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through the Sepulveda Pass on the new 405 HOV lanes. PAGE A6

By Steve Scauzillosteve.scauzillo@langnews.com @stevscaz on Twitter

Calling it the future in traf-fic management, the Los Angeles County transit agency board voted unanimously Thursday to make permanent the miles of pay lanes already being used on the 110 and 10 freeways.

By an 11-0 vote, the Metropol-itan Transportation Authority called the one-year experimental ExpressLanes project a success and ordered the chief executive officer to lobby the Legislature to remove the sunset dates and grant it power to convert more car-pool lanes into pay lanes, possibly on the 405 Freeway.

The board embraced congestion pricing as a tool that can get cars moving on L.As jammed freeways as long as people are willing to pay

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Pay lanes on 110, 10 are likely to stay405 Freeway may be next toll-lane conversion plan

It took a few weeks, but Ronda Rousey went from frustration to elation. The Ultimate Fighting Championship womens bantam-weight champion, undisputed and undefeated, was undeniably beside herself after her first foray into reality television. What emerged was a no-strings quartet of perfect harmony outside the cage and bad intentions inside. Along with best friend and Mixed Martial Arts training partner Marina Shafir, Rousey extended an invitation to fellow UFC fighters Shayna Baszler and Jessamyn Duke to live and train with them in Southern California. Months later, their varied paths have merged into a four-lane expressway known as The Four Horsewomen. Although they are at different levels in their MMA careers a champion, a neophyte, a pioneer and a prospect their ability to challenge, encourage and inspire one another has helped foster friendships tighter than a rear naked choke. While Rousey has provided the opportunities, she has gained as well. There were days ... Id still be training alone and Id be driving alone so many hours a day. Itd get lonely ... Its so helpful having other people there on the same quest as you and they understand what youre going through and theyre excited about the same things. We all just really feed off each other.

Ronda Rousey, 27, is the UFC womens bantamweight champ.

Marina Shafir, 26, made her pro MMA debut just two weeks ago.

Shayna Baszler, 33, is looking forward to her first UFC fight.

Jessamyn Duke, 27, is set to fight Saturday at UFC 172.

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The family of the Transporta-tion Security Administration offi-cer who died in a November shoot-ing rampage at Los Angeles Inter-national Airport has filed a claim against the city of Los Angeles, al-leging the airport failed to protect travelers and workers.

The wrongful death claim was filed by Ana Machuca, the widow of TSA officer Gerardo Hernan-dez, and their two children, Luis Hernandez and Stephanie Her-nandez. The claim, submitted to the city clerk on April 16, asks for more than $25 million in damages.

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Down but defiant, the Kings went back to work Thursday night for perhaps the last time at Staples Center this season. They said all the right things after doing almost none of them while failing behind the more opportunistic San Jose Sharks three games to none.

We have to win one game, for-ward Mike Richards said 24 hours earlier. We cant worry about win-ning four games all at once. We should be comfortable playing in

Staples Center against San Jose. Weve played against them lots and weve had success against them in our building lots.

We cant look ahead to Game 5 without winning Game 4.

The Kings handled their busi-ness with a 6-3 series-extending victory over the Sharks, forcing

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Kings goalie Jonathan Quick, top, cant stop this shot by San Joses Matt Nieto during Thursdays Game 4 at Staples Center.

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THE SCORE The Kings finally channeled some of that Stanley Cup swagger on Thursday.

It was just one game and probably wont make a dif-ference in the Western Conference quarterfinals results, but this sure was a good way to soothe some heartache.

The Kings played physi-cal, their stars played well and they had a killer in-stinct.

Where, oh, where has that been all series against the Sharks?

Their physical brand of hockey and a fine outing by Jona-than Quick gave the Kings a 6-3 win Thursday at Sta-ples Center.

Robyn Regehr and Brent Burns ended the game, after the buzzer sounded on the Kings first win in the series, with gloves off and trading punches. It was that kind of affair.

The Kings cut San Joses se-ries lead to 3-1 with Game 5 to be played Saturday in San Jose.

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The girl checking me into my downtown Oakland hotel had the spirit, the bright, yellow neon shirt she wore practically shouting the three most popular words in the Bay Area this weekend: Loud. Proud. Warriors.

So did the guy at the rental car counter, the cashier at the gas station and the parking at-tendant valeting my car.

Loud.Proud.Warriors.No matter where

you went, no matter where you looked, Warrior pride was everywhere. The girl at the bus station. The fa-ther and son riding riding BART Thursday morning. The two nuns walking down Broadway.

The Clippers came here to play the Warriors.

Turns out the were going up against an entire city.

A very loud. Very proud.Very Warriors city.And that was before stepping

foot into Oracle Arena Thursday for Game 3 of this first round West-ern Conference playoff series.

