut at the Farmers Insurance Open and he said in the parking lot, "I can't compete. I can't play like I used to." Since he left, though, Daly has been busy on Twitter telling his 42,000 followers that he is not retiring. Daly's "I'm done" comment was said to a producer for his soon-to-debut Golf Channel reality show, "Being John Daly." On Saturday, Larry Jackson, chief executive of Loudmouth Golf, the maker of Daly's attention-grabbing pants, told reporters at a PGA merchandise show in Orlando, Fla., "John's an emotional guy. He's not quitting, he's already said he just needs some time.

The PR spin on this book has been all about the “Hollywood insider,” and I suppose she was, having been married for so long to entertainment executive Bob Daly. But to Angelenos who knew her, and they were many -- and not all of them having anything to do with Hollywood -- Nancy Daly was a formidable woman, an advocate for children whose email address was "lovedkidsla" and who was for a time, as Mayor Dick Riordan's wife, L.A.'s first lady. Nancy died in the autumn of 2009, and now her daughter, Linda, has written a book, “The Last Pilgrimage,” about her mother's well-reported life and about her private death from pancreatic cancer, in an RV, traveling toward L.A. with her children after a trip to visit her East Coast childhood home and to the faith healer John of God. Linda writes with a sardonic eye about that man, who seemed to be in worse condition than her mother; and yet she respected her mother's awe, like that of a little Catholic girl who had just seen Jesus, she writes.

Question : As an employee of a hotel, I wonder what is the proper way to offer an accessible room to someone I think might need something other than a standard room. I don't want to offend that person if he or she doesn't want that kind of room. Is it rude to offer alternative accommodations when they have not been requested? Russell Daly Salt Lake City Answer: It's not rude, but it could be a bit risky. When Daly asked this question, I wondered whether there were legal ramifications.

One of Hollywood's most experienced and respected executives will be named head of the Los Angeles Dodgers today in a deal that will give him both a minor stake in the club and full management control. Former Warner Bros. Co-chairman Robert A. Daly, who left the studio Oct. 1 after nearly 20 years, will become managing partner of the Dodgers for owner Fox Entertainment Group.

A federal judge has refused to dismiss charges against a Southern California man charged with exporting missile parts to Iran. The judge also ruled that the man's lawyers may not see five classified government documents. The rulings cleared the way for jury selection to begin Monday. Chief U.S. District Judge T. F. Gilroy Daly said defense motions to dismiss the charges were "devoid of merit" and also denied a renewed motion to set bail for Arif Durrani of Westlake Village.

We have to pull for the members of a ghetto family in Gerry Daly's "Scotch and Milk," determined to con some way out of their miserable hellhole of a neighborhood. It takes imagination to come up with the idea of buying into a ritzy white section of town (in this case, Detroit) on the basis of an initial down payment, then scaring your neighbors with such antisocial behavior that in stirring up their elitist, racist attitudes, it spurs them to buy you out.

Sixteen years ago, the late Alex Haley tapped into the American consciousness with his landmark ABC miniseries "Roots." More than 100 million people tuned into the 12 hour-drama, based on his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1976 best-seller, which chronicled Haley's maternal ancestors' origins from Africa and their passage from slavery to freedom in America. Audiences will see a far different family story depicted in "Alex Haley's Queen," the lavish, six-hour miniseries that begins Sunday on CBS.

Chuck Daly, the Hall of Fame basketball coach who led the Detroit Pistons to back-to-back NBA titles and the U.S. Dream Team to an Olympic gold medal, died Saturday in Jupiter, Fla. He was 78. Retired since 1999, Daly was diagnosed with pancreatic cancer two months ago. In his honor, NBA coaches have worn "CD" pins during the postseason. "Chuck did much more than coach basketball games," NBA Commissioner David Stern said in a statement.

Don't worry, Carson Daly -- NBC isn't done with you yet. The network announced Wednesday that it will renew "Last Call with Carson Daly," the 1:35 a.m. talk show that rounds out its late-night offerings, for a 13th season. Funny timing, that. The renewal came on the very same day that media were digesting a report that NBC is in talks with former "30 Rock" star Alec Baldwin about possibly taking over Daly's slot. PHOTOS: Hollywood Backlot moments Only cynics would assume that giving Daly the thumbs-up now has something to do with trying to smooth things over after the Baldwin thing leaked out. Because NBC clearly has no problem with seamlessly transitioning its late-night TV hosts.

