20 at New Orleans L 113-103 March 4 at Phoenix L 99-94*--*Source: NBALos Angeles Times. It prohibits banks and credit card companies from making payments to online gaming websites that appear on a list to be drafted within nine months by the Justice Department and the Federal Reserve.Online websites also would be prohibited from accepting U.S. Much of the system will be operated by a consortium of private jitney owners whose buses now carry most riders on Insurgentes. When George McNeill arrived Saturday at Riviera Country Club, a lot more people knew who he was than when he left Friday night."Everybody's asking me, saying, 'So you're the one,' " McNeill said. "There's going to need to be some sort of regulation of the number of folks coming up here."But the tram -- and by extension, the people mover -- is seen as vital to the Coachella's Valley's most important industry: tourism.

The major movie studios alone lost $6.1 billion to all forms of piracy in 2005, according to the association's estimates.MPAA announced in February that it had filed seven lawsuits against websites including TorrentSpy.com and Ed2k-It.com for allegedly facilitating illegal file sharing.But the fight against piracy has been arduous for copyright holders. A two-thirds "no" vote in any three of the country's 18 provinces would have been enough to defeat it. The Wilson course's opening and closing holes remain outstanding, while Harding's amusing finish lets you wrap up on a high note while taking in sounds from the L.A. Rather, he ate and mastered great standards, making each one his own. Annika Sorenstam became the first player in LPGA Tour history to win a tournament five straight times, shooting an eight-under-par 64 today for a three-stroke victory in the Mizuno Classic at Otsu, Japan.Sorenstam broke a tie with Laura Davies for the LPGA record for consecutive victories in an event.

Burke has been solid in the net, with numbers that look even more impressive when compared to the Kings' other goaltenders. Jon Court, participating between races, was dunked three times early in the day.The dunk tank, which was the idea of jockey Louis Jauregui, continues today and Monday.Vincent Timphony, who trained Wild Again, winner of the first Breeders' Cup Classic, at Hollywood Park in 1984, said that he lost his restaurant and home in New Orleans as the result of Katrina. Nadia Parker, from Bethel High in Spanaway, Wash., has signed a letter of intent to attend USC.*MiscellanyFormer USC and NFL quarterback Rodney Peete starts Monday on FSN's "Best Damn Sports Show Period."With his left eye nearly swollen shut, former five-time world champion Johnny Tapia battled back to win a unanimous featherweight decision over Frankie Archuleta in Tapia's hometown of Albuquerque.PassingsBob Hoffman, an all-conference back on USC's 1939 national championship football team who later played with the Los Angeles Rams, died Wednesday in Bakersfield He was 87.. The governing board charged with overseeing construction of an urban park at the closed El Toro Marine base approved the first payment for design work Thursday.Landscape architect Ken Smith will receive $372,000 from the Orange County Great Park Corp., including $50,000 for a design office in Irvine and $11,000 for travel costs from New York, where Smith is based, officials said.The park will be built with $401 million in development fees paid by Lennar Corp., which also is building homes and businesses at the former base.. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) is seeking support for a bill that would force the cable industry to offer a "family friendly" tier of programming.But cable companies and major media companies have been fighting government efforts to regulate programming."It's not fair to handicap us with these requirements because we want to be free to give consumers what the marketplace wants," said David Grabert, a spokesman for cable operator Cox Communications Inc.Time Warner Inc.