Even before the regular season ended, even before the final media ballots were tabulated, it only stood as a matter of when, rather than if, with Tyler Herro and the NBA’s Sixth Man of the Year award. The time is now, with the third-year guard on Tuesday named the NBA’s top reserve in a vote…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now MISSION VIEJO — Sonora’s Matthew Chai is the type of swimmer who rarely rests before a competition. He trains hard to be ready to race whenever a challenge arises. “I don’t taper,” he said matter-of-factly. So just days after posting lifetime-best times at…
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TORONTO — Marwin Gonzalez made his second start, his first in the outfield, for the Yankees Tuesday night in the second game of a three-game series against the Blue Jays at the Rogers Centre. Against Alek Manhoah, the Blue Jays tough young right-hander, Aaron Boone said he wanted to get another lefty in the lineup…
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Luis Robert raced to first base, looking to extend Sunday’s game against the Los Angeles Angels after hitting a grounder to shortstop Andrew Velazquez. The Chicago White Sox center fielder was called out on a bang-bang play. “I was pretty confident that I was safe,” Robert said through an interpreter Sunday. A video review confirmed…
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TORRANCE — The Sparks’ preseason game Saturday against the Phoenix Mercury at Cal State Northridge felt mighty strange. Phoenix’s recognizable star Brittney Griner, so heavy on players’ minds, remained in Russian custody after being arrested in February at an airport outside Moscow. “We had our practice game against Phoenix on the weekend, and that’s where…
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To say Saquon Barkley is excited for new Giants tackle Evan Neal is an understatement. “Evan Neal, he’s a physical specimen,” Barkley said Tuesday night at the United Way of New York City 29th annual Gridiron Gala at The Glasshouse in Midtown Manhattan. “He came for the draft top 30 visit. All the draft people…
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The Chicago Cubs are being cautious with catcher Willson Contreras. After a day off Monday, Contreras was not in Tuesday’s lineup against the White Sox at Wrigley Field. He is banged up but it’s “nothing serious,” according to manager David Ross. Contreras is considered day to day and was available to hit off the bench.…
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Megan Thee Stallion, Porter Robinson, Madeon and Lil Uzi Vert are among the big names in electronic music and hip-hop on the bill for Hard Summer Music Festival 2022 at the end of July, its organizers announced today, May 3. The festival, which expands to three days for the first time this year, returns to…
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Buck Showalter is back. The manager served his suspension — which was punishment for his team throwing at Phillies’ slugger Kyle Schwarber on Sunday — in the Mets’ 5-2 loss to Atlanta on Monday. Showalter began his Tuesday chat session with the media by recalling how he learned of the news. “Billy (Eppler) came in,…
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A Huntington Beach man was convicted Tuesday of special-circumstances murder for the brutal slaying of a man and woman in a Newport Beach condominium, killings apparently driven by his jealousy at those he believed were in relationships with an estranged girlfriend. That Jamon Buggs shot Darren Partch, 38, and Wendi Miller, 48, to death on…
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