The Chicago Bears have had a lot of success with rookie defensive backs since drafting Mike Brown, one of the best safeties in team history, in the second round in 2000. Charles Tillman (2003), Nathan Vasher (2004), Chris Harris (2005), Kyle Fuller (2014), Adrian Amos (2015), Eddie Jackson (2017) and Jaylon Johnson (2020) all stepped…
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The NFL draft has come and gone, and judging by the questions in Brad Biggs’ weekly Chicago Bears mailbag, readers aren’t impressed with the depth chart at wide receiver. Biggs answers those and other questions about the post-draft state of the Bears roster. Some rumors out there the Bears aren’t sold on Justin Fields. How…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now GIRLS SWIMMING CIF-SS Division 1 Finals At Marguerite Aquatics Complex, Mission Viejo Team results: 1. Santa Margarita 548, 2. Los Alamitos 144, 3. San Juan Hills 135, 4. Harvard-Westlake 131, 5. JSerra 125, 6. Woodbridge 107, 7. Diamond Bar 104, 8. Mira Costa…
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In August of 2015, Félix Bautista was supposed to be pursuing his major league dreams. Instead, he was at home in the Dominican Republic, watching a beauty pageant with his mom. Bautista, a couple of months removed from turning 20, had been released earlier in the year by the Miami Marlins, who signed the right-handed…
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LOS ANGELES — If Game 2 was a grease fire, Game 3 left the Kings’ first-round playoff series on the verge of a six-alarm blaze. The Edmonton Oilers scored the first five goals on Friday night, and unlike in 1982 there was no “Miracle on Manchester” nor any “Frenzy on Figueroa,” just an 8-2 defeat…
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Scores from the CIF-SS baseball playoff games Friday, and the updated schedule for second-round games in all divisions. CIF-SS BASEBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 First round, Friday Bonita 6, Damien 1 El Dorado 3, Yucaipa 2 Notre Dame/SO 3, Mira Costa 0 Santa Margarita 13, Trabuco Hills 10 Bishop Amat 4, Ocean View 1 Servite 3,…
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Los Amigos got its first CIF Southern Section baseball playoff win in a big way Friday, beating Leuzinger 17-3 in a Division 7 first-round game. The Lobos (23-4) play at Big Bear in the second round Tuesday. Los Amigos last week clinched the Garden Grove League championship for the school’s first league title in baseball.…
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IRVINE — UC Irvine got its first look at the team that has dominated Big West Conference baseball in 2022, and like most teams were duly impressed. No. 25 UC Santa Barbara improved to 32-10 overall and 20-2 in conference play with a 2-0 victory over the Anteaters on Friday night at Cicerone Field, Gaucho ace…
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Jackson Hines scored six goals Friday to lead Foothill to a 13-5 win over Agoura in the quarterfinals of the CIF-Southern Section Division 1 boys lacrosse playoffs at Agoura High. Foothill (18-4) trailed 2-0 early, but went on a scoring run in the second quarter to take control of the game. Gavin Griswold scored three…
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LOS ANGELES — Maybe the Kings just aren’t ready for this yet. After the euphoria of stealing one on the road in Game 1, they’ve fallen to earth with a thud in Games 2 and 3 of their first playoff series in four seasons. A 6-0 debacle in Edmonton on Wednesday night was followed by…
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