A 53-year-old man has been charged with a racially motivated, knife-wielding attack in Fullerton, a week after another alleged hate crime in the city, records showed Tuesday.

Bobby Willis Palm, who is white, was accused of trying to attack a black man with a knife, according to court records.

The attack occurred just before noon Sunday while the victim was “sitting on a bus bench when approached by the defendant, who made threatening statements regarding the victim’s ethnicity and country of origin,” said Michelle Van Der Linden of the Orange County District Attorney’s Office.

The victim ran into a nearby business and called police, she added.

Van Der Linden declined to provide further details.

Palm was charged with single counts each of committing a civil rights violation with violent injury, assault with a deadly weapon and criminal threats, all felonies. He also faces sentencing enhancements for hate crimes.

Palm pleaded not guilty Tuesday and was ordered to return to court for a pretrial hearing Oct. 3.

Fullerton police responded to another alleged hate crime on Sept. 17 at the Fullerton bus station at 120 E. Santa Fe Ave. when a pregnant black woman was threatened by a white man who is accused of taking her backpack, according to prosecutors.

In that case, transient Tyson Theodore Mayfield, 42, was charged last week with one count each of criminal threats, a civil rights violation, both felonies; as well as one misdemeanor count of petty theft. He also faces a sentencing enhancement for a hate crime with a prior conviction.

Dan Albano’s Top 10 linebackers so far in 2018:

1.Jackson Cloyd, Orange Lutheran, Sr.

Cloyd is enjoying a breakout season. He leads the Lancers in tackles with 45, including a season-high 16 against Mission Viejo last week. Cloyd also returned an interception 101 yards for a TD against the Diablos. UC Davis is his most recent offer. Oh, and don’t forget, he has three sacks.

2.Steele Dubar, Mater Dei, Sr.

The inside linebacker has lived up to his name with hard-nosed play and advanced instincts. He made a team-high 15 tackles against IMG Academy last week and shares the team lead for the season with 27.

3.Moses Sepulona, Mater Dei, Jr.

The junior has been one of the breakout performers for the Monarchs. He shares the team lead in tackles with Steele Dubar with 27 and also has two sacks. Sepulona also recorded two of the hardest hits against IMG Academy.

4. James Giles, Capistrano Valley, Sr.

The Cougars’ defense has been a force the last few years and Giles is doing his part to extend that legacy. He leads the swarming unit with 59 total tackles and also has three sacks.

5. Jaden Genova, JSerra, So.

The under-the-radar transfer from Mater Dei was among the linebackers spotlighted in the Trinity League Football Podcast’s midseason awards. He leads the Lions with 34 tackles and is second with 4.5 sacks.

6.Victor Clanton, JSerra, Sr.

The under-rated and hard-hitting Clanton is third on the Lions in tackles with 29 and ranks second in tackles for loss with six. Clanton also has four sacks.

7.Zach Brogden, Orange Lutheran, Sr.

Brogden ranks third on the Lancers in total tackles with 41, just behind junior Ethan Howard and Jackson Cloyd. But he leads the team in tackles for loss with 10.

8. Easton Mascarenas, Mission Viejo, So.

It will be interesting to see what position or positions Mascarenas plays in the future but for now, he’s a physical force at linebacker. He leads the Diablos in total tackles with 53. Syrr Barnes also has been outstanding for Mission Viejo

9. Michael Reddy, Los Alamitos, Sr.

The Griffins’ “Linebacker U” has produced another standout. Reddy has shown good instincts and consistency at inside linebacker. He also played well in a key victory against Long Beach Poly, recording nine solo tackles, a sack and recovered a fumble. Nicholas Valenzuela and Gio DeLeon are two linebackers others to watch.

10T. Connor Burke, Santa Margarita, Sr.

The middle linebacker has been a bright spot for a unit that has struggled at times. He has recorded 11 total tackles in four of five games and leads the Eagles with 53.

10T. Brant Gass, San Juan Hills, Sr.

Any list of top linebackers needs to include a kid with a state-leading 84 tackles in six games. Gass recorded 20 tackles in a 7-6 loss against San Juan Hills.

10T. John Gosney, Huntington Beach, Sr.

Gosney has picked up right where he left off last year. He already has 34 tackles and seven sack for the Oilers.

Also considered: Jacob Cochran (Yorba Linda, Sr.), Kobah Fuamatu (Mater Dei, Jr.), John Tu’avao (Villa Park, Jr.), Sam Whipple (El Toro, Sr.)

