MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — Alex Kirilloff’s single in the 11th inning scored automatic runner Max Kepler and the Minnesota Twins pulled out a 4-3 win against the San Diego Padres on Wednesday night. With Kepler on second, Carlos Correa was intentionally walked. Kirilloff then pulled a pitch from Domingo Tapia (0-1) down the right-field line to help Minnesota […]
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Padres top Twins 6-1 with spark from 3-error 7th inning
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — The San Diego Padres started small and had a big finish. Somewhere in there, they found a spark. The Padres used three Minnesota errors and savvy baserunning by Ha-Seong Kim and Fernando Tatis Jr. to score twice in the seventh inning on Tuesday, before Manny Machado broke the game open with a […]
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Carrie Fisher gets her Walk of Fame star, on May the Fourth
LOS ANGELES (AP) — Carrie Fisher received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on May the Fourth, a tribute to a beloved “Star Wars” actor who had a touch of stardust. The late star’s daughter, Billie Lourd, wearing her mother’s portrait printed on her metallic dress, accepted the star on behalf of Fisher. She threw […]
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Could AI pen ‘Casablanca’? Screenwriters take aim at ChatGPT
NEW YORK (AP) — When Greg Brockman, the president and co-founder of ChatGPT maker OpenAI, was recently extolling the capabilities of artificial intelligence, he turned to “Game of Thrones.” Imagine, he said, if you could use AI to rewrite the ending of that not-so-popular finale. Maybe even put yourself into the show. “That is what entertainment will […]
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New York, California probing workplace discrimination at NFL
NEW YORK (AP) — The attorneys general of New York and California announced May 4, that they are investigating allegations of workplace discrimination at the NFL, citing lawsuits filed by employees that describe sex, racial and age bias, sexual harassment, and a hostile work environment. Attorneys General Letitia James, of New York, and Rob Bonta, […]
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Navy commander pulled from job after SEAL candidate death
Navy Capt. Brian Drechsler is being moved to another job as Navy officials seek new leadership for the Center, more than a year after SEAL candidate Kyle Mullen collapsed and died.
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California researchers attempt ocean climate solution
Atop a 100-foot barge tied up at the Port of Los Angeles, engineers have built a kind of floating laboratory to answer a simple question.
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Padres hope Tatis brings energy, maturity when PED ban ends
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.