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Long Beach native and longtime sports executive Jack Teele passed away Wednesday night at the age of 87. Teele was a sportswriter at the Independent Press-Telegram for 10 years and then spent 33 years in the front offices around the National Football League, including 21 years with the Los Angeles Rams, where he rose to the rank of vice president of administration. Teele was a long-familiar face i...

There is plenty of time to join a fantasy football league and prepare a draft strategy before the start of the NFL’s 2017 regular season. Whether it is your first time playing fantasy football or you consider yourself a fantasy expert, here are 10 potential sleeper picks to consider as your upcoming draft. Quarterback Eli Manning (Giants): The Giants QB will have plenty of options to spread the ball around to this season, including Odell Beckham Jr. and new red-zone target Brandon Marshall. Aver...

LOS ANGELES — The Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the under-construction Rams-Chargers football stadium in Inglewood were among 49 potential venues revealed today as part of a joint bid by the United States, Mexico and Canada to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup soccer touament. The United...

BROOKLYN, Mich. >> Kyle Larson slipped between cars on an overtime restart, capping his wild weekend with a victory in Sunday’s NASCAR Cup Series race at Michigan Inteational Speedway. Larson was in the spotlight after team owner Chip Ganassi allowed him to go to Iowa to compete in the Knoxv...

The college football season is gettomg underway and members for each Pac-12 team will speak during media days. Use the schedule below as a guide and check back often for live news and updates during the two day event. Day 1 (Wednesday, July 26) 9 a.m. – Pac-12 Commissioner Larry Scott 9:40 a.m. – AR...

With yet another professional sports team’s arrival in Los Angeles in the last year, on top of annual hirings, firings and the glut of competition in the country’s second-largest market, there was plenty of tuover in the 50 Most Powerful in Southe Califoia Sports. Here are the 14 entries from ...

Athletes represent a small portion of the overall 50 Most Powerful in Southe Califoia Sports list populated with team owners, executives, coaches, sports agents and members of the media. Home to nine professional sports franchises, two Pac-12 conference universities and a popular training ground...

Ranking the top 10 sports events July 17-23 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: SOCCER: CONCACAF GOLD CUP SEMIFINAL Details/TV: At the Rose Bowl, Sunday, 6 p.m., FS1 Team America has managed to survive the group to make it to a quarterfinal match against El Salvador on Wednesday in Philadelphia (6 p.m., ...

Ranking the top 10 sports events July 17-23 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: SOCCER: CONCACAF GOLD CUP SEMIFINAL Details/TV: At the Rose Bowl, Sunday, 6 p.m., FS1 Team America has managed to survive the group to make it to a quarterfinal match on Wednesday in Philadelphia (6 p.m., FS1), but depending ...

Angel Sepulveda and Edson Alvarez scored and Mexico held on to beat Curacao 2-0 on Sunday night at the Alamodome in San Antonio to win Group C in the CONCACAF Gold Cup and continue its bid for a fourth championship in five years. Mexico advanced to face Honduras in the quarterfinals Thursday night i...

LONG BEACH >> As the Long Beach crowd chanted “USA” on championship point of the Long Beach Presidents Cup at the World Series of Beach Volleyball, Brazil’s duo of Larissa and Talita defeated the USA duo of Lauren Fendrick and April Ross for the gold medal on Saturday afteoon. “The crowd mad...

DENVER >> Mexico and Jamaica played to a scoreless draw Thursday night and remained on track to advance to the knockout round of the CONCACAF Gold Cup. Neither team could break through on a relatively mild night, although Mexico (1-0-1) dominated chances. The 49,121 fans in attendance, the lar...

TAMPA, Fla. >> Jordan Morris’ second goal of the game broke a tie in the 76th minute, and the United States edged tiny Martinique 3-2 Wednesday night in the CONCACAF Gold Cup after wasting a two-goal lead at Raymond James Stadium. Failing to break through in the first half, the U.S. built a 2-...

ST. PETERSBURG, Russia >> Germany’s experimental young side overcame street-wise Chile to win a bruising Confederations Cup final 1-0 on Sunday, vindicating Joachim Loew’s decision to leave most of his world champions at home. The only goal came in the 20th minute from the 28-year-old Lars Sti...

SOCHI, Russia >> Just how much Leon Goretzka wanted to seize his opportunity in an experimental Germany squad became clear after only eight minutes against Mexico. With two goals in the space of 109 seconds on Thursday, Goretzka put the defensively-ragged Mexicans on the back foot and set Germ...

CARSON >> The kids continue to be all right for the Galaxy and Coach Curt Onalfo. Ariel Lassiter (22 years old) and Bradford Jamieson IV (20 years old) provided the Galaxy with all the offense Wednesday, scoring a goal apiece in the second half to lift the club to a 2-0 victory over Sacramento...

Chip Ganassi likes winners, and his drivers have him in prime position to celebrate another victory. Kyle Larson and Jamie McMurray swept the front row in Saturday qualifying at Sonoma Raceway to give Chip Ganassi Racing a 1-2 start for today’s Monster Energy NASCAR Cup race on the wine country road...

LONG BEACH >> For the second time in his career, Kelvin Hoefler of Sao Paulo, Brazil, won a Dew Tour event in Southe Califoia on Sunday after he captured the 2017 Dew Tour Long Beach skateboarding title with 95.40 points. Hoefler won the 2015 contest in Los Angeles. “I can’t describe my pe...

HAMILTON, Bermuda >> Jimmy Spithill and his mates with Oracle Team USA might need to start tapping out an SOS from the Bermuda Triangle. The two-time defending America’s Cup champions are foundering badly against hotshot young helmsman Peter Burling and Emirates Team New Zealand, who are threa...

PITTSBURGH >> The night started with a catfish throw. It ended with haymaker after haymaker both literal and proverbial from the ever resilient Pittsburgh Penguins. The defending champions provided an emphatic and repeated reminder of what makes them such a difficult out in a 6-0 demolition of...