Q: I’m a fan of seeing someone else play Brooklyn in the first round besides us. — Mike Austin, Texas. A: As many know, I can be stubborn to an Erik Spoelstra degree when it comes to certain things. The first is always having a veteran point guard in reserve. The second is that just…
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This week’s CIF-SS high school girls lacrosse polls, released Monday, March 28. CIF-SS GIRLS LACROSSE (Selected by the CIF-SS Girls Lacrosse Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1/2 1 Foothill 2 Redondo Union 3 Palos Verdes 4 Santa Margarita 5 San Clemente 6 St. Margaret’s 7 Newbury Park 8 Edison 9 Corona del Mar 10 Agoura Others: Mater…
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By JOHN MARSHALL AP Basketball Writer Coach K’s final chapter will have a distinctly blue tint. With two weeks of upsets and underdogs in the books, the Final Four is down to four blue-blood programs: Kansas, Duke, North Carolina and Villanova. Kansas faces Villanova, then it’s Duke-Carolina for the first time in the NCAA Tournament…
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This week’s CIF-SS high school boys lacrosse polls, released Monday, March 28. CIF-SS BOYS LACROSSE (Selected by the CIF-SS Lacrosse Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1 1 Corona del Mar 2 Mater Dei 3 St. Margaret’s 4 Foothill 5 Loyola 6 Agoura 7 Palos Verdes 8 Los Alamitos 9 Sierra Canyon 10 Harvard-Westlake DIVISION 2 1 Aliso…
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LOS ANGELES — Todd McLellan coached his 1,000th game at Crypto.com Arena on Monday night, but he did not get the result the favored Kings hoped for as they lost to the last-place Seattle Kraken, 6-1. The Edmonton Oilers did not squander their opportunity against another lowly team, the Arizona Coyotes, whom they throttled by…
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This week’s CIF-SS boys tennis polls, released Monday, March 28. CIF-SS BOYS TENNIS POLLS (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Tennis Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1 1 University 2 Corona del Mar 3 Calabasas 4 Woodbridge 5 Harvard-Westlake 6 Peninsula 7 Claremont 8 Palos Verdes 9 San Marcos 10 Portola Others: Foothill, Loyola, Arcadia, San Marino, Mira…
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By CHUCK KING Associated Press JUPITER, Fla. — With a wave of his hand and a tip of the cap, Albert Pujols walked back into the world of the St. Louis Cardinals for one final season. “This is it for me,” the 42-year-old Pujols said Monday. “This is my last run.” It was quite a…
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The final push to the playoffs went from worrisome to worse for the Chicago Bulls when they dropped a 109-104 loss Monday in a must-win game against the New York Knicks. The Knicks are 11th in the Eastern Conference and 4½ games back from making the play-in tournament, offering one of the few guaranteed wins…
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The Knicks won again Monday night, continuing their too-little, too-late surge to end the season, but there was nothing about Julius Randle’s demeanor to suggest joy. His night ended in anger, or frustration, or some other negative emotion, with a dismissive ball toss at the final buzzer and a beeline off the court, without partaking…
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We need to talk about what happened to all the water that was lost. We already know what happened to thousands of farmers: They went without. We know what happened in cities up and down the state: They went dry. We know what happened to salmon eggs and juveniles: More perished than usual. In the…
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