Landon Stewart, a 16-year-old freshman baseball player at Santa Margarita High, invented a product called Kraken Grip: a blend of genuine pine tar, waxes and tackifiers designed to provide grip enhancement and feel for baseball players while batting. (Photo by Jeff Gritchen, Orange County Register/SCNG) Landon Stewart, a 16-year-old freshman baseball player at Santa Margarita…
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Manager Tony La Russa didn’t have the opportunity to include Luis Robert in the Chicago White Sox lineup last week with the center fielder on the COVID-19 related injured list. The Sox on Tuesday reinstated Robert and he returned to action Wednesday batting fourth as the designated hitter against the Toronto Blue Jays at Rogers…
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NEW YORK — The Angels’ game against the New York Yankees was postponed by rain on Wednesday night and will be played as part of a split-admission doubleheader on Thursday. The first game will start at 10 a.m. PT, and the regularly scheduled game will be at 4 p.m. PT. The Angels will use Shohei…
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For Tyson Etienne, it wasn’t just growing up in the area that attracted him to the Knicks. There was also an intimate connection. Etienne’s godfather is former Knick center Marcus Camby and the relationship makes it feel like blood. “I call him ‘uncle,’” Etienne said. “He’s that close. If something happened to my parents, I…
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Marion Barber, the former Pro Bowl running back for the Dallas Cowboys, was found dead in his apartment Wednesday. Barber was found by Frisco, Texas cops responding to a welfare call, the Fort Worth Star-Telegram reported, citing multiple sources. The cause of death was not immediately known, per the Star-Telegram. Local authorities are “investigating an…
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By Collin Binkley | The Associated Press Hundreds of thousands of students who attended the for-profit Corinthian Colleges chain will automatically get their federal student loans canceled, the Biden administration announced Wednesday, a move that aims to bring closure to one of the most notorious cases of fraud in American higher education. Under the new…
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By Deena Shanker | Bloomberg Amy’s Kitchen Inc., a maker of frozen vegetarian meals and soups, has been accused of unfair labor practices at its plant in San Jose, according to complaints filed Wednesday with the National Labor Relations Board. Unite Here, a union representing approximately 300,000 workers in Canada and the US, says the…
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An Oklahoma man who grew up in Los Angeles was arrested Wednesday, June 1, accused of calling in bomb threats to five Los Angeles schools, including two elementary campuses, and also of threatening to shoot children as they left. Marcus James Buchanan, 44, of Blackwell, Oklahoma was charged with one count of making a telephonic…
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An eighth-grader who attends McAuliffe Middle School in Los Alamitos was eliminated in the fourth round of the 2022 Scripps National Spelling Bee today, misspelling lepper, a horse skilled in jumping. Jason Khan spelled it leper. Khan was among the 88 spellers from the original field of 234 competing in the quarterfinals. He advanced to…
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The story of the Miami Dolphins’ offseason, at its core, is that the franchise revamped its offense and kept its defense together. But then one key free agent signing made it so that the defense didn’t miss out on all the offseason personnel additions. Three-time Pro Bowl edge defender Melvin Ingram III signed with the…
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