Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now ORANGE — The startup venture that is Santa Margarita girls basketball under second-year coach Seyram Bell showed more signs of progress Wednesday night. Freshman point guard in the Trinity League? Loaded with potential. New perimeter shooter who sat out last season? Deadly from…
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Maybe this offseason the Ravens finally start building their offense from the inside out. They’ve gotten away from “Football 101″ the past three years while being carried away by the Lamar Jackson phenomenon. Instead of acquiring quality offensive linemen, they went with flash and drafted skilled players like Rashod Bateman, James Proche II, Devin Duvernay…
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Over the last four years, when Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich would chat with opposing coaches on the field on game days, he often would hear a similar refrain. “Somebody is going to comment to me how hard our defense plays — how hard our team plays, but really how hard our defense plays —…
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Indianapolis Colts coach Frank Reich has watched Alan Williams in action the last four seasons, impressed with Williams’ ability to teach and lead the team’s secondary. “Alan has great energy on the field,” Reich said Tuesday. “Watching him run drills, he has good energy, good body language. There’s a good, positive vibe to him. He…
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By DAMIAN J. TROISE and ALEX VEIGA Stocks edged higher in afternoon trading on Wall Street Wednesday, putting major indexes on track to extend their weekly gains. The S&P 500 rose 0.7% as of 2 p.m. Eastern. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 142 points, or 0.4%, to 35,549 and the Nasdaq rose 0.2%. Several…
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By DAVID BAUDER NEW YORK (AP) — CNN President Jeff Zucker abruptly resigned Wednesday after acknowledging a consensual relationship with another network executive — an entanglement that came to light during an investigation of now-fired anchor Chris Cuomo. Zucker said he acknowledged the relationship when asked about it as part of the Cuomo investigation, which…
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Boston University researchers, looking at the very low rates of COVID-19 spread from pregnant mother to baby, have discovered how the placenta may be blocking virus transmission to babies during pregnancy. The new study may give scientists clues about blocking COVID infections in other patients. The research zeroes in on ACE-2, the receptor that allows…
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By ERIC TUCKER WASHINGTON (AP) — When Kurt Groszhans set out from North Dakota for Ukraine in 2017, he was eager to connect with his family’s ancestral homeland and to farm the rich, black soil for which the country is known. But his farming venture with a law professor who’s now a high-ranking Ukrainian government…
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By SETH BORENSTEIN Antarctica’s so-called Doomsday Glacier, nicknamed because it is huge and coming apart, is mostly thwarting an international effort to figure out how dangerously vulnerable it is. A large iceberg broke off the deteriorating Thwaites glacier and, along with sea ice, it is blocking two research ships with dozens of scientists from examining…
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One of the strengths of our constitutional republic is everyone gets their day in court – even those whose actions could have undermined the foundations of democracy. So it goes for former Chapman University law professor John Eastman, the Donald Trump ally who crafted a chilling legal blueprint for overturning the 2020 presidential election. It’s…
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