TUSTIN – Beckman earned its first Pacific Coast League win since 2016 as it totaled 470 yards of offense in a 37-13 victory against Portola on Thursday at Tustin High.

“I’m really happy for our seniors,” Beckman coach Marcello Giuliano said. “For them to be able to experience a little bit of success and get their first league win is a big deal.”

It was the first PCL game for Portola (2-4, 0-1), which opened in 2016 and is playing its first season of varsity football.

Running back Omar Abdullah scored four of Beckman’s five touchdowns, two rushing touchdowns and two receiving. The 195-pound senior rushed for 90 yards on nine carries and had 82 yards on five receptions.

“He is pretty big and he ran hard. It was a good matchup with him in space tonight,” Giuliano said.

Abdullah runs for a 16-yd touchdown. His 4th of the evening.

Beckman 37, Portola 6 with 5:41 remaining. @ocvarsity @beckmanfootball pic.twitter.com/uaM3MLdqxP

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 28, 2018

Beckman (4-2, 1-0) scored on its opening drive. Jett Daviss ran for a 24-yard touchdown to put the Patriots ahead 7-0 just two minutes into the game. Daviss rushed for 110 yards on 17 carries.

On the next Beckman possession, Patriots kicker Jamar Coleman made a 31-yard field goal to extend the lead to 10-0.

Portola answered with its biggest play of the game. Brandon Yue threw a 46-yard touchdown pass to Kaveh Wojtowich to cut Beckman’s lead to four.

Wojtowich was the Bulldogs’ leading receiver, hauling in four passes for 72 yards.

Abdullah caught a 17-yard screen pass and a 17-yard shovel pass from quarterback Jason Cheng for touchdowns to give Beckman a 23-6 lead at halftime.

Omar Abdullah runs for a 1-yd touchdown. His third touchdown of the night.

Beckman 30, Portola 6 near the end of the 3rd. @ocvarsity @beckmanfootball pic.twitter.com/JgYnxe1MBX

— Michael Huntley (@mikehuntley63) September 28, 2018

Cheng completed 15 of 22 passes for 212 yards and a pair of touchdowns.

“Over the past couple of weeks we have gotten away from certain elements of our offense and we committed to get back to it and improve,” Giuliano said. “He (Cheng) executed that really well tonight.”

Abdullah rushed for a pair of touchdowns in the second half to put the game out of reach for Portola.

Portola rushed for 131 yards and threw for 103. Trevor Yue led the Bulldogs rushing attack with 56 yards and Kai Horn rushed for 24 yards and a touchdown.

The Bulldogs. who have lost four consecutive games, will play University on Oct. 5.

Beckman has won three consecutive games and will play Irvine on Oct. 5.

IRVINE – Valencia used a simple formula to defeat Crean Lutheran 34-7 Thursday night in an Empire League game at Irvine High.

The Tigers ran the ball effectively, to the tune of 258 yards and five touchdowns, and controlled the clock while also playing stout defense.

The Saints, who were playing their first Empire league game in school history, were taught astern lesson: The league title runs through Valencia.

Valencia, the defending league co-champions with Pacifica, was too physical for Crean Lutheran and looked every bit the favorite to repeat as league champs.

The Tigers (5-1, 1-0) were led by senior running back Nathan Sandoval who ran for a game-high 116 yards and a touchdown.

Coach Jason Gray complimented the Tigers’ ability to focus while coming off their bye week and their backfield.

“Sandoval is a good running back. We’re lucky to have some good ones, but he carried a lot of the load today,” Gray said. “He’s a talented kid and he did a great job.”

Also scoring rushing TDs for Valencia were Cole Johnson, Shaun McHale, Joshua Carrera and Anthony Moran.

The Saints (4-2, 0-1) struggled to move the ball with starter Grant Olbricht at quarterback, so Michael Berelowitz took charge of the offense in the second quarter.

First-year coach Randall Reynoso said the Saints have their work cut out for them as they adjust to the Empire League after several years in the Academy League and as a freelance team.

