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ST. PETERSBURG — The Yankees are beatable, after all. Taylor Walls walked back his comments about the first-place Bombers on Sunday, but also backed up the premise with a career day. The Rays’ light-hitting infielder homered off Luis Severino and made two run-saving plays as the Yanks fell 4-2 at Tropicana Field. “There was no-shade…
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ST. PETERSBURG — Luis Severino was a big question mark coming into this season. He spent the past three years basically trying to get back on the mound after significant injuries. Even the 28-year old was not sure how he would feel and hold up this year, his first coming into the year totally healthy…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Mission Viejo’s dominant run through the CIF-SS softball playoffs delivered the team a tough assignment Sunday with the release of the CIF State SoCal regional pairings. The Division 2 champion Diablos (26-5) were placed in Division I for next week’s regional tournament and…
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Eloy Jiménez’s rehab assignment with Triple-A Charlotte got off to a less than ideal start when the outfielder exited Saturday’s game in Durham, N.C., with right leg soreness. He left after singling to right field in the second inning. “He did feel a tug in one of his swings, not running,” Chicago White Sox manager…
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Bam Adebayo didn’t exactly tell the NBA what it could do with its fine for the Miami Heat’s lack of bench decorum, nor did the fifth-year center offer to foot Micky Arison’s bill. But Adebayo said Sunday he had no issue with the league taking notice, because he pridefully has taken notice. Ahead of Sunday…
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Just a year after Proposition 13’s passage in 1978, California voters approved another taxpayer rights initiative called the Gann Spending Limit. Unlike Proposition 13, which was a direct limit on taxation, Gann was an attempt to limit government spending. It limited the growth of state and local government expenditures to a base-year level adjusted annually…
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Wade Miley’s return from the injured list was short lived. The veteran left-hander landed on the 15-day IL Sunday with a left shoulder strain. The move comes after just three starts for the Chicago Cubs after he was sidelined all of spring training with left elbow inflammation. Miley, 35, made one rehab start before his…
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ANAHEIM — Kurt Suzuki stood in the Angels clubhouse on Sunday morning, no worse for his frightening experience besides wishing that he hadn’t made “a big scene out of everything.” The Angels catcher scared everyone who watched what happened to him before the third inning on Saturday night. He was catching Michael Lorenzen’s warmup pitches…
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Chicago White Sox shortstop Tim Anderson exited Sunday’s City Series game against the Cubs in the top of the fifth with a strained right groin. He will undergo further evaluation Monday. Anderson took a couple of steps to left while fielding P.J. Higgins’ grounder and fell to the ground in shallow center field at Guaranteed…
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The Tyler Herro watch continued into a second week, with the Miami Heat sixth man continuing to be listed as questionable for Sunday night’s Game 7 of the Eastern Conference finals against the Boston Celtics at FTX Arena. Asked after the morning shootaround if he had an update, coach Erik Spoelstra said, “I don’t,” with…
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