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CARSON >>The bus ride was worth it. Gabriel Gonzalez had arrived in town a day earlier, after a 12 1/2-hour trip from Ciudad Juárez. The 50-year-old had been a Chargers fan for more than three decades — the obsession taking root when, as a teenager, he watched them pull off the thriller later...

Every time Chris Hibbs flies into LAX, before landing he’ll peek out his window a minute or two to peruse the 300 acres in Inglewood sitting across the street from the Forum. Invariably, a bit of a jolt will overcome him. It represents the daily progress being made on the $2.6 billion sports and ent...

With yet another professional sports team’s arrival in Los Angeles in the last year, on top of aual 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 ...

The youngest head coach in NFL history. The youngest Dodgers position player ever selected to an All-Star game. The reigning NFL defensive rookie of the year. Southe Califoia is home to plenty of budding young talent, not all of which fits onto the list of the 50 Most Powerful in Southe Califo...

Outside of its lightweight champion fitting himself with bigger gloves and longer odds and stepping into a boxing ring next month, the UFC is bringing its hottest fight to Anaheim. The light heavyweight championship rematch between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones is the biggest fight of the year, and U...

Grab your see-through tote bag or pick up a pack of clear freezer bags if you’re heading to a Los Angeles Chargers preseason game next month in Carson. The first major security upgrade in 14 years at StubHub Center was just introduced to meet NFL safety standards: Backpacks, and any nontransparent c...

Lisa Nehus Saxon has stories to tell today, including the one about the time Vin Scully gave her some career-affirming advice at a very low point in her run as a sports writer about 30 years ago. As the L.A. Daily News’ Dodgers beat writer in her mid-20s, she had just been publicly humiliated in the...

Jamie Horowitz, whose run as Fox Sports president for national networks over the past two years has generated as much publicity as perplexity, will be leaving the company “effectively immediately,” according to a memo sent out Monday moing by Eric Shanks, the Fox Sports chief operating officer who...

Jamie Horowitz, whose run as Fox Sports president for national networks over the past two years has generated as much publicity as perplexity, will be leaving the company “effectively immediately,” according to a memo sent out Monday moing by Eric Shanks, the Fox Sports chief operating officer who...

ANGELS at RED SOX When: 4 p.m. Where: Fenway Park TV: Fox Sports West THE PITCHERS ANGELS RHP ALEX MEYER (3-3, 3.52) vs. Red Sox: First game At Fenway Park: First game Hates to face: None Loves to face: None RED SOX RHP RICK PORCELLO (3-9, 5.05) vs. Angels: 5-6, 6.26 At Fenway Park: 22-14, 4.10 Hate...

Even with a couple of chord changes to tweak the twang, Pete Weber’s broadcasting career in Nashville shouldn’t sound like the starting point for another tired country weste song.It’s hardly been a long, lonesome 20 years behind the microphone, be ...

Once upon a time in Hollywood, a handprint-footprint double-double outside Grauman’s Theatre is what cemented your legacy. A star on the Walk of Fame was another famous footnote, that you could foreve...

SANTA CLARA, Calif. — San Francisco 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepeick says he has been wearing socks depicting police officers as pigs in protest of “rogue cops” who put the community and other officers at risk. Kaepeick issued a statement on Twitter on Thursday after photos began circulating on social media of him wearing the socks that show a pig dressed in a police hat. The photos were taken earlier in training camp before Kaepeick’s refusal to stand during the national anthem as a form of protest became public. “I wore these socks, in the past, because the rogue cops that are allowed to hold positions in police departments, not only put the community in danger, but also put the cops that...

Some of us remember when the words “respectfully disagree” worked together. Colin Kaepeick shouldn’t get attached to that concept. Instead, he is immediately and maybe permanently known as the “guaranteed $61 million quarterback” who did not stand for the Star-Spangled Baer or the flag before last weekend’s San Francisco-Green Bay exhibition game, as if his salary and his profession barred him for having opinions. Stick to sports, they say, although they wouldn’t tell Ronald Reagan or Al Franken to stick to entertainment, or Donald Trump to stick to real estate, or Bono to stick with the name of love. In fact, the knee-jerk critique of Kaepeick goes right along with the dehumanization of ev...

The Inteational Olympic Committee could decide as early as Tuesday whether to ban all Russian athletes from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month in the wake of a World Anti-Doping Agency report that details how a Russian state-sponsored doping and cover-up system extended across dozens of sports and the 2014 Olympic Games in Sochi. An IOC executive board conference call Tuesday comes a day after the release of the report from an independent investigation commissioned by WADA described in damning detail how Russian govement officials, the nation’s special security agency, national sports federations and even a top sports ministry official handpicked by Russia president Vladimir Puti...

SAN FRANCISCO >> Nate Thurmond, a Hall of Fame center and longtime Golden State Warrior, died Saturday after a short battle with leukemia. He was 74. The Golden State Warriors aounced his death. In 1996, Thurmond was voted as one of the best 50 players in NBA history and is considered among the most-dominating centers in the game. The 6-foot, 11-inch Thurmond spent almost 40 years playing and working for the Warriors. He played 11 of his 14 seasons with the Warriors, and then worked as a community liaison and broadcast analyst. He holds the franchise’s record for rebounds and minutes played. He was a seven-time all-star. The Warriors retired his number 42 in 1978. The Warriors drafted...

NEW YORK — At the start of the most crucial week of the fantasy sports industry’s past eight tempestuous months, the fourth-floor lobby of the Crowne Plaza Times Square is full of nervous tension. In a frenetic loop of handshakes and business-card collecting, lanyard-ogling entrepreneurs in fantasy company polos peddle their elevator pitches between sips of free Heineken. A year ago in the same hotel, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s summer event was more celebration than trade conference. It was effectively a victory lap for DraftKings and FanDuel, the industry’s two breadwiers, who together had raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital investments. Fueled by their success, project...

NEW YORK — At the start of the most crucial week of the fantasy sports industry’s past eight tempestuous months, the fourth-floor lobby of the Crowne Plaza Times Square is full of nervous tension. In a frenetic loop of handshakes and business-card collecting, lanyard-ogling entrepreneurs in fantasy company polos peddle their elevator pitches between sips of free Heineken. A year ago in the same hotel, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s summer event was more celebration than trade conference. It was effectively a victory lap for DraftKings and FanDuel, the industry’s two breadwiers, who together had raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital investments. Fueled by their success, project...

NEW YORK — At the start of the most crucial week of the fantasy sports industry’s past eight tempestuous months, the fourth-floor lobby of the Crowne Plaza Times Square is full of nervous tension. In a frenetic loop of handshakes and business-card collecting, lanyard-ogling entrepreneurs in fantasy company polos peddle their elevator pitches between sips of free Heineken. A year ago in the same hotel, the Fantasy Sports Trade Association’s summer event was more celebration than trade conference. It was effectively a victory lap for DraftKings and FanDuel, the industry’s two breadwiers, who together had raised nearly $1 billion in venture capital investments. Fueled by their success, project...

VIDEO: The Top 50 Most Powerful Sports Figures in Los Angeles Home → Sports Sports reporters for the Southe Califoia News Group break down the Top 10 from the Top 50 Most Powerful Sports Figures in Los Angeles. The list includes Los Angeles Dodgers’ broadcaster Vin Scully, Rams’ owner Stan Kroenke and former Lakers basketball player Kobe Bryant. Advertisement Please enable JavaScript to view the comments powered by Disqus. Let's block ads! بخوانید...