Only one Paul Skenes major league rookie debut patch autograph card exists. It can be found in a pack of 2024 Topps Chrome Update cards. The Pittsburgh Pirates want that card. Badly. The team made quite an offer Friday on X — with a bonus thrown in by Skenes’ famous girlfriend — to whomever ends […]
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Palisades has never won a City Section football championship but the Dolphins are confident this could be their year. They looked like title contenders Friday night, with Jack Thomas throwing for five touchdowns and running for another in a 56-21 rout of previously undefeated North Hollywood in the Division I quarterfinals. The fifth-seeded Dolphins (10-2)
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HIGH SCHOOL FOOTBALL PLAYOFFS FRIDAY’S RESULTS CITY SECTION Quarterfinals Open Division Narbonne 47, Dorsey 13 Birmingham 42, Gardena 19 San Pedro 37, Banning 26 Carson 27, Garfield 17 Division I Eagle Rock 27, Cleveland 20 Palisades 56, North Hollywood 21 King/Drew 35, Franklin 6 Kennedy 49, Westchester 21 Division II Arleta 39, Angelou 28 South
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On a frigid Friday night for high school playoff football in Southern California, defensive end Elijah Riley of Corona Centennial made a play to assert how much he and his teammates wanted to defeat unbeaten Mission Viejo. Using all-out pursuit and with no concern for his body, he went airborne at the 30-yard line like
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Joe Smigiel bear-hugged every player and coach in sight after breaking his team’s postgame huddle. He grinned from cheek to cheek, looking like a kid on a sugar high. He called for his wife, Dionne, to share the excitement of the Panthers’ big win, grasping her in his arms tight. The former NFL offensive lineman
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UCLA’s defense was dominant against a winless opponent Friday night, with the Bruins controlling a game that quickly got out of hand. The Bruins delivered their second consecutive lopsided win against a mid-major, 85-45 over Lehigh at Pauley Pavilion. Entering the game, UCLA (3-1) had limited opponents to 54 points per game, tied for 12th
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On Thursday, the UK’s largest mobile network operator, O2, introduced a chatbot designed to frustrate phone scammers. Called “dAIsy,” it mimics an older woman with all kinds of time to chat – about knitting, her cat Fluffy – with the aim of keeping fraudsters engaged as they try obtaining her (fake) bank details. A press
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After waiting 49 days to play a high school football game on Friday night because four Marine League coaches chose to forfeit games because of alleged rules violations, Narbonne got more bad news before its City Section Open Division playoff game against Dorsey on Friday night. The City Section has declared seven players ineligible, City
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Rams quarterback Jimmy Garoppolo has played once against the New England Patriots at Gillette Stadium, the place where his NFL career began. Yet, Sunday’s game against the Patriots will mark the 11th-year pro’s true homecoming — even if it will be as a backup. In 2020, Garoppolo led the San Francisco 49ers to victory over
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At the end of a historically dominant week that saw records toppled and the whole of women’s college basketball put on early notice, JuJu Watkins pulled up from behind the arc in Friday’s game and bricked. She missed her next jumper, too. Then a lay-up. Then another three-pointer. It was an uncharacteristically cold stretch, considering
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