Month: April 2022

It had been a while. Giancarlo Stanton had contributed in the 14 games he played without hitting a home run, but not like this. Wednesday night, the Yankee outfielder ended his homer slump, hitting his 350th career dinger, and drove in three runs altogether as the Bombers beat the Orioles 5-2 at the Stadium. It…

The Chicago Bulls season ended with an air of inevitability Wednesday night as the team crumpled against the Milwaukee Bucks in a 116-100 Game 5 loss to close their best-of-seven first-round series. The Bulls’ chances went from unlikely to grim after starters Alex Caruso (concussion) and Zach LaVine (COVID-19) were both ruled out of Game…

A New York judge has declined to order the Orioles-controlled television network to pay an additional $23 million into an escrow account while the network’s decadelong broadcast rights fees dispute with the Washington Nationals continues. The Nationals, in court papers, had requested that the Mid-Atlantic Sports Network add the money into an account already containing…

Chargers general manager Tom Telesco had a slight hesitation before embracing the benefits of having a Snoop Dogg concert near the team’s draft war room. “Snoop is a coach, so we may have to lean on him a little bit and see who he likes in the first round,” Telesco jokingly said. It will be…

Running off at the typewriter. … Raise your hand if you trust the Jacksonville Jaguars to make the right choice with the No. 1 overall pick in Thursday night’s NFL Draft. Anyone? Anyone? The Jaguars also had the No. 1 overall pick last season, but the pick was a no-brainer because purported can’t-miss franchise quarterback…

The NFL draft is nearly here, and roster help isn’t far behind. The Ravens have been waiting for a while — way before injuries did a number on their roster and playoff chances last fall. “This is a draft that we’ve been thinking about for the last year, basically,” general manager Eric DeCosta said at…

A team of volunteer divers will descend 45 meters into the ocean off San Pedro on Thursday, April 28, to retrieve lost commercial fishing gear near a sunken pre-WWII destroyer as part of an international effort to clean the world’s oceans and protect marine life. The dive represents the first effort undertaken in the United…

Kevin Frazier is the MC of the event announcing the kick-off campaign for the “Vote Arts and Minds” ballot measure at Hamilton High School in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 26, 2022. (Photo by Axel Koester, Contributing Photographer) Proponents of the Arts and Music in Public Schools Ballot Measure, including Austin Beutner, event MC Kevin…

Crypto.com has been making its rounds not just in the United States, but also all over the globe with their robust list of services and most importantly, the rewards that you can get just by using it. That’s right, just by using their debit card, you can earn more rewards than if you use your…

The Chicago Bulls never have come back from a 3-1 deficit to win a best-of-seven playoff series, so the odds of them taking the next three games from the Milwaukee Bucks already were slim before Zach LaVine entered health and safety protocols for COVID-19 on Tuesday. After a glint of optimism emerged following the Bulls’…

Kansas City Royals catcher Salvador Perez hit a routine grounder to shortstop Tim Anderson, but first baseman José Abreu dropped the low throw and was charged with an error. The fourth-inning miscue got the ball rolling on a two-run rally for the Royals. That sums up how the last week has gone for the Chicago…

Are you having problems with your laptop battery? Is it not charging like it used to? If so, don’t panic – you are not alone. Many people experience this problem ever so often. In this blog post, I will discuss five of the most common ways to fix a laptop battery that is not charging.…

Why did Orange County’s median home sales price enter the million-dollar club? Well, the pandemic’s homebuying binge more than tripled the number of million-dollar Orange County neighborhoods over 24 months as the market lost three-quarters of its “affordable” communities since March 2020. My trusty spreadsheet, filled with March homebuying stats from DQNews/CoreLogic for 83 Orange…

The Chicago Bulls spent most of the regular season at the mercy of the injury report — including Patrick Williams’ early setback, Lonzo Ball’s season-ender and a rash of 18 players and staff testing positive for COVID-19. And that’s how the team appears set to end the season after Zach LaVine entered health and safety…

ST. LOUIS – Six straight series victories to start the year? That’ll play. Backed by Chris Bassitt’s six shutout innings on Tuesday, the Mets beat the Cardinals for a second straight night, this time 3-0, ensuring a series win for the Amazin’s before their finale at Busch Stadium on Wednesday. It is the first time…

The Ducks’ Max Comtois, left, and the San Jose Sharks’ Brent Burns pursue the puck during the first period on Tuesday night in San Jose. (Photo by Ezra Shaw/Getty Images) San Jose Sharks center Noah Gregor (73) chases the puck past Ducks left wing Sonny Milano (12) during the first period in an NHL hockey…

This column is dedicated to my daughter, Curly Girl, who’s planning to get married at the end of the month. Her biggest fear is that her wedding “won’t be perfect.”  At age 23, apparently, you still believe in perfection. I have explained to her many times that the things that go wrong become the best…

Developing website is not always about coding. You’d also need a good sense of design to make the site usable, accessible, and actually looking good for the users. So, in this round of the series, we are going to explore more on some of these resources around design category. You’ll find tools for composing animation…

You never get a chance to add a great player to your roster in a playoff run. But then you never get an answer like Victor Oladipo gave after his eye-opening play helped the Miami Heat advance to the next round. “A year ago today I was expecting and waiting for my next surgery,’ he…

ST. LOUIS – Six straight series victories to start the year? That’ll play. Backed by Chris Bassitt’s six shutout innings on Tuesday, the Mets beat the Cardinals for a second straight night, this time 3-0, ensuring a series win for the Amazin’s before their finale at Busch Stadium on Wednesday. It is the first time…