Even by his hyphenate standards, Alan Cumming has been pretty busy lately. The Tony-winner and Emmy-nominee's role as slick campaign manager Eli Gold on "The Good Wife" continues to be meaty, with the series recently picked up for a fifth season. He's set to star in a one-man "Macbeth" that opens on Broadway later this month (more on that shortly). And now he has several film projects in the works. Cumming tells The Times that he's come aboard to star in "First-Class Man," the long-developed Roger Spottiswoode film about an Indian prodigy who makes the move from his native country to Cambridge, England.

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said in radio interviews Wednesday he expects more games will be canceled this week and said mid-January is the latest the league and the NHL Players' Assn. can forge a new collective bargaining agreement and play a season of at least 48 games. NHLPA leader Donald Fehr, who spoke to a Toronto radio station and to reporters attending a charity hockey game in Toronto, said he's ready to resume negotiations "whenever the owners want to try to resolve this and end the lockout," but said owners haven't shown they're ready to talk again.

The two-month anniversary of the NHL lockout passed without any talks between the league and the NHL Players' Assn. NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly painted a grim picture when asked by The Times where matters stand and what the next step will be. “I think the process is stalled right now. We are done with making proposals and we don't have any new ideas,” he said Thursday via email. “I guess we will wait to see if the PA has anything to offer that would get us interested in returning to the table.

Orange County Assembly candidate Tom Daly has been cleared in a sexual misconduct investigation, the first such investigation of a ranking county employee since the arrest earlier this year of Carlos Bustamante. Daly, who is the county-recorder and the former mayor of Anaheim, was accused of "sexual misconduct, favoritism and cronyism" in an anonymous letter, a copy of which was obtained by The Times and other media. An independent investigator hired by the county, however, concluded the allegations were unfounded.

NHL Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly said Wednesday that he's not sure the players union has been treating the Sept. 15 expiration of the current collective bargaining agreement as an urgent deadline for reaching accord on a new deal, and suggested that the idea of losing part or all of training camp hasn't given the union a sense of urgency. The league and the NHL Players Assn. haven't had formal talks since last Friday, and no additional negotiations are scheduled. Training camps are scheduled to open on Sept.

Los Angeles, 1984. Lingering images: --Gymnast Mary Lou Retton's explosive joy, and that world-class smile. --Oddball swimmer Rick Carey's implosive joy. He wins a gold medal and then mopes because he failed to break a world record. --U.S. wrestler Jeff Blatnick, a cancer patient, wins a Greco-Roman gold medal, breaks down during a TV interview and says: "I'm one happy dude." --U.S.

Regarding Mary Daly, the "radical feminist" professor at Boston College who refuses to admit men to her courses (Feb. 26): Her excuse for this discriminatory conduct is "her belief that women tend to defer to a man whenever one is present." Does Daly have any idea how demeaning it is to women for her to have made that statement? She is saying that the women who take her course are so stupid and conditioned that simply having a man in the room will make them in some way subservient?

Orange County Clerk-Recorder Tom Daly will be investigated for alleged sexual misconduct as part of an aggressive new county procedure that was put in place after the arrest of Carlos Bustamante, the former county official accused of sexually assaulting female workers in his office. It took nearly a year for law enforcement investigators to be alerted to the allegations against Bustamante. The case was initially handed off to one of his subordinates and then farmed out to a law firm, which prepared a report the county filed away and few saw. Daly, the former mayor of Anaheim who is running for state Assembly, is the first big name in county government to be subject to the new protocol.

Top negotiators for the NHL and the players' union met Wednesday morning to discuss the status of their labor talks, agreed to skip a second scheduled session and decided to reconvene in Toronto on Thursday. NHL Commissioner Gary Bettman and Deputy Commissioner Bill Daly met with NHLPA executives Donald Fehr and Steve Fehr for two hours. The current collective bargaining agreement expires on Sept. 15 and Bettman has said the league will lock players out if a new agreement isn't reached.