“Their physicality wore on us a bit, but we’ll get there,” Reynoso said. “We don’t have the strength, we don’t have the conditioning that the Empire League teams have. We don’t have it yet.”

The Tigers were on their way to a comfortable shutout after Johnson forced a fumble late in the fourth, which was recovered by Kaine Rosas.

Crean Lutheran took advantage of is final chance to get on the scoreboard. Reynoso called the touchdown pass from Berelowitz to Jack Johnson a momentum builder for the rest of the season.

“It was big for our guys,” Reynoso said, “We preach that we don’t scoreboard watch, we never quit, we know what task lies in front of us and we’re still improving.”

HUNTINGTON BEACH – Corona del Mar’s football team cruised through the Pacific Coast League the past several seasons. On Thursday night, the Sea Kings received an introduction to the much more demanding Sunset League.

It naturally wasn’t easy, or always pretty, but Corona del Mar still got off to a strong start against the traditional Sunset power.

Quarterback Ethan Garbers tossed three first-half touchdowns and his defense made a key stand near midfield with about three minutes left in the fourth quarter as the Sea Kings held on for a 21-14 victory against No. 14 Edison at Huntington Beach.

Both teams had touchdowns negated by penalties and encountered other struggles but Corona del Mar (5-1, 1-0) made fewer mistakes to notch its fifth consecutive victory.

“This isn’t the PCL anymore. This is going to be war,” said Corona del Mar coach Dan O’Shea, whose team led 21-7 at halftime.

“There’s going to be times we are going to look ugly. There’s going to be times they look ugly. It’s more because the other team is doing such good things. But, man, we’re happy to be in this league and very, very fortunate to get out of here with a win.”

With Corona del Mar leading 21-14 in the middle of the fourth quarter, Edison (2-4, 0-1) tried to capitalize on the Sea Kings’ missed 40-yard field goal attempt by driving just across midfield. But on third-and-3, Edison snapped the ball low and past quarterback Braeden Boyles in the shotgun.

Corona del Mar safety John Humphreys smothered Boyles at the Edison 27 for a 35-yard loss to end the threat.

On the ensuing possession, Garbers ran the ball on three consecutive plays to earn a first down and the Sea Kings ran out the clock to seal a rare victory against Edison.

“Every game (in the Sunset) is going to be a battle,” said Humphreys, who had touchdown catches of 28 and 2 yards in the first half but had a 51-yarder called back by a penalty.

“We didn’t play as clean and as pretty and as well as we are,” the junior said, “but we’re going to get a lot better. … But hats off to Edison.”

The Chargers also struggled with penalties, though it was hard to fault them much on one critical flag earlier in the fourth quarter.

On a fourth-and-1 from the Corona del Mar 32, Boyles caught a jarred fumble in mid-air, scrambled and threw an apparent touchdown to Nathan Nabal with 7:55 left. But on the designed run play, an Edison lineman was called for illegal man down field and a chance to tie the score 21-21 was missed.

The Chargers also lost a fumble on the opening possession of the second half and had a punt blocked in the first half that led to a Corona del Mar score.

“We were undisciplined tonight,” Edison coach Jeff Grady said.

“We had opportunities on big plays that we got called back that we’ll look at on film and find a way to correct them. That was a frustrating football game.”

Garbers, a junior, and Boyles, a sophomore, dueled throughout. Garbers passed for 166 yards while Boyles threw for 163 in his second consecutive start.

Corona del Mar next plays Fountain Valley while Edison takes on Huntington Beach.

LOS ANGELES – No coach could draw this up. No system could manufacture it. For a brief moment, as jaws dropped and a stadium sat stupefied, it was unclear just how the laws of physics had allowed for it.

But Jared Goff had no time for gravity or any other such earthly limitations, not in the middle of the best football game of his life. No mortal defense was going to stop him on Thursday night. His mind-bending, ceiling-shattering touchdown throw late in the second quarter of a stunning, 38-31 Rams’ victory was evidence enough of that.

