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LAGUNA HILLS >> Mayfair kept it close for as long as it could against Santa Margarita on Thursday night at Laguna Hills High. Eventually, the Eagles took over in the trenches and ran away for a 49-3 nonleague victory. Santa Margarita (4-0) rushed for 328 yards and six touchdowns as a team. The Eagles are ranked No. 9 in CIF Southe Section Division 1, and No. 13 in Califoia according to M...

Long Beach native and longtime sports executive Jack Teele passed away Wednesday night at the age of 87. Teele was a sportswriter at the Independent Press-Telegram for 10 years and then spent 33 years in the front offices around the National Football League, including 21 years with the Los Angeles Rams, where he rose to the rank of vice president of administration. Teele was a long-familiar face i...

By the time Lonzo Ball begins his first training camp with the Lakers on Sept. 24 he will have already released several versions of his signature shoe, starred in a reality show chronicling the daily lives of his family and dropped a rap single. It has been, by any measure, a busy summer for the No. 2 pick in the NBA draft and the NBA Summer League MVP. “I look at it pretty simply,” Ball said Mond...

For the first time since 2006, the “Milk Bucket” is headed back to Mayfair as the Monsoons (3-0) beat Lakewood (0-3), 21-18, at Ron Yary Stadium. “This is the biggest win in 30 years,” Mayfair coach Derek Bedell told the team. “We have a lot of things to work on but we are going to celebrate first.” It was a back-and-forth game in the first half as both teams had multiple miscues and penalties, wi...

PHOENIX >> The Dodgers were swept for the first time this season, losing 8-1 to the Arizona Diamondbacks on Thursday afteoon at Chase Field. The sweep was the first of the Dodgers since they lost the last three games of the 2016 regular season to the San Francisco Giants. The loss also extended the Dodgers’ losing streak to five games, their longest since a six-game skid April 25-30, 2016....

As a brand new program, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy has its work cut out for it this season. Building an 11-on-11 tackle football program from the ground up is not an easy task. Coach Todd Butler has the challenge of converting the remnants of St. Pius’ flag football team into a functioning full...

CHARLOTTE, N.C.>>Rickie Fowler loves playing at Quail Hollow. You can’t particularly blame him. This is where Fowler got his breakthrough PGA Tour win and where he now hopes to capture that elusive first major championship. Fowler, from Murrieta, shot an opening-round 69 at the PGA Championshi...

The world’s first responders are in Los Angeles, but not to rescue anyone. They’re here for the 2017 World Police and Fire Games, which were officially ushered in on Monday with opening ceremonies at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The event brings together finely tuned law enforcement officers a...

ATLANTA >> Legend has it everything is bigger in Texas. After getting their first up-close-and-personal look at Yu Darvish, the Dodgers might believe it. “It’s impressive how big he is,” Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt said after overseeing Darvish’s first bullpen session with his new te...

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...

MIAMI >> Giancarlo Stanton stands 6 feet, 6 inches tall. The Miami Marlins’ right fielder is bigger than most baseball players, with the wingspan of a pteranodon. When he reaches, the world bends slightly in his direction. Stanton reached for a Cody Bellinger fly ball in the seventh inning Sat...

All these years later, Wimbledon still brings out the best in Venus Williams. With her latest display of gutsy serving and big hitting, Williams beat Johanna Konta 6-4, 6-2 on Thursday to reach her ninth title match at the All England Club and first since 2009. At 37, Williams is the oldest Wimbledo...

LOS ANGELES >> Jeren Kendall’s parents were proud for the same reason most parents of college students are proud. “I got home and my parents told me I finally got a job,” Kendall joked about agreeing to sign with the Dodgers on Friday. “It’s a pretty good job.” Indeed, it is – and it came with...

What in the wide, wide world of sports is going on here … •It’s easy to see why Mike Trout sought to make the All-Star Game his first post-thumb-injury game. Nobody has more fun playing baseball than Trout, and the All-Star Game is the most-fun event in the sport. But all along the targeted first ga...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers recalled utility player Mike Freeman from Triple-A Oklahoma City on Sunday and placed outfielder Franklin Gutierrez on the 10-day disabled list with symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis. Gutierrez has been dealing with the autoimmune disease, which affects his gastroin...

SONOmA, Calif. >> Kevin Harvick retued to victory lane for the first time this season with a dominating run Sunday on the road course at Sonoma Raceway. The former NASCAR champion came to Sonoma winless in 20 races since Kansas last fall and has been overshadowed in this season of NASCAR’s y...

How long is too long to be playing at the high Class A level? Trevor Frank, as you might imagine, has feelings about the subject. The former UC Riverside closer tued 26 Friday. And he is in the midst of his third season in high A, one in which he is posting impressive numbers for the Lake Elsinore...

As someone who cherishes his first-round draft picks, Ducks coach Bob Murray was in a unique place and not all that comfortable with it. The Ducks didn’t have one to use on the first night of the NHL entry draft at Chicago’s United Center and so they had to do all their heavy lifting Saturday, tryin...

CARSON >>xa0For a brief moment in the second half, the Galaxy had hope of another batch of late-game heroics. Dave Romney’s 77th minute goal cut Sporting Kansas City’s lead in half, leaving the Galaxy with a chance to steal a point. Unfortunately, there would be no such delight this time around ...

PLAYA VISTA >> After 18 years spent toiling as Staples Center’s third tenant, fighting for prime game days and times, and playing, until Doc Rivers took over, under the shadow of all those Lakers championship banners, the Clippers on Thursday officially took the first cautious steps to strikin...