Josh Donaldson sparked a benches-clearing incident on Saturday after calling White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson “Jackie,” meaning Jackie Robinson. Aaron Boone spent the rest of that day and some time before the two teams’ next game Sunday, getting “to the bottom of this.” “We’re trying to do as much as we can to diffuse it…
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Work has begun in earnest for the 2022 Chicago Bears season with organized team activities underway this week at Halas Hall. Brad Biggs opens the weekly Bears mailbag to find questions about Justin Fields, wide receiver options and the possibility of joint practices this summer. If you had to do your best to spin the…
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UCF has dipped into the talent pool at Sanford Seminole High once again, looking to keep the successful pipeline going with a scholarship offer to 2025 offensive tackle Max Buchanan. “It’s a great feeling,” Buchanan told the Orlando Sentinel. “We have a lot of people who were in this past class that have signed on…
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After the trade that returned the Ravens’ wide receiver group to that oh-so-familiar offseason zone — more potential than production, more questions than answers — Eric DeCosta couldn’t resist a joke. The Ravens general manager had just traded Marquise “Hollywood” Brown for the first-round pick that became center Tyler Linderbaum. He was asked: Did the…
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Knott’s Berry Farm is throwing a backyard barbecue party with a live music festival, picnic food booths and games for the kids and kids at heart as part of the new Knott’s Summer Nights event running all summer long. Knott’s Summer Nights kicked off this weekend and runs through Sept. 5 at the Buena Park…
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A win is a win is a win. And a loss is a loss is a loss. The Sparks don’t get extra credit for near-comebacks or for giving themselves looks to win or tie with the clock ticking down. It makes no difference in the WNBA standings that if the ball bounced had another way…
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The talent level has never been in question. The blend of speed and athleticism is what motivated the Miami Dolphins to select Noah Igbinoghene as their final of three first-round picks, the 30th player selected in the 2020 NFL draft. His work ethic is supposedly stellar. People who have worked with him have raved about…
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After 30 years, the Golden Arches have fallen in Russia. McDonald’s has pulled the plug on all 847 locations inside Russia, making permanent the temporary closure imposed at the start of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine. McDonald’s CEO Chris Kempczinski announced he will sell off all assets and inventory in Russia, enforce McDonald’s trademarks against infringement,…
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If you think Donald Trump colluded with Russia, you have been played. The nation is still in the grip of a deadly news blackout, so you probably haven’t heard that Special Counsel John Durham’s investigation has uncovered the now uncontested fact that the Hillary Clinton campaign invented the entire story of Russian collusion. A law…
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My book “Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Land” (Counterpoint Press) began as a struggle to come to terms with questions that have lingered since my childhood — about my origins, about my place, about what it means to inhabit this land and to be a citizen of this nation. Early on, the mountains,…
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