At first, Cooper Kupp thought the pass might sail out of bounds. The Rams slot receiver was double covered, but still burning toward the corner of the end zone. No quarterback could possibly find him in such a small window. At least, that’s what he – and the Coliseum crowd – figured. But as Goff rolled right and a vicious Vikings rush laid chase, the young quarterback cocked back his right arm and hurled it, anyway, without even setting his feet.

A year ago, Goff would have never delivered such a dart. Even when the Rams offense was clicking, their young quarterback occasionally left throws on the field. His success, it might’ve seemed then, was a product of a system and its innovative architect, Rams coach Sean McVay. In recent weeks, before he blew up for 354 yards and three touchdowns last Sunday against the Chargers, that sentiment had crept back into the football zeitgeist.

But on Thursday night, even McVay could barely trust his eyes as Goff launched a rocket into the cool Los Angeles night. “Unbelievable,” the Rams coach called it after.

It was perhaps the only word that could adequately describe that moment as Goff’s throw soared just over the top of two Viking defenders and landed in Kupp’s outstretched arms. “Jared put it in about a six-inch box that he could only fit it into,” McVay said.

Every throw Goff made on Thursday oozed with that sort of confidence, the kind often reserved for the league’s elite. He hit tight windows over the middle and dialed up deep ball after deep ball, torching a secondary that once ranked among the league’s best. Four of Goff’s five touchdowns traveled more than 20 yards in the air.

FINAL: @RamsNFL WIN on #TNF! #MINvsLAR #LARams

(by @Lexus) pic.twitter.com/cHfktgA78L

— NFL (@NFL) September 28, 2018

His accuracy, at every level, was pinpoint, as he completed 26 of 33 passes for a career-high 465 yards, the third-most in a single game in franchise history. No quarterback this season has thrown for that many yards in a single game. According to Pro Football Reference, no quarterback in NFL history has thrown for as many yards with a perfect passer rating of 158.3.

“Lights out,” running back Todd Gurley said. “He’s been playing like one of the best quarterbacks in this league. Big night for him.”

And a huge night for the Rams, who are now 4-0, the NFC’s only remaining undefeated team. With Goff at the level he found on Thursday, they are essentially unstoppable. Even as Vikings quarterback Kirk Cousins countered his counterpart’s sorcery in the pocket, dicing up the Rams defense for 400 yards and three touchdowns and keeping things close down the stretch, there was little doubt Goff and the offense would answer. “We were rolling,” the quarterback said.

After Minnesota took a lead early in the second quarter, Goff found Kupp on a brilliant, 70-yard wheel route, lofting the pass behind a trailing Vikings linebacker with perfect precision. When the Vikings drove the field again, scoring in just three plays, Goff’s only hiccup of the day – a two-incompletion, 3-and-out – was followed by two consecutive scoring drives on just six plays. Combined.

“We’re gonna put up points as fast as we can,” said wide receiver Robert Woods. “If it’s there, we’re going to take it.”

Even when it wasn’t there, Goff seemed to make it work. Each of his three top wideouts finished with over 100 yards receiving on Thursday night. The Rams’ top four targets, including Gurley, each had a reception of at least 36 yards.

This was the Rams offense at its finest, as McVay’s play calling exploited every possible crack he could find in the veneer of Mike Zimmer’s once-dominant Vikings defense. But for Goff, it felt far more meaningful than just one contender besting another. It was a truly transcendent performance — one that should shatter any remaining notions of Goff as anything less than a star quarterback.

Never was that more evident than the moment his throw connected with Kupp in the corner. Still, as Goff released it, he held his breath. “Kind of took a little bit of a chance there,” he said.

It didn’t matter. The throw was dazzling. The Coliseum was floored. “Got away with it,” Goff said later. “That’s what happens when you have good players.”

No, Jared. As we learned amid the fireworks on an electric Thursday night, that’s the sort of thing that only happens when you have a great quarterback.

GARDEN GROVE – Rancho Alamitos learned the hard way last year that even when you think you have enough wins to make the football playoffs, nothing is guaranteed.

Last year’s Vaqueros finished third in the six-team Garden Grove League. That used to assure a team of a CIF-Southern Section playoff berth. But with the new playoff system, in which teams are placed into divisions via a power-points profile, a good place in a league’s final standings might not be good enough.

