SAN FRANCISCO — As Jeff McNeil was getting ready to speak to reporters following the Mets’ 9-3 loss to the Giants on Wednesday, there was Starling Marte, who was standing just a couple of lockers away. “He’s OK, he’s OK. He can play,” Marte called out. With the Mets trailing 9-1 in the bottom of…
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Dan Radakovich, the University of Miami’s new athletic director, has roots at the school that go back to the 1980s when his career began a business manager. He’s now tapping those roots to bring home one of the great Hurricane players from that era. Alonzo Highsmith, 57, who has been an NFL personnel executive for…
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Ravens coach John Harbaugh will be patient in trying to select a competitive group of receivers, but that could be hard. The Ravens had their second day of voluntary minicamp practice Wednesday, which was open to the media. There isn’t much stock to be put into Day 2, but there was a silent alarm of…
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Calm down, Angels fans. Your team isn’t moving anywhere else, for a while at least. That might be the only benefit of the now-defunct deal to sell Angel Stadium to Arte Moreno and his management company, voided Tuesday night by the Anaheim City Council. During the course of the negotiations over an original $325 million…
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By JOSH DUBOW AP Pro Football Writer Colin Kaepernick is getting his first chance to work out for an NFL team since last playing in the league in 2016 when he started kneeling during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial inequality. Two people familiar with the situation told The Associated Press that…
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A Valencia man accused of striking and injuring three girls on a sidewalk near Taft Elementary School in Santa Ana and who allegedly had incendiary devices in his vehicle was charged Wednesday with multiple counts of attempted murder. Jason Carlos Guzman, 26, is facing nearly two dozen felony counts, including attempted premeditated murder, assault with…
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When Aaron Boone sat down for his pregame press conference on Wednesday, the Yankees still had not released their starting lineup for the day. This came on the heels of DJ LeMahieu abruptly getting scratched from the lineup on Tuesday and Giancarlo Stanton leaving mid-game with a lower leg malady. Boone was asked about Stanton,…
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By Marc Levy | Associated Press HARRISBURG, Pa. — Pennsylvania’s top election official said Wednesday that the margin between the top two candidates in last week’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate is tight enough to trigger a statewide recount, dragging the outcome into June as the candidates fight in court. The state’s acting secretary of…
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Cal women’s and former U.S. Olympic women’s swimming team head coach Teri McKeever, the most successful female coach in the sport’s history, has been placed on administrative leave after more than 20 current or former Golden Bears athletes alleged they were bullied or verbally abused by the coach, the Southern California News Group has learned.…
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The Ravens’ secondary is still under construction this offseason, but the pieces — maybe the last of them — are at least in place. With cornerback Kyle Fuller agreeing to a one-year deal, Ravens coach John Harbaugh said Wednesday that he feels “really good about that group back there — I mean, really good about…
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