Day: June 12, 2022

Anaheim celebrated Old Glory on Sunday with its 27th annual Flag Day event. Participants marched around Pearson Park and for the third year also had a procession of vehicles decorated in the red, white and blue. There was a Flag Day concert Friday at Irvine Regional Park and a field of flags is now on…

Chicago White Sox starter Michael Kopech hobbled after throwing a pitch and exited Sunday’s start against the Texas Rangers in the first inning with right knee discomfort. The training staff checked on Kopech after he threw a strike to the third hitter of the game, Rangers’ Adolis García, making the count 3-2. Kopech threw 13…

At age 15, more than 3,000 miles from his family, David Ojabo found comfort in food. At Blair Academy in New Jersey, not much connected Ojabo to his roots. But at the boarding school, he’d met a friend whose parents, like his, are descendants of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria. The friend, Odafe Oweh,…

SAN FRANCISCO – For all the justifiable concerns about the state of their pitching staff with Walker Buehler sidelined by a flexor strain, something else was bothering Dave Roberts before Sunday’s game at Oracle Park. “It’s getting more clear that we’re not doing enough to win baseball games,” Roberts said. “We need to win more…

By GREG BEACHAM SONOMA, Calif. (AP) — NASCAR’s preseason Clash race is rolling back to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in 2023. NASCAR said Sunday it will return the exhibition race to the Southern California sports landmark next season. The Clash’s highly successful debut there four months ago was part of the launch of NASCAR’s…

Joe Kelly threw a little more than 20 pitches during a simulated game Sunday at Guaranteed Rate Field. “It’s the best I’ve probably thrown at 10:30 in the morning, velocity-wise,” the Chicago White Sox reliever joked. “But everything else is good. Obviously not as crisp as I wanted it to be, but health-wise, it went…

Last week’s primary election told us that there will be very little drama in November’s general election vis-à-vis California’s statewide offices. With one potential exception, Democrats will continue to hold all of them. Instead, voters will be pounded with pitches for and against a clutch of high-dollar ballot measures. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Lt. Gov. Eleni…

There’s no shortage of platforms and tools for building websites in the market. There are so many in fact, that finding a decent one is not much of a problem. If “decent” isn’t good enough for you, it gets tougher. Finding a top-of-the-line product becomes a challenge. Affordability and ease of use are two important…

ANAHEIM ― Davis Daniel’s 25th birthday celebration began with a call from his manager at Triple-A Salt Lake, Lou Marson, late Friday night (1 .a.m. Saturday) in Oklahoma City. It was the best gift a minor league manager can give a player. By Saturday morning, Daniel was on a flight to California, where he would…

The show will go on. Although Baltimore’s weather forecast has scattered thunderstorms arriving shortly before legendary artist Paul McCartney’s eagerly anticipated concert, the performance will continue “rain or shine,” event organizers said. The former Beatle is playing in Baltimore for the first time since 1964 when the group held its first North American tour. McCartney’s…

There’s no shortage of platforms and tools for building websites in the market. There are so many in fact, that finding a decent one is not much of a problem. If “decent” isn’t good enough for you, it gets tougher. Finding a top-of-the-line product becomes a challenge. Affordability and ease of use are two important…

ANAHEIM ― Davis Daniel’s 25th birthday celebration began with a call from his manager at Triple-A Salt Lake, Lou Marson, late Friday night (1 .a.m. Saturday) in Oklahoma City. It was the best gift a minor league manager can give a player. By Saturday morning, Daniel was on a flight to California, where he would…

The show will go on. Although Baltimore’s weather forecast has scattered thunderstorms arriving shortly before legendary artist Paul McCartney’s eagerly anticipated concert, the performance will continue “rain or shine,” event organizers said. The former Beatle is playing in Baltimore for the first time since 1964 when the group held its first North American tour. McCartney’s…

At age 15, more than 3,000 miles from his family, David Ojabo found comfort in food. At Blair Academy in New Jersey, not much connected Ojabo to his roots. But at the boarding school, he’d met a friend whose parents, like his, are descendants of the Igbo people in southeastern Nigeria. The friend, Odafe Oweh,…

Last week’s primary election told us that there will be very little drama in November’s general election vis-à-vis California’s statewide offices. With one potential exception, Democrats will continue to hold all of them. Instead, voters will be pounded with pitches for and against a clutch of high-dollar ballot measures. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Lt. Gov. Eleni…

Costa Mesa officials are about to take up the first two proposals from a deluge of applications for opening retail cannabis shops. A storefront proposed on Harbor Boulevard and one on Newport Boulevard – the streets where nearly two-thirds of the 65 proposed businesses would be located – will go before the city’s Planning Commission…

On May 2 of this year, a friend texted me about Justice Alito’s leaked draft that could overturn Roe v. Wade. My first reaction was utter disbelief: I never thought I’d see the day when America might stop protecting the right to abortion at the federal level—leaving it to the states to decide the fate…

The Orlando Magic, owners of the Nos. 1, 32 and 35 picks in the NBA draft, will have multiple chances to add to their roster on June 23. After kicking off a rebuild in March 2021, the Magic already have significant young talent. Orlando has nine players who were drafted in the first round since…

The Orlando Magic, owners of the Nos. 1, 32 and 35 picks in the NBA draft, will have multiple chances to add to their roster on June 23. After kicking off a rebuild in March 2021, the Magic already have significant young talent. Orlando has nine players who were drafted in the first round since…

Q. I am a newly retired 68-year-old woman. As a former attorney, I never had difficulty buying clothes. Not the case now. Recently I went to two large department stores and found nothing that seemed to be right for me. I even tried to buy jeans, which was worse than buying a bathing suit. Is…