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HACKER’S HOLIDAY: Angels’ veep Whitey Herzog’s job...

By Jerry Hicks, Helene Elliott and Davan Maharaj

HACKER’S HOLIDAY: Angels’ veep Whitey Herzog’s job in Palm Springs (C1) is to worry about team injuries and expectations. But not today. . . . Today he takes time off to play in the celebrity pro-am at the annual Dinah Shore Ladies Professional Golf Assn. tournament. Herzog was asked what kind of golfer he is. “Left-handed,” he responded. Herzog’s handicap: “Being left-handed.” His description of his game: “I’m a hacker.”

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Helene Elliott

Helene Elliott was with the Los Angeles Times’ Sports department from 1989 to 2024, first as a staff writer and then, starting in 2006, as a columnist. She became the first female journalist to be honored with a plaque in the Hall of Fame of a major professional sport as the 2005 winner of the Hockey Hall of Fame’s Elmer Ferguson Award, awarded to writers “who have brought honor to journalism and to hockey.” A native of Brooklyn, N.Y., and graduate of Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism, she has covered 18 Olympics.

Davan Maharaj

As editor of the Los Angeles Times Media Group from 2011-17, Davan Maharaj oversaw the largest daily newsgathering organization in the West.

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