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BASEBALL SOUTHERN SECTION DIVISION 1 Second round, Tuesday, 3:15 p.m. unless noted •#1 Huntington Beach at Servite •El Dorado at Dana Hills •Vista Murrieta at Corona, 4 p.m. •#4 South Hills at Riverside North •#3 Sherman Oaks Notre Dame at Redlands East Valley •Dos Pueblos at Mater Dei •Gahr at Foothill •#2 El Toro at Bishop Amat     DIVISION 2 First round, Friday •St. John Bosco 3, King 2…

NBA BOSTON (AP) — An NBA playoff-record, 41-point halftime lead. A franchise record for total points. A 13th consecutive playoff win, tying another league record. And LeBron James says the Cleveland Cavaliers can still do better. Cleveland steamrolled the Boston Celtics 130-86 to take a 2-0 lead in the Eastern Conference finals. Minutes after the NBA announced the three finalists for the MVP award — and James wasn’t among them…

A new study has found that football can have a greater positive impact on the self-confidence of teenage girls than other popular sports SPONSORED CONTENT It’s official! Football is better for your health than all other popular sports. A new study conducted with over 4,000 girls and young women aged 13 and over found that football can have a greater positive impact on the self-confidence of teenage girls than other…

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NPR’s Scott Simon talks with Howard Bryant of ESPN about a possible rematch between the Cleveland Cavaliers and the Golden State Warriors, and revelations about Tom Brady’s concussions.

The Spartans and Wolverines split the first two games of the series, a result that works better for Michigan than it does for Michigan State.(Photo: Dale G. Young / Detroit News) Ann Arbor — Michigan State needed to be perfect in the final series of the regular season, a difficult enough feat to pull off while battling for the final spot in next week’s Big Ten tournament. Needing to do…

By the looks of things, unless you wear the colors blue and gold and have the letters SP on your cap, it may be hard to defeat the Chesapeake baseball team. River Hill found that out on Friday, as the Hawks came to Pasadena to face the Cougars, who have only lost to Severna Park this season, and after a dominating performance by Chesapeake ace Joe Seidler and clutch hits…

They’re purportedly a secret society alleged to have a shadowy hand in the world’s most important issues and decisions.  They’re also a fourth-grade baseball team from Illinois.  They are … The Illuminati, and they just turned a double play by leveraging 15 minutes of viral fame into a wholesome fundraiser.  Better yet, this is all because the people demanded it. And you know The Illuminati couldn’t let the people down. …

OKLAHOMA CITY – For the second-straight night, Mother Nature spoiled Bedlam baseball fans. However, fans at the Chickasaw Bricktown Ballpark in Oklahoma City were treated to a half game of baseball before rain and lightning suspended the weekend series opener for more than five hours. Oklahoma State led 5-2 after the top half of the fifth inning. Rain began to fall as the half inning ended,…

If you’re not a hockey fan — and we know there are a LOT of you out there — it might be a good time to reconsider. The NHL playoffs are the greatest show in sports at the moment. You certainly won’t miss anything by flipping away from the NBA. While the hoops postseason is blighted by one rout after another, the NHL is putting on a stellar show that…

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Carolyn Johnson Thomas, Walter Johnson’s daughter, lived in the home for 60 years (Courtesy of Jane Shell). Anyone who dropped by to see Carolyn Johnson Thomas at her white clapboard house in the Chevy Chase neighborhood of Northwest Washington would find an homage to her father, Washington Senators pitcher Walter Johnson. Thomas, who at 94 is the last surviving child of Johnson’s six children, moved into the house with her…

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By Tim Baffoe– (CBS) On Thursday morning, Roger Ailes died. Those who say you shouldn’t speak ill of the dead are either stupid or revisionists. The creator of Fox News, Ailes was one of the worst Americans to ever smear his scat across the cultural landscape. He was a serial sexual predator and profiteer in bigotry who made the workplace nightmarish for myriad media employees who were women and/or people of…

On Saturday, NASCAR driver Aric Almirola’s No. 43 Ford twisted into a fiery contortion in a horrifying crash at the Go Bowling 400 in Kansas. He was cut out of the car and airlifted to the University of Kansas Medical Center. His team released a statement on Sunday revealing that Almirola had fractured his T5 vertebra. On Wednesday, three days after his release from the hospital, Almirola walked very stiffly…

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