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This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Heat advisories remained in effect Thursday in the Sacramento and San Joaquin valleys and adjacent areas but managers of California’s power grid did not repeat the previous day’s call for voluntary conservation of electricity. Widespread triple-digit temperatures were again predicted, along with high humidity, raising the risk of heat-related illnesses, the National Weather Service said. On Wednesday, the California Independent System Operator asked residents to voluntarily reduce electrical use from 4 p.m. to 9 p.m. to avoid stress on the grid that can lead to power failures. A surge of monsoon moisture created extensive cloud cover that kept the day’s high in the low 90s in the Sacramento area, but temperatures soared elsewhere in California’s interior. The Redding airport hit a record 110 degrees (43.3 Celsius), Bakersfield baked at … [Read more...] about California heat persists, but no call for power cutbacks

Giants defensive coordinator Wink Martindale dunked on the suggestion that he blitzed Bill Belichick’s New England Patriots too much in the preseason with a snappy comeback: ”We’re on to Cincinnati,” Martindale said twice with a smile, echoing Belichick’s famous line, appropriately with the Cincinnati Bengals on deck Sunday at MetLife Stadium. Belichick had said after l ast week’s preseason game at Gillette Stadium that New England’s offense couldn’t run play action with rookie QB Bailey Zappe because of Martindale’s aggressive scheme. ”Well, with what the Giants were doing, there’s a lot of reasons for some of the things that we did just to try to manage the game,” Belichick said. “So, just leave it at that.” New England pointed out that the Giants had blitzed Zappe in his NFL debut on 17 of 33 dropbacks, and that the Giants had blitzed 21 times — compared to 28 total blitzes over four preseason openers the Patriots had faced in 2017, 2018, 2019 and 2021. Martindale, a … [Read more...] about Giants’ Wink Martindale on blitzing Bill Belichick’s Patriots too much: ‘We’re on to Cincinnati’