Q: Hi, Ira. Could Max Strus have a shot at the starting P.J. Tucker slot? Could they start him and Tyler Herro, too? – Eddie. A: The only way Max Strus could start alongside Tyler Herro would be for Max or Jimmy Butler to start at power forward. And that would put considerable stress on…
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To the credit of the youth gathered at the Miami Heat’s basketball clinic Thursday at the Rolling Loud music-festival venue at Hard Rock Stadium, they tried. No sooner did a hand go up and the question came out about the Heat possibly trading for Utah Jazz guard Donovan Michell, then Heat guard Victor Oladipo said,…
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The trade deadline is approaching, and the Orioles have done little to clarify the direction executive vice president and general manager Mike Elias might take. Even in dropping a series to the vaunted New York Yankees, these Orioles showed how competitive they can be if they are kept together and potentially added to. But they…
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Damn. Ryan Poles really wishes he still had that GoPro. If he did, he could show you more of what he’s talking about, this fantastic memory that suddenly has put a wide smile across his face. It’s a perfectly pleasant March afternoon in Florida, and Poles is sitting at the peak of his profession, a…
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Yasmani Grandal hadn’t been on the field for the Chicago White Sox since June 11. The catcher, understandably, was hyped in his return from the injured list Friday when the Sox played the Cleveland Guardians at Guaranteed Rate Field. “I think in the fourth inning I was still shaking,” Grandal said before Saturday’s doubleheader. “I…
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It’s amazing, in a way, that as California’s politics drifted leftward over the past several decades, the iconic symbol of its once-conservative mien, Proposition 13, has remained intact. Overwhelmingly passed by voters in 1978, Proposition 13 froze property tax rates (1% plus bonds) and limited the growth of taxable values to 2% a year as…
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Amid a typical NBA calendar, such as the one the league has gotten back to after a pair of pandemic-altered seasons, August tends to be the month of escape. Jimmy Butler touring Europe. Bam Adebayo with a vacation planned with his mother. Pat Riley on the Isle of Capri off the Amalfi. This year, when…
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It’s been almost 20 days since 8-year-old Cooper Roberts was hospitalized after being critically wounded at the Independence Day parade shooting in Highland Park. The bullet caused injuries that left the boy paralyzed from the waist down and despite some progress, he remains in critical condition, according to a statement from the family. Following Cooper’s…
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Daniel Vogelbach and Michael Perez are not going to win the Mets a World Series. Sure, both players could contribute should the Mets get there. It’s not hard to envision Vogelbach stepping up to the plate against a right-handed reliever and delivering a 400-foot euphoria bomb into the Citi Field crowd, instantly becoming a postseason…
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ATLANTA — The Jonathan Villar Experiment is over. A day after Villar made two errors and another misplay that cost the Angels a run, they designated the veteran infielder for assignment. “These things are tough,” manager Phil Nevin said. “They really are. This is a performance-based industry as we all know, and defensively, we just…
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