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Middleweight champion Geady Golovkin is coming off his toughest fight, a narrow victory over Daniel Jacobs in March at Madison Square Garden. It strengthened Golovkin’s legacy some, but not as much as it could have because Jacobs’ name doesn’t carry worldwide weight. Universally, Canelo Alvarez’s carries a whole lot, so that’s why Golovkin and his team are looking at Saturday’s highly anticipate...

LOS ANGELES — A key step in the selection of an Olympic host city is the Inteational Olympic Committee evaluation commission’s tour of candidate cities. These visits give IOC officials the chance to tour proposed venues and Olympic Village sites, ride subway lines and gauge the interest of the community in hosting the Games and then report back to the rest of the IOC’s 94 members prior to the ho...

LOS ANGELES >> For months they lived together, trained together and prayed together. So it only made sense that when the Dodgers’ two teams in the Dominican Summer League played each other for the championship Sunday, they celebrated the win together. When “DSL Dodgers 2” beat “DSL Dodgers 1” in the title game, 6-4, it marked the second time in the history of the 33-year-old league that two ...

LOS ANGELES >> Canelo Alvarez on Monday was asked what a victory over middleweight champion Geady Golovkin would mean to him, and to his native Mexico. Alvarez pulled no punches. “It’s very important for me, it’s very important for Mexico - for my people, for my country,” said Alvarez, who Sept. 16 will challenge Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (on HBO pay-per-view). “My team and I...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON OPENERS USC vs. WESTERN MICHIGAN Details/TV: At the Coliseum, Saturday at 2:15 p.m., Pac-12 Network UCLA vs. TEXAS A&M Details/TV: At the Rose Bowl, Sunday at 4:30 p.m., Chael 11 Admire Sam Daold while he’s still in got some Coliseum eligibility and a Heisman campaign. Also keep in mi...

ANAHEIM >> Needing a victory to salvage a split against a division rival, the Angels came up frustratingly empty on Thursday night. The Angels were shut down by Martin Perez for seven iings in a 3-0 loss to the Texas Rangers, despite having a steady flow of traffic on the bases against him. In four of Perez’s iings, the Angels had a leadoff hit. In the third, they started the iing with...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 21-27 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: BOXING: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. vs. CONOR McGREGOR Details/TV: At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saturday, 6 p.m., pay-per-view (suggested price: $99.95) It’s the latest piece of non-circumstantial evidence that sports has eclipsed sanity, with or without a special pair of $100 glasses to watch it sear our retinas. All the time, space, ink, verbiage, video, expectations and deviations dedicated to this Battlestar Galactica presentation can’t possibly match what the crash-and-bu outcome will surely be, according to the expe...

OAKLAND >> The humor wasn’t lost on Mark Davis an hour or so before the Oakland Raiders took the field against the Rams on Saturday night. Or hubris. Like so many others around the NFL, the Raiders owner is keeping an eye on things down in Los Angeles. With the Rams trying to rebound from the shaky 4-12 step they took in L.A. upon retuing home last year and the Chargers throwing down the gauntlet with their Fight for L.A. pledge as they prepare for year one in Tinseltown, Davis has to chuckle a little bit. “You know, it’s kind of fuy,” Davis said. “They’re talking about the fight fo...

OAKLAND >> Coach Sean McVay is a quarterbacks guru who loves tight-end mismatches and now gets to plan with receiver Sammy Watkins. But don’t forget the Rams’ ruing backs. McVay should not. The Rams have Todd Gurley, who underachieved badly in 2016 but seems poised for a bounce-back season after a strong training camp. McVay, the Rams’ rookie coach and their play-caller, might be tempted to throw the ball a lot, but his recent history suggests that the ground game works. McVay’s second preseason game as a head coach takes place today, when the Rams play at Oakland. Last week against Da...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> In a made-for-cable sports TV showdown perhaps worthy of a DVR replay someday, Collin Morikawa co-starred in a Round of 16 match play performance against Chun-An Yu that seemed to show almost every quirky angle and accident aspect of Riviera Country Club in one organic swatch. If not for an exchange of equal-opportunity mistakes at every tu, they could still be playing in prime time. Eventually, Yu, an 18-year-old incoming sophomore at Arizona State out of Taiwan, outlasted Morikawa, the La Cañada Flintridge standout headed into his junior year at Cal and trying to...

LOS ANGELES >> All-Pac 12 Oregon standout Norman Xiong, Virginia Tech’s Mark Lawrence Jr. and Oklahoma State’s Hayden Wood somehow managed to separate themselves from the pack on the first day of play at the 117th U.S. Amateur Championship with 6-under 64s. Xiong, an 18-year-old San Diego nati...

GLENDALE >> So many baseball men in khakis and collared shirts strolled the grounds of Oakmont Country Club on Monday, you would be tempted to think this is what they do in retirement: golf. You would only be half right. There was Eddie Murray, the Hall of Fame first baseman. There was Charlie...

LONDON >> Allyson Felix eaed a second gold medal on Sunday and highlighted the overwhelming performance of the United States at the 10-day world championships. In doing so, Felix made sure she became the most decorated athlete in the history of the event — and that includes Usain Bolt. Felix...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers kept their streak going, making it 9 1/2 weeks since they’ve lost a series. The Angels kept their streak going, making it six consecutive victories and 12 wins in their past 16 games. So, today, let me be the first to utter those two magic words… Freeway Series!!! Al...

LOS ANGELES >> If you look at the age of many of the most-talented players on USC’s roster, you can easily make a case that in one year the Trojans will be ranked No. 1 in the nation. There are a lot of third-year juniors and redshirt sophomores who will undoubtedly be better 12 months from no...

Willie Reed, a backup center who signed a one-season, $1.5-million contract with the Clippers last week, was arrested early Sunday moing in Miami on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to multiple reports. Reed was arrested at a downtown Miami condo, ...

ANAHEIM >> There will be no awkwardness between Cameron Maybin and Ben Revere when the Angels left fielder retus from injury to supplant his hot-hitting replacement. Revere, who was hitting .375 over his last 11 games before Saturday night, while Maybin recovers from a sprained kneesuffered...

Inside the knee is a diagonal band of fibrous tissue, roughly the size of pinky finger. When it snaps, the course of an NFL season changes. On football injury reports, few words are as dreaded as “anterior cruciate ligament.” ACL tears once ended careers. Even today, they often signal lost seasons. ...

When Sigi Schmid departed from Seattle on July 27 last year, exactly one year less a day before rejoining the Galaxy, the Sounders were 6-12-2 and second-to-last in the Weste Conference with a measly 20 points just before the MLS All-Star Game. His assistant, Brian Schmetzer, took over. Seattle an...

LOS ANGELES >> During last summer’s presidential pageant, we as Americans were promised so much wiing “you’re going to be sick and tired of wiing. You’re going to go, ‘Please, please – we can’t win anymore.’” So – are you tired of wiing yet? “Not yet,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said a...