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LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers signed Julio Urías when he was merely a boy, a 16-year-old throwing faster than some major league pitchers. They protected his golden left arm like no other, removing him from at least one no-hitter every year in order to limit the inherent harm of throwing a basebal...

Long Beach State was awarded the 2016-17 Big West Conference Commissioner’s Cup, it was announced Thursday. The award is given to the school with the best athletics program, encompassing all 17 sports. The 49ers have won the award in six of the last seven years, and seven of the last nine. The 49ers averaged 116.7 points with UC Santa Barbara in second and Cal Poly third. Long Beach State had only one conference championship (baseball) in 2016-17, but it had nine sports that finished in the top ...

SAN DIEGO >> When is an innings limit not an innings limit? As Dodgers coaches and executives contemplate how much more rookie pitcher Julio Urias can — and should — give them this year, it’s worth flashing back to April 11. Urias made his first regular season start that day for Triple-A Oklahoma City in Memphis, Tennessee. Matt Herges, the Oklahoma City pitching coach, watched and waited as Urias threw one scoreless inning after another. Urias’ pitch count reached 73 after five innings wh...

DENVER >> It’s no surprise that the Dodgers will give the ball to rookie left-hander Julio Urias for Friday’s start against the San Diego Padres. The 20-year-old left-hander is 5-2 with a 3.71 eaed-run average in 14 games (12 starts) with the Dodgers. His last four outings, all victories, have seen Urias allow two eaed runs in 19 2/3 innings, good for a 0.92 ERA. “The way he’s throwing the baseball right now,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, “this is the best thing for the Dodgers and f...

CINCINNATI >> While most of the Dodgers’ starting pitchers are operating on a performance-induced innings limit, Julio Urias pitched like he doesn’t need one. The freslhly-20-year-old Julio Urias tued in the best start of his barely-started big-league career Sunday afteoon, holding the Cincinnati Reds scoreless through six innings and helping the Dodgers snap a three-game losing streak with a 4-0 victory. “It was huge. It was huge being able to have him out there for more than five innings...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> He had just created a moment that lifted the entire country. But Neymar reacted by instead falling to his knees, raising his outstretched arms and sobbing. His score Saturday gave host Brazil a desperate 5-4 victory in a penalty shootout over Germany, after the teams had played to a 1-1 draw. The shot secured this soccer-crazed nation its first Olympic gold medal in its beloved sport. “This is one of the best things that has happened in my life,” Neymar said. “The only th...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> The Paralympics will go ahead in Rio next month but organizers say deep budget cuts mean one venue will close down, facilities will be dismantled and the workforce will be reduced. Poor ticket sales have compounded existing financial challenges in recession-battered Brazil that have already hit operations at the Rio Olympics, which close Sunday. Rio has less than three weeks to prepare for Paralympics, the pinnacle of the disability sport calendar where organizers hoped t...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Geno Auriemma and Diana Taurasi shared a long, emotional embrace. Mission accomplished. The U.S. women’s basketball team won a sixth consecutive Olympic gold medal in dominant fashion, routing Spain 101-72 on Saturday. Taurasi, who is originally from Chino, and the Americans played nearly flawless basketball in Rio, and were never challenged. They have won 49 consecutive games in the Olympics with only one of those decided by single digits. With that kind of sustained suc...

NBC 7 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Women’s Triathlon – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 9:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Canoe/Kayak – Sprint Gold Medal Finals Men’s Diving – 10m Platform Semifinal Women’s Golf – Final Round (LIVE) 11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Women’s Basketball – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 1:45 p.m. – 3 p.m. Men’s Water Polo – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 8 p.m. – Midnight Track & Field – Gold Medal Finals (LIVE) Women’s High Jump Men’s Javelin Men’s 1500m Women’s 800m Men’s 5000m Women 4x400m Relay Men 4x400m Relay W...

Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tunnel entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final. Such audacity would have been laughable from any other sprinter. Then again there never has been any other sprinter like Bolt. Besides, the result Thursday night was never in doubt, even the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Helen Maroulis made a great run in women’s wrestling Thursday, reaching the gold medal match at 53-kg in the Rio Olympics. Once there, she reached an entirely higher level, defeating a legend in the sport, Japan’s Saori Yoshida, 4-1. It was the first Olympic gold medal for an American in women’s wrestling. Maroulis lives in Huntington Beach, where she shares a room with teammate Elena Pirozhkova, who lost to Yekaterina Larionova of Kazakhstan 5-0 later Thursday in the bro...

