North Carolina offensive guard Joshua Ezeudu was emotional on Friday night recounting the Giants’ phone call at pick No. 67 of the third round. “It was very surreal,” Ezeudu, 22, said on a conference call. “You think about it so much, but [when] it actually happens, it kind of socks you. I was speechless. I…
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The Ravens addressed an immediate need in the third round of the NFL draft, picking Connecticut defensive tackle Travis Jones, a powerful interior presence regarded as a second-round talent by many analysts. The 6-foot-4, 325-pound Jones delivered 47 tackles and 4 1/2 sacks, impressive numbers for an interior lineman, in 2021. The No. 76 overall…
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While 42-year-old Boston Red Sox pitcher Rich Hill retired the first 12 Orioles on Friday night in four perfect innings in Baltimore, another pitcher in Maryland took it a step further. A lot further. Terps junior left-hander Ramsey threw a perfect game in a 13-0 victory over Northwestern in College Park, the first for a…
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It’s hard to remember the Chicago Cubs were 11 games over .500 in mid-June 2021, looking like a team on a mission to avoid a fire sale. But that’s exactly what happened, of course, and after team President Jed Hoyer’s summer sell-off led to a 91-loss season, the new-look Cubs started this season with several…
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After nearly three weeks of quiet speculation on the coaching front, the Lakers might be looking to raid the staff of the defending champions. The Athletic was first to report that the Lakers have requested permission to interview Darvin Ham, a 48-year-old assistant for the Milwaukee Bucks, who are preparing for a second-round playoff series…
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Linebacker has been a position of need for USC for a couple of seasons now, but the Trojans made a key reinforcement to the position on Friday afternoon. Arizona State linebacker transfer Eric Gentry has signed with USC, the program announced on Twitter on Friday. He arrives at USC with three seasons of eligibility remaining.…
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After sitting out the first round of the NFL draft, Chicago Bears general manager Ryan Poles made his first selections Friday night from Halas Hall. The Bears started the night with three picks on Day 2 — at Nos. 39 and 48 in the second round and 71 in the third round. The Bears also…
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In Thornton Wilder’s 1938 play, “Our Town,” heliotrope flowers connect two sets of characters who gather to inhale their intoxicating scent in the moonlight. Heliotropes, then common, are, indeed, wonderfully fragranced, yet somehow, they’ve fallen out of favor in American gardens. Many one-time garden staples from the Victorian era through the 1950s have been replaced…
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The Stagecoach Country Music Festival is doing its best to pick up where it left off in 2019. The three-day event returned to Indio on Friday, April 29, after a two-year hiatus forced by the coronavirus pandemic. Fans turned out on opening day to hear headliner Thomas Rhett and more than a dozen other stars…
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The Mets, including pitchers and some position players, had a productive meeting with Major League Baseball representatives on Friday at Citi Field about all the hit by pitches. Morgan Sword, MLB’s executive vice president of baseball operations, accompanied by former players Dan Otero and Rajai Davis, who now work in the commissioner’s office, had a…
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