TEMPE, Ariz. — Mike Trout could be moving to left field. When Manager Joe Maddon addressed reporters on Sunday, the day before the Angels’ first official workout of the lockout-shortened spring training, he said the team has been toying with the idea of moving the superstar from center field. It’s all very preliminary, and Maddon…
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Welcome to the 2022 NBA season, when what happens off the court is more polarizing than the results of an actual game. Superstar point guard Kyrie Irving arrived at Barclays Center midway through the second quarter of the Nets’ 110-107 win against the Knicks on Sunday. Irving walked in through the southeast visiting tunnel wearing…
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It’s that time of year again. The time when we come out of winter and see the signs of spring just around the corner. Green shoots, budding flowers, longer days and warmer temperatures. While winter was a time of quiet repose, spring is busting out all over. And what’s at the heart of all this?…
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The Clippers paired a poor start with a sensational surge to set up a suspenseful finish in Detroit, where a trio of former Pistons proved to be difference-makers in their latest mettle-testing victory. They won 106-102, clawing back from an early 18-point deficit for the early Sunday win. Marcus Morris Sr. (a Piston for two…
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Nets star Kevin Durant was not quiet about his thoughts on New York City’s private-sector coronavirus vaccine mandate. “I don’t get it,” Durant said after scoring 53 points without Kyrie Irving, en route to the Nets’ 110-107 win over the Knicks on Sunday. “At this point now, it feels like somebody’s trying to make a…
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The Chargers’ blockbuster trade for star edge rusher Khalil Mack was likely the start of a drastic makeover for Brandon Staley’s defense. Staley’s history of helping young defensive players reach their potential played a part the Chargers’ decision to hire him as the head coach last year, but Staley has often shifted the praise toward…
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La Plaza de Cultura y Artes in downtown L.A. is taking a deep dive into the contributions to the American artistic landscape made by Chicano and Chicana artists with the new exhibition “L.A. Memo: Chicana/o Art from 1972-1989,” which opens March 18. The exhibition includes more than 50 mixed-media pieces by approximately 30 artists who…
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Brent Renaud, an acclaimed filmmaker who traveled to some of the darkest and most dangerous corners of the world for documentaries that transported audiences to little-known places of suffering, died Sunday after Russian forces opened fire on his vehicle in Ukraine. The 50-year-old Little Rock, Arkansas, native was gathering material for a report about refugees…
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A recent column in this space was headlined “Inflation, the cruelest tax.” Well, if inflation is the cruelest tax, then inflation’s impact on gasoline, combined with the nation’s highest tax, can only be characterized as “cruel and unusual punishment.” In addition to inflation and taxes, other government policies related to petroleum are counterproductive. These include…
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NEW YORK — Trevor Zegras acknowledged the strangeness of it all, lining up Saturday against his good friend Jack Hughes when the Ducks faced the New Jersey Devils in Newark, N.J. Zegras also acknowledged the fear of it, too, whenever he was on the ice at the same time as Hughes. “It was definitely weird…
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