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EL SEGUNDO >> Teddy Purcell was here once before. It was six years ago, but it seems as if it was only yesterday. The Kings’ training facility is the same now, but different. Many of the faces are familiar, making his homecoming all the more comfortable, the transition to a new team far easier. “The weight room has a retractable roof now,” Purcell said Saturday after the first of two practice sessions at the Kings’ workout facility. “It’s almost fuy when you hear about it, especially when you come from Edmonton and your car doesn’t start when you leave the rink.” No sub-zero temperatures are in the forecast in Southe Califoia, where summer seems endless. “I bought a beach cruiser,” Pu...

NEWPORT BEACH – Alix Marinovich sat in a Chevrolet Tahoe outside her mom’s home Tuesday afteoon, pondering how life had become so dark for her estranged husband, former USC star and Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich. Four days earlier, the 47-year-old football star was cited after he was found naked with marijuana and suspected methamphetamine in the backyard of an Irvine home on Bluecoat, a quiet residential street, police said. “What was he there for?” Alix Marinovich, 32, asked while gripping the steering wheel. “It doesn’t make sense. It’s baffling because it’s so out of character.” Todd Marinovich’s fall from grace due to drugs is well-documented. The former Capistrano Valley High an...