Max Starks believes the Giants got the No. 1 player in the 2022 NFL Draft with the No. 7 pick. “Evan Neal was my No. 1 prospect in the draft, and I was surprised Jacksonville didn’t take him,” Starks, 40, a two-time Super Bowl winning Pittsburgh Steelers tackle, told the Daily News. “Every team is…
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There were times last season Buck Britton had to take a step back and realize what he was seeing. Then the manager of the Double-A Bowie Baysox, he watched Orioles top prospect Adley Rutschman play for 80 games. And over the course of those 80 games, the spectacular consistency from Rutschman would sometimes become less…
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Kyle Lowry and P.J. Tucker were on the court Saturday morning for the Miami Heat ahead of Saturday night’s Game 3 at TD Garden against the Boston Celtics in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals. For the Heat, it was a significant step, considering Lowry had missed eight of the previous 10 games due to a…
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Two years ago, the initial lockdowns of the pandemic era crushed Southern California’s job market. But a stunning rebound from those antsy, dark days now raises questions about an economy challenged with “too much good stuff.” Two springs ago, bosses in Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside and San Bernardino counties cast aside 1.27 million workers as…
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Chad Green is facing possible surgery, but is gathering more opinions on the right forearm discomfort that caused him to leave Thursday’s game in the middle of an at-bat. The right-handed reliever has what looks like a “significant injury,” Aaron Boone said before Saturday afternoon’s game. “He’s kind of still gathering [information], making sure we’re…
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Bureaucrats sometimes make mistakes. But when they refuse to acknowledge a mistake and double down on it to deprive someone of their livelihood and family business, a lawsuit can be the only way to hold them accountable. That’s what happened to Max Williams, and he’s fighting back. Max has dreamed of captaining his own fishing…
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With increasingly strict water rationing in most of our immediate futures, there is a lawn alternative that requires irrigation no more than once a week and can make do with even less. This alternative to green grass is miniclover, also known as micro clover. I learned about miniclover from a company in Oregon known as Outsidepride…
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If there is one thing we’ve learned from the Yankees’ roughshod run through the first five weeks of the season — other than the fact they really are a very good team — it’s that there are far more “have-nots” in baseball than “haves” and this continues to be a real problem for the game.…
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Things are always more interesting around here when the Yankees look like the YANKEES again, which means looking like they have a chance to be great again. That hasn’t happened in a while, maybe not since the American League Championship Series of 2019, one the Astros won with that buzzer-beating walk-off homer from our old…
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When Buck Britton was promoted to the manager of Triple-A Norfolk, among the duties he was most looking forward to was telling players they were heading to the majors for the first time. Friday night, he got to deliver that news to top Orioles prospect Adley Rutschman. Rutschman, baseball’s No. 1 prospect, was officially added…
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