SAN DIEGO (AP) — El Niño is coming. It could be quite the storm. Thursday night at Arizona, Fernando Tatis Jr. will be announced as the leadoff hitter for the San Diego Padres and settle into a big league batter’s box for the first time since the last game of the 2021 season. One of baseball’s most […]
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Movie theaters and streamers may end up friends, after all
Not long ago, some were predicting more and more films would be diverted from theaters and sent straight into homes, but that hasn’t been the case.
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Three new ‘Star Wars’ movies coming, including Rey’s return
LONDON (AP) — For “Star Wars” lovers, new entertainment is a little less far, far away — Lucasfilm announced three new live-action films in the franchise in early April. The news, which includes the return of Daisy Ridley as Rey in one of the films, was revealed at Star Wars Celebration Europe 2023 in London by Lucasfilm President Kathleen Kennedy and […]
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Denver firm acquires historic Cal Neva resort at Lake Tahoe
CRYSTAL BAY, Nev. (AP) — A Denver-based real estate firm has acquired the Cal Neva Resort & Casino at Lake Tahoe, a historic hotel-casino built along the California-Nevada line in 1926 and once owned by Frank Sinatra but has been shuttered for 10 years. McWhinney, which owns properties in a half-dozen states including Texas and […]
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A duo once more, Ben Affleck, Matt Damon come up for ‘Air’
Now, more than 25 years after they set out to make it in Hollywood — so entwined that they once shared a bank account — Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are once again a team in “Air,” the new film about Nike’s courting of Michael Jordan.
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Alaska Native Scouts feted 67 years after rescuing Navy crew
GAMBELL, Alaska (AP) — Bruce Boolowon, then a lean 20-year-old, and a group of friends were hunting for murre eggs in a walrus skin boat on a remote Alaska island in the Bering Strait when they saw a crippled airplane flying low. “Something was wrong,” Boolowon, now 87, recalled of that day in 1955. “They […]
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Aztecs magical season ends with NCAA title loss to UConn, 76-59
San Diego State fell behind early in the NCAA men’s basketball championship game on Monday against Connecticut and could never close the gap in a
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Jim Nantz bids a fond farewell to March Madness
Certainly, Jim Nantz could fill an evening weaving tales of the great games and buzzer-beaters he’s had the privilege to see, and call, over a storytelling career that made his the voice of March Madness for nearly four decades.
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March madness title game a chance for SDSU to double its championships
The number of San Diego State teams that have won an NCAA Division I championship can be counted on one finger. Monday night could be monumental.
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UCLA Study: Biggest Hollywood films still go mostly to white men
The annual UCLA Hollywood Diversity Report, published March 30, presented one of the most detailed looks yet at how the film industry was shaped and, in many ways, set back during the pandemic.
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Gwyneth Paltrow scores court win that means more than $1
Gwyneth Paltrow’s motivation to go to trial to fight a lawsuit accusing her of sending a fellow skier “absolutely flying” at a posh Utah ski resort in 2016 was about vindication.
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Buzzer Beater! San Diego State’s magical season heads to NCAA title game Monday
San Diego State overcomes a big second half deficit to win it at the buzzer and will play Monday night for the NCAA men’s basketball title.
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San Diego County supervisor to resign after assault lawsuit
San Diego County Supervisor Nathan Fletcher announced he will resign days after being sued for alleged sexual harassment and assault, and ending his state Senate campaign to seek treatment for post-traumatic stress disorder and alcohol abuse.
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San Diego State in Final Four with stifling defense
The Mountain West Conference’s first Final Four participant, the Aztecs will face FAU on Saturday. The game tips off at 3:09 p.m. on CBS 8. A victory would put the Aztecs in the championship game Monday.
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Aztecs on to historic Final Four after thriller over Creighton
The experienced Aztecs, in their sixth season under coach Brian Dutcher, will play the surprising East Region champion, ninth-seeded Florida Atlantic, on Saturday in Houston for a spot in the national title game.
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Padres no longer little brother to Dodgers
The Padres are poised to make a run at the NL West title as well as a World Series crown that has always been out of reach.