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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...

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...

The club throw. The body bump. Those are the indelible images from Jordan Spieth’s victory in the Travelers Championship, where he holed a 60-foot bunker shot in a playoff to defeat Daniel Berger and capture his 10th title on the PGA Tour a month before his 24th birthday. Not to be overlooked was a ...

A glance at Wimbledon, the year’s third Grand Slam tennis touament: SURFACE: Grass courts. SITE: The All England Lawn Tennis Club. SCHEDULE: Main-draw play begins Monday. The 14-day touament closes with the women’s singles final July 15, and the men’s singles final July 16. There are no matches ...

At this point last year, the Rams had arrived back in Los Angeles to much pomp and circumstance, as well as open arms and checkbooks wide enough to gobble up more than 70,000 season tickets. That isn’t the case this year. The Rams opened season-ticket sales to the general public at 10 a.m. Monday — ...

The Long Beach State men’s volleyball departed the city Monday moing, bound for Columbus, Ohio and the NCAA Final Four. And they just might retu home as national champions.The 49ers are ranked No. 1 in the nation and are proud flag-bearers for the city. How proud?“Let me put it like this,” said 49ers coach Alan Knipe. “We could have gotten a direct flight from LAX or we could leave from the Lo...

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 th...

Da, if Case Keenum isn’t a thoughtful, intelligent and funny guy. If you happened to stumble upon a 10-minute interview the current Rams’ No. 1 quarterback did with Fred Roggin and Leeann Tweeden during the Tuesday afteoon “L.A. Today” show on KLAC-AM (570), that should have come across more than a couple of times. But if asked to measure your interest or likeability of Keenum based on what you’ve seen through the first couple episodes of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” you may have little to no opinion at...

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...

Marty Callner’s remarkable resume of producing music videos and concert specials for the last 40-plus years connects him more in the Hollywood community with Whitney Houston than the Houston Texans. But should he receive another Emmy Award as an executive producer of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” after what happens with the upcoming five-week series spotlighting the Los Angeles Rams — and there’s no asterisk that notes Callner is actually the show’s creator — it might find better shelf space than any othe...

What’s everyone talking about after the Rio 2016 opening ceremony? Gisele. She’s married to Tom Brady, she’s a famous super model and she’s from Brazil. Naturally, she made an appearance at the opening ceremony for her country’s Olympic Games. And the world loved it. Gisele walked across the stadium floor to the Bossa Nova song “Girl from Ipanema” and suddenly, Ipanema was trending on Twitter. Yes, that means Gisele had two trending topics at once Friday night. And they say the Olympics are abou...

IRVINE — A year ago, there was one difference between graduate school and the NFL for Cameron Lynch. Graduate school wanted him. The prestigious Newhouse School of Communications at Syracuse, the hatching point for numerous broadcasters, had accepted Lynch into its master’s program, after his four years of football for the Orange. Thirty-two NFL teams, given seven rounds each to draft him, had rejected him. This gave Lynch a Plan B few NFL applicants have. If you’re not playing football, the nex...

Le’Veon Bell believes his surgically repaired right knee feels so good he could play “tomorrow.” The wait will be considerably longer for the Pittsburgh Steelers running back, perhaps all the way until October if his appeal for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy is denied. While Bell apologized for being a distraction as the Steelers reported for training camp Thursday, he declined to get into specifics, saying only he was notified in March that he’d been suspended. ESPN.com reported Bel...

Documents unsealed by a Pennsylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that alleged current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Penn State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s. In a 2015 deposition, former Penn State assistant Mike McQueary, a main witness in the case who reported to then-head coach Joe Pateo that he had seen Sandusky raping a boy in 2001, said Bradley was “not shocked” after McQueary told him about the crime. The depos...

EL SEGUNDO — A day after being chosen to retu to the Olympics, gold-medal-winning gymnast Gabby Douglas was honored today with a Barbie doll modeled after her. According to El Segundo-based Mattel, the doll is aimed at reminding girls “they can be anything,” by highlighting Douglas’ confidence, work ethic and belief in herself -- making her a role model for young girls. “I love a challenge,” Douglas, 20, said. “I love to push limits and I love that my very own Barbie celebrates me for being a ro...

LAS VEGAS — Conor McGregor is in town to promote his fight with Nate Diaz at UFC 202 in August. The featherweight champion has been on the minds of a lot of fighters this week. Count Frankie Edgar as one of them. The former UFC lightweight champion will have a rematch with former featherweight champion Jose Aldo for the interim featherweight title Saturday at UFC 200 at the T-Mobile Arena. Naturally, it’s nearly impossible to not bring up McGregor when discussing Aldo. It was the brash Irishman ...

In all honestly, who could have foreseen Clayton Kershaw trying to come back from back problems at this point in his career? The MRI probably shows the same thing that’s been plaguing Adrian Gonzalez for some time now. When you’re trying to hoist a franchise onto your shoulders, even Justin Tuer knows you gotta use more of your knees. Do the surgery in the offseason. The Dodgers’ “greatest fears have been realized,” as broadcasters on the SportsNet LA have been lamenting over the past 48 hours, ...

LOS ANGELES >> Chris Arreola of Riverside would love to become the first fighter of Mexican descent to win a major heavyweight world title. He’s already had two bites at the apple, but came up short in technical knockout losses to Vitali Klitschko in 2009 and Bermane Stivee in 2014. He’s going to get one more shot when he challenges undefeated knockout artist Deontay Wilder for his title July 16 at Legacy Arena in Birmingham, Ala. (on Fox). “It is now or never,” Arreola said. “Title shots ...

LeBron James and the Cavaliers have a chance to extend the 2016 NBA Finals Series to a Game 7 against the Golden State Warriors tonight in Cleveland. If the Cavaliers manage to defeat the Warriors in Game 7, they would be the first team in the NBA’s history to rally back from a 3-1 series deficit to win a championship. Thirty-two others have failed. For that to happen, the Cavaliers will need to bring the same energy as they did in Game 5. “We are here so we might as well play with confidence li...

DETROIT — Gordie Howe, the rough-and-tumble Canadian farm boy whose boundless blend of talent and toughness made him the NHL’s quintessential star during a career that lasted into his 50s, died Friday. The man forever known as “Mr. Hockey” was 88. “Mr Hockey left peacefully, beautifully, and w no regrets,” Murray Howe said in a text to The Associated Press. He said his father died simply of “old age,” not another stroke. “We are celebrating the life of a devoted husband, father, grandfather, gre...