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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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

Ranking top 10 sports events July 4-10 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: FOURTH OF JULY SPORTING EVENTS 2016 NATHAN’S HOT DOG EATING CONTEST Details/TV: At Coney Island, Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday, noon, ESPN (delayed; live on ESPN3 at 9 a.m.) MLB: DODGERS vs. BALTIMORE Details/TV: At Dodger Stadium, Monday, 6:10 p.m., SportsNet LA MLS: GALAXY vs. VANCOUVER Details/TV: At StubHub Center, Monday, 7:30 p.m., TWCS Legend has it that Jim Mullen won a hot-dog eating contest at Nathan’s Famous stand on Coney Island on the Fourth of July in 1916, just to settle an argument among four immigrants about who was the most patriotic. Mullen, from Ireland, was said to have downed 13 dogs in 12 minutes before tui...

Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inteational and the Los Angeles Herald-Express before joining SI, Jares covered more than 20 sports, specializing in teis and college basketball. He authored nine sports-related books during his career, topped off by the 1974 “Whatever Happened to Gorgeous George,” an affectionate history of pro wrestling from the 1940s to the ’60s. Sports Illustrated ranked it at No. 76 on its list of the “Top 100 Sports Books o...

SANTA ANA >> Cheers erupt from a small crowd sitting in the first four rows of folding chairs at the foot of the eSports Arena stage. Alex Kadela, a rising third-year student from Ryerson University in Toronto, explains that, against highly unlikely odds, a player from San Jose State had won a critical round in the National Collegiate eSports Association’s championship final in “Counter-Strike: Global Offensive.” Not unlike the world traditional sports, this is called wiing in the clutch. “It can change the tide of the game completely,” Kadela said. The tide continued to fall in favor of the five-player SJSU team, eventually clinching the CS:GO title after a five-game match against La...

Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spaing five decades, died Monday moing at his home in Encino after a long battle with cancer. Kelly died two days before his 89th birthday Wednesday. Bo in Mieapolis and starting his career in Wisconsin, Kelly came to Los Angeles from Illinois via a recommendation from Jack Buck to join Chick Hea on USC football and basketball for the 1961-62 season at KNX radio. When Hea left the next year to start broadcasting the newly relocated Lakers, Kelly began a Southe Califoia broadcasting career that included calling five USC national championship football seasons from John McKay to Pete Carroll. Kelly’s booming voice tha...

Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spaing five decades, died Monday moing at his home in Encino after a long battle with cancer. Kelly died two days before his 89th birthday Wednesday. Bo in Mieapolis and having started his career in Illinois, Kelly came to Los Angeles to join Chick Hea on USC football and basketball for the 1961-62 season at KNX radio. When Hea left the next year to start broadcasting the newly relocated Lakers, Kelly began a Southe Califoia broadcasting career that included calling five USC national championship football seasons from John McKay to Pete Carroll. Kelly’s booming voice that rose to the level of the action was also he...