Q: Ira, why do you say “non-COVID” each time you list a Heat player as being ill? We get it, there is still COVID. But you’ve said the Heat players are vaccinated and boosted. You’re bringing something up that doesn’t matter. – Edward. A: Actually, this is something the Heat and most, if not all,…
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“Continuity” was the buzzword this week as Chicago Bulls players and management met with reporters one last time following their first-round playoff loss to the Milwaukee Bucks. Keeping the core together was the stated goal of executive vice president of basketball operations Artūras Karnišovas, though it will be greatly weakened unless Zach LaVine returns. And…
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LOS ANGELES ― The Dodgers played down to the level of their last opponent on their most recent road trip. They had a chance to do so again on Friday night, when the Detroit Tigers visited Dodger Stadium to begin a five-game homestand. Instead, they turned back into the Dodgers – a team that could,…
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LONG BEACH — As happy as Long Beach State baseball coach Eric Valenzuela was Friday night at Blair Field, he made sure to tell everyone his team has been playing good baseball for more than one night. The Dirtbags beat UC Irvine, 6-2, to snap a 10-game losing streak and give the team a shot of…
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Miami Dolphins general manager Chris Grier has made more draft and offseason trades in his four years at the helm than any other NFL executive, but on Friday his phone was silent. “We got no calls from teams trying to move down,” Grier said, referring the lack of interest in the Dolphins’ 102nd pick, which…
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KANSAS CITY — The Yankees feasted on home runs in the friendly confines of Yankee Stadium over the last week. Friday, they packed up that power up and brought it on the road. Anthony Rizzo hit his major league-leading ninth home run of the season as the Bombers hit four homers total as they routed…
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Until Ryan Poles makes moves on the offensive line that turn heads, he’s going to come across as an Illinois politician talking about reforming the state’s tollway system. That’s to say it’s going to be hard to put much weight into what the first-year general manager has to say about the line until something is…
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Tim Anderson doubled leading off the first inning for the Chicago White Sox against the Los Angeles Angels. The Sox wouldn’t get another hit Friday until José Abreu singled with two outs in the seventh. The Sox were limited to three hits by emergency starter Jimmy Herget and six other pitchers in a 5-1 loss…
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The Ravens drafted Michigan’s David Ojabo with the No. 45 overall pick Friday night, reuniting first-year defensive coordinator Mike Macdonald with one of the NFL draft’s most talented pass rushers. The 6-foot-4, 250-pound Ojabo was expected to be a mid-first-round pick before he tore his Achilles tendon at Michigan’s pro day in mid-March, an injury…
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The long wait for the Miami Dolphins to make their first pick of the 2022 NFL draft resulted in the team taking Georgia linebacker Channing Tindall with pick No. 102 at the end of the third round. Tindall (6-foot-2, 230 pounds) was a national champion with the Bulldogs last season, where he was tied for…
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