In a crazily busy sports springtime in the most diverse market on this continent, with the NBA and NHL playoffs and baseball going full tilt and the LPGA tour making a second visit to L.A. within a month on this weekend, among other things … well, of course we’re talking football. The NFL never takes…
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If you think it’s difficult to score runs in today’s game, imagine being a baseball fan in the ’70s. The 1870s, that is. This was an era when overhand pitches were illegal, batters could request a pitch come in high or low, and professional teams routinely appeared and disappeared from noted metropolises such as Troy…
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Support our high school sports coverage by becoming a digital subscriber. Subscribe now Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, April 26 Click here for details about sending your team’s scores and stats to the Register. WEDNESDAY’S SCORES BASEBALL PACIFIC COAST LEAGUE Woodbridge 4, Northwood 0 Laguna Hills 9, Irvine 0 Portola 5, Beckman…
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PITTSBURGH — The Dodgers need to get tough on crime. The Pittsburgh Pirates stole six bases Wednesday night, running at will in an 8-1 rout of the Dodgers that snapped the Dodgers’ three-game winning streak. The Pirates have plundered away, stealing nine bases in nine attempts over the first two games of this series. But…
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — The Lakers’ hopes for a series-clinching victory in Game 5 of their first-round playoff series with the Memphis Grizzlies appeared to be on track in the third quarter on Wednesday night at FedEx Forum. Then suddenly, in a flurry of missed shots and defensive breakdowns, they weren’t. The Grizzlies turned a tight…
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Riverside County has now gifted satirists a plotline. Last week, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department arranged a sting operation hoping to arrest drug traffickers. Only, in this case, the department unwittingly became the actual traffickers. Undercover officers provided a drug dealer with 60 pounds of methamphetamine. The dealer then took off and the department’s finest…
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Ever since California’s senior U.S. Senator Dianne Feinstein announced that she would not be seeking another six-year term in 2024, conventional wisdom has been that the battle for her replacement would be among three Democrats: Burbank Congressman Adam Schiff, Orange County Congresswoman Katie Porter, and Oakland Congresswoman Barbara Lee. In reality, all of the recent…
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Henry Winkler, actor, producer and director, has played many roles since his iconic turn as “The Fonz,” and each time, he said, he finds something new inside with which to bring the most current character to life. Winkler, 77, said it’s all about the passion and joy he gets from his art and the experiences…
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Darcel Rockett | Chicago Tribune When the world was isolating in pandemic bubbles, Alex Hardaway was channeling his inner Bob McGrath — the late “Sesame Street” character who sang the “People in Your Neighborhood” song. Hardaway began a marathon music project — his first solo album, called “Be My Neighborhood,” where he wrote a song…
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By Jake Offenhartz | Associated Press NEW YORK — The co-founder of a fundraising group linked to Steve Bannon that promised to help Donald Trump construct a wall along the southern U.S. border was sentenced to four years and three months in prison on Wednesday for stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from donors. Brian…
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