Thursday was a big day in the capital of Clippers Nation.

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Ah, not so fast with all the hosannahs to the National Football League.

The best part wasn’t the look of pride and joy on faces too often unfamiliar with those emotions.

Okay, I admit it.

We’re supposed to have the aroma of hamburgers, hot dogs and steaks on the grill filling our noses.

It’s official.

Editor’s Note: The Valley Press is catching up with some of our local Minor League Baseball players who have been affected by the cancellation of their seasons due to Coronavirus. Each story will focus on one player. This is the first installment in the series.

With all the other wonderful things the Coronavirus has wiped out this summer, it’s easy to overlook them.

He was the Dodgers’ THIRD choice in 2015.

The future is bright for Paraclete incoming freshman Mister Burnside.

So, no Disneyland on July 17, after all.

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Baseball’s back.

This and that, about this and that. …

Longtime readers of this sports section have been spoiled for generations by an uncommonly talented sports photography department.

Quartz Hill High School has dropped Rebels as its mascot.

He didn’t attend the opening of the Western Hotel on Lancaster BLVD.

Ron Hornaday Jr. has some company today.

When President John F. Kennedy was murdered in 1963 — a killing that remains maddeningly unsolved to many of us — the world branded Dallas, Texas as “The City That Killed JFK.”

It stands there like an open coffin at a funeral.

We in this Valley don’t just sing, “It’s a small world after all, ….”

This Valley we all love so well to call home?

The San Diego Padres may or may not see the field in 2020.

Congratulations, Palmdale.

Usually, the only reference to Minnesota around here is in relation to the Lancaster National Soccer Center being the United States’ largest soccer complex west of the massive one in Minneapolis.

It’s as vivid in my mind today as when I witnessed it nearly 28 years ago.

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Just wondering.

The organizers of the Larry Lake All-Star Baseball game were thinking of changing the format of their game for high school seniors.

Our heroes have always been JetHawks.

When we had our first brush with the greatest trophy in sports, during the Los Angeles Kings’ remarkable run to the Stanley Cup Final in 1993, our research produced a curiously blank line in the annual list of champions.

“Hey Paul George, you just led the Los Angeles Clippers to their first NBA championship in their 50-year history, after leading the Clippers over the Lakers in the Hallway Series. What’re ya gonna do now?”

Madelyn Cruz has been able to show her spirit both on campus at Paraclete High School and off of it.

“The Last Dance” set ratings records for viewership of an ESPN sports documentary.

In early February, Desert Christian boys basketball player Jerek Stevenson quietly made his decision to continue his playing career at Vanguard University.