Daniel Jones has one more season at most — and only one — to prove he’s the Giants’ quarterback of the future. As expected, GM Joe Schoen decided on Thursday that he will not pick up the fifth-year option on Jones’ rookie contract as a former first-round pick, a source confirmed. Leaking that decision only…
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LOS ANGELES — During UCLA’s spring showcase last Saturday, coach Chip Kelly put on the headset live on the Pac-12 Network and made it pretty clear: Don’t be surprised if Jake Bobo is atop his wide receiver depth chart come fall. Bobo, who transferred to UCLA after four years at Duke, has coaches raving during…
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Lea Brown, supervisor at Camp Pendleton’s Recycling Center, couldn’t temper her enthusiasm about the importance of recycling as much of the base’s waste as possible. “I’m looking and researching new ways every day,” she said as she walked across the yard showing off the multiple ways scrap metal, cardboard, even old tracks off of vehicles…
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DALLAS — The Ducks’ season comes to a merciful end Friday, when they face the Stanley Cup playoff-bound Dallas Stars. The Ducks began 2021-22 with a rousing 4-1 victory over the Winnipeg Jets. They will end it with only a handful of players who played in that Oct. 13 game at Honda Center. Ryan Getzlaf…
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Evelyn Tolpa-Lisek gripped her walker and a packet of photographs she shared with fellow Gary Lew Wallace grads Thursday as they belted out their school song. The requiem for the legendary Glen Park school came eight years after its doors closed in the wake of declining enrollment. The empty school soon became a magnet for…
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By DAVID KEYTON and INNA VARENYTSIA KYIV, Ukraine (AP) — Russia pounded targets from practically one end of Ukraine to the other Thursday, including Kyiv, bombarding the city while the head of the United Nations was visiting in the boldest attack on the capital since Moscow’s forces retreated weeks ago. At least one person was…
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The Orioles announced plans to host the inaugural Mo Gaba Day at Oriole Park at Camden Yards to honor the second anniversary of the superfan’s death. The 14-year-old Gaba died in 2020 after a lengthy battle with cancer. Baltimore will hold Mo Gaba Day on July 28, when the Orioles host the Tampa Bay Rays…
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By CHRISTOPHER RUGABER WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy shrank in the first three months of the year, and faces threats from high inflation and rising interest rates, yet economists foresee a return to growth for the rest of 2022 based on the strength of the job market and consumer spending. The 1.4% quarterly decline…
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La Habra vs. Sonora is one of the better rivalries in Orange County sports. Divisions have been set aside. Their communities are united now to help Noah Valdez. Valdez is a freshman basketball player at La Habra High School. He spent Wednesday at Children’s Health of Orange County (CHOC) for a second round of chemotherapy.…
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As the long, gray winter finally thaws, the American sports calendar does the same. After dreary months with nothing but the MLB hot stove and half of the NBA playing out the string, life for the sports couch potato gets good again. NBA games get intense again; baseball games are there again. (That’s not a…
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