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Jeff McNeil stepped to the plate in the bottom of the fourth inning with runners at the corners and his team down by one. McNeil, the Mets’ ever reliable hitter this season, was the perfect candidate to try to get at least Francisco Lindor, who was at third, home. He did the Amazin’s two better.…
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Johnny Cueto didn’t allow a run in his first two starts with the Chicago White Sox. The Cubs got to him early Saturday with two runs in the first and didn’t look back, beating the Sox 5-1 in the City Series in front of a sellout crowd of 37,820 at Guaranteed Rate Field. Both first-inning…
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There are so many songs about color. Songs that lift us up, like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” and songs that make us think, like “It’s Not Easy Being Green.” “Purple Rain” and “Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain” are entirely different, yet we might sing along with both. The blues sets…
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Sadly, we too often become numb to sports teams and leagues who honor our troops in a variety of ways, whether it’s discounted admission on Military Appreciation Night or an invitation for veterans to stand and be recognized by the crowd or, of course, the traditional military flyover that often comes at the end of…
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Army and Navy are used to clashing on the football field — but dodgeball is something else entirely. Yet, soldiers and seamen, as well as Marines, members of the U.S. Coast Guard and local first responders, spent a couple of hours Saturday, May 28, chucking dodgeballs at each other during one of the multiple inter-branch…
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The Laguna Woods United Landscape Committee on May 12 canceled the controversial $600,000 Canary Island Pine Tree Reduction Project. Trees will be evaluated on a case-by-case basis, according to a Village News release. An ad hoc resident advisory committee to oversee the project will continue as planned, and a proposed environmental report will proceed, the…
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We face a long, hot and dry fire season ahead. Southern California’s worst three years of rainfall on record has triggered unprecedented limits on water usage. But now for the bad news: get used to it. Climate change means a new normal. Southern California’s once-reliable sources of water no longer provide a stable, adequate supply…
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In honor of the life lost and those injured in the recent shooting during a luncheon of the Irvine Taiwanese Presbyterian Church at the Geneva Presbyterian Church in Laguna Woods, the Third Laguna Hills Mutual board opened its meeting May 17 with a moment of silence. “Anytime there is violence, as it relates to any…
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ST. PETERSBURG — An hour later, Gerrit Cole was still sure he was right, but it didn’t really matter. The pitch to Ji-Man Choi was called a ball and Cole lost him. The Yankees ace couldn’t put away the sixth inning and that cost the Yankees in a 3-1 loss to the Rays at Tropicana Field.…
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What Darvin Ham accomplished in the last month should not be short-changed: The 48-year-old parlayed more than a decade of NBA assistant experience to earn a high-profile job by beat out two other former head coaches. Still, Ham is likely to find that, on a relative scale, getting the job was the easy part. The…
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