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COSTA MESA >> Retire for three months, and some people lose all respect for you. That’s essentially the treatment Dolphins quarterback Jay Cutler got from Melvin Ingram, whom he will face this Sunday at StubHub Center. Asked on Thursday afteoon what problems Cutler might present this weekend, the Chargers defensive end didn’t miss a beat. “None,” Ingram said. Never mind the fact that, when...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout is now finding out how everyone else in the majors lives. Trout, seemingly immune to the slumps that define his sport, has gone hitless in his past 17 at-bats, the second longest such drought in his career. He took an 0 for 18 in August 2014, the year he won his first MVP, by the way. Since hitting homers in his first two at-bats last Saturday in Baltimore, Trout is 3 f...

PITTSBURGH >> Clayton Kershaw should be happy. His back injury was less serious than might have been feared when he left his July 23 start. He has retued to health relatively quickly. And his team is so far out front that it can afford to take it slowly with him, giving him a long runway to retu to the rotation with bullets saved for October. Oh, yeah — that last part doesn’t seem to sit well with the Dodgers ace. “Health-wise, I could have pitched in the big leagues 10 days ago. But that’s not the plan obviously,” Kershaw said Monday after throwing a four-iing simulated game at PN...

George Richardson is the fourth Cabrillo High football coach in as many years, so he knows that continuity is the most important thing for the Jaguars this season. “I’m a players coach with a disciplinarian approach,” Richardson said. “We’re trying to change the culture. That starts with the adults to solidify a community and family atmosphere that retains student-athletes.” A handful of starters from last year transferred out of Cabrillo over the summer, but the Jaguars still have a strong group of senior leaders. The rebuilt defense will be led by retuing senior starters Deleoun Arthur, Sh...

LOS ANGELES >> He had just caught another comeback victory and hit another home run, Yasmani Grandal now standing in the Dodgers clubhouse and being asked to discuss his team’s astonishing and utter awesomeness. Yet, instead of effervescing with the sort of delight that must come from playing on a club not only chasing but routinely tackling history, Grandal’s rather somber tone suggested he was recounting the passing of a childhood pet. One that was fluffy and lovable and house broken from Day One. On the other side of the room Sunday, Justin Tuer was saying nothing at all of the win...

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...

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...

The Clippers unveiled their new uniforms Friday and, at first glance, they looked pretty much like their old ones. The Nike logo on the jersey and shorts was the biggest change, after the sneaker and apparel company’s new eight-year contract to outfit NBA teams started for the 2017-18 season. The Ni...

PHOENIX >> The Dodgers have been unwilling to discuss Walker Buehler in trade talks multiple times over the past year because they think he has a very bright future as a starting pitcher in the major leagues. For now, though, Buehler is not a starting pitcher at all and his immediate future as...

PHOENIX >> The Dodgers have done everything they can to make Yu Darvish’s transition to a new team easy, showering him with good will and run support. It was Darvish who made things hard on himself Thursday night. The right-hander was far from sharp and threw 106 pitches in just five iings. ...

ANAHEIM >> Each time Parker Bridwell takes the mound for the Angels, he gives them more reasons to like him. His seven iings in the Angels’ 3-2 victory over the Baltimore Orioles on Tuesday night demonstrated a couple of the traits the Angels appreciate so much about him, and neither of them...

ONTARIO >> The first step for the Clippers’ new G-League team, the Agua Caliente Clippers of Ontario, was to introduce themselves to the community with its Tip-off Party on Monday. Mayor Paul S. Leon and the community welcomed team president Heath Beett and the organization with open arms. “...

IRVINE >> No matter what happens going forward, the Rams paid their highest-possible compliment to receiver Mike Thomas in mid-July, when they didn’t cut him. Thomas, a physically gifted but mistake-prone rookie in 2016, received a four-game suspension for a violation of the NFL’s policy on pe...

ANAHEIM >> After Mike Trout celebrated his 1,000th career hit and yet another birthday homer, May Machado crashed the party. The Baltimore Orioles’ young star hit a seventh-iing grand slam against JC Ramirez, sending the Angels to a 6-2 loss on Monday night. Machado’s homer, plus the pitch...

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, ...

TORONTO >> Ironically, it was on a day that Kaleb Cowart wasn’t even in the lineup that he took a step closer to being the Angels’ everyday second baseman. The Angels designated Nick Franklin for assignment Saturday moing, eliminating one of the players who could have fought Cowart for playi...

LOS ANGELES >> Adrian Gonzalez is ready to find out. “It feels good,” the Dodgers first baseman said of the back injury that sent him to the DL. “I’m not playing in pain. But I haven’t been playing baseball games.” Gonzalez hasn’t played a baseball game since June 11. Since then, he has two ex...

The Angels signed Yusmeiro Petit because they felt he could be an asset either in the rotation or bullpen, and this weekend he’ll finally get a crack at the former. Petit will start Saturday in Toronto, filling a void left by Alex Meyer’s placement on the disabled list. Because Petit has only pitche...

After Santa Anita was plagued by a shortage of entries during its spring-summer meet when ruing only four days per week, it could be assumed Del Mar might encounter similar problems with its traditional five-day race weeks. But Tom Robbins, a veteran racing official who serves as Del Mar’s directo...

INGLEWOOD >> Finesse beat fire three times at The Forum Saturday night, even though it was hot finesse. You realized how hot when you saw people try to shake hands with Miguel Berchelt, the main event wier. He politely declined. His fist was aching from the many times it coected with the f...