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The Dodgers are honoring Vin Scully this week during the final seven home games of the 2016 regular season. Here are some of the highlights to tune in for: Tuesday 7:10 p.m. vs. San Francisco A Scully bobblehead giveaway, featuring a pose of him with his hands over his heart accepting applause from the fans on Opening Day 2016. TV: SportsNet LA. Radio: KLAC-AM (570). Wednesday 7:10 p.m. vs. San Francisco ESPN has decided to make this a national broadcast. TV: Also SportsNet LA. Radio: KLAC-AM (5...

The gold, silver and iron-clad questions we continue to have while ultimately blaming everything else on Rio: • Spooning. All for it. Mugging. Only for a camera. Cupping? Stick a fork in it. Sir Michael Phelps may endorse this ancient form of suction therapy – which also seems to have inspired some guy to scale the outside of a Trump building in New York the other day before police pried him off. But night after night of seeing large purple spots all over him causes us to flash back to the days ...

Carmilla Macchiato took off like a bat out of (heck). Bosco went nowhere slowly. And Schatzie didn’t even leave the gate. They joined about 40 other short-legged friends this week to practice for the heady competition coming up this weekend. It’s like the Olympic Games for dachshunds: The Wienerschnitzel Wiener Regionals. The hotter-than-hot dog event rolls back into town Saturday night at the Los Alamitos Race Course for its 21st consecutive summer. Ten at a time, rivals took tus at the “gates”...