There were too many No. 3 teams in 2017 CIF-SS Division 11 to fit them all into the 16-team bracket. Rancho Alamitos didn’t make the cut.

A pregame conversation Thursday night with Rancho Alamitos coach Mike Enright verified that Enright remains miffed and mystified.

Rancho Alamitos, out to get as many league wins as it can this season, beat Santiago 16-14 in the Garden Grove League opener for both teams at Garden Grove High.

The Vaqueros improved to 3-3 overall. In nonleague they defeated Anaheim and Godinez and lost to Carpinteria, Savanna and Garden Grove.

Santiago is 3-3. The Cavaliers in nonleague beat Anaheim, Century and Costa Mesa and lost to Estancia and Magnolia.

Final – Rancho Alamitos 16, Santiago 14 @ocvarsity pic.twitter.com/lZuA0WA2uz

— Steve Fryer (@SteveFryer) September 28, 2018

Rancho Alamitos senior running back Nathan Kanyavong rushed for 99 yards and a touchdown on 28 carries. He also had six receptions for 33 yards.

How important, knowing that the Vaqueros were not invited to the ’17 playoffs, was it to win the league opener?

“Very important,” Kanyavong said, “especially to all the seniors. We want to get that league championship and make it to the playoffs this year.”

Vaqueros sophomore quarterback Michael Lee completed 17 of 24 passes for 139 yards and a touchdown. Mark Diga had eight receptions for 68 yards.

Israel Martinez kicked a 21-yard field goal in the fourth quarter that proved to be the winning points.

Santiago senior running back Anthony Mendez rushed for 112 yards, including a 78-yard touchdown, on nine carries.

Enright has seen the Vaqueros offense steadily improve while the defense remains stout.

“We’re young,” Enright said, “but one thing about these kids is they’re tenacious. And Kanyavong is a special player for us.”

The Cavaliers, who Enright said “played their tails off,” scored first on Mendez’s long run. Rancho Alamitos tied it 7-7 on Kanyavong’s 1-yard touchdown run that finished a 14-play drive that covered 82 yards.

Rancho Alamitos took a 14-7 lead in the third quarter on a 19-yard touchdown pass from Lee to Joseph Santa Ana.

Martinez’s field goal made it 16-7.

Santiago cut its deficit to 16-14 on a 43-yard touchdown pass from junior quarterback Bernardo Monroy to Ulises Mendez with 1:46 remaining in the game. Santiago’s ensuing onside kick was recovered by Rancho Alamitos.

Santiago plays Bolsa Grande at Garden Grove High on Oct. 5. Rancho Alamitos plays Los Amigos at Bolsa Grande High on Oct. 5.

“Dress good to look good. Look good to feel good. And feel good to run fast!”
That quote from Olympic champion Florence Griffith Joyner holds particular resonance for Virgil Abloh, who after his collaboration with Nike and Serena Williams teamed up again with the sportswear giant for his spring Off-White ready-to-wear show. This time, he turned his attention to track and field, a theme that ran through his seasonal statement, from the racing bibs sent out as invitations to the stadium-themed set and the models themselves. The designer tapped eight female star athletes to walk in his show at the Garage Amelot in Paris.
Bella Hadid and Kendall Jenner opened the show in crisp white shirts and short skirts. Kaia Gerber was close behind, in a shirtdress with a tank top pieced together from Nike socks. With their metronomic clips, the models easily outpaced the athletes, overtaking some as they wound their way around the track, while a jumbotron flashed their names and countries of origin.
Some of the sports stars blended in effortlessly. Vashti Cunningham, a U.S. high jumper and the daughter of former NFL quarterback Randall Cunningham, flexed her 6-foot, 1-inch frame in a tiered cream tent dress, paired with white

