TORONTO — The Yankees may have started slow, but they couldn’t have ended the month of April better. They finished the first calendar month of the season with the best record in baseball, their pitching on point and their offense rolling. And very early in May it looks like they could be getting even stronger.…
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Like most political debates these days, the issue of policing has become unnecessarily divisive. After a Minneapolis officer killed George Floyd in 2020, the nation endured a wave of protests and riots, with some leftists even calling for the “defunding” of police departments. In the face of a post-pandemic crime wave, most conservatives have…
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James Harden casually listened as reporters suggested the Miami Heat defense got to him. Could there be a more apropos ending to Monday’s Game 1 than this? And could there be a more fitting ending than Harden dismissing the idea. Did he think the Heat’s P.J. Tucker, his one-time teammate in Houston, knew how to…
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Over the last quarter-century, as income taxes came to dominate the state government’s revenue stream and as a relative handful of wealthy Californians paid most of those taxes, a syndrome dubbed “volatility” plagued the state budget. When the economy was thriving and those elite taxpayers were seeing big gains on their investments, money poured into…
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An Orange County father is suing his son’s high school, claiming the teen was in effect expelled for wearing a mesh face mask. Aidan and Chris Palicke. (Photo via Orange County Register) Aidan Palicke, a 17-year-old junor at Yorba Linda High, has not attended classes since January, when he was told not to return to…
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Willie Colon didn’t like the Jets’ 2022 NFL Draft. He loved it. “Man, they dominated. I honestly think that’s, if not [the], one of the best drafts in Jets history,” Colon, 39, the Super Bowl champion ex-Steeler and Jet, said Monday at his eighth annual charity event to raise money for the Lupus Research Alliance.…
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There were 262 picks in the 2022 NFL draft. It will take a few years to know which teams got the most bang for their buck, but we have enough information to make some early judgment calls. To help make sense of the annual three-day event, here’s a look at some of the superlatives from…
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Draft grades don’t mean much a year after the draft, and they mean even less only days after the draft. But with the Ravens eyeing a return to the playoffs, and preparing to build a roster around the looming megadeal for quarterback Lamar Jackson, it was hard not to be impressed not only by the…
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Q: I thought the playoffs are a time when everyone plays, even if they’re hurt. Given Kyle Lowry’s age and remaining contract, could you see his contract in play in the offseason (along with Duncan Robinson)? – Brian. A: No, because that is why Kyle Lowry only received a three-year contract in the first place,…
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Q: Ira, why do you say “non-COVID” each time you list a Heat player as being ill? We get it, there is still COVID. But you’ve said the Heat players are vaccinated and boosted. You’re bringing something up that doesn’t matter. – Edward. A: Actually, this is something the Heat and most, if not all,…
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