The theme of the Jets’ offseason: Get. Zach Wilson. Weapons. Wilson needs more to grow in his development as a young quarterback — particularly receivers. Yesterday, we listed possible targets for the Jets in the first round of the draft. Here is what Gang Green could do with trades or in free agency. TRADES Calvin…
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Brian Flores plans to coach again — soon. He’ll be working with his son’s 7-on-7 Broward-based flag football team in the coming weeks, using the game he loves to guide young men the same way coaches assisted him as a kid, helping him use football as his escape from the poverty and despair he saw…
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By Daily Nguyen | The Associated Press For a few frenzied weeks, beekeepers from around the United States truck billions of honeybees to California to rent them to almond growers who need the insects to pollinate the state’s most valuable crop. But as almond trees start to bloom, blanketing entire valleys in white and pink…
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New Dolphins coach Mike McDaniel completed his coaching staff within two weeks of arriving in Miami. McDaniel, who last season served as offensive coordinator for the 49ers, has brought in coaches he has worked with in San Francisco, retained a number of coaches on the Dolphins’ staff and handpicked a few others, including bringing Dolphins…
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A new contract has been approved by bus drivers and the Orange County Transportation Authority’s board of directors, putting an end to the possibility of a strike among the agency’s coach operators, who had threatened to walk off the job if the groups couldn’t come to an agreement. Members of Teamsters 952, which represents about…
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It’s a throwback to a simpler time, when kids created their own disorganized sports and got dirty – really dirty – in the process. Inspired by the primitive, make-your-own-fun parks then trending around Europe, Adventure Playground opened in Huntington Beach in 1974 as an antidote to urban life. A child’s wonderland like no other, it…
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Election reform, oil spills, crime and housing are just some of the topics targeted in new legislation proposed by state Assembly and Senate members from Orange County. Some of the bills, such as a plan from Assembly members Sharon Quirk-Silva and Steven Choi to help Orange County finally get a veterans cemetery, drew headlines before…
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Director George Miller, whose career includes both the post-apocalyptic mayhem of “Mad Max” and “The Road Warrior” and the kid-friendly fare of “Babe” and “Happy Feet,” spent years staring down one obstacle after another to make “Mad Max: Fury Road,” the fourth Mad Max film. Starring Charlize Theron, Tom Hardy, Nicholas Hoult, Zoe Kravitz and…
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Redondo Beach’s BeachLife Festival is going country and bringing a whole lot more music to the city with a second three-day concert in the works for later this year. The third installment of the festival, which returns to Redondo Beach’s Seaside Lagoon May 13-15, will be followed by a sister festival named BeachLife Ranch, which…
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By JESSICA GRESKO WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has agreed to hear a new clash involving religion and the rights of LGBT people. The high court said Tuesday it would hear the case of Colorado-based web designer Lorie Smith. Smith offers graphic and website design services and wants to expand to wedding website services,…
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