By Sudhin Thanawala | Associated Press ATLANTA — Herschel Walker is expected to skip a second debate against his Republican rivals for a crucial U.S. Senate seat on Tuesday after missing the first one. Ted Budd has skipped four Republican primary debates in his bid for a U.S. Senate seat in North Carolina. GOP candidates…
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The pairings for the CIF Southern Section boys tennis playoffs that begin with wild-card round matches (Tuesday) and first-round matches (Wednesday). CIF-SS BOYS TENNIS PLAYOFFS OPEN DIVISION Quarterfinals, Friday, May 6, 3 p.m. Harvard-Westlake at University Peninsula at Woodbridge Palos Verdes at Calabasas Claremont at Corona del Mar DIVISION 1 First round, Wednesday, May 4,…
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Marquee Sports Network is expanding the scope of its coverage beyond the Chicago Cubs. The network announced a multiyear broadcast partnership with the Sky to provide live television broadcasts of 16 games. All non-nationally televised games will also be available to stream through Marquee Plus via the app for authenticated Marquee subscribers. Locally-televised Sky games…
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The updated schedule and pairings for the CIF Southern Section boys volleyball playoffs. CIF-SS BOYS VOLLEYBALL PLAYOFFS DIVISION 1 Quarterfinals, Tuesday, May 3, 6 p.m. Huntington Beach at Beckman Los Alamitos at Newport Harbor Mira Costa at Mater Dei DIVISION 2 Quarterfinals, Wednesday, May 4, 6 p.m. Canyon at Servite Burroughs/Burbank at Tesoro DIVISION 3…
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The Miami Dolphins completed their tidy four-pick 2022 draft and still have spots to fill on the roster, even after agreeing to terms with more than a dozen undrafted free agents following the draft. Where do the Dolphins look now as a team that still possesses upward of $20 million in cap space? They went…
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You can stop telling Mookie Betts to eat a steak. When Betts put up sub-par numbers (by his standards) during an injury-riddled 2021 season and got off to a slow start this season, fans went back to his Instagram posts last April and made a connection. Betts’ vegan diet was sapping his baseball skills. “You…
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Long before the pandemic, California’s public education system faced deep and persistent problems. Most students failed to meet the state’s standards in math, English language arts and science. California consistently ranked near the bottom of national standardized tests. And troubling achievement gaps meant low-income Black and Latino students in particular were left behind. Then the…
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Whoever wins the Orange County Board of Supervisors seat in the newly drawn District 2 on June 7 will have a historic opportunity to represent the county’s first Latino majority voting district. Five candidates, all with prior experience in elected office, are running for the seat that covers Santa Ana and parts of Anaheim, Garden…
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After two years of shuttered gyms and limited indoor access, James Innocenti, a Planet Fitness franchise owner, is back in expansion mode. Innocenti is celebrating the debut of his 12th Orange County fitness center Tuesday, May 3 in Lake Forest. During the pandemic, Innocenti closed all of his Planet Fitness gyms in an effort to…
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Kathy Boudin, a former Weather Underground radical who served more than two decades behind bars for her role in a fatal 1981 armored truck robbery and spent the latter part of her life helping people who had been imprisoned, has died at age 78, according to her family. Boudin, who lived in New York City,…
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