Linebacker has been a position of need for USC for a couple of seasons now, but the Trojans made a key reinforcement to the position on Friday afternoon. Arizona State linebacker transfer Eric Gentry has signed with USC, the program announced on Twitter on Friday. He arrives at USC with three seasons of eligibility remaining.…
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After sitting out the first round of the NFL draft, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles made his first selections Friday night from Halas Hall. The Bears started the night with three picks on Day 2 — at Nos. 39 and 48 in the second round and 71 in the third round. The Bears also…
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In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, “Our Town,” heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced, yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens. Many one-time garden staples from the Victorian era through the 1950s have been replaced…
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The Stagecoach Country Music Festival is doing its best to pick up where it left off in 2019. The three-day event returned to Indio on Friday, April 29, after a two-year hiatus forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Fans turned out on opening day to hear headliner Thomas Rhett and more than a dozen other stars…
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The Mets, including pitchers and some position players, had a productive meeting with Major League Baseball representatives on Friday at Citi Field about all the hit by pitches. Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president of baseball operations, accompanied by former players Dan Otero and Rajai Davis, who now work in the commissioner’s office, had a…
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On Sunday, retired general Philip Breedlove, former Supreme Allied Commander Europe, told The Times of London that NATO should put boots on the ground in Ukraine. General Breedlove, who reportedly advises the Biden administration on its Ukraine policy, asserted the necessity of inserting NATO forces into an active warzone incorrectly stating that “there are no Russian troops west of the…
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Major League Baseball has suspended Dodgers pitcher Trevor Bauer for two full seasons (324 games) without pay, MLB commissioner Rob Manfred announced Friday. Bauer’s suspension for violating the league’s domestic violence and sexual assault policy is effective immediately, MLB said in a statement. The ban comes after a probe into the Dodgers pitcher by the…
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DALLAS — Kevin Shattenkirk has played 12 seasons in the NHL, including the past two with the Ducks. But until this one he had never played all 82 games, coming as close as 81 in 2011-12 and 2013-14 while with the St. Louis Blues and 80 while with the Blues and Washington Capitals in 2016-17.…
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TORRANCE — Passing college exams is tough. Proving yourself in a WNBA training camp is really tough. Try pairing those tasks. That’s life for so many WNBA rookies, who are starting their new jobs – which is to say, fighting to land one of only, at most, 144 available positions – in the few weeks…
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An 18-year-old was killed when two Century High School students were shot while sitting in a parked car in Santa Ana on Thursday evening. The car was in an alley at 1400 S. Minnie Street when someone approached it and fired several rounds at the occupants, said Sgt. Maria Lopez, a spokeswoman for the Santa…
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