The loudest, craziest, wildest arena in the NBA.

But somewhere between L.A. and Oakland the Clippers bought some ear muffs and a little bit of perspective.

They werent playing an arena, they were playing a team. They didnt have to beat 19.596 loud fans, they had to beat the 12 guys wear-

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The female MMA fighters known as the Four Horsewomen, from left: Marina Shafir, Jessamyn Duke, Shayna Baszler and Ronda Rousey.

By Brian Martinbrian.martin@langnews.com @TheBMartin on Twitter

It is a topic best avoided.Any mention of last years The Ultimate

Fighter in the vicinity of Ronda Rousey is like taking a stick to a hornets nest.

The UFC reality show, with female coaches and fighters for the first time in 18 seasons, was viewed

as a vehicle to highlight the wom-ens bantamweight champion and promote a title defense against ri-val coach Miesha Tate.

It turned into a six-week or-deal away from home that became

even more tumultuous once the episodes aired and Rousey took issue with the editing.

Rousey swears in both promises and color-ful language she will never do the show again.

Yet from darkness comes light.Without that show, there would be no sister-

hood at Glendale Fighting Club.There would be no Monday nights watching

WWE Raw in Rouseys Venice home, followed

Group of MMA fighters known as The Four Horsewomen are a force to be reckoned with

A DAntonio is leaving the Lakers coaching staff, but its head coach Mikes brother and lead assistant, Dan, who is heading elsewhere to serve as Marshall Universitys head coach.

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I always tell my guy fighters, theyre your sisters. So the way you would respect your sister is the way you respect them. The girls are first in our gym. Theyre like our saints basically in the gym. Edmond Tarverdyan, owner of Glendale Fighting Club who trains The Four Horsewomen

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Try explaining to your mother about the lack of progress over the launch of the Dodg-ers new channel. The conver-sation starts with Aristotelian logic, but ends up channeling Abbott and Costello.

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Nickname: Queen of Spades Birthplace: Sioux Falls, S.D.Raised: Sioux Falls, S.D. Age: 33Last ght: Lost to Alexis Davis via technical submission (rear-naked choke) in third round at Memorial Hall in Kansas City, Kan., on Jan. 5, 2013.Twitter: @QoSBaszlerQuote: Youre gonna be hard pressed to nd a group of ghters, especially in womens MMA, that are as skilled combined as we are. So I think its an ideal situa-tion that were here to push each other.

Nickname: The Gun Birthplace: Whitesburg, Ky.Raised: Richmond, Ky. Age: 27Last ght: Defeated Peggy Morgan via unanimous decision at The Ultimate Fighter 18nale at Mandalay Bay Events Center in Las Vegas on Nov. 30, 2013.Twitter: @JessamynDukeQuote: Theres a lot to learn, theres a lot to practice, theres a lot to do. Its not just being physically gied. Youve got to be mentally there, too. And we all kind of have that.

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by choreographed wrestling routines in the living room and the gym.

The best stable of female MMA ghters would not ex-ist.

There would be no Four Horsewomen.

InvitationWhen Rousey went to Las

Vegas last summer to lm The Ultimate Fighter, she took trainer Edmond Tarve-rdyan to lead her coaching sta. Also in tow was train-ing partner Marina Shar, Rouseys best friend since their days as teenagers com-peting in judo tournaments.

Me and Marina were al-ways so tight because we never really got along with other girls. Because what do we have in common with the average girl my age? Rousey said. The Ulti-mate Fighter really brought me together with a bunch of other like-minded women.

Of the four women on Team Rousey, the two who stood out and bonded with Rousey and Shaf ir were womens MMA pioneer Shayna Baszler, 33, and up-start 27-year-old Jessamyn Duke. Upon the shows com-pletion, the two continued to keep in touch with Rousey and Shar.

Pretty soon, both were v isiting and tra ining at Ta rverdyans G lenda le Fighting Club.

For Rousey and Shar, the next step was a no-brainer. They had a big house and rooms available.

Why not?So when Jessamyn

comes out and hangs out for a little bit, I was like Ma-rina, can we keep her? Can we keep her? Rousey, 27, said with her bright smile and a big laugh. And so the same thing when Shayna came out: Can we keep her? Can we keep her?

Even when they came out to visit, it was like, You guys are just moving in. I just said it like it was already a decision before they even decided to do it. I was like, Yeah, thisll be your room ... It was like a foregone conclu-sion.

Shar, who just turned 26, wouldnt change a thing.

All of us are such dif-ferent personalities, but we come together like a puzzle. Its crazy, she said. Ronda and I will sit in the living room and theyll be out do-ing whatever. Well just sit there and be like, The house is perfect.

