The Miami Heat apparently will play it close to the vest until their season is over. The team on Thursday listed five players as questionable for Friday’s 8:30 p.m. Game 6 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics at TD Garden, a best-of-seven series they trail 3-2. That left no delineation between a…
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Facts and figures regarding Monday’s $400,000 Grade I Hollywood Gold Cup, the centerpiece of Santa Anita’s Memorial Day weekend of racing: • The Gold Cup was Hollywood Park’s signature race, beginning when the legendary Seabiscuit won the inaugural running in 1938 with George Woolf aboard until Game On Dude’s victory in the race’s final edition…
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By ELLIOT SPAGAT and STEPHEN GROVES UVALDE, Texas (AP) — Jacklyn Cazares hadn’t yet reached her 10th birthday, but she was already a tough-minded “firecracker” always looking to help people in need, her father said. Jacklyn and her second cousin, Annabelle Rodriguez, were especially tight with three other classmates at Robb Elementary School. “They are…
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The CIF State Track and Field Championships return this week after a two-year hiatus. COVID-related issues forced the event to be canceled in 2020 and ’21. This year’s state meet will be at Buchanan High School in Clovis as it was in 2019. Orange County will be represented by several athletes, including Mission Viejo junior…
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Pop star Harry Styles has announced five more shows to his already lengthy 10-evening run at the Kia Forum in Inglewood later this year. Yes, that’s 15 shows. Styles’ Love On Tour outing will turn the iconic concert venue into Harry’s House, which is also the title of his latest album. He was already scheduled…
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Roderick Robinson II, one of the top running backs in the class of 2023 and a San Diego native, committed to UCLA on Thursday. Robinson, a 6-foot-1, 230-pound ball carrier out of Lincoln High School, made his announcement live on CBS Sports HQ. Robinson is the No. 16-ranked running back in his class and a…
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Black is the new red at Mater Dei. The recent installment of Servite’s Joel Hartmann as Mater Dei’s executive director of athletics a couple of months after former Servite principal Michael Brennan was named president at Mater Dei makes it look like Servite people are being hired to clean up Mater Dei’s mess. This is…
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The Long Beach ARP Sprint Nationals speedboat race — which the Southern California Speedboat Club first hosted at the city’s Marine Stadium in 1946 — annually entertains fans with several classes of speedboat racing, some which top speeds up to 150 mph. But in recent years, safety concerns have thrown the event’s future into question.…
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By JAKE BLEIBERG, JIM VERTUNO and ELLIOT SPAGAT UVALDE, Texas (AP) — The 18-year-old gunman who killed 21 people at a Texas elementary school walked in unimpeded through an apparently unlocked door, a law enforcement official said Thursday. Also, the gunman, Salvador Ramos, was apparently inside the building for at least three-quarters of an hour…
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California has experienced many drought periods, but in January 2014 the drought situation became sufficiently severe that then-Gov. Jerry Brown declared a state of drought emergency. Soon thereafter, several laws were added to the Davis-Stirling Act, Civil Code Sections 4735 and 4736. Civil Code Section 4735 does not allow governing documents to directly or indirectly…
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