A fistfight briefly disrupted the crowd waiting for the return of Disneyland’s Fantasmic! on Saturday night, May 28, as brawlers were pulled apart by Disneyland security guards The return of the Fantasmic! nighttime spectacular after more than two years had been eagerly awaited by fans, and people lined along the banks of the Rivers of…
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The Pac-12 last week announced two additional components to the 2022 football schedule, revealing the kickoff times for early-season games and the finalized lineup of weeknight matchups. For the purposes of this exercise, the latter of the two disclosures was more significant: No assessment of schedule strength is complete without accounting for the logistics of…
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The last time the Miami Heat reached these heights, the business of basketball got in the way. So Jae Crowder was sacrificed in the name of potential salary-cap space. Eventually, Derrick Jones Jr., Kelly Olynyk and others from that roster that advanced to the 2020 NBA Finals were gone. Tuesday, two days after his team…
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By Jill Lawless | Associated Press LONDON — After seven decades on the throne, Queen Elizabeth II is widely viewed in the U.K. as a rock in turbulent times. But in Britain’s former colonies, many see her as an anchor to an imperial past whose damage still lingers. So while the U.K. is celebrating the…
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In the early dawn, Spirit the young bald eagle was antsy in her nest 145 feet up in a Jeffrey pine overlooking Big Bear Lake. Web viewers held their breath. At 5:49 a.m. Tuesday, May 31, just as the sun broke over the ridge, the raptor hopped up on a jutting branch, tested her wings,…
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The Miami Dolphins’ offseason workout program shifts from organized team activities to mandatory minicamp this week, with sessions on Wednesday and Thursday. New coach Mike McDaniel, in his first several practices run as an NFL head coach, continues to install an offseason model of the work ethic he wants his team to possess before it…
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By Hannah Elliott | Bloomberg A new electric DeLorean will arrive in 2024, says the latest iteration of the DeLorean Motor Co. This is the brand John DeLorean founded in 1975, which went bankrupt by 1982. The collapse was due to mismanagement, complaints about poor fabrication and lackluster performance — and the fact that its…
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For the second year in a row, the Eastern Conference champion eliminated the Nets in the playoffs on their way to an NBA Finals appearance. The Boston Celtics’ Game 7 victory over the Miami Heat not only punched their ticket to a date with the Golden State Warriors, they also delivered a gut punch to…
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Prior to Tuesday’s game, the Mets sent first baseman/outfielder Dominic Smith to Triple-A. In the corresponding move, right-handed reliever Adonis Medina was recalled. Smith was the 11th overall pick by the Mets in 2013 draft out of his high school in Gardena, Calif. His big-league debut came in 2017. Mostly a part-time player, Smith has…
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Two days after the NBA Replay Center overturned his third-quarter 3-pointer during critical sequence of Sunday night’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics, Miami Heat guard Max Strus said Tuesday he still is not convinced about the ruling. “I don’t know how that was called that after I had seen…
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