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Veteran forward Markieff Morris formally was cleared to return to the Miami Heat on Saturday, back in the mix for the team’s game against the Minnesota Timberwolves at FTX Arena. Because of the severity of the neck injury he sustained in his Nov. 8 run-in with Denver Nuggets center Nikola Jokic, and because of a…
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The Angels have reportedly agreed to re-sign catcher Kurt Suzuki to a one-year, $1.75-million deal. The team has not announced the deal first reported by Robert Murray of Fansided.com, which is reportedly pending a physical. Suzuki, 38, played 72 games with the Angels last season, hitting .224 with a .636 OPS. After Suzuki became a…
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NEWARK, N.J. — Andrej Sustr was with the Tampa Bay Lightning, preparing to play a game against the Winnipeg Jets, when he got word he had been placed on waivers with the intention of sending him to the Syracuse Crunch of the AHL. Then he got another call and he was on his way to…
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This is the year everybody in the free world has to grow up and stop treating energy policy like a middle school project. The world can’t operate without energy, and it needs a reliable, consistent, affordable supply of it. “Daily life still demands too much fossil fuel,” Gov. Gavin Newsom lamented in his State of…
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The city of Berkeley’s supposedly progressive residents are using NIMBYism to wage war on young people and their economic freedom. A small group of Berkeley residents has sued to stop the university from expanding. Thanks to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), the California supreme court upheld a judge’s ruling that has frozen enrollment until…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now. SACRAMENTO — As each winning basketball team stormed the floor in celebration, another “team” slipped off the Golden 1 Center floor and into the tunnel this weekend. Referees can draw the ire from a crowd for 32 minutes, but when the final buzzer…
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Luke Kennard’s default expression is often a smile. Anyone who watched him having a ball in the 3-point shootout at All-Star weekend knows that. It likely says something about Kennard, whose father raised him, Mark Kennard said, to practice the golden rule. That is to say: “If you want to act like an idiot, you’re…
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We often criticize Gov. Gavin Newsom for throwing money at the state’s problems rather than coming up with creative and cost-effective alternatives, so we’re pleasantly surprised by his recently announced “new strategy” for tackling the California’s growing homelessness problem. The proposal is remarkably innovative and reflects the best and latest thinking on the issue. The…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — A quiet winter is about give way to a busy spring training. The Angels, and the other 29 teams, were frozen for 99 days by baseball’s lockout, but Thursday’s agreement set in motion a last-minute scrambling, with general managers busy working the phones to fill out their rosters and players hurrying to…
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On Friday, March 18, Mexican rockers Maná will start a run of concerts that will make history at one of music’s most storied venues. The show will mark the first of eight concerts for the band at the 17,500-person capacity Forum in Inglewood  that will take place over the course of four months. Maná, which…
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