The Mets are concerned about one of their top starters. Tylor Megill was placed on the 15-day injured list with right biceps inflammation, the club announced on Sunday. He will undergo an MRI on Monday, until which the organization will be holding its breath in hopes of good news on their rising pitcher. Right-hander Colin…
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Veteran Heat guard Kyle Lowry did not practice Sunday after missing the final two games of the Eastern Conference semifinals with a hamstring injury, Miami coach Erik Spoelstra said. “He was doing things on the side, things of that nature,” Spoelstra said. “I don’t have an update on him.” Lowry played in only two of…
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Morrissey peered into the darkness of the huge crowd gathered for his closing set at Cruel World Festival in Pasadena on Saturday and muttered facetiously, ‘My God, you’re still here?” There are, of course, different ways to take this. The notoriously sardonic singer might have wanted everyone to go home so he could shed the…
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Before the Miami Dolphins and Tampa Bay Buccaneers kick off their preseason schedule on Aug. 13, the two teams will hold joint practices in Tampa that week, according to a report by The Athletic. Joint practice sessions allow teams to work against an opponent during training camp after weeks of being restricted to intra-squad practice…
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What if law enforcement had the ability, using proven and highly accurate technology, to identify potential suspects after a crime was committed or when someone, like a child, goes missing? If we were referring to the application of DNA evidence in crime solving, technology widely used for decades by law enforcement, it would be a…
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When Willson Contreras came to the plate in the ninth inning Saturday, he already had recorded his first three-strikeout game of the season. But that didn’t carry into his plate appearance that sparked the Chicago Cubs’ 4-2 victory over the Arizona Diamondbacks. Contreras’ eight-pitch leadoff walk against closer Mark Melancon led to a three-run ninth…
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State Controller Betty Yee is facing calls for an investigation into her newly disclosed role in arranging a sketchy $600 million no-bid contract for COVID-19 masks back in March 2020. The controller is responsible for paying the state’s bills but has no role in selecting state contractors. So it was a surprise when documents from…
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Ever since the U.S. Supreme Court decided the case of Roe v. Wade in 1973, politicians on all sides have had a free ride on the issue of abortion. They could comfortably take positions that would never attract majority support, knowing they would never have to vote on actual legislation embodying those views. This allowed…
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Everything everyone — by which I mean the wrong ones, the NIMBYs — says about housing in Southern California is always wrong. A favorite trope, loved by letter-to-the-editor writers, who just make things up — sorry, letter-writers, whose gemlike prose I edit and publish every day — is that the coming of more and more…
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Citing the vile online manifesto attributed to the Buffalo shooter, Gov. Hochul on Sunday urged social media companies to crack down on hate speech — calling the sites “instruments of evil.” “I’m calling on the CEOs of all the social media platforms to examine their policies and to be able to look me in the…
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