The Miami Heat still lack an opponent for their first-round NBA playoff series, but they now at least have a schedule. The NBA early Wednesday released the dates for the Heat’s opening best-of-seven series, including initial games at FTX Arena on Sunday and Tuesday. The only times included in the league’s initial release were that…
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There were hints in Monday’s home opener that Cedric Mullins was close. He liked his two-run single, of course, the base knock that gave the Orioles an Opening Day 2-0 win over the Milwaukee Brewers. But there was also a lineout to the pitcher that felt right, and a foul ball down the third base…
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Q: Ira, I know you didn’t want the Nets in the first round, but Cleveland looked good Tuesday night and didn’t even have their best player, Jarrett Allen. — Michael. A: First, at this point, including what we saw on Tuesday night in the play-in in Brooklyn, I would say that Darius Garland is the…
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For more than 60 years, Edinger Medical Group has provided award-winning, personalized health care to patients throughout Orange County. Edinger has grown from a small, two-doctor practice in 1961 to a thriving medical group with 10 physicians specializing in internal medicine and family medicine, three nurse practitioners, and a clinical staff dedicated to providing a…
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ANAHEIM >> The Mater Dei boys volleyball team had one objective in its penultimate Trinity League game Tuesday night and it was simple: win league. The Monarchs succeeded by sweeping Servite, 25-18, 25-19, 25-20, in front of a raucous crowd at Servite High to clinch the league title in back-to-back seasons. Mater Dei head coach Jake…
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MINNEAPOLIS — A group of Dodgers spent part of the off day on Monday at Minnesota’s tourist-flytrap Mall of America. Some apparently spent time in an attraction called “The Escape Game,” using clues to find their way through the challenge. It took longer for the offense to break out. Playing in conditions that must have…
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Technically, it’s not an NBA postseason game. It’s not even a win-or-go-home game, though if you lose you can see it from here. But it feels like the playoffs. And when the Clippers and Timberwolves took the court in Minneapolis on Tuesday night … well, think of it as Game 6, with a twist. The…
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A woman was bound and tied by two suspects during a home robbery in Stanton on Tuesday, April 12, Orange County Sheriff’s Department officials said. Deputies were dispatched to a residence on the 8100 block of Stanton Avenue just after 5 a.m. and found the 59-year-old woman. JUST IN: Orange County sheriff’s investigators are in…
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CHESTER, Penn. — Rose Lavelle and Catarina Macario each scored a pair of first-half goals, and the U.S. women’s national team crushed Uzbekistan, 9-0, on Tuesday to extend the team’s unbeaten streak to 67 games on American soil. Orange County product Trinity Rodman, who came in as a second-half substitute, scored her first international goal…
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Each week, publications from the Southern California News Group’s 11 properties (Orange County Register, L.A. Daily News, Press-Enterprise, San Gabriel Valley Tribune, Long Beach Press-Telegram, The Daily Breeze, San Bernardino Sun, Daily Bulletin, Redlands Daily Facts, Whittier Daily News and Pasadena-Star News) select the Athletes of the Week for their respective region. Each athlete is…
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