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At the conclusion of an NFL debut week defined by stifling defense and overmatched offenses, Philip Rivers cocked his right arm and fired a deep pass into the Denver night sky. Seven minutes remained in the AFC West’s Monday night tete-a-tete, and the Chargers, fresh off forcing their second tuover of the fourth quarter, still trailed by two scores as Rivers’ throw soared toward a streaking Trav...

Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is coming off his toughest fight, a narrow victory over Daniel Jacobs in March at Madison Square Garden. It strengthened Golovkin’s legacy some, but not as much as it could have because Jacobs’ name doesn’t carry worldwide weight. Universally, Canelo Alvarez’s carries a whole lot, so that’s why Golovkin and his team are looking at Saturday’s highly anticipate...

DENVER >>xa0Everything began rolling downhill after the drop. Five minutes into the Los Angeles Chargers’ first NFL season, Casey Hayward was poised to score. The 5-foot-11 coerback had gotten his hands on the ball, jumping a pass intended for Broncos running back C.J. Anderson. There was nothing in front of him except green grass. This was not exactly a surprise. A year ago, Hayward led the...

LOS ANGELES >> Just before Rams quarterback Jared Goff disappeared into the Coliseum tunnel late Sunday afteoon to celebrate his first win as an NFL quarterback, he paused, peeked over to a hundred or so fans shouting his name from the stands and raised his right arm to the sky. The roar that immediately erupted was unlike anything we’ve heard from the Coliseum for an NFL team in what seem...

Christian McCaffrey torpedoed USC’s defense the last two seasons. As Stanford upended the Trojans three times in 2016 and 2015, McCaffrey tallied 970 all-purpose yards. How tough was it to bring down the elusive running back? Reporters covering the Pac-12 championship game in 2015 overheard then-USC defensive coordinator Justin Wilcox and other coaches swearing in an adjacent press box booth at Le...

The Los Angeles Football Club continues building its roster ahead of its 2018 Major League Soccer debut. LAFC announced the signing of 21-year-old Argentine forward Rodrigo Pacheco, who joins on loan from Club Atletico Lanus in Argentina’s first division. Pacheco will be loaned to Orange County SC, the USL affiliate for LAFC, for the remainder of 2017. He’s expected to join LAFC for training camp ...

THOUSAND OAKS >> Last November, as the Rams season descended into a downward spiral, Hall of Fame running back Eric Dickerson found himself locked in a feud with the Rams head coach and its front office. How quickly things change. On Tuesday – the same day he was signed to a symbolic one-day contract, allowing him to officially retire as a Los Angeles Ram – Dickerson was given an official ti...

After all the talk between Floyd Mayweather and Conor McGregor, it’s time for the two to meet in the ring. The interest for the fight between the two participates is expected to set record numbers on pay-per-view. What else is at stake in this fight? Mayweather promised it will be the last fight of his career but can McGregor play the spoiler on Floyd’s final appearance in the ring? If you ask McG...

The hype and trash talk between boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. and mixed martial arts champ Conor McGregor is about to come to and end and now it’s time to put up or...well it’s time to rumble. And it’s also time to start making plans for where to see the Mayweather vs. McGregor fight in Long Beach, the South Bay and nearby areas for those who want to see it with other fight fans. Here’s a verified li...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 21-27 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: BOXING: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. vs. CONOR McGREGOR Details/TV: At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saturday, 6 p.m., pay-per-view (suggested price: $99.95) It’s the latest piece of non-circumstantial evidence that sports has eclipsed sanity, with or without a special pair of $100 glasses to watch it sear our retinas. All the time, space, ink, verbiage, video, expectations and deviations dedicated to this Battlestar Galactica pre...

OAKLAND >> This is the Jared Goff the Rams drafted, or thought they drafted, anyway. Goff didn’t look perfect in Saturday night’s 24-21 preseason victory over Oakland but, well, what’s a good word for almost perfect? Goff led the Rams on three scoring drives in four first-half possessions, and completed strong, accurate passes all over the field to seven different targets. The Rams intended for Goff to leave the game early in the second quarter, but who knew that he would — or could — lead...

DETROIT >> Two months of rest and physical therapy allowed Adrian Gonzalez to roll back the odometer on his back. His role, however, is very much a part of the present. “I feel great,” Gonzalez said after being activated from the 60-day disabled list on Friday. “Last year was when the whole issue started with the back. Right now, I feel like I’m before that, before it all started. So hopefully this is the end of the back issue. You never know. But as far as right now, I’ve played all these...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> In a made-for-cable sports TV showdown perhaps worthy of a DVR replay someday, Collin Morikawa co-starred in a Round of 16 match play performance against Chun-An Yu that seemed to show almost every quirky angle and accident aspect of Riviera Country Club in one organic swatch. If not for an exchange of equal-opportunity mistakes at every tu, they could still be playing in prime time. Eventually, Yu, an 18-year-old incoming sophomore at Arizona State out of Taiwan, outl...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> If a dad can’t make a difference at the 117th U.S. Amateur Championship by helping on the bag as a fill-in caddy, then there are other subtle ways without the usual baggage involved. Murli Theegala walked around the back side of Riviera Country Club on Thursday moing with a couple of branches from a bottle brush tree sticking out his backpack. On the 10th hole, his son, 19-year-old Sahith, knocked them loose with his tee shot. Debris aside, he recovered with a birdie 3...

LOS ANGELES >> Talk about one eclectic country club meet-and-greet tee party. The weeklong 117th U.S. Amateur Championship began Monday with introductions necessary in some cases, and explanations with others. So, how did you get here? What compels you to put this kind pressure on yourself wit...

It took Derek Castillo only a few seconds to pull out his cell phone after he tued in his scorecard at Mission Viejo Country Club.xa0 For the next two hours, he was glued to the live scoring, watching names move up and down the leaderboard. Castillo, 19, wasn’t conceed about what was happening at ...

ANAHEIM >> Matt Shoemaker’s season is over. The Angels’ right-hander on Sunday decided to have season-ending surgery to release the radial nerve in his forearm. He had spent about a month trying to rehab the injury since it was finally diagnosed, and a setback during a bullpen session on Frida...

LONDON >> The American sprinter took a mighty tumble. Nobody, however, has fallen harder than Jamaica so far at this year’s world championships. The evening after Usain Bolt’s improbable loss to a pair of U.S. runners, the world’s best sprint island watched the red, white and blue parade aroun...

ANAHEIM >> Jon Jones is back to claim what he never lost. Jones, in his first appearance since April 23, 2016, won back his UFC light heavyweight title with a third-round TKO stoppage of Daniel Cormier at Honda Center. After a back and forth opening two rounds, Jones started his path to victor...

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...