Month: September 2022

Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson will return to his home state this weekend, but it is a bit of a business trip. Gang Green will hit the road for the first time this season against the Cleveland Browns. Wilson, who was born in Columbus and spent the bulk of his childhood in Ohio, will have…

When most of us remember last year’s Dolphins-Baltimore game, it’s the constant onslaught of all-out, hair-on-fire blitzes the Dolphins threw at Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Dolphins defensive players have memories of the blitzes, but they have memories of something else, too. What they remember is their swarming mentality. “That was the big thing,” linebacker Jerome…

By MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA LONDON (AP) — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall. There,…

The International Olympic Committee has begun to look at ways for Russian athletes to return to global competition including the Olympic Games, U.S. Olympic and Paralympic board chair Susanne Lyons said Thursday. Questions about the return of Russian athletes, concerns about the investigation of a positive drug test of Russian figure skater Kamila Valieva, and…

By JOSH FUNK, JOSH BOAK and ZEKE MILLER WASHINGTON (AP) — Rail companies and their workers reached a tentative agreement Thursday to avert a nationwide strike that could have shut down the nation’s freight trains and devastated the economy less than two months before the midterm elections. President Joe Biden announced the deal, which emerged…

Note to the good people of Arlington Heights: Take a breather and think this through. Don’t get overly excited by the idea of a Chicago Bears stadium and a new retail-residential-entertainment complex where the empty and abandoned Arlington International Racecourse stands. Don’t back up a truck to the public vault and load it with the…

The end of a magnificent men’s tennis era hasn’t arrived yet, but you can see it from here. Roger Federer called it quits Thursday morning, announcing that the Laver Cup team competition in London next weekend would be his final event, albeit one that his management company runs and that Federer himself played a key…

EL SEGUNDO –– As the Kings prepared for a three-game sojourn in San Jose for the 2022 Rookie Faceoff tournament, there was at least one somewhat surprising presence and one discouraging absence on the practice ice. Center Quinton Byfield was in the mix once again, despite the 2020 second overall draft pick’s participation in nearly…

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The OC Health Care Agency reported 1,923 more cases of the coronavirus from Thursday, Sept. 8, to Thursday, Sept. 15, increasing the cumulative total since tracking began in the county to 664,361. Staring the week of Sept. 12, the county started reporting case counts and testing data weekly on Thursdays. There were 4,246 new cases…

Jets wide receiver Garrett Wilson will return to his home state this weekend, but it is a bit of a business trip. Gang Green will hit the road for the first time this season against the Cleveland Browns. Wilson, who was born in Columbus and spent the bulk of his childhood in Ohio, will have…

When most of us remember last year’s Dolphins-Baltimore game, it’s the constant onslaught of all-out, hair-on-fire blitzes the Dolphins threw at Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson. Dolphins defensive players have memories of the blitzes, but they have memories of something else, too. What they remember is their swarming mentality. “That was the big thing,” linebacker Jerome…

Note to the good people of Arlington Heights: Take a breather and think this through. Don’t get overly excited by the idea of a Chicago Bears stadium and a new retail-residential-entertainment complex where the empty and abandoned Arlington International Racecourse stands. Don’t back up a truck to the public vault and load it with the…

If you’re a web designer, then you’ve just hit the jackpot with this huge resource of high-quality and free UI kits. You will find in this list everything from dashboard UI, landing pages, mobile apps, web app designs, screens, wireframes, and whatnot. Moreover, from Photoshop and Sketch to Figma and AdobeXD, these UI templates are…

By MIKE CORDER, JILL LAWLESS and DANICA KIRKA LONDON (AP) — The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II left Buckingham Palace for the last time Wednesday, borne on a horse-drawn carriage and saluted by cannons and the tolling of Big Ben, in a solemn procession through the flag-draped, crowd-lined streets of London to Westminster Hall. There,…

The Yankees got their nickname “Bronx Bombers” from hitting baseballs out the ballpark. Gleyber Torres had other plans to get his home run Wednesday night. Major league teams are used to seeing the Yankees land baseballs into the seats, totaling 224 homers entering Wednesday’s game — the most in the MLB. This time, an inside-the-park…

Max Muncy had to take a step back to save his season. And he might have Nolan Arenado to thank for it. “Maybe,” Muncy said. “It saved a lot of things, I can tell you that. It saved my mental health. “When you get to a point where you’re throwing your hands up and you’re…

When Jordan Lyles’ free agency began pointing toward Baltimore, he started hearing insights about his potential new manager from connections they shared in the game. His initial impressions of Brandon Hyde had been “hard-nosed” and “a little rough around the edges,” gained from a distance last year as the veteran right-hander watched highlights of Hyde…

With Ravens quarterback Lamar Jackson declining to talk Wednesday about his suspended contract talks — “I’m focused on the Dolphins now,” he told reporters — his last public comments on the matter this year could, appropriately enough, be about the issue of guaranteed money. After Sunday’s season-opening win over the New York Jets, a reporter…

By HOWARD FENDRICH | Associated Press Roger Federer is retiring from professional tennis at age 41 after a series of knee operations, closing a career in which he won 20 Grand Slam titles, finished five seasons ranked No. 1 and helped create a golden era of men’s tennis with rivals Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic.…