Taylor Schaub

Los Angeles

Sports Reporter at Spectrum News 1 LA-West

Sports Host & Reporter @ Spectrum LA | @DanPatrickEDU Alum

Articles

Dodgers' Japanese stars fuel business boom in Little Tokyo

1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

LOS ANGELES — A longtime retail shop in Little Tokyo has transformed into something far bigger than a local gear store. These days, Vantage Sports feels more like an unofficial Dodgers team shop. “When Ohtani came to the Dodgers, it changed everything,” said Shun Sekiguchi, the store’s sales manager. “We had to change our entire business model.”Before Shohei Ohtani signed with Los Angeles, Sekiguchi said few customers came in looking for Dodgers merchandise.
Dodgers, Yankees set for World Series rematch in weekend showdown

1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

LOS ANGELES — It’s not October, but the intensity sure feels like it. The Los Angeles Dodgers and New York Yankees will meet this weekend in a highly anticipated rematch of the 2024 World Series — a clash of first-place teams and historic rivals. While there’s no championship on the line this time, the stakes remain sky-high for fans and players alike.
Push for multilingual emergency alerts intensifies in LA

1 week ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

CARSON, Calif. — When disaster strikes, every second matters. And for millions of Angelenos, language can be the difference between safety and tragedy.
South LA community leaders push back against funding cuts

3 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

LOS ANGELES — In Nickerson Gardens, the largest public housing development west of the Mississippi, a wall covered in names bears silent witness to decades of loss. Each one, said Donny Joubert, represents a life lost to gang violence — and a community that fought hard to bring peace back to its streets. Now, Joubert fears that peace is under threat again.
Crypto.com Arena aims for a cleaner future, 1 cup at a time

3 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

LOS ANGELES — On game nights at Crypto.com Arena, the stars are on the court — ice or stage. But after the lights go down and the crowds file out, another kind of performance begins — this one deep below the arena, away from the spotlight. That’s where Richard Garcia goes to work. “We sort through a lot of cups at night,” said Garcia, part of the arena’s operations crew. His job: collecting, sorting and helping to repurpose the thousands of reusable cups fans leave behind.
Filmmakers grapple with declining production

3 weeks ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

LOS ANGELES — Heather Fink has spent nearly a decade trying to make it as a director in Los Angeles. But these days, when she begins a new production, she isn’t scouting locations — she’s searching for tax incentives. “I don’t really have any realistic incentive to shoot in this state without that,” said Fink, who supplements her income as a boom operator. “The level of production in Los Angeles right now?
'The Wall' is the Clippers sixth man during postseason

1 month ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — For 20 years, Rafael Andres has lived and breathed Clippers basketball. Through heartbreak, rebuild, and playoff heartbreak again. But this season? He doesn’t just feel like a fan. He feels like he belongs. “We finally have our home,” Andres said. “We moved out of our parents’ house, and now we got a real house.”That house is the Intuit Dome — the Clippers’ $2 billion palace that has, at long last, given the franchise a space of its own.
Beyond football: Rams turn draft night into a salute to first responders

1 month ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

Judges around the country had already issued temporary orders restoring the students' records in a federal database of international students. San Francisco53 minutes agoDisgraced former U.S. Rep. George Santos is facing sentencing in federal court Friday. New York State1 hour agoCoverage will air on Spectrum News’ networks and on Spectrum News+ beginning at 3:55 a.m. Eastern.
Voice of the Clippers: At 24, Carlo Jimenez finds his place in the NBA

1 month ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

INGLEWOOD, Calif. — The text always comes. Win or lose, buzzer-beater or blowout, it's waiting — gentle, proud, unwavering. “Listened to the game, mijo. You sounded amazing.”It comes from his grandfather, a man who once worked the fields after immigrating from Mexico, who swept the halls of a school just for a shot at an education, and who now never misses a Clippers game on the radio. And on the other end of that radio? A 24-year-old voice calling playoff basketball.
Matthew Stafford donates uniforms to Pasadena High team after Eaton Fire

1 month ago | spectrumnews1.com | Taylor Schaub

PASADENA, Calif. — In a season marked by heartbreak, the Pasadena High School football team received an unexpected gift from Los Angeles Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford and his wife, Kelly. The couple surprised the Bulldogs during their team banquet earlier this year with a donation of brand-new uniforms. The emotional revelation brought loud cheers and stunned reactions from players who, just months earlier, had lost nearly everything.