Please send linebacker nominees to Dan Albano at dalbano@scng.com or @ocvarsityguy on Twitter 

PHOENIX — It ain’t over ’til it’s over. And maybe not even then.

The National League playoff field spent Tuesday bunching up like bumper-to-bumper traffic. Everything is possible now. With five days left in the regular season, the Dodgers could finish anywhere from having the best record in the NL to needing to win a play-in game on Monday – to missing out on the postseason entirely.

“Pretty much taking it one day at a time,” Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal said after Kenta Maeda served up a walk-off home run to Eduardo Escobar and the Arizona Diamondbacks walked off with a 4-3 victory over the Dodgers.

“One day at a time, one pitch at a time, one AB at a time. … Can’t really look ahead.”

They better not look behind either, because someone is definitely gaining on them.

After sweeping the Colorado Rockies in L.A. last week, the Dodgers had a season-high 2½-game lead in the National League West. The Rockies have won five in a row since then while the Dodgers have gone 3-2. The division lead is down to a half-game and the Dodgers’ magic number is stalled at five with the Rockies holding a game in hand (they will play Thursday while the Dodgers are off).

“Obviously it’s a different ballgame,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “We’re a half-game up, even in the loss column. Still, we’ve got to go out there and win ballgames.

“This is what you live for. You live for every game to be important. … The best team playing the best is going to continue to go forward.”

The Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers also won Tuesday. But not the other division leader with an unpunched postseason ticket, the Chicago Cubs.

With just five days left in the regular season, six teams – the Cubs, Brewers, Braves, Dodgers, Cardinals and Rockies – are within 4½ games. The Dodgers and Cubs each have only a half-game lead in their division.

Playoff seating (and seeding) has suddenly become as open as boarding a Southwest Airlines flight.

“It hurts obviously,” Kike’ Hernandez said. “Every loss at this point hurts.”

Dodgers starter Walker Buehler faced just one batter over the minimum through the first five innings, allowing two singles and walking a batter but also getting two double-play grounders.

He didn’t look like he needed any help to that point. And he wasn’t getting any.

Cody Bellinger led off the second inning with a solo home run, but the Dodgers couldn’t get another runner to second base until the fifth inning when Joc Pederson was stranded there.

That was one of a series of wasted opportunities. Three times in the game – the third, eighth and ninth – the Dodgers had a runner on second base with no outs and failed to advance that runner. They finished the night 2 for 12 with runners in scoring position.

“Guys were in scoring position but it was more the situational hitting,” Roberts said. “There were three opportunities we had tonight with a guy on second base with nobody out. To not be able to get that guy to third base I thought was the difference in the game.

“We had our chances.”

The Diamondbacks made the most of theirs. They got to Buehler for two runs with two outs in the sixth inning and Roberts went to the bullpen.

Scott Alexander got the first out in the bottom of the seventh but Roberts went to Dylan Floro, who didn’t retire any of the three batters he faced.

“I didn’t think the slider was as sharp,” Roberts said. “The (A.J.) Pollock base hit was a soft-serve base hit. The (Chris) Owings ball just didn’t get there. And then to the young kid, (Ildemaro) Vargas, it was supposed to be a sinker down and away and it was just in his nitro zone.

“I just don’t think he was as sharp as we’ve seen him.”

Roberts stuck with Floro as he loaded the bases on Pollock’s single, Owings’ double and an intentional walk and left him in to face the switch-hitting pinch-hitter, Vargas. Vargas stroked a single on the first pitch he saw, giving the Diamondbacks the lead.

Fourteen of the 20 runs the Dodgers have scored in six games against the Diamondbacks this month scored in the seventh inning or later. The Diamondbacks dodged a leadoff double by Manny Machado in the eighth but not a leadoff single by Hernandez in the ninth.

He stole second, went to third on a wild throw and scored when pinch-hitter Chris Taylor bounced a ground-rule double into the Chase Field pool. But Taylor never advanced any farther.

With the score tied, Roberts handed the ball to Maeda for the ninth. Escobar worked the count full then drilled a fastball over the wall in right for the walk-off hit.

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— MLB (@MLB) September 26, 2018

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— SportsNet LA (@SportsNetLA) September 26, 2018

ALISO VIEJO – No team in the South Coast League has been able to defeat the San Juan Hills girls volleyball team in a match since 2105.

This season, Aliso Niguel has come close … twice.