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Rick Owens let it burn. Nihilism. His less-than-idyllic California youth. He threw it all metaphorically on the pyre he erected in the courtyard of the Palais de Tokyo for his spring show and lit the match. Across the Atlantic, Dr. Christine Blasey Ford was wrapping her testimony that might prevent a man who stands several times accused of sexual misconduct from coasting into a lifetime appointment on the highest court in the U.S. The culture is going up in flames.
Owens’ structure was a crude model of Tatlin’s Tower, the Russian Constructivist monument to communism and modernity that was never built. “I wanted to burn down a utopian monument,” he said before the show, going on to describe the women he conjured in the collection as witches. “California witches because they’re in hiking boots and cut-off jeans. Where I grew up, that’s what we all wore….So I brought my utopian California youth to Paris and I’m setting it on fire.”
It was a powerful, prescient concept. Around the burning tower walked a parade of witchy women decked in jackets, hoodies, bra tops and short destroyed denim. The silhouettes were short, all jutting angles, topped off with angular wire headpieces and bug-eyed sunglasses

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BERLIN — Hugo Boss is keeping things close to home with its latest capsule collection: Boss “Made in Germany.”
While the Metzingen-based giant is more normally inclined to emphasize its global expertise, Boss is now openly celebrating its heritage with a 12-piece capsule for men and women designed and manufactured in Germany.
“Made in Germany” is not exactly new for Boss, pointed out chief brand officer Ingo Wilts. The brand’s full canvas suits are all produced in Boss headquarters. “But we’re proud to be the biggest premium fashion-maker in Germany, and thought it would be great to do something German and celebrate our heritage.”
He added, “We also know that whenever we go outside Germany, in France or Asia, for example, they really appreciate [articles] made in Germany. Though it was a big effort to find someone who makes knits and leathers here.” The lion’s share of the collection, which has a natty tailored slant, was manufactured at Boss headquarters in Metzingen.
Built on the brand’s tailoring DNA and working with Italian fabrics exclusively developed for Boss, the collection features six revamped classics each for men and women. Men have their pick of a double-breasted coat and blouson in a bonded wool check, a burgundy

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MILAN — Signaling the importance of the Japanese market for Valentino, the Rome-based luxury house will hold a runway show in Tokyo on Nov. 27 to present its men’s and women’s pre-fall 2019 collection. This is the first time the two ready-to-wear divisions will be presented together on the runway and it is the first show the company will hold in Tokyo since the Eighties.
“I have always been fascinated by the Japanese idea of beauty as imperfection and permanent transformations; I think it embodies the modern vision of beauty,” said creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli. “This country has always used tradition as a boost to understand and travel to the future. My intention today is to establish a respectful connection between our two cultures.”
Marking the event, Valentino’s flagship boutique at Ginza Six will be temporarily transformed into a new generation concept store conceived by Piccioli and Sarah Andelman, the former creative director of Colette. The venue will carry unique products conceived especially for the store. There will also be pieces created in collaboration with local artists, artisans and brands. They will be exhibited in a visual display that will be unveiled the day before the show on Nov. 26.

Valentino’s Ginza Six flagship. 
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THE MET’S SUNDAY BEST: Last-minute museum-goers still have 10 days to catch the record-breaking “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Fifth Avenue location and The Met Cloisters.
With 1.3 million visitors at the Upper East Side museum and nearly 200,000 at The Met Cloisters — and counting — the show is the most-visited one for The Met’s Costume Institute. Spanning 60,000 square feet and 25 galleries, the exhibition is the largest that has ever been staged. A myriad of designs from Thierry Mugler, Cristóbal Balenciaga, Thom Browne, Azzedine Alaïa, John Galliano for the House of Dior, Claire McCardell, Madeleine Vionnet, Isabel Toledo, Pierpaolo Piccioli for Valentino, Elsa Schiaparelli and other designers are on view throughout the Met. The layout inevitably is leading many attendees to areas of the museum beyond the Costume Institute. On the flip side, visitors who may be in search of non-fashion exhibitions may be introduced and perhaps tempted to explore more in The Costume Institute.
The success of the exhibition has been another winning moment for The Costume Institute’s curator in charge Andrew Bolton, who has helped to rev up attendance numbers in recent years. “Heavenly Bodies” appears to be closing

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