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Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee announced Monday that Dirtbags head coach Troy Buckley signed a contract extension through the 2022 season. The extension includes four additional years, increased base salary and supplemental compensation based on success on and off the field. “I am very grateful and appreciative of this opportunity to continue to lead this historic program going forwa...

Las Vegas Summer League did not just provide a platform for Lonzo Ball to show early retus on his NBA potential. It also gave Alex Caruso a setting to convince the Lakers to keep him. The Lakers and Caruso agreed to a two-year deal on a two-way contract, a new mechanism that allows NBA teams and t...

The Ducks signed forward Dennis Rasmussen to a one-year contract worth $725,000 on Friday. Rasmussen, 27, spent his first two NHL seasons with Chicago after playing with the Blackhawks’ American Hockey League team in 2014-15 following three seasons playing professionally in his native Sweden. Rasmus...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> Adrian Gonzalez has been dealing with back pain on and off since 2012 – more frequently on than off over the past two years. He is not willing to put up with it much longer. The Dodgers’ veteran first baseman said he went to the DL for the first time in his 14-year career last m...

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...

DENVER >> The Rams have signed receiver Tavon Austin to a four-year contract extension worth $42 million, the team confirmed Saturday, shortly before the Rams’ preseason game against the Denver Broncos. In May, the Rams had picked up the fifth-year option on Austin’s rookie contract, which kept him under contract through the 2017 season. Now, Austin will be with the Rams through at least 2021. The new contract includes $30 million in guaranteed money. Austin, 25, was a first-round draft pi...

The High Desert Mavericks and Bakersfield Blaze will be contracted from the Califoia League today, the Southe Califoia News Group has leaed. According to a report Sunday on the website todaysknuckleball.com, the league will not seek to replace the two franchises. That would leave the Cal League with eight teams — including the advanced Single-A affiliates of the Dodgers (Rancho Cucamonga Quakes) and Angels (Inland Empire 66ers) — for the first time since 1978. The announcement comes as little su...

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...

ST. LOUIS >> Julio Urias’ latest big-league cameo was a short one. The 19-year-old left-hander was sent back to Triple-A Oklahoma City on Friday after pitching four innings for the Dodgers in Thursday’s win over the Washington Nationals. Urias will get a few days off and then pitch out of the bullpen for OKC, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. That was the plan when the Dodgers sent Urias back to Triple-A following his July 4 start. But he made just one relief appearance before being recal...

WASHINGTON, D.C. >> Now what? For the third time this season, the Dodgers tued to 19-year-old left-hander Julio Urias to fill a short-term need in their starting rotation. Urias went four innings in Thursday’s 6-3 victory over the Washington Nationals after left-hander Hyun-Jin Ryu went on the DL with elbow tendinitis. Whatever plan the Dodgers had for their precocious pitching prospect must have been written in pencil, erased and rewritten again. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said he has b...

Trumaine Johnson’s first season in Los Angeles also might be his last. The Rams failed to reach agreement with Johnson, their top coerback, on a long-term contract extension, so on Friday afteoon, the team officially applied its franchise-player tag to Johnson for the 2016 season. Johnson will receive a guaranteed salary of $13.95 million this season, but if he fails to sign a new contract with the Rams by next March, he will become a free agent. Friday marked the deadline for teams to reach agr...

INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck has signed the richest contract in NFL history, a deal worth up to $140 million with the Indianapolis Colts that covers the next six seasons through 2021. Colts owner Jim Irsay revealed the contract’s maximum value on Wednesday for Luck, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft who missed nine games last year because of injuries to his shoulder, ribs and kidney. Irsay said Luck would be guaranteed $47 million if the Colts were to cut him before the season. “Obviously a ridicul...

INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck has signed the richest contract in NFL history, a deal worth up to $140 million with the Indianapolis Colts that covers the next six seasons through 2021. Colts owner Jim Irsay revealed the contract’s maximum value on Wednesday for Luck, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft who missed nine games last year because of injuries to his shoulder, ribs and kidney. Irsay said Luck would be guaranteed $47 million if the Colts were to cut him before the season. “Obviously a ridicul...

LOS ANGELES >> Like leaving the last Oreo in the sleeve, this is not going to be easy. But the Dodgers remain committed to keeping a goveor on Julio Urias’ workload this season, a vow of abstinence that has become more difficult to stand by with each of his five big-league starts. Urias keeps getting better, a trend that led to five scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five innings and 85 pitches this time,...

LOS ANGELES >> Like leaving the last Oreo in the sleeve, this is not going to be easy. But the Dodgers remain committed to keeping a goveor on Julio Urias’ workload this season, