With the curtain set to rise on the 2022 WNBA season on Friday, the Sparks waived returning guards Te’a Cooper and Arella Guirantes and rookie guard Kianna Smith, the 2017 Orange County Register Girls Basketball Player of the Year. With Wednesday’s cuts, the Sparks have 14 players on a roster that eventually will have to…
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The Mets provided an update on injured reliever Trevor May on Wednesday morning. It sounds ominous. The imaging tests done on May revealed a stress reaction on the lower portion of his right humerus, the upper arm bone between the shoulder and elbow joints, per general manager Billy Eppler. The stress reaction has caused inflammation…
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Buck Showalter began his pregame press conference on Wednesday with an unprompted story, as he’s wont to do. “They changed the error they gave Francisco Lindor in St. Louis to a hit,” Showalter said. “I asked Lindor after the game [if he wanted to get it changed]. He said leave it alone. You know why?…
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Pixie tangerines, with their perky-sweet flavor profile, are the perfect partner in a green salad, especially when fresh baby spinach is the main event. Grown in Ojai, these tasty tangerines are generally available through May, past the availability for most other tangerine varieties. Napping baby spinach leaves with a creamy Roquefort dressing shows off sections…
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Tyler Herro makes it clear the only priority at the moment is living in the moment. “Right now we’re focused on this season and my role now,” the third-year Miami Heat guard said in the wake of being named NBA Sixth Man of the Year. So, with that, attention returned to the Heat’s Eastern Conference…
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Disneyland visitors who always dreamed of living like “The Jetsons” in Monsanto’s House of the Future will soon be able to spend the night in a hotel suite that pays tribute to Tomorrowland’s midcentury modern masterpiece. The new House of the Future Retro Suite will open this summer at the Howard Johnson Anaheim Hotel across…
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By TOM MURPHY COVID-19 vaccine sales helped Moderna triple its net income in a better-than-expected first quarter. The vaccine maker said Wednesday that revenue from its coronavirus preventive shots jumped to $5.92 billion from $1.73 billion in last year’s quarter, when the vaccines were debuting in most markets. More than 217 million doses of Moderna’s…
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The Sodfather confirmed Wednesday what most of us in Chicago already assumed. This has been our worst spring ever. Period. Roger Bossard, the head groundskeeper of the Chicago White Sox, didn’t need numbers to back up his claim. He has millions of eyewitnesses. Bossard said Sox manager Tony La Russa recently asked him if he’s…
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A Navy investigation says an August helicopter crash off the coast of San Diego was not pilot error, but was caused by the mechanical failure of a hose funneling hydraulic fluid to the helicopter’s rotor. The 23-page command investigation by the Navy’s Third Fleet was released on Tuesday, May 3, and chronicles the events during…
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A man was found dead in an Anaheim home and another arrested on suspicion of the victim’s killing Tuesday night, May 3, authorities said. Officers responded to the 500 block of North Philadelphia Street, near East Sycamore Street, about 6:30 p.m. after receiving a call that a person was at a home in violation of…
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