LONG BEACH >> During the first full day of training for the 2016 Long Beach State women’s soccer season earlier this month, 13th-year coach Mauricio Ingrassia’s first comment conceed a nonconference game four years ago. The game was a 1-0 upset of No. 11-ranked BYU at George Allen Field, the highest-ranked opponent LBSU had beaten. The moment that led to that lone goal proved to be a program tuing point. Senior captain Eileen Maes hyperextended her leg chasing down a long ball in the first...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was as close as a two-goal game in the third quarter Wednesday. But, eventually and somewhat inevitably, the U.S. women’s water polo team worked its way into position to go for a gold medal. “As you could tell, that was a battle today,” attacker Courtney Mathewson said. “I think my skin is like magenta colored.” The Americans wore down Hungary for a 14-10 victory and now will face Italy in the Olympic finale Friday. Maggie Steffens scored a team-high four goals for the...

Rio Olympics 2016: U.S. men’s volleyball reaches the semis, tops Poland United States’ Kawika Shoji (7), celebrates with teammates Matthew Anderson (1), David Lee (4), and William Reid Priddy (8) after defeating Poland in a men’s quarterfinal volleyball match at the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2016. (AP Photo/Robert F. Bukaty) By The Associated Press RIO DE JANEIRO – The U.S. men’s volleyball team is on to the Rio semifinals, beating Pola...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Christian Taylor and Will Claye have done it again, sweeping gold and silver in the triple jump for the United States at back-to-back Olympics. Taylor successfully defended the Olympic title he won in London in 2012, setting down the benchmark on Tuesday with a season-leading mark of 58 feet, 7 1/4 inches on his first attempt. He posted the three best jumps of the competition. Claye finished with silver again with a personal record of 58 feet 3 1/4 inches. He also won a bronze i...

RIO DE JANEIRO — The United States women’s field hockey team placed fifth at the Olympics, the program’s best finish in 20 years. The Americans lost their quarterfinal match to Germany on Monday. Their final ranking is based on their second-place finish in pool play. The Americans also placed fifth at the 1996 Games in Atlanta. Their only better finish was third at the 1984 Games. This year’s squad set program records for most wins in pool play with four, and most goals in an Olympic match, with...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Simone Biles and Aly Raisman of the U.S. finished one-two in the Olympic Games floor exercise final Tuesday afteoon. Biles’ 15.966 victory on the floor, the final women’s event of the Olympic women’s program, gave her a fourth gold medal, and fifth total, at the Rio Games. Raisman, the 2012 Olympic Games floor champion, also finished second to Biles in the all-around final. Raisman was the only other gymnast with a score over 15 (15.5). Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Minute after agonizing minute following the Olympic Games 400-meter final Sunday night, Allyson Felix of the U.S. and Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas continued to lie on the wet Olympic Stadium track seemingly not to notice the rain soaked surface, neither sure which one of them was the Olympic champion. With Felix, the four-time Olympic gold medalist, making a late charge down the final straight, Miller flung herself head first across the finish line, as if grabbing at a g...

Rio Olympics 2016: Rudisha wins 800 meters; Clayton Murphy takes bronze for U.S. United States' Clayton Murphy, center, places third in the men's 800-meter final during the athletics competitions of the 2016 Summer Olympics at the Olympic stadium in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, Aug. 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Martin Meissner) RIO DE JANEIRO >> Kenya’s David Rudisha defended his Olympic Games 800-meter title in impressive fashion blowing away the field with a 1-minute, 42.16 vic...

Rio Olympics 2016: Allyson Felix edged by unreal diving finish in 400, takes silver Bahamas’ Shaunae Miller falls over the finish line to win gold ahead of United States’ Allyson Felix in the women’s 400-meter final Monday. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum) RIO DE JANEIRO >> Shaunae Miller of the Bahamas, diving at the finish, held off a late charge from Allyson Felix of the U.S. to win the the Olympic Games 400-meter title Monday night. Miller was timed in 49.44 seconds. Felix 49.51....