Cameron Brink #22 of the Stanford Cardinal drives to the basket against Charisma Osborne #20 of the UCLA Bruins during the championship game of the Pac-12 Conference women’s basketball tournament at Michelob ULTRA Arena on March 7, 2021 in Las Vegas, Nevada. (Photo by Ethan Miller/Getty Images) Cameron Brink #22 of the Stanford Cardinal drives […]
Read more »The Indiana Pacers’ Cassius Stanley competes in the 2021 NBA All-Star Slam Dunk Contest on Sunday night in Atlanta. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) ATLANTA, GEORGIA – MARCH 07: Cassius Stanley of the Indiana Pacers competes in the 2021 NBA All-Star – AT&T Slam Dunk Contest during All-Star Sunday Night at State Farm Arena […]
Read more »The Calgary Flames hired Darryl Sutter as their head coach Thursday night, and on Friday a talk-show host congratulated him. “Thanks, John,” Sutter said. “Now I won’t be able to listen to you on the tractor while I’m feeding the cows.” This was reminiscent of Dec. 19, 2011, when the Kings tried to rescue a […]
Read more »California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and majority party legislators, practically break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back for the fact that California has a large and unexpected budget surplus. According to last month’s report from the California Department of Finance, general fund receipts for the first seven months of the current […]
Read more »USC will have to wait another year to break its drought of regular-season conference titles. With Oregon’s 80-67 win over Oregon State on Sunday, the Ducks clinched the Pac-12 championship, denying the Trojans their first outright regular-season league title since 1961. Oregon (14-4 in Pac-12 play) and USC (15-5) finished even in the Pac-12 standings. […]
Read more »Another day, another stakes victory for trainer Bob Baffert. Baffert, who sent out Life Is Good for a scintillating victory in Saturday’s San Felipe Stakes, saddled Beautiful Gift in Sunday’s $100,000 Grade III Santa Ysabel Stakes at Santa Anita and watched her nail Moraz at the wire in an important prep for the Santa Anita […]
Read more »If the Ducks were mired in a nine-game winless skid in past seasons they could have eased the tension by going to dinner together, dropping the bill in the laps of their rookies. Or they could have called off practice and gone bowling or held a ping pong, pool or golf tournament. One time, they […]
Read more »The Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry competes in the 2021 NBA All-Star 3-Point Contest on Sunday in Atlanta. (Photo by TIMOTHY A. CLARY/AFP via Getty Images) The Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry competes in the 2021 NBA All-Star 3-Point Contest on Sunday in Atlanta. (Photo by Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images) Golden State Warriors guard Steph […]
Read more »The Calgary Flames hired Darryl Sutter as their head coach Thursday night, and on Friday a talk-show host congratulated him. “Thanks, John,” Sutter said. “Now I won’t be able to listen to you on the tractor while I’m feeding the cows.” This was reminiscent of Dec. 19, 2011, when the Kings tried to rescue a […]
Read more »The Kings will visit Vegas at least twice this season, but, if the NHL Awards are held in person, some of their top performers might be planning a third trip in the offseason. Since 2018, the Kings have been absent from both the playoffs and nominations for the league’s major awards, but that could change […]
Read more »California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and majority party legislators, practically break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back for the fact that California has a large and unexpected budget surplus. According to last month’s report from the California Department of Finance, general fund receipts for the first seven months of the current […]
Read more »By The Associated Press ROME — Italy’s health minister says that all Italians who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to do so by summer’s end. Minister Roberto Speranza told state TV on Sunday that Italy expects to receive delivery of more than 50 million doses in the second quarter of this […]
Read more »Clippers star Kawhi Leonard is planning to play for Gregg Popovich again and chase a gold medal. Leonard said Sunday at the All-Star Game in Atlanta that he is planning to compete with USA Basketball this summer at the rescheduled Tokyo Olympics – which would reunite him with Popovich. Leonard spent his first seven seasons […]
Read more »Dear readers, This week, the focus is on the emails I received in response to the column on ageism and birthday cards. Here are some of our readers’ perspectives. I’ll follow with some of my own thoughts: “Rarely am I driven to a column immediately but your column on ‘ageist’ birthday cards really pushed my […]
Read more »Dear readers, This week, the focus is on the emails I received in response to the column on ageism and birthday cards. Here are some of our readers’ perspectives. I’ll follow with some of my own thoughts: “Rarely am I driven to a column immediately but your column on ‘ageist’ birthday cards really pushed my […]
Read more »<p>TEMPE, Ariz. — Taylor Ward has gone from having no position to having five of them.</p><p>Ward was in the Angels starting lineup at catcher for Sunday’s game, the first time he started a big league exhibition behind the plate since before the Angels moved him off the position prior to the 2018 season.</p><p>It’s a sign […]
Read more »By The Associated Press ROME — Italy’s health minister says that all Italians who want to be vaccinated against COVID-19 will be able to do so by summer’s end. Minister Roberto Speranza told state TV on Sunday that Italy expects to receive delivery of more than 50 million doses in the second quarter of this […]
Read more »California politicians, including Gov. Gavin Newsom and majority party legislators, practically break their arms trying to pat themselves on the back for the fact that California has a large and unexpected budget surplus. According to last month’s report from the California Department of Finance, general fund receipts for the first seven months of the current […]
Read more »Dear readers, This week, the focus is on the emails I received in response to the column on ageism and birthday cards. Here are some of our readers’ perspectives. I’ll follow with some of my own thoughts: “Rarely am I driven to a column immediately but your column on ‘ageist’ birthday cards really pushed my […]
Read more »Dear readers, This week, the focus is on the emails I received in response to the column on ageism and birthday cards. Here are some of our readers’ perspectives. I’ll follow with some of my own thoughts: “Rarely am I driven to a column immediately but your column on ‘ageist’ birthday cards really pushed my […]
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