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U High advanced to Thursday's 6 p.m. regional championship game against Clinton, which defeated Maroa-Forsyth 58-44 in the opening semifinal.
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FRISCO, Texas — Christian Parker is, at 34, not only the youngest defensive coordinator in Cowboys history, he’s roughly the same age as our oldest son. Doesn’t mean he can’t get the job done, but it could indicate I’ve been doing this too long. And the lovely wife and I started late. Parker gets it, if you were wondering, even if he can’t do anything about it now. “I’ve always been young,” he ...
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LOS ANGELES — Finalists and honorees for the 46th Los Angeles Times Book Prizes were announced Wednesday. Writer-curator Ekow Eshun is among the biography finalists for "The Strangers: Five Extraordinary Black Men and the Worlds That Made Them," which parses Black masculinity as embodied by various civil rights activists, philosophers and other visionaries. Contenders in the fiction categories ...
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