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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...

He had passion, spirit and a commitment that could survive any amount of extra iings. But Ira Goldstein also was blessed with the greatest of gifts for the super fan. A pair of mitts capable of producing thunder that could fill an entire ballpark. “He had a big set of hands,” said Steve DiTolla, C...

With a sense of humor and appreciation, Timmy Richards can’t help but smile when Cal State Fullerton baseball coach Rick Vanderhook calls him the “old man” of the team. “Yeah, it always cracks me up when he calls me ‘old man,’” said the senior shortstop will will lead the Titans (39-22) into the Col...

DIRTBAGS (41-18-1) VS. TITANS (37-21) What: NCAA Super Regional, best-of-three series When: 3 p.m. Friday (ESPN2); noon Saturday (ESPNU); noon Sunday, if necessary (ESPN/ESPN2) Where: Blair Field, Long Beach The skiy: Cal State Fullerton coach Rick Vanderhook said southpaw John Gavin (7-2, 2.93 ER...

LONG BEACH >> There won’t be many surprises this weekend at Blair Field where the Long Beach State baseball team is hosting Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA Super Regional. Familiarity has been breeding contempt and similar styles for the Big West Conference rivals since they started playing ea...

STANFORD >> Cal State Fullerton baseball coach Rick Vanderhook got a text from Augie Garrido on Wednesday. He made sure to read the text to his team before the Stanford Regional. “It’s Titan time,” read the text. It sure was this weekend. The Titans defeated Stanford, 4-2, Saturday to win the ...

STANFORD – Cal State Fullerton got an impressive pitching performance from John Gavin and just enough timely hits to defeat Stanford 4-1 on Friday at the Stanford Regional of the NCAA baseball touament at Sunken Diamond. Gavin went seven iings, allowing just one run on three hits and striking ou...

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 ...

Tanks for the memories, Eric Kush. Great little daughter you have there, Austin Hill. Now you’ve got more time to play. As much as we respect the heck out of your uncle, you just need to get stronger, Ian Seau. Stay in touch. And stay strong. By Saturday moing, most of the Rams’ final 22 cuts were made, and disclosed to the public. But until HBO cut up and spliced together its final episode of “Hard Knocks” and aired it Tuesday night, viewers might not have achieved proper closure, especially those invested in the docu-series going back to its Aug. 9 begiing. Episode 5 reinforced the quick and sometimes blunt nature of the business can be as the Rams, put in the spotlight this year, got to ...

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...

As sure as the sun rises in the East and sets in the West – a fact that Rams rookie quarterback Jared Goff still may unsure about and will likely become an on-going punchline – HBO’s “Hard Knocks” shined as promised for the launch of a five-part series Tuesday night, somehow compacting several months’ worth of franchise relocation, training camp arrival and the team’s first Coliseum appearance into one enlightening and entertaining hour-long episode. Touching on all the advertised storylines and more, starting from Goff’s jouey on a Goodyear blimp ride above the South Bay, to center Eric Kush’s eclectic collection of tank tops, the one piece of news that came to light from Episode 1 is Rams ...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles Police Protective League today demanded today that Stan Kroenke, the billionaire owner of the Los Angeles Rams, pay the full cost for necessary police services to ensure public safety at L.A. Rams home games as long as the team plays in Los Angeles. “The estimated cost to provide police protection at Ram games is approximately $2 million a year,” LAPPL spokesman Dustin DeRollo said in a statement. “Thus far the Rams have not agreed to pay their fair share of policing costs, and this will drain police coverage in other areas of our city,” DeRollo said. “The LAPPL is also urging Mayor Eric Garcetti to reject any requests for sweetheart deals funded by the taxpayer...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Scioscia isn’t even harboring any illusions about pitcher Garrett Richards coming back this year. Richards, who is waiting to see if stem-cell treatment has worked enough for him to avoid Tommy John surgery, has already been ruled out for the rest of this season, Scioscia said Friday, essentially confirming the obvious. At this point, the Angels are just hoping Richards can avoid surgery and be 100 percent for a full season in 2017. Richards has not thrown since he was hurt in late April, so at this point he would be starting from zero. There’s just no time to pitch this season, even if he is cleared to throw at his next appointment, which is Wednesday. “It takes a ful...

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...