SAN DIEGO (AP) Hours after saying he would skip the All-Star Home Derby next month, Fernando Tatis Jr. put on his own personal power show. Tatis hit three homers, energizing Petco Park with the most dynamic performance of his short but spectacular career, as the San Diego Padres sent the Arizona Diamondbacks to their record 24th straight road loss, 11-5 Friday night.
Kawhi Leonard is nowhere on court, everywhere else for LA
By BETH HARRISJune 25, 2021 GMT
LOS ANGELES (AP) The Los Angeles Clippers don’t have injured Kawhi Leonard on the court. He’s everywhere else, though.
In the halftime locker room, texting, on the phone, watching from above the floor, all the while analyzing and suggesting ways for his team to get past the Phoenix Suns in the Western Conference Finals.
Leonard watched with his family from a Staples Center suite Thursday night, when Paul George had 27 points, 15 rebounds and eight assists in a game-high 43 minutes of the Clippers’ 106-92 victory. It cut their series deficit to 2-1.
Vetoed Arizona sex education bill heading back to governor
By BOB CHRISTIEJune 25, 2021 GMT
PHOENIX (AP) The Republican-controlled Legislature on Friday sent a contentious sex education bill that was previously vetoed by Arizona Gov. Doug Ducey back to his desk after it was stripped of language he objected to that would have prevented young children from being taught how to avoid or report sexual abuse.
The revised legislation still bars sex education instruction before 5th grade and requires greatly increased parental notifications, along with the current rule that parents opt-in for sex ed classes But it eliminated language requiring a double opt-in for discussions of sexual orientation, gender identity and HIV/AIDS issues in sex ed classes.
PHOENIX (AP) Health officials in Arizona continue to see a bump in new daily COVID-19 case numbers. The state dashboard reported Thursday 626 new confirmed cases and 7 more deaths. For the past week, new daily case numbers had risen from more than 300 to over 400.
WINDOW ROCK, Ariz. (AP) The Navajo Nation on Thursday reported two new cases of COVID-19 and one more death. Tribal health officials say the sprawling reservation that stretches into New Mexico, Arizona and Utah now has seen 30,976 known cases of the coronavirus since the pandemic began more than a year ago.