The Wolverines and Stallions on Tuesday took the court for the second time this season, and for the second time, five games were needed to decide the outcome.

San Juan Hills won the first two games and was poised to send everyone in the Aliso Niguel gym home early, but the Wolverines weren’t about to give up and won the next two games to set up a fifth set. The Stallions won the final set to come away with a 25-19, 25-20, 21-25, 20-25, 15-8 victory.

The Stallions (10-4, 5-0) stretched their league winning streak to 25 and extended their lead in the South Coast League to two games over second-place Aliso Niguel (9-3, 3-2).

“I told my team I was really proud of the way we fought back, but I really think we can do a better job of not getting in that position in the first place,” San Juan Hills Jessica Papell said. “We knew what a good team they (the Wolverines) are. They gave us a really good, five-set match the first time.”

The Stallions are led by a groups of tall, powerful hitters in Brianne Albright, who had eight kills, and Abbey Dayton, Madison Beebe and Brianne Albright, who had 15, 12 and eight kills, respectively.

Whenever either of them received a good pass and got off a clean hit, they almost always got the point with a blistering shot.

“I think a big part of us coming back was celebrating the little things,” Albright said. “If we got a kill, it was about celebrating it and getting everybody excited.”

The Stallions, who are ranked No. 7 in the CIF-SS Division 1 and 2 combined poll, opened the first set with an 8-1 run, from which the Wolverines couldn’t recover.

The second set was a bit closer, but San Juan Hills was in control most of the way.

Aliso Niguel won the third and fourth sets by playing good defense, keeping several balls in the air that seemed certain to hit the floor.

The Wolverines were also led by the net play of Jessica Smith, who had the majority of kills and blocks for her team throughout the match.

San Juan Hills started out the fifth set on a 9-4 run and then closed out the set and the match with a 6-4 run.

“They are very well-rounded,” Aliso Niguel coach Richelle Whiting said of the Stallions. “They’ve got three amazing hitters in the front row.”

ANAHEIM — With the tying run at third and one out in a one-run game in the sixth inning, Mike Trout walked to the plate.

Just as you would expect, a moment later he jogged to first base with an intentional walk.

Shohei Ohtani, however, then made the Texas Rangers pay, muscling a broken-bat blooper into center to drive in the tying run. It started the Angels toward a four-run inning that proved decisive in their 4-1 victory over the Rangers on Tuesday night.

What’s more, Ohtani got the hit against left-hander Martín Pérez, who had been summoned to face him after the walk to Trout. Ohtani struggled against lefties for most of the season, but he’s now 10 for 32 (.313) against them since Aug. 30, when Albert Pujols went on the disabled list and allowed Ohtani to play against righties and lefties.

Ohtani’s hit tied the score, and the Angels then took the lead on a throwing error by third baseman Jurrickson Profar. After an Andrelton Simmons infield hit loaded the bases, Taylor Ward walked to drive in one. Kaleb Cowart’s sacrifice fly made it 4-1.

The rally was enough for the Angels to win, but too late for Matt Shoemaker to pick up the victory on a night he had an encouraging start.

Shoemaker gave up one run in five innings, far better than the five runs he allowed in 2-2/3 innings in his last start in Oakland. He struck out seven and walked none. Shoemaker said he and pitching coach Charlie Nagy worked on some mechanical tweaks since the last outing, and it clearly made a difference.

“The stuff he had in the first couple innings was probably the best we’ve seen in a long time,” Manager Mike Scioscia said.

Shoemaker got up to 73 pitches, one of which was a hanging slider that Joey Gallo drove 413 feet to straightaway center field for a homer.

Shoemaker has compiled a 4.84 ERA in 22-1/3 innings over his five starts since coming back from surgery to repair a split pronator tendon.

He called the month’s work “a step in the right direction.” He might not get another start. His turn would be on Sunday, the final day of the season, so he might not pitch again.

“We’ll look at the last weekend and see where everybody is, but I don’t know if there’s any more that Shoe needs to show this year,” Scioscia said.

Noé Ramírez followed with a scoreless sixth and then, just after the Angels took the lead, Williams Jerez pitched a perfect seventh. Jerez has retired seven of eight batters in his last three games, with four strikeouts. He had allowed either a run or an inherited runner to score in each of his previous six, a stretch that followed him allowing no runs in his first six games.

Blake Parker pitched the eighth and Hansel Robles worked the ninth for his first save with the Angels.

