Left Coast Sports Babe

Millions of Americans are saying they will not drive their cars to celebrate Earth Day. Well, it sounds better than saying they can’t afford gas.

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And in Cleveland, many will celebrate Earth Day by burying Lebron James jerseys six feet under.

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A data center run by Amazon.com crashed Thursday, causing problems not only at Amazon, but many websites and Internet services like Foursquare, Hootsuite (a Twitter dashboard) and Reddit which rely on AWS (Amazon Web Services.) It was awful, many Americans actually had no alternative but to do their work.

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Okay, I must have missed something. Where in the rules for the playoff series between the Sharks and the Kings was the line that said goalies should take the second period off?

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Mike Leake, arrested for shoplifting Monday, nonetheless started and got the win for the Reds Thursday afternoon. If this keeps up Leake could end up being the best sticky-fingered pitcher since Gaylord Perry.

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Bud Selig has announced that MLB playoffs will probably expand from eight to ten teams in 2012. The only holdup for now, trying to figure out how to guarantee that those ten teams will always include the Red Sox and Yankees.

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Meghan McCain interviewed Donald Trump, who told her “I like you and I like your father, I’ll tell you. And I like your mother. I like your whole family.” Well, makes sense that the Donald would like Meghan. She’s about the right age to be his next wife.

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I am not generally a fan of country music, and I am never a fan of the Dodgers. But still, it’s cool that American Idol contestant Scotty McCreery, 17, a North Carolina native, was thrilled and impressed to meet Tommy Lasorda.

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Kinder Eggs, a popular European chocolate egg that contains a toy inside,  have been banned from importation into the United States,” and can be confiscated by Customs.

The reason, because they contain an embedded “non-nutritive object.”  Uh, doesn’t that describe most fillings at Taco Bell.

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Yet another candidate has announced for the GOP presidential nomination – former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson. Johnson, who leans libertarian, supports gay marriage, abortion rights and legalizing marijuana. He also wants to slash 90 percent of the defense budget. This could be becoming a primary debate I’d pay to watch.

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