Ricky

The Ricky Bell Memorial Scholarship Fund, which began with donations when Bell died last November, is being expanded. Bell's widow, Natalie, announced Friday that the fund would be perpetuated through what is scheduled to be an annual golf event. The first fund-raising golf outing will be held July 12 at the Brookside Golf Course in Pasadena. Mike Garrett, a Heisman Trophy winner who, like Bell, attended USC, is serving as the honorary chairman of the scholarship fund.

AUGUSTA, Ga. - Rickie Fowler and the Masters clash. Let us count the ways. First, there is the color thing. Masters green has a pureness that presents a cooling combination of grass and lime. Fowler green, a shirt-and-pants outfit he wore during the first round here Thursday, is a jarring tone of faded emerald overdosed in yellow. Reports that headache pills were handed out in his gallery proved to be unfounded. Then, there is Masters golf and Fowler golf. The Masters is best handled, and usually won, by those who adhere to the cliches.

"Babe's and Ricky's Inn," Ramin Niami's new documentary on the legendary L.A. blues club, is a bit like the music that founder Mama Laura gathered up in her big, open-hearted embrace - an improvisational riff filled with weeping guitars, wailing harmonicas, pounding keyboards and sweat-soaked players rather than rigorous storytelling. If you don't want to get up and move at some point during this film, go see a doctor. Music in "Babe's and Ricky's" is righteous and raucous and easy to come by, but the story of Mama Laura is more elusive.

"Babe's and Ricky's Inn," Ramin Niami's new documentary on the legendary L.A. blues club, is a bit like the music that founder Mama Laura gathered up in her big, open-hearted embrace - an improvisational riff filled with weeping guitars, wailing harmonicas, pounding keyboards and sweat-soaked players rather than rigorous storytelling. If you don't want to get up and move at some point during this film, go see a doctor. Music in "Babe's and Ricky's" is righteous and raucous and easy to come by, but the story of Mama Laura is more elusive.

After scoring the winning touchdown in USC's victory over Michigan on Jan. 1, 1990, celebrating with teammates and packing up his hardware, Ricky Ervins did something that probably no other Rose Bowl player of the game has ever done. He walked home. Unique among Rose Bowl most valuable players, Ervins grew up less than a mile from the famous stadium, parked cars there on New Year's Day and was a star at Pasadena Muir High. He was, in short, a local boy made good, which is not to suggest that the journey to Rose Bowl immortality was anything close to a walk in Brookside Park for the former USC tailback.

Richard Leacock is a towering figure in the world of non-fiction filmmaking, best known for his involvement in seminal documentary films such as "Primary" and "Monterey Pop" and the movement of observational style known as direct cinema or cinéma vérité. In "Ricky on Leacock" Leacock's former student Jane Weiner mixes together interviews, archival material and casual footage of Leacock that crosses decades to create a film that is as much a portrait of aging as it is of the man himself.

Ricky (Sheldon Shepherd), the hero of Storm Saulter's ambitious coming-of-age drama "Better Mus' Come," is a man for all seasons. Gangster, community leader, part-time poet, full-time dad, Ricky negotiates the dangerous complexities of the culture of violence inflaming Jamaica in the late '70s, uncertain what path he should take. "You cannot fight the righteous battle with weapons of war," Ricky is told, though, given the political unrest and poverty of his country, the words are easier to say than practice.

"My phone doesn't stop ringing now, so I just keep it off. I don't know if I am a star, but that's the way everyone is making me feel." Ricky Manning Jr., Carolina rookie cornerback, who has four playoff interceptions.

It's every father's dream, taking junior into the family business. "Son, someday this will all be yours." Sweep of the arm. That kind of thing. Yet Bill Berry, whose business is basketball, was reluctant. Ricky could play, would play. No question. But not for Dad. Father Knows Least is the name of this story. Eventually Ricky did play for Dad, right here at San Jose State.

Even though Ricky was only 7, he always seemed to know what people were thinking. When his father came home from work angry, Ricky was always waiting with a special drawing for him. And when Molly was fighting tears because that bully down the hill had called her "fatty," Ricky somehow knew to find her and slip his hand into hers. Everyone thought Ricky was special, called him "amazing, really." Even Johnny had a particular tender spot for his little towheaded brother.

With time running out and the Lakers up by three, Kobe Bryant blocked Ricky Rubio's three-point attempt at the buzzer - or so it seemed. The Lakers left Minnesota on Wednesday with a 120-117 victory over the Wolves, but Bryant got away with a favorable non-call. According to the Associated Press , the NBA has told the Timberwolves on Thursday that the foul was missed, and that Rubio should have been given three free-throw attempts. Bryant had dismissed the notion after the game Wednesday.

