This could have been Victor Oladipo’s gap season, similar to the one taken by Kawhi Leonard with the Los Angeles Clippers and the one that ultimate proved to be the case with Ben Simmons with the Brooklyn Nets, as they dealt with injury recovery. That, Miami Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said, is why Oladipo’s return,…
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Penalty on the play. Chicago Bears wide receiver Byron Pringle was arrested Saturday after he was allegedly caught doing donuts on a highway in Florida. Pringle’s car, an orange Dodge Challenger, was spotted on a highway in Pasco County, about 30 miles north of Tampa, as it emerged from a cloud of smoke after the…
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Kadarius Toney finally has his playbook. The Giants’ receiver reported to the team’s facility Monday for the first time for voluntary offseason workouts, a source confirmed, on the heels of a Friday Daily News report that the team was making calls looking to trade him. The Giants, meanwhile, also have been shopping fourth-year receiver Darius…
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Alex Caruso could miss Game 5 of the Chicago Bulls’ first-round playoff series after being placed in concussion protocol this weekend. Caruso took an inadvertent blow to the face from Milwaukee Bucks guard Jevon Carter in the second quarter of Sunday’s Game 4 loss. Carter’s arm swiped across Caruso’s face as he drove by the…
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Chargers tight end Gerald Everett was familiar with his new head coach Brandon Staley from their one year together with the Rams, but he didn’t know Staley’s offensive philosophy because Staley was the defensive coordinator in 2020. “We want to spread the ball around and throw it,” Everett said after the first day of the…
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Paul O’Donnell would walk Huckleberry, his pet beagle, each day through his quiet Ontario neighborhood. Neighbors knew him as an animal lover who also took in stray cats. They had no knowledge of his secret passion for guns — mostly antique firearms. O’Donnell had amassed a valuable military rifle and pistol collections, possessing nearly 1,200…
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Miami Hurricanes standout guard Isaiah Wong will try to turn pro this offseason. Wong said he will enter the 2022 NBA draft while maintaining his college eligibility, announcing his career move on his Twitter account Monday morning. “It’s an honor to forever be a Miami Hurricane,” Wong wrote in his message. Wong was Miami’s second-most…
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HOLLYWOOD — A star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame will be unveiled Monday honoring actress Jean Smart for a career in which she has received 11 Emmy nominations for her work on nine series, winning four times. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, who created Smart’s best-known series “Designing Women,” and Hannah Einbinder, who co-stars with Smart on…
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Since the end of the regular season, 243 football players have passed through the transfer portal on their way out of or into the Pac-12. And more could follow. With the May 1 transfer deadline fast approaching, we expect a handful of transfers — and perhaps multiple handfuls — in the final days before the…
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We have all seen the viral videos of brazen looting from stores in California. Organized retail theft rings appear to be on the rise especially during the COVID-19 pandemic. More and more Californians are worried about increasing crime. According to a recent poll by the Institute for Governmental Studies at UC Berkeley, 78% of California…
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