Ty Buttrey, who had been getting the closing opportunities, was unavailable after pitching two of the previous three days.

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— FOX Sports West (@FoxSportsWest) September 26, 2018

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— Angels (@Angels) September 26, 2018

At a time when the United Nations is meeting in New York, discord between nations has rarely appeared so high. Christelle Kocher has other ideas.
Her spring collection was an ode to unity, under the guise of a celebration of women worldwide. That could be a soignée Parisienne, strutting down Avenue Montaigne in a fuchsia blazer, or a young girl in Indonesia going out with friends in a sequined top and matching headscarf, paired with pleated track pants.
“It’s an homage to diversity, a rallying call in which fashion can be a good vector of unification,” Kocher said backstage after the show, held at the French Communist Party headquarters in Paris, a saucer-shaped building designed by Oscar Niemeyer in the Sixties.
Kocher has always connected with a more nuanced vision of Paris than most people who live here experience — the result of shuttling between her job as artistic director of Maison Lemarié, part of Chanel’s stable of specialty ateliers, and her own studio in the multiethnic neighborhood of Belleville in the northeast of Paris.
This season, she broadened that vision to places she has visited, and those she dreams of discovering. A black bodysuit was embroidered with silver sequins in geometric motifs inspired

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NEAT KNITS: Don’t take your sweater for granted.
This felt like the underlying message relayed by Fast Retailing Co. Ltd. executives speaking before a crowded room of journalists gathered for a Uniqlo exhibit about knitwear in Paris. People squeezed into the entrance of the show, a wide room covered with dangling wheels of colored wool, the hues arranged like a giant, three-dimensional rainbow.
Held at the Jeu de Paume museum in Paris, the show runs from Wednesday through Saturday. It’s a sort of ephemeral pop-up experience from the Japanese label, which touts the exhibit as its first, as it joins the growing ranks of brands aiming to pull in new consumers by telling people how their stuff is made.
“The Art and Science of LifeWear” features a knitting machine in action, building a sweater dress before the public. It then takes visitors through a life of a sweater through photos, showing inspection stages and the factory hanger system, finishing with the final residue removal, done by hand. Another room is covered with rows of outfits, some outfitted with knit hats, scarves and gloves.
Closing the exhibit is a pop-up shop, complete with a cash register, featuring collaborations with Andrea Crews—airport themed, with sweaters stamped “Paris”

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PARIS — The cat is out of the bag: After setting tongues wagging by attending Alessandro dell’Acqua’s No. 21 show in Milan, entrepreneur Diego Della Valle said Tuesday he has drafted the designer to create the first capsule collection for Tod’s under its new strategy.
As reported in February, the Italian luxury group is overturning its business model and launching a new project called Tod’s Factory, in a reference to Andy Warhol. In a system mirroring the streetwear drop, it will release a mix of capsules and limited editions in collaboration with different designers and friends of the house.
“We need to have to have — maximum every two months — a new product going on the market directly,” Della Valle told a room full of fashion editors at a breakfast meeting at the Ritz Paris hotel during Paris Fashion Week.
“We try to remain what we are, and at the same time we put curiosity in our product, a lot of creativity and movement,” added the executive, who was flanked by dell’Acqua and model Edie Campbell, who is the face of the collection. “We are doing more in one year than we did in the previous 20.”
He noted that with the speed of

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Arielle Charnas, the influencer behind the popular fashion blog and social channels Something Navy, had a “wildly successful” launch of her collection exclusively at Nordstrom on Monday, according to a Nordstrom spokeswoman.  The brand was so popular it crashed the site in the first hour, which was quickly remedied.
Many customers complained online that they weren’t able to buy what they put in their shopping bag since the site crashed, and once it was back online Nordstrom had sold out of the items.
The introduction followed the successful launch of the Treasure & Bond x Something Navy capsule collection last fall. That capsule was estimated to have racked up sales of about $1 million in less than 24 hours, as reported.
On Monday, Something Navy sales beat expectations, according to the spokeswoman. Among the best sellers were a v-neck slouchy pullover, which was available in five colors for $79; the double-breasted topper coat in check pattern for $139, and the teddy coat, available in two colors, blue and tan, for $149. The tan sold out Monday and the blue is still available in large and XXL.

The blue teddy coat is still available in a few sizes. 

Charnas will make an appearance at Nordstrom’s Yorkdale

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Lamborghini sees women as the next big driving force for its luxury sports cars.