FormationConquest. War. Famine.

Death.Each riding a dierent col-

ored horse, based on inter-pretations of the New Testa-ment, they are widely viewed as The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse.

Hundreds of years later, sportswriter Grantland Rice poetically applied the mon-iker to the backeld of the 1924 Notre Dame football team.

In the 1980s, it was bor-rowed to describe one of the

most popular and success-ful groups in professional wrestling. Led by Ric Flair, they were the jet-setting bad boys.

Credit Baszler, a longtime pro wrestling fan, for coining the name The Four Horse-women.

I love it. It started o kind of as a joke, but I think its a really good representation of us, Baszler said. Were kind of heels the people love to love and love to hate. Thats kind of the same as the The Four Horsemen. Were The Four Horsewomen.

And with Rousey with her 9-0 record, magazine covers and movie roles in Expendables 3, Fast & Furious 7 and Entourage catching heat for how she came o on The Ulti-mate Fighter and refusing to shake Tates hand after beating her at UFC 168, its not such a stretch.

But for all the booing, fans love The Four Horse-women. Throwing up the fours holding up four n -gers has become common-

place when any of the ght-ers makes an appearance or pose for pictures.

A united front has become a phenomenon.

That seemed improba-ble just two years ago after Rousey won the Strikeforce title.

There were days after I won the belt and Id still be training alone and Id be driving alone so many hours a day. Itd get lonely, said

Rousey, who was named the UFC champion in Novem-ber 2012. Its cool, but youre lonely. Its so helpful having other people there on the same quest as you and they understand what youre go-ing through and theyre ex-cited about the same things. We all just really feed off each other.

SensationShar was clearly strug-

gling.Coming o an illness, the

sparring session wasnt go-ing as planned. Rousey, Baszler and Duke stood side by side outside the ring, qui-etly analyzing the action.

From the r ing apron, Tarverdyans criticism was well-founded but loud and direct.

Marina, stop leaning back! Move forward!

After four rounds, Shar dejected ly removed her headgear and sat by herself.

It was a hard day. I was really sick. And there are no excuses, I should have per-formed better, said Shar, the only one of the four not in the UFC because she ghts at 145 pounds the UFC has only 115- and 135-pound womens divisions. Its a learning thing. Thats a les-son thats already in my brain. Yeah, because I need time. Im one of those people, if Im pissed o about some-thing, I need time to cool o and immediately think real-ism in my brain.

If I dont, just leave me alone. Keep me on ice. Pre-tend Im not there.

Weeks later, with a 5-0 amateur record, Shaf ir would be making her pro-fessional MMA debut April 12 at Chaos at the Casino 4 at Hollywood Park Casino in Inglewood.

Nearly two dozen ghters and their coaches rebued offers to challenge Shafir. A running joke at Glendale Fighting Club is featured on the board promoting upcom-ing ghts: Marina Shar vs. Victim.

Shar eventually got an opponent on eight days no-tice, needing only 1:57 to de-feat Chandra Engel her sixth rst-round submission victory in six ghts.

All in less than two years.In her corner were Rousey

and Tarverdyan. No one had

a bigger smile than Tarve-rdyan.

These girls are tough. They have hard days in here. I tell them this is the way you gotta get up. They just do what I tell them, he said. Theyre like machines. Mentally, theyre strong and theyre real focused. When they want to learn some-thing, they put 100 percent energy and eort.

Not far away in the crowd were Baszler and Duke. Only this time, they were far from quiet. Maybe there was some analysis, but it was mostly wholehearted support.

Loud and direct.Were not gonna give

each other lip service. Were not faking the funk for any of us, Baszler said. Were pretty straightforward and I think thats why it works so well between the four of us, is we dont hold back from each other.

We all like to deal with it dierently. But we know each other enough. So yeah, you kinda saw it that day. When Marinas down, you gotta let her be down for a bit. Its not even anything conscious. We just know each other.

And in the ring, Shafir celebrated with a group pic-ture. Throwing up the fours.

DeterminationWhere were you 10

years ago on Halloween night?

Rousey, Shar and Duke were teenagers.

Baszler was 23 and at the fairgrounds.

About to make her profes-sional MMA debut.

I can remember walking into a barn in South Dakota, and this wasnt even an idea as a career path. This was just something I did that was fun, the Sioux Falls native recalled. It wasnt a dream.

Jessamyn Duke , Ronda Rousey and Shayna Baszler, le to right, shadow box while holding weights at the Glendale Fighting Club in Glendale.

Marina Shar, le, and Jessamyn Duke work on their wrestling moves.

Ronda Rousey, le, gets a big hug from housemate Jessamyn Duke at their Venice home. MMA PAGE 7

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