By EDDIE PELLS PHILADELPHIA (AP) — North Carolina turns away Saint Peter’s 69-49, joins rival Duke, Villanova and Kansas in Final Four. North Carolina crushed all hope of a March Madness miracle in the early going Sunday, getting 20 points and 22 rebounds from Armando Bacot in a wire-to-wire 69-49 runaway over 15th-seeded Saint Peter’s.…
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Seth Curry is going to play through the pain, but the Nets can’t afford for him to get hurt. It’s concerning, given the Nets’ lack of shooters not named Kevin Durant or Kyrie Irving: With Joe Harris out for the rest of the campaign after undergoing season-ending surgery on his left ankle, Curry is the…
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THE GAME: The Angels lost 6-1 to the San Francisco Giants on Sunday at Tempe Diablo Stadium. PITCHING REPORT: Left-hander Patrick Sandoval gave up three runs in three-plus innings in his first Cactus League game of the spring. He had thrown three innings in a minor league game in his first game. “It felt good,”…
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TEMPE, Ariz. — Jo Adell hit a homer and ripped a single in his first two at-bats of the Angels exhibition game on Saturday, but it was his third plate appearance that left an impression on Joe Maddon. Adell walked. The Angels manager sought out the young outfielder immediately and told him why drawing a…
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More than two years into the pandemic, getting a Covid diagnosis has become fairly commonplace: According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, some 80 million Americans have contracted the virus at least once, out of a total US population of about 329 million. And if you consider all the people who contracted the…
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Property rights are one of the most fundamental constitutional provisions that protect Americans against government abuse. Unfortunately, these rights are regularly under assault by state and local tax collectors who aggressively target homeowners who have fallen behind on their property tax payments. Constant vigilance is necessary to protect property owners against any government encroachments on…
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“As California Goes, So Goes the Nation, Alas.” That was a headline from a Los Angeles Times opinion column from April 1989, which noted that, even though “Californians have long considered their state the cutting edge of social and political change… [it] no longer seems the vanguard of political innovation. Other states rarely look to…
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine — flagrantly violating that country’s sovereignty and the rights of its people — has many wondering: Does Russia belong on the United Nations’ Security Council, or in the UN at all? There’s debate over whether the UN Charter could allow for Russia’s expulsion. Technically, a member can be expelled by a…
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Have you caught Wordle fever? This clever daily word puzzle in the New York Times became a fad very quickly. It is fun and easy and requires an open mind in order to see the possibilities for the daily word. Keeping a flexible mind is not always easy. Author Robert Ludlum wrote, “Blessed are the flexible…
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Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson is eminently qualified for the United States Supreme Court. The Supreme Court is heavy now with academics and court of appeals judges: what it misses is the eight years as a trial judge that Judge Jackson provides. The experience of seeing cases actually tried is especially important in criminal law. The…
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