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On Tuesday, Jeff Jones announced that both Lars Nootbaar and Brendan Donovan underwent surgeries. Donovan’s was to deal with a sports hernia, which shouldn’t impact his offseason too much. Nootbaar’s was more severe. He had two surgeries, one on each heel to repair a Haglund’s deformity. For those who don’t know, this is the same injury that Yoenis Cespedes dealt with years ago, and it cost him almost two full ... Read more

Rickea Jackson and Atlanta Falcons' rookie James Pearce Jr. hard-launched their relationship during the NFL draft in April. The couple kept their relationship away from the camera until the right time came for them to reveal it to the world. Shortly after, Pearce Jr. made a big statement, showing love and appreciation for his WNBA star girlfriend. In May, he said that Rickea Jackson was his favorite athlete growing up. ... Read more

Tis the season… well, almost. But Queen Mary helped kick off the festive season when she unveiled this year’s Christmas stamp in support of the Christmas  Stamp Foundation. ‘Christmas Hope and Wishing Stars’ is the title of the new Christmas stamp, which features a “magical winter landscape” dotted with elves, animals and trees. It was designed by children’s book author and illustrator Emilie Melgaard ... Read more

For forty-seven minutes, the world blinked — and something disappeared. No radar ping, no GPS transmission, no camera footage. Just silence. The convoy, once visible on every federal monitoring system, suddenly went dark. And when it came back online, its location didn’t match the route it was supposed to be on. At first, officials called it “a minor data interruption.” But the silence that followed told a different story. ... Read more

TORRANCE — With less than a week on the job in the WNBA, it is only natural that Sparks rookies Cameron Brink and Rickea Jackson are still trying to figure things out. The lottery picks are working hard to position themselves in the organization’s “core four” players, a concept detailed by first-year general manager Raegan Pebley on Wednesday at the team’s media day at El Camino College. “I’m still figuring that out to be ... Read more