When Tony La Russa was hired as Chicago White Sox manager after the 2020 season and his second DUI arrest was reported, free-agent pitcher Marcus Stroman chimed in on Twitter. “Baffling on all measures,” Stroman replied to a tweet by The Athletic’s Keith Law calling it a “bad hire.” A troll followed up by asking…
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On a recent foggy morning, Cheryl Rex drove from the foothills of Rancho Cucamonga to Long Beach to spend some quiet time thinking about her son. At Rosie the Riveter Park, she walked over to a nearly 90-foot memorial that stretches along a wall shaded by trees, created by Honoring Our Fallen. Ahead of Memorial…
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It’s anyone’s guess whether the developer campaign donors who greatly influence California’s huge Democratic legislative majorities will follow suit, but Gov. Gavin Newsom’s proposed budget at long last recognizes one reality that has been plain since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic: With hundreds of thousands of white collar office workers switching permanently to home…
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The wisest thing to do with an exceptional increase in the state’s tax revenues is to save it for the time when there is an exceptional decrease in those revenues. There is even Biblical precedent for this common sense approach: Joseph got to be Pharaoh’s chief minister by storing up seven years’ grain surpluses to…
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Here’s how it goes with great players. Everything stops when they shoot for the season. Everyone meets their greatest hopes and worst fears with the ball in the air. “I was thinking, ‘Oh, no,’ ’ the opposing coach said. “When it was in the air, I thought it was the great ending,’ the Miami Heat…
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June 6 is the big day. That’s the day Kevin Weatherly returns to program KROQ (106.7 FM). Weatherly programmed the station for many years and oversaw some of its highest ratings ever. Now he’s got his work cut out for him if he hopes to return the station to its former glory. But that’s not…
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ST PETERSBURG, Fla. — Aaron Judge did not want a barbecue or a picnic on Monday. With the Yankees finishing a stretch of nine games in eight days with back-to-back losses to the Rays, the Yankees slugger did not particularly even want a day off to think about it. “We’ve got a bad taste in…
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The Orlando Magic, owners of the Nos. 1, 32 and 35 picks in the NBA draft, will have multiple chances to add to their roster June 23. After kicking off a rebuild in March 2021, the Magic already have significant young talent. Orlando has nine players who were drafted in the first round since 2017…
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Larry Cancro took his break the same way every day. During that 1989 season, the longtime Red Sox employee stood by Section 28, near the ramp leading to the third base deck at Fenway Park, as he watched Wade Boggs take what felt like 300 practice grounders at third base. But on this particular day,…
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