If high-octane horse racing is your thing, Santa Anita is the place to be Saturday. Seven stakes races, highlighted by a highly anticipated duel between super powers Messier and Forbidden Kingdom in the $750,000 Grade I Santa Anita Derby, are part of a 12-race card that begins at noon. Oh, and racing royalty will be…
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Gerrit Cole was rattled — even before he threw a pitch Friday. The Yankees ace was thrown off by an “unforeseen” schedule snafu with the Opening Day festivities. He was caught on camera looking annoyed yelling “Lets Go, Lets Go,” as celebrity and long-time Yankee fan Billy Crystal took to the field to throw out…
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Chris Bassitt, after his final spring start last week, expressed both confidence and reassurance in the Mets rotation just days after their top aces sustained injuries. On Saturday, he has the opportunity to back up his words with his arm. Bassitt is gearing up to make his Mets debut on Saturday against…
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If you watch Nets basketball, you come to one glaring realization: With Kevin Durant and Kyrie Irving on the floor the majority of the minutes, this is an isolation-heavy team. As they should be, but it’s become increasingly clear in recent games that the Nets can’t rely on the greatness of their two scorers alone…
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Friday’s Opening Day game at Yankee Stadium marked the beginning of Josh Donaldson’s 12th season in Major League Baseball. It’s safe to say he’ll never forget how year 12 started, as the Yankees’ recently-acquired third baseman delivered the walkoff single that launched his new team into a euphoric eleventh-inning celebration. “It was nice, for my…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Friday, April 8. Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. FRIDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL NATIONAL HIGH SCHOOL INVITATIONAL At Cary, N.C. SEMFINALS St. Johns Country Day (FL) 1, Huntington…
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As season openers go, the final moments for the Chicago White Sox-Detroit Tigers game Friday ranks as one of the stranger ones in recent history. The Sox allowed two runs in the ninth, falling 5-4 in front of 43,480 at Comerica Park. The Tigers tied the game on a one-out home run to left by…
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By Kim Chandler | Associated Press MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Ninth grader Harleigh Walker, 15, spends her time after school like many girls her age: doing homework, listening to Taylor Swift, collecting records and hanging out with friends. But this year, her spring break also included trying to persuade members of the state House and Senate…
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Thirty minutes after Nico Hoerner helped the Chicago Cubs secure a season-opening win, manager David Ross met the shortstop at his locker. Hoerner had put the Cubs ahead midway through the game with a two-run home run, his first since 2019, en route to their one-run victory over the Milwaukee Brewers at Wrigley Field. But…
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Pinocchio puffed a cigar on Pleasure Island (1940). The Caterpillar blew hookah smoke in Alice’s face (1951). Fumes curled from Cruella de Vil’s cigarette holder (1961). By 1965, nearly 43% of American adults smoked — but by 2021, that had plummeted to just 12.5%. It wasn’t just grotesque pictures of diseased lungs or the surgeon…
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