This is exactly what the Miami Heat wanted, the very type of thing that brought a smile to the face of forward Jimmy Butler after Monday’s practice at FTX Arena. No, not mere homecourt advantage, which will be the case against the Boston Celtics in the best-of-seven Eastern Conference finals that open Tuesday at 8:30…
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Taking the sting out of a high-cost holiday in and around the City of Lights, fledgling airline French bee recently debuted flights from LAX to Paris-Orly Airport, a pleasant international alternative to crowded Roissy-Charles de Gaulle. With base fares starting at $321, French bee is so “ooh L.A. L.A.” for penny-wise Southern Californians longing to…
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Saul Gonzalez, 6, reaches to pet a turkey at the petting zoo Saturday. St. Anthony Claret Church in Anaheim welcomes back the community after two years of pandemic with a family festival Sunday May 15, 2022. (Photo by Greg Andersen, Contributing Photographer) The Coastline Cowboys perform on the main stage Saturday. St. Anthony Claret Church…
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It’s always dangerous to get conclusive about a draft class before the picks are called, let alone before the players step on the court, but the preliminary consensus among scouts and experts is that 2022 is top heavy. Specifically, there are four players that sit as the cream. So for the Knicks, who enter the…
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The Cincinnati Reds threw a combined no-hitter against the Pittsburgh Pirates and still lost Sunday, the equivalent of winning the lottery and losing your ticket in the wash. It will go down as a quirk of history, one of only six games in which a team lost while throwing eight or more no-hit innings. The…
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By Carolyn Thompson and Michael Balsamo | Associated Press BUFFALO, N.Y. — The white gunman accused of massacring 10 Black people in a racist rampage at a Buffalo supermarket planned to keep killing if he had escaped the scene, the police commissioner said Monday, as the possibility of federal hate crime or domestic terror charges…
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When Jaelan Phillips came out of his momentary retirement from football in college and decided he would renew his career at the University of Miami in 2019, he had a lot of work to do on his body. The time away from the game, due to multiple injuries and concussions sustained while at UCLA, caused…
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By Ben Fox and Aamer Madhani | Associated Press WASHINGTON — President Joe Biden signed an order Monday to redeploy hundreds of U.S. troops to Somalia to counter the Islamic extremist rebel group al-Shabab, an effort that American military leaders said had been hampered by President Donald Trump’s late-term decision to withdraw forces from the…
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The Mets suffered several losses over the weekend. They lost two of their three games against the Mariners. Those pair of L’s gave them their first series loss of the year. On top of that, breakout sensation Tylor Megill went on the 15-day injured list with inflammation in his right biceps. While the MRI on…
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Joe Kelly saw how starter Johnny Cueto was progressing at Triple-A Charlotte while the Chicago White Sox reliever was on a rehab assignment. He gave a positive review. “Johnny Cueto looked good,” Kelly said last week. “Johnny’s a great dude. He messes up hitters with timing, multiple looks, leg kicks, slide steps. Johnny does it…
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