Christine Daniels was born in Inglewood some time before the Lakers started playing there and moved to Anaheim with her family some time before the words "Angels" and "playoffs" were ever written in the same sentence. She graduated Cal State Fullerton a couple years after Bobby Dye's "Cal State Who?" basketball squad nearly reached the Final Four. Since joining the Times in July in 1983, Christine has covered a wide array of assignments _ from the Angels to the NFL to the Olympics to tennis to soccer to sports media criticism to Morning Briefing. She reports she is "absolutely thrilled" with her latest assignment as "Day In L.A." columnist, especially the byline.