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Roki Sasaki chose right when he signed with the Dodgers. Never mind not being ready to lead the rotation of another team and challenge Shohei Ohtani. The 23-year-old Sasaki doesnβt look ready to pitch in the major leagues. Sasaki made his second start for the Dodgers on Saturday night, and it was somehow worse than…
MEMPHISΒ βΒ If Saturday felt like a big game, the crowd booming while the music thumped in the fourth quarter, itβs because the teams treated it like one with the final two weeks of the season on their doorstep. Pushing to the finish line, both the Lakers and the Grizzlies needed some momentum. The Lakers were coming…
SPOKANE, Wash.Β βΒ It was never a question of belief. Even in the throes of a nightmare scenario, forced to forge ahead without USCβs biggest, brightest star, Lindsay Gottlieb had done all she could to keep doubt from creeping in, knowing full well it could sink the Trojans. The truth was few outside of the Trojansβ locker…
The government should hold an urgent COBRA meeting to deal with Birmingham’s ongoing bin strikes, the Conservatives say. The party has written a letter to Deputy Prime Minister and Communities Secretary Angela Rayner, in which it also urged the government to send in private sector binmen. The long-running strike is continuing, with rubbish piling up…
A federal prosecutor in Los Angeles was fired Friday at the behest of the White House, after lawyers for a fast-food executive he was prosecuting pushed officials in Washington to drop all charges against him, according to multiple sources familiar with the matter. Adam Schleifer was terminated Friday morning, receiving an email informing him that…
Company bosses hiring in the gig economy could face up to five years in prison if they fail to check if their employees can legally work in the UK, the Home Office has said. The employers could also be banned from operating as company directors, have their business closed down, or be hit with fines…
SPOKANE, Wash.Β βΒ Cori Close pulls up the year-old film for clues. The UCLA coach searches clips of UCLAβs Sweet 16 loss to Louisiana State last year for reminders of sets to run, defensive game plans that could work and mistakes to be rectified as the teams meet again in the Elite Eight on Sunday. But Closeβs…
To understand what fans, players and scouts are experiencing while watching the No. 1-ranked Corona High baseball team, all you need to do is listen to what people are saying. βBest team Iβve ever seen.β βNo. 1 team in America.β βThey have no weaknesses.β If the Dodgers are baseballβs top professional team, the Panthers continue…
βWe always try to make a place where we can constantly be creative in,β says Cypress Hillβs B-Real. Heβs talking about his downtown studio, where the bandmates have done most of their recording for the last decade. If anything, itβs certainly cozy. Heβs huddled on a black leather couch alongside his longtime friends and group…
Iβm watching Blake Snell, who started the Dodgersβ home opener, and later Tanner Scott, who pitched the eighth inning, and Iβm thinking that maybe Iβll see these pitchers in October. Jack Harris reported recently that Snell (who has made at least 20 starts in every full season of his nine-year career,) and Scott (who has…
