You’ve got to have thick skin to be a major-league manager, and no one alive has managed more major-league games than Tony La Russa. But being booed by your own fans has to sting a little, even for someone as grizzled as La Russa. So I asked the Chicago White Sox manager before Sunday’s 8-6…
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Joshua Specks walks west on Hollywood Blvd. during the annual LA Pride Parade in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 12, 2022. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) The annual LA Pride Parade travels west on Hollywood Blvd. on Sunday, June 12, 2022. (Photo by Drew A. Kelley, Contributing Photographer) The annual LA Pride Parade…
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San Francisco Giants’ Austin Slater, right, celebrates next to Los Angeles Dodgers catcher Austin Barnes, left, after hitting a home run during the first inning of a baseball game in San Francisco, Sunday, June 12, 2022. (AP Photo/Jeff Chiu) San Francisco Giants third baseman Wilmer Flores fields a ground ball hit by Los Angeles Dodgers’…
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There was a hint of a smile as Anthony Santander rounded first base, and it wouldn’t be the last one the Orioles would flash Sunday at Kauffman Stadium. The ball had leaped off Santander’s bat, flying an estimated 455 feet and ending with a splash into the fountain beyond the right-center fence. The emphatic crack…
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Talk to any Laguna Woods Table Tennis Club member, and the word “passion” is bound to come up. These folks love their sport. And for many reasons. Igor Bloshtein, 60, has been playing table tennis for 10 years, switching to the sport after a lifetime of martial arts. “I turned to table tennis as a…
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ANAHEIM — The days of using spot starters are finally behind the Mets. Thanks to the return of Tylor Megill, the Mets rotation already looks more complete, and that’s with Jacob deGrom and Max Scherzer still sitting on the injured list. On Tuesday, for the first time in two weeks, the Mets will finally play…
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Manager David Ross needed few words to describe the state of the Chicago Cubs rotation. “Short would be a good word,” Ross said Sunday after the Cubs’ 18-4 loss to the New York Yankees. Besieged by injuries to veteran starters, there are opportunities for others to step up in their absence. Over the weekend, left-hander…
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Decreasing temperatures and hazardous winds are expected to affect inland areas of Southern California early in the week before a brief heat wave is expected to reheat the region by the middle of the week, meteorologists said Sunday, June 12. On Sunday, a low-pressure trough began to work its way into the region that brought…
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Camp is out for summer on Friday. The Miami Dolphins have wrapped the offseason training program and won’t return to the facility until late July when training camp begins. Until then players are on their own to run routes, study the playbook and stay in shape. Here’s look at Omar Kelly’s superlatives of the Dolphins’…
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The best compliment Nick Boyle might’ve gotten this offseason is that he doesn’t look like Nick Boyle anymore. Or at least not like the Nick Boyle of recent memory. Said offensive coordinator Greg Roman: “He looks like a completely new guy this year. It’s unbelievable what he’s done, the hard work he’s put in.” And…
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