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While some of the Clippers’ top targets came off the board early in free agency, the franchise has remained committed to pursuing Denver forward Danilo Gallinari, although such a deal could require finding a third team to facilitate a sign-and-trade. Clippers executives spoke to the 28-year-old Gal...

Long Beach State was awarded the 2016-17 Big West Conference Commissioner’s Cup, it was aounced Thursday. The award is given to the school with the best athletics program, encompassing all 17 sports. The 49ers have won the award in six of the last seven years, and seven of the last nine. The 49ers averaged 116.7 points with UC Santa Barbara in second and Cal Poly third. Long Beach State had only one conference championship (baseball) in 2016-17, but it had nine sports that finished in the top three. Advertisement ...

Of the 12 drivers remaining in NASCAR’s playoffs, the odds makers have ranked Austin Dillon last in the championship race. Very few expected him to make it out of the first round. Only he did make the cut, and now Dillon intends to creep even further into the Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. “I like this role,” Dillon said of being a longshot, “because it puts the pressure on the guys that I guess are projected to make it to the next round — whatever projections mean.” This is Dillon’s debut in the Chase and he went into last weekend’s elimination race at Dover in danger of being bounced from the field. But he stepped up with a strong eighth-place finish — his first top-10 in six weeks...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> He had just created a moment that lifted the entire country. But Neymar reacted by instead falling to his knees, raising his outstretched arms and sobbing. His score Saturday gave host Brazil a desperate 5-4 victory in a penalty shootout over Germany, after the teams had played to a 1-1 draw. The shot secured this soccer-crazed nation its first Olympic gold medal in its beloved sport. “This is one of the best things that has happened in my life,” Neymar said. “The only thing on my mind was I had to do this.” The victory came before nearly 65,000 inside Maracana Stadium, a place that has hosted its share of soccer history. It avenged Germany’s stuing 7-1 victory over ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month but organizers say deep budget cuts mean one venue will close down, facilities will be dismantled and the workforce will be reduced. Poor ticket sales have compounded existing financial challenges in recession-battered Brazil that have already hit operations at the Rio Olympics, which close Sunday. Rio has less than three weeks to prepare for Paralympics, the piacle of the disability sport calendar where organizers hoped to build on progress made at the well-attended games in London four years ago. But Rio organizers have reported sales of just over 290,000 tickets for the Sept. 7-18 Paralympics. “At this point, it is d...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi shared a long, emotional embrace. Mission accomplished. The U.S. women’s basketball team won a sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal in dominant fashion, routing Spain 101-72 on Saturday. Taurasi, who is originally from Chino, and the Americans played nearly flawless basketball in Rio, and were never challenged. They have won 49 consecutive games in the Olympics with only one of those decided by single digits. With that kind of sustained success, no one wants to say this is the best women’s basketball team ever assembled. They won by nearly 40 points a game, but fell short of the record 102.4 points the 1996 team averaged. But if they a...

NBC 7 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Women’s Triathlon – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 9:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Canoe/Kayak – Sprint Gold Medal Finals Men’s Diving – 10m Platform Semifinal Women’s Golf – Final Round (LIVE) 11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Women’s Basketball – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 1:45 p.m. – 3 p.m. Men’s Water Polo – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 8 p.m. – Midnight Track & Field – Gold Medal Finals (LIVE) Women’s High Jump Men’s Javelin Men’s 1500m Women’s 800m Men’s 5000m Women 4x400m Relay Men 4x400m Relay Women’s Volleyball – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) Men’s Diving – 10m Platform Gold Medal Final 12:30 a.m. – 1:30 a.m. Rhythmic Gymnastics – Individual All-Around Gold Medal Final 1:30 a.m. – 5 a.m. Primeti...

Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tuel entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final. Such audacity would have been laughable from any other sprinter. Then again there never has been any other sprinter like Bolt. Besides, the result Thursday night was never in doubt, even the most remote of chances for an upset vanquished before the race even hit the homestretch. Bolt once again reduced the rest the field at a major championships to spectators, racing to a 19.78 victory in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Helen Maroulis made a great run in women’s wrestling Thursday, reaching the gold medal match at 53-kg in the Rio Olympics. Once there, she reached an entirely higher level, defeating a legend in the sport, Japan’s Saori Yoshida, 4-1. It was the first Olympic gold medal for an American in women’s wrestling. Maroulis lives in Huntington Beach, where she shares a room with teammate Elena Pirozhkova, who lost to Yekaterina Larionova of Kazakhstan 5-0 later Thursday in the bronze-medal match in the 63-kg class. Yoshida, 33, a 13-time world champion, is a three-time Olympic gold medalist, her fame such that she has an award named after her in her hometown and made a cameo ...

LONG BEACH >> During the first full day of training for the 2016 Long Beach State women’s soccer season earlier this month, 13th-year coach Mauricio Ingrassia’s first comment conceed a nonconference game four years ago. The game was a 1-0 upset of No. 11-ranked BYU at George Allen Field, the highest-ranked opponent LBSU had beaten. The moment that led to that lone goal proved to be a program tuing point. Senior captain Eileen Maes hyperextended her leg chasing down a long ball in the first half; an injury that ended her season. A free kick was awarded, and in just her eighth game at LBSU, freshman Mimi Rangel bent a phenomenal shot into the side netting. Rangel celebrated by pointing t...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was as close as a two-goal game in the third quarter Wednesday. But, eventually and somewhat inevitably, the U.S. women’s water polo team worked its way into position to go for a gold medal. “As you could tell, that was a battle today,” attacker Courtney Mathewson said. “I think my skin is like magenta colored.” The Americans wore down Hungary for a 14-10 victory and now will face Italy in the Olympic finale Friday. Maggie Steffens scored a team-high four goals for the U.S. Maddie Musselman added a pair. “I can’t help but smile,” Musselman said. “It’s just so enjoyable. We have two more days, one more game with this group of girls. It’s emotional because I love th...

