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This week’s CIF-SS boys volleyball polls, released Monday, March 14. CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL POLLS (Selected by the CIF-SS Boys Volleyball Advisory Committee) DIVISION 1/2 1 Loyola 2 Mater Dei 3 Beckman 4 Corona del Mar 5 Santa Barbara 6 Mira Costa 7 Newport Harbor 8 Huntington Beach 9 Redondo Beach 10 Servite 11 Santa Margarita…
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Wendell Carter Jr. hasn’t been hesitant to admit that the opportunity to match up against the league’s top big men motivates him. “I want to be able to prove I’m one of the elite bigs in this league,” Carter said after having 25 points, 12 rebounds and 4 assists in a loss to Nikola Jokic’s…
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A kitten with paws the size of a large dog rolled on his back, playing with a chew toy. That drew a smile from the woman who cares for the young animal – when he’s alone, she watches him with a baby monitor, keeping tabs as she works rooms away. “I am very much Mom,”…
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When Texas imposed strict limits on abortion last fall, the number of abortions performed by clinics in that state fell by half. But the actual decline in abortions was much smaller because many women traveled to clinics in other states or used readily available drugs to end their pregnancies at home. Those workarounds, recent research…
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The NBA has fined the Nets $50,000 for allowing Kyrie Irving into the locker room during halftime of the Nets’ 110-107 win over the Knicks on Sunday. Irving, who is unvaccinated and thus ineligible to play at Barclays Center and Madison Square Garden due to New York City’s private sector vaccine mandate, is allowed to…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now SOFTBALL TOP 25 (Records through Sunday, March 13) 1. Villa Park (11-0): Spartans beat Murrieta Mesa 3-1 in the finals to claim their first title at the Dave Kops Tournament of Champions in Bullhead City, Ariz. 2. Pacifica (11-3): Mariners avenged a loss…
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GLENDALE, Ariz. — A winter of speculation about whether Freddie Freeman would really leave the Atlanta Braves came to an end on Monday afternoon. He will. As the Dodgers were taking the field for their first official workout of spring training Monday, news broke that the Braves had traded four players to the Oakland A’s…
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After winning his first term as Orange County sheriff-coroner in 2018, Don Barnes faces no opponents in his bid to serve another four years. Barnes – who now has more than three decades’ experience at the OC Sheriff’s Department – was picked by retiring Sheriff Sandra Hutchens to succeed her. After a three-way fight in…
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The Federal Reserve on Wednesday will launch one of the most difficult tasks a central bank can attempt: Raise borrowing costs enough to slow growth and tame high inflation, but not so much as to topple the economy into recession. With a war raging in Europe and price increases at a four-decade high, Fed Chair…
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By AAMER MADHANI, JOSH BOAK and MATTHEW LEE WASHINGTON (AP) — Face to face, President Joe Biden’s national security adviser warned a top Chinese official on Monday about China’s support for Russia in the Ukrainian invasion, even as the Kremlin denied reports it had requested Chinese military equipment to use in the war. U.S. adviser…
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