Day: June 2, 2022

Towards the end of last season Jets defensive coordinator Jeff Ulbrich was fighting offenses with one hand behind his back. But those days are done. The new players at Ulbrich’s disposal should result in a significantly better product after his unit ranked 32nd in points and yards allowed in 2021. “I am happy. It’s been…

For the Warriors’ two SoCal kids, Klay Thompson and Steve Kerr, there’s a little something extra about facing the Boston Celtics in the NBA Finals. Kerr grew up in the Pacific Palisades neighborhood of Los Angeles, watching Magic Johnson and the Lakers face off with Larry Bird and the Celtics in the Finals three times…

Bolsa Grande High handed diplomas to its graduating class on Tuesday, May 31. The commencement featured cheering families and smiling grads as the seniors marked the end of their high school careers and the beginning of their bright futures. Graduate Dinh Thong Ngo waves to family and friends during the commencement ceremony for Bolsa Grande…

Kings captain Anze Kopitar was honored with the NHL’s Mark Messier Leadership Award on Wednesday. It is bestowed each year upon “the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice, during the regular season and who plays a leading role in his community growing the game of hockey.” Though…

The Ravens are in their second week of organized team activities, and offensive coordinator Greg Roman already likes the flexibility offered by tight ends Mark Andrews, Nick Boyle and rookies Charlie Kolar and Isaiah Likely. When the Ravens traded wide receiver Marquise “Hollywood” Brown to the Arizona Cardinals in a surprising move on the first…

A culture is being created by new head coach Mike McDaniel and his coaching staff. A new offense is being installed by the Miami Dolphins, meshing what worked for quarterback Tua Tagovailoa with the core foundation of the play-action-based West Coast Offense. A defense that returns most of its core players is being tinkered with,…

Keegan Thompson’s value to the Chicago Cubs goes beyond labeling his role. He has done everything from spot start to working in multi-inning appearances out of the bullpen. His 2.1 bWAR ranks eighth among big-league pitchers and second overall on the Cubs behind catcher Willson Contreras. Thompson’s versatility on the pitching staff is a welcomed…

After 14 years, Canaletto Ristorante Veneto has closed at Fashion Island. Owned and operated by the Il Fornaio restaurant company, it served sit-down meals in an upscale setting at the shopping center. “We are grateful for our partnership with Canaletto over the past 14 years,” began a short statement released to the Register by Fashion…

President Joe Biden wants you to know he is serious about taming inflation and that he has a plan to do so. Unfortunately, his plan reveals that his administration is either in deep denial or doesn’t understand the real cause of inflation. His proposal, therefore, is all but guaranteed to fail. Writing in The Wall…

Assemblyman Alex Lee, a San Jose Democrat, is apparently lots of things, according to his Twitter bio. He’s progressive, a Democratic Socialist of America, “NUMTOT” (whatever that is), LGBT and “corporate-free.” A fringe candidate in 2020, he squeaked through because there were a handful of Democratic candidates splitting the vote and Lee had a small,…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, June 1 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES SOFTBALL CIF SOUTHERN REGIONAL Semifinals DIVISION II Mater Dei Catholic 2, Tesoro 0 BOYS GOLF CIF…

Former Chicago Bears quarterback Nick Foles, who now plays for the Indianapolis Colts, on May 23 placed his seven-bedroom, 7,664-square-foot mansion in Glencoe on the market for $3.29 million. A onetime Super Bowl MVP, Foles, 33, only played in one game for the Bears last year — a victory, no less — and was released…

Keegan Thompson’s value to the Chicago Cubs goes beyond labeling his role. He has done everything from spot start to working in multi-inning appearances out of the bullpen. His 2.1 bWAR ranks eighth among big-league pitchers and second overall on the Cubs behind catcher Willson Contreras. Thompson’s versatility on the pitching staff is a welcomed…

Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, June 1 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES SOFTBALL CIF SOUTHERN REGIONAL Semifinals DIVISION II Mater Dei Catholic 2, Tesoro 0 BOYS GOLF CIF…

Bolsa Grande High handed diplomas to its graduating class on Tuesday, May 31. The commencement featured cheering families and smiling grads as the seniors marked the end of their high school careers and the beginning of their bright futures. Graduate Dinh Thong Ngo waves to family and friends during the commencement ceremony for Bolsa Grande…

Kings captain Anze Kopitar was honored with the NHL’s Mark Messier Leadership Award on Wednesday. It is bestowed each year upon “the player who exemplifies great leadership qualities to his team, on and off the ice, during the regular season and who plays a leading role in his community growing the game of hockey.” Though…

After 14 years, Canaletto Ristorante Veneto has closed at Fashion Island. Owned and operated by the Il Fornaio restaurant company, it served sit-down meals in an upscale setting at the shopping center. “We are grateful for our partnership with Canaletto over the past 14 years,” began a short statement released to the Register by Fashion…

LOS ANGELES — Somewhere in the abandoned steel mills of Pittsburgh they must have found a way to forge a form of kryptonite that works only on the Dodgers. The proletarian Pirates – 17-26 against everyone else – completed a three-game sweep of the Dodgers with an 8-4 victory on Wednesday night. It was their…

Grayson Rodriguez left his start Wednesday night for Triple-A Norfolk after 5 2/3 innings with what the Orioles top pitching prospect said felt like a back cramp, an industry source with direct knowledge of the situation told The Baltimore Sun. Rodriguez will undergo further testing to determine the severity of the injury for the 22-year-old…

One winter when Kevin Hiroshi Donan was a child growing up in Flint, Mich., he went to play outside with some of his father’s Frisbees – or at least he thought the round, black, grooved discs were Frisbees. Donan hurled the discs, watching as they disappeared into the deep snow. “When the snow melted away,…