Rio Olympics 2016: U.S. men’s volleyball reaches the semis, tops Poland United States’ Kawika Shoji (7), celebrates with teammates Matthew Anderson (1), David Lee (4), and William Reid Priddy (8) after defeating Poland in a men’s quarterfinal volleyball match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) By The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO – The U.S. men’s volleyball team is on to the Rio semifinals, beating Poland in straight sets Wednesday for a fourth straight victory since a surprising 0-2 Olympic start. The fifth-ranked Americans topped second-ranked Poland 25-23, 25-22 25-20, building some serious momen...

PHILADELPHIA >> It is definitely not always suy in Philadelphia with a Phillies team deep in rebuilding mode. But the clouds parted long enough for the sun to shine on one of this city’s favorite former heroes Tuesday. Chase Utley hit two home runs and drove in five runs as the Dodgers routed the Philadelphia Phillies 15-5 in Utley’s first game back in his old workplace. With a Giants’ loss, the Dodgers hold a 1/2 game lead in the National League West. In 779 games at Citizen Bank Park over 13 years with the Phillies, Utley never had a two-homer game with as many as five RBIs. He did it in his first game back as an opponent with a solo home run in the fifth iing and a grand slam that c...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Christian Taylor and Will Claye have done it again, sweeping gold and silver in the triple jump for the United States at back-to-back Olympics. Taylor successfully defended the Olympic title he won in London in 2012, setting down the benchmark on Tuesday with a season-leading mark of 58 feet, 7 1/4 inches on his first attempt. He posted the three best jumps of the competition. Claye finished with silver again with a personal record of 58 feet 3 1/4 inches. He also won a bronze in the long jump at London, when he was the first man since 1936 to win medals in both the horizontal jumps. World indoor champion Dong Bin of China won bronze in a personal record 57-8. Advertisemen...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The United States women’s field hockey team placed fifth at the Olympics, the program’s best finish in 20 years. The Americans lost their quarterfinal match to Germany on Monday. Their final ranking is based on their second-place finish in pool play. The Americans also placed fifth at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Their only better finish was third at the 1984 Games. This year’s squad set program records for most wins in pool play with four, and most goals in an Olympic match, with six against Japan. The Americans defeated No. 2 Argentina and No. 3 Australia in their first two matches, then knocked off Japan and India to take the lead in Pool B. The United States led its final...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles and Aly Raisman of the U.S. finished one-two in the Olympic Games floor exercise final Tuesday afteoon. Biles’ 15.966 victory on the floor, the final women’s event of the Olympic women’s program, gave her a fourth gold medal, and fifth total, at the Rio Games. Raisman, the 2012 Olympic Games floor champion, also finished second to Biles in the all-around final. Raisman was the only other gymnast with a score over 15 (15.5). Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Minute after agonizing minute following the Olympic Games 400-meter final Sunday night, Allyson Felix of the U.S. and Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas continued to lie on the wet Olympic Stadium track seemingly not to notice the rain soaked surface, neither sure which one of them was the Olympic champion. With Felix, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, making a late charge down the final straight, Miller flung herself head first across the finish line, as if grabbing at a gold medal that she thought might elude her grasp, landing cut and bruised and uncertain. So they remained flat on their backs, Miller resting atop her country’s flag, Felix alteating between holding ...

Rio Olympics 2016: Rudisha wins 800 meters; Clayton Murphy takes bronze for U.S. United States' Clayton Murphy, center, places third in the men's 800-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) RIO DE JANEIRO >> Kenya’s David Rudisha defended his Olympic Games 800-meter title in impressive fashion blowing away the field with a 1-minute, 42.16 victory. Algeria’s Taoufik Makhloufi was second at 1:42.61 with Clayton Murphy of the U.S. getting the bronze medal at 1:42.93. Boris Berian of the U.S., third at the bell faded to eight place in 1:46.15...

Rio Olympics 2016: Allyson Felix edged by unreal diving finish in 400, takes silver Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller falls over the finish line to win gold ahead of United States’ Allyson Felix in the women’s 400-meter final Monday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) RIO DE JANEIRO >> Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas, diving at the finish, held off a late charge from Allyson Felix of the U.S. to win the the Olympic Games 400-meter title Monday night. Miller was timed in 49.44 seconds. Felix 49.51. This story will be updated. Advertisement Digital & Driveway Delivery - 50% Off Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Let's block ads! بخوانید...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The German Olympic team says canoe slalom coach Stefan Henze has died from injuries sustained in a car crash last week. The German team says Henze, who was 35 and won a silver medal in canoe slalom at the 2004 Athens Games, died surrounded by his family. He underwent emergency surgery after the taxi accident on Friday. Germany will commemorate Henze’s death in the Olympic Village on Tuesday, and the country’s flag will be flown at half-staff at all Olympic sites in Rio de Janeiro. IOC President Thomas Bach says the Olympic body “is mouing the loss of a true Olympian. Our sympathy is with the family of Stefan Henze, his friends and all of the German Olympic team.” Advertisem...