MILWAUKEE - The NBA doesn't retroactively change calls on a daily basis. It just seems like it to the Lakers. The latest day-after fix involving them was announced by the league Thursday. Turns out a foul should have been called on Kobe Bryant during Ricky Rubio's last-second, desperate, 28-foot three-point attempt in the Lakers' 120-117 victory Wednesday over the Minnesota Timberwolves. The NBA office reviewed the play and said Rubio was fouled "in his shooting motion" and should have received three free throws.

UCLA opens spring football practice on Tuesday, but the Bruins will be without three players. Linebacker Todd Golper, wide receiver Ricky Marvray and wide receiver Jerry Rice Jr. are no longer on the roster. The three will graduate this spring. All had one year of eligibility remaining. Marvray had 20 receptions for 188 yards and two touchdowns as a redshirt freshman in 2010, but had only 10 for 57 yards the following season. Marvray had back surgery last year and played sparingly.

Ricky (Sheldon Shepherd), the hero of Storm Saulter's ambitious coming-of-age drama "Better Mus' Come," is a man for all seasons. Gangster, community leader, part-time poet, full-time dad, Ricky negotiates the dangerous complexities of the culture of violence inflaming Jamaica in the late '70s, uncertain what path he should take. "You cannot fight the righteous battle with weapons of war," Ricky is told, though, given the political unrest and poverty of his country, the words are easier to say than practice.

The second time around was definitely not better for Ricki Lake. Her "The Ricki Lake Show," an attempt to re-create the success she had as a daytime talk show host during the 1990s, got a pink slip Monday. Twentieth Television, the show's distributor, said it will not renew the syndicated gabfest for the 2013-14 season. Episodes will continue airing through September. The show launched in September amid a crowded market that also included not only veterans such as "Ellen" but also new entries from Jeff Probst, Katie Couric and Steve Harvey.

"The Ricki Lake Show" is a casualty of the daytime talker surplus. Twentieth Television, the show's distributor, will not renew the syndicated gabfest for the 2013-14 season; episodes will continue airing through September. “We would like to thank Ricki Lake as well as Executive Producer Gail Steinberg and the entire staff for their work this season," Stephen Brown, executive vice president of programming and development for Twentieth Television, said in a statement. "While we are proud of the topics the program tackled, including childhood obesity, life after the military, divorce, and addiction, we were simply not able to break through the crowded talk show marketplace.” The show launched in September and marked Lake's return to daytime after a nine-year absence.

David Nelson, the elder son of Ozzie and Harriet Nelson and the last surviving member of the family that became an American institution in the 1950s and '60s as the stars of the classic TV sitcom "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet," died Tuesday. He was 74. Nelson died at his Century City home of complications from colon cancer, said publicist Dale Olson. "The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet" began on radio in 1944, focusing on the home life of bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his vocalist wife, Harriet Hilliard.

Fifty years ago, a gallon of gasoline sold for 29 cents, the Beatles were preparing the release of their first song in the U.S. and "The Beverly Hillbillies" loomed large as the No. 1 show on television. And ABC's "General Hospital" debuted on April 1, 1963.  Monday marks the 50th anniversary of the show -- the longest running soap opera currently in production - after 12,776 original episodes. PHOTOS: 10 long-running soap operas A year ago, fans fretted that ABC would cancel "General Hospital" following the demise of the Walt Disney Co. network's two other signature soaps, "All My Children" and "One Life to Live.

As the Lakers prepare for their visit to the Minnesota Timberwolves on Friday night, Wolves point guard Ricky Rubio spoke out on behalf of fellow Spaniard Pau Gasol. "[Gasol] proved to the league he is one of the best," Rubio told reporters in Minneapolis. "He can pass. He can shoot. He can rebound. He can do a lot of things. I think if you use him in the right way, he is a top player in this league. If they don't want him, we are more than welcome to get him. " Gasol has voiced his frustration multiple times this season, especially on his recent move to the bench.

The Broadway revival of “Evita,” costarring Puerto Rican pop singer Ricky Martin, closed Saturday night -- and it was squarely in the red.  It hadn't earned back its $11-million investment, according to Bloomberg News. With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and lyrics by Tim Rice , “Evita” -- which was also a 1996 feature film starring Madonna and Antonio Banderas -- is a high-profile musical brand by now; it might have seemed a sure-fire success,  especially with pop star power behind it.  But the production -- which also starred Argentinian performer Elena Roger as Evita -- may have set its sights too high.