Trekking through the shaded canopies and trailers offering services along West Struck Avenue in Orange on Saturday, May 21, U.S. District Judge David O. Carter often broke away from the guided excursion to chat up someone eating a meal or walking by. Was the food they’d been served any good? And where were they sleeping…
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FULLERTON >> Before the Tesoro baseball team left its campus Saturday to play in the CIF-SS Division 4 championship game at Cal State Fullerton, coach Tony Nieto told his team to “just follow the script” of pitching and defense. The Titans did just that and beat Fullerton 3-0 to win the first CIF baseball championship…
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DENVER — The snow out didn’t stop the Mets from continuing their winning ways. The Mets beat the Rockies, 5-1, in Game 1 of a doubleheader at Coors Field on Saturday behind 5.1 solid innings from Carlos Carrasco and an early outburst from the offense. The Mets matched their season-high three-game winning streak by taking…
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FULLERTON – History was made in more ways than one. Estancia won its first CIF Southern Section baseball championship Saturday with a 2-1 win over Anaheim in the Division 6 final at Cal State Fullerton. Also, Anaheim’s Jillian Albayati was the first girl to pitch in a CIF-SS baseball championship game. Also unusual was the…
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BALTIMORE — Early Voting held off hard-charging favorite Epicenter to win the Preakness Stakes on Saturday, validating the decision to skip the Kentucky Derby and aim for the second leg of the Triple Crown. Early Voting stalked behind the leaders for much of the race before moving into the lead around the final turn. He…
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New York Yankees designated hitter Josh Donaldson ran between second and third base after Isiah Kiner-Falefa ended the third inning by flying out to right Saturday at Yankee Stadium. That’s when Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson said Donaldson “made a disrespectful comment.” “Basically tried to call me Jackie Robinson, ‘What’s up, Jackie?’ ” Anderson…
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Ryan Mountcastle pulled into the parking lot at Camden Yards on Saturday and noticed an increase in the number of autograph seekers near the players’ entrance. He was set to come off the injured list that afternoon, and yet the return of the young slugger to the Orioles’ lineup was far from the day’s biggest…
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Sony Michel knows what it means to be a running back wearing No. 34 for the Miami Dolphins. As he was growing up in South Florida, developing into what would one day become a five-star high school recruit at American Heritage, it was Ricky Williams posting the two highest single-season rushing totals in Dolphins history…
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IRVINE >> Capistrano Valley Christian’s CIF Southern Section Division 7 softball championship game Saturday morning at Bill Barber Park didn’t unfold the way most of the Eagles’ games did this season. But the outcome was the same. The No. 2-seeded Eagles, who regularly won by wide margins throughout the season, got the runs they needed…
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Members of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church, along with Taiwanese community and local officials, gathered Saturday, May 21 in Laguna Woods to thank community members for their prayers and condolences six days after a gunman opened fire inside the church, killing one person and wounding five others. The shooting was fueled by the gunman’s hatred…
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