Alice Haseman, left, gets help making a card from Sales Director Debbie Marroquin at Park Plaza senior living in Orange, CA on Tuesday, August 23, 2022. Twenty-four students at Palymra Elementary School in Orange will be receiving the backpacks filled with school supplies and a note of encouragement. (Photo by Paul Bersebach, Orange County Register/SCNG)…
Month: August 2022
‘Everybody has a different sense of confidence’: Why Roquan Smith’s return matters for the Chicago Bears
The Chicago Bears have entered game-week preparation mode at Halas Hall, utilizing their regular-season practice and meeting routine to gear up for Saturday’s preseason finale against the Cleveland Browns. The team practiced Tuesday afternoon in Lake Forest and will return to the field Wednesday and Thursday. Here are four things we learned Tuesday. 1. Roquan…
Bishop Moore’s Ben DeLuca, Hagerty’s Jeff Driskel survive NFL 80-man rosters
It may have come as a surprise to many NFL insiders, but not likely to Ben DeLuca. The former Bishop Moore standout safety survived the next-to-last round of cuts Tuesday to earn a spot on the Los Angeles Chargers 80-man roster. NFL teams have until Saturday to finish trimming their rosters to the season limit…
Nets’ statement further cools speculation of possible Kevin Durant-Miami Heat trade
For the past two months the Miami Heat have gone from a destination of choice for Kevin Durant, to a team on the outside looking in when it came to a potential trade, to the Heat themselves making it known they were prepared to move forward with the roster in place. Now it appears the…
Arlington Heights residents favor a Chicago Bears stadium — but not tax help, a libertarian poll finds. But the mayor is wary of the questioning.
A new poll commissioned by a self-described libertarian group found that a majority of Arlington Heights residents surveyed support the Chicago Bears moving from Soldier Field to their village, but oppose any tax subsidy to help the team do so. The poll, released Tuesday, found that 72% of respondents approved of the Bears’ proposal to…
Why is Buck Showalter successful with the Mets? Simply put, he gets it
The Manager of the Year award is more about narrative than anything else. Outside of wins and losses, there aren’t really statistics to gauge how well a manager is doing in a given season. It’s more about feeling, guidance and the environment they foster over the course of 162 games, a period when players and…
Heavy rains cause flooding across Dallas-Fort Worth area
Associated Press DALLAS — Heavy rains across the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads. “The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight,” said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. He said that…
Game Day: Watching the NL Cy Young contest close up
Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday Aug. 23 edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. That sound you hear is the National League Cy Young Award race roaring through L.A. There’s other news: The Dodgers showed confidence in Max Muncy, $13.5…
Dodgers can’t solve Eric Lauer, lose to Brewers
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers wore their City Connect uniforms on Monday night. Eric Lauer still recognized them. The 27-year-old left-hander added another start to his history of success against the Dodgers, holding them scoreless for the first five innings of a 4-0 shutout victory for the Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers had a stretch of…
Biden reportedly set to forgive some student loan debt
By Seung Min Kim, Michael Balsamo, Chris Megerian and Zeke Miller | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden on Wednesday is set to announce his long-delayed move to forgive up to $10,000 in federal student loans for many Americans and extend a pause on payments to January, according to three people familiar with the…
Why is Buck Showalter successful with the Mets? Simply put, he gets it
The Manager of the Year award is more about narrative than anything else. Outside of wins and losses, there aren’t really statistics to gauge how well a manager is doing in a given season. It’s more about feeling, guidance and the environment they foster over the course of 162 games, a period when players and…
Heavy rains cause flooding across Dallas-Fort Worth area
Associated Press DALLAS — Heavy rains across the Dallas-Fort Worth area on Monday caused streets to flood, submerging vehicles as officials warned motorists to stay off the roads. “The Dallas-Fort Worth area was pretty much ground zero for the heaviest rain overnight,” said Daniel Huckaby, a meteorologist with the National Weather Service. He said that…
Dodgers can’t solve Eric Lauer, lose to Brewers
LOS ANGELES — The Dodgers wore their City Connect uniforms on Monday night. Eric Lauer still recognized them. The 27-year-old left-hander added another start to his history of success against the Dodgers, holding them scoreless for the first five innings of a 4-0 shutout victory for the Milwaukee Brewers. The Dodgers had a stretch of…
Game Day: Watching the NL Cy Young contest close up
Editor’s note: This is the Tuesday Aug. 23 edition of the “Game Day with Kevin Modesti” newsletter. To receive the newsletter in your inbox, sign up here. Good morning. That sound you hear is the National League Cy Young Award race roaring through L.A. There’s other news: The Dodgers showed confidence in Max Muncy, $13.5…
Nets’ statement further cools speculation of possible Kevin Durant-Miami Heat trade
For the past two months the Miami Heat have gone from a destination of choice for Kevin Durant, to a team on the outside looking in when it came to a potential trade, to the Heat themselves making it known they were prepared to move forward with the roster in place. Now it appears the…
ASK IRA: Will Udonis Haslem’s last Heat dance be as an active participant?
Q: Now that Udonis Haslem has re-signed, do you think that he will be utilized more often? After all, his number of rebounds speaks something about what he can do. – Jack, Pompano Beach. A: But the overwhelming number of those rebounds came a decade ago. This is not the same player, clearly without the…
Brian Cashman gives Aaron Boone the dreaded vote of confidence
Amid their month-long slide, fans have booed owner Hal Steinbrenner, ripped GM Brian Cashman and chanted to have Aaron Boone fired. Monday, before the Yankees took on the Mets in the first game of the Subway Series at Yankee Stadium, Cashman gave Boone and his coaches a vote of confidence. “Being a manager of the…
Kevin Durant staying with Nets after trade drama comes to an end as sides ‘agree to move forward with our partnership’
Suddenly, the dust settled and the drama came to an end, and the Nets returned to their post as championship contenders — if not favorites. The Nets announced in a joint statement with Kevin Durant’s media company Boardroom that the superstar forward and his agent, Rich Kleiman, sat down and came to an agreement with…
Travel: A journey to the Marquesas will immerse you in island spirits
Wearing choker necklaces made of boar tusks, traditionally tattooed Marquesan men fiercely grunt performing the “Pig Dance” alongside a hallowed banyan tree where cannibals buried skulls of ritualistically eaten victims. At another sacred archeological site, I fixate on an ancient 8-foot-tall red rock tiki, supposedly a once-mighty warrior chief, now lingering among jungly coconut palms.…
11 Windows 11 (22H2) Tips You Should Know
Windows 11 got updated recently! After the developer release of Windows 11 22H2 got published in early 2022, Microsoft introduced a bunch of new features targeting its user community. That is, Windows 11 22H2 packs in a whole list of features, fixes, and improvements everyone was waiting for — including me. Surprisingly, there is a…