Ex-Duke guard Nikolas Khamenia is heading to UConn after Elite Eight stunner

Duke’s UConn nightmare has continued into the transfer portal.  The Blue Devils’ Nikolas Khamenia announced on social media Saturday that he’s transferring to the fellow blue blood program, simply stating “committed” alongside him in a Huskies uniform.  The rising sophomore averaged 5.7 points, 3.3 rebounds, and one assist per game on 44.4 percent from the floor and 34 percent from 3-point range in 38 games last season.  Khamenia took on a larger role in Duke’s biggest games of the year, playing in at least 22 minutes in six of the Blue Devils’ seven ACC and NCAA Tournament games.  In the…

Mets suffer 10th straight loss with season already mired in ugly mess

CHICAGO — If there is a baseball hell, the Mets have found it and are threatening to establish permanent residence.  The elements of underachievement change daily, but the constant is the Mets lose. And lose. And lose.  Saturday their futility reached double digits. They fell 4-2 to the Cubs at…

Jorge Polanco hits injured list as Mets take another early season blow

The Mets took another loss on Saturday before they even took the field against the Cubs. Infielder Jorge Polanco was placed on the 10-day injured list — retroactive to April 15 — with a right wrist contusion. Catcher Hayden Senger has been called up in a corresponding move. Polanco has…

Experimental drug doubles one-year survival in pancreatic cancer

An experimental treatment has doubled one-year survival rates for pancreatic cancer, one of the deadliest types of cancer, a new study reports.The drug, called elraglusib, targets the protective web that pancreatic tumors build around themselves, thus helping immune molecules and chemotherapy better penetrate the tumors. The results of the trial…

You’ve got Lakers questions, and The California Post has answers

The Lakers are limping into the NBA postseason, but even without Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves indefinitely, the team still hopes to surprise the Rockets in their first-round series. Here are five major postseason questions for the Lakers, which we posed to California Post sports staffers Khobi Price, Melissa Rohlin…

Science news this week: Physicists witness faster-than-light darkness pinpricks, humans are still evolving, and some polar bears are getting fatter than ever

This week’s science news followed last week’s climactic splashdown of the Artemis II mission with a flurry of space and physics news that only further melted our minds.Topping the list was the first-ever observation by scientists of singularities in combined light and sound waves that moved faster than the speed…

Did King Arthur really exist?

Legend has it that King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table were busy heroes, with tales of them slaying a giant, organizing a successful search for the Holy Grail, and ruling a kingdom from a city called Camelot.Some stories say Arthur was conceived or born at Tintagel, a…

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