Mark Adams

Mark Adams, an assistant coach for the UC Irvine women's basketball team the last three seasons, was hired Friday as the team's head coach. Adams, 36, replaces Colleen Matsuhara, who was fired at the end of last season. The Anteaters finished 16-13 and lost to UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Conference tournament championship game. "This is a great opportunity," Adams said. "There are only about 300 [NCAA Division I] jobs and I have one of them. I have to take advantage of it.

Before Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda, an odd man with an odd name reigned as America's health and fitness guru. Bernarr Macfadden championed the benefits of weight lifting and vegetarianism at a time when meat and potatoes was considered a balanced diet and pumping iron injurious folly. His wildly successful magazine, Physical Culture, was the linchpin of a far-flung publishing empire that launched the careers of Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. In "Mr.

Guards searched San Quentin State Prison for convicted killer Mark Adams, who failed to return from a job assignment. "We're concentrating inside the walls," prison spokesman Dave Langerman said. "If the passage of time indicates he has escaped, we will seek outside help." Adams, 23, was sentenced to 43 years to life for first-degree murder in Stanislaus County.

I have a question for the meteorologists quoted in "Summer Is Coolest Since 1965; Experts Debate Cause" (Sept. 9). Wouldn't this summer's cool readings for downtown L.A. have more to do with the recording station's relocation from the DWP building to USC than with any climatological phenomenon? I'd be curious to know how much cooler than normal the readings were at long-established stations such as Pasadena, LAX or Pomona. MARK ADAMS Tujunga It's mid-September. We got through the summer without the usual brutal heat.

I have a question for the meteorologists quoted in "Summer Is Coolest Since 1965; Experts Debate Cause" (Sept. 9). Wouldn't this summer's cool readings for downtown L.A. have more to do with the recording station's relocation from the DWP building to USC than with any climatological phenomenon? I'd be curious to know how much cooler than normal the readings were at long-established stations such as Pasadena, LAX or Pomona. MARK ADAMS Tujunga It's mid-September. We got through the summer without the usual brutal heat.

Carl St.Clair began an 18th season by the Pacific Symphony with a serious but showy program that his skilled band of instrumentalists played with aplomb. Beginning with Wagner's challenging "Tannhauser" Overture and continuing with Richard Strauss' kaleidoscopic tone-poem, "Don Juan", this agenda Wednesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center climaxed with the austere beauties of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, played authoritatively by guest soloist Mark Kaplan.

Leticia Oseguera needed 13 rebounds Sunday to tie the career rebounding record at UC Irvine. She got them in the first half. Oseguera, the nation's 13th-leading rebounder, finished with 15 rebounds and led the Anteaters to an 88-55 Big West Conference women's basketball victory at Cal State Fullerton. Oseguera, a Mater Dei graduate, scored 16 points, including 10 of Irvine's first 18. That was part of a 25-0 run by the Anteaters after they fell behind, 8-0, less than two minutes into the game.

Before Jack LaLanne and Jane Fonda, an odd man with an odd name reigned as America's health and fitness guru. Bernarr Macfadden championed the benefits of weight lifting and vegetarianism at a time when meat and potatoes was considered a balanced diet and pumping iron injurious folly. His wildly successful magazine, Physical Culture, was the linchpin of a far-flung publishing empire that launched the careers of Walter Winchell and Ed Sullivan. In "Mr.

LONDON -- "Evening of shame. " Not words you often -- if ever -- associate with the sport of badminton. But those were the words being used by British TV after eight female badminton players were kicked out of the Olympic Games doubles competition on Wednesday afternoon over twin charges of "not using one's best efforts to win a match" and "conducting oneself in a manner that is clearly abusive or detrimental to the sport. " The Badminton World Federation held a closed-door hearing on the matter in the aftermath of events on Tuesday night at Wembley Arena.

Mark Adams was named an assistant coach for the UC Irvine women's basketball team, Anteater Coach Colleen Matsuhara said Monday. Adams was a women's assistant coach at Baylor last season. Before coaching at Baylor, Adams was head coach at Hardin-Simmons (Abilene, Tex.) for three seasons, leading the women's team to two NAIA playoff appearances.

Leticia Oseguera needed 13 rebounds Sunday to tie the career rebounding record at UC Irvine. She got them in the first half. Oseguera, the nation's 13th-leading rebounder, finished with 15 rebounds and led the Anteaters to an 88-55 Big West Conference women's basketball victory at Cal State Fullerton. Oseguera, a Mater Dei graduate, scored 16 points, including 10 of Irvine's first 18. That was part of a 25-0 run by the Anteaters after they fell behind, 8-0, less than two minutes into the game.

Mark Adams, an assistant coach for the UC Irvine women's basketball team the last three seasons, was hired Friday as the team's head coach. Adams, 36, replaces Colleen Matsuhara, who was fired at the end of last season. The Anteaters finished 16-13 and lost to UC Santa Barbara in the Big West Conference tournament championship game. "This is a great opportunity," Adams said. "There are only about 300 [NCAA Division I] jobs and I have one of them. I have to take advantage of it.

Carl St.Clair began an 18th season by the Pacific Symphony with a serious but showy program that his skilled band of instrumentalists played with aplomb. Beginning with Wagner's challenging "Tannhauser" Overture and continuing with Richard Strauss' kaleidoscopic tone-poem, "Don Juan", this agenda Wednesday at the Orange County Performing Arts Center climaxed with the austere beauties of Sibelius' Violin Concerto, played authoritatively by guest soloist Mark Kaplan.

Guards searched San Quentin State Prison for convicted killer Mark Adams, who failed to return from a job assignment. "We're concentrating inside the walls," prison spokesman Dave Langerman said. "If the passage of time indicates he has escaped, we will seek outside help." Adams, 23, was sentenced to 43 years to life for first-degree murder in Stanislaus County.

U.S. sprinter Crystal Cox was stripped of the gold medal she won as part of the 1,600-meter relay team in the 2004 Athens Olympics, though the International Olympic Committee held off making a decision on whether to disqualify the American team. Cox, who admitted in 2010 to using anabolic steroids, accepted a four-year suspension by the IOC's executive board on Saturday while her results from 2001 to 2004 were disqualified. She ran in only the preliminaries at the Athens Games. Sanya Richards, Dee Dee Trotter, Monique Henderson and Monique Hennegan ran in the final for the U.S. IOC officials said it is up to the governing body of track, the International Assn.

The Carnegie Deli is not a "new breed of restaurant," as Ruth Reichl's article would have us believe ("L.A. Reinvents the Deli," Aug. 6). It is nothing more than another one of those Hollywood-type places where people go not for the quality of the food or the surroundings but because it's the in place , for the moment. MARK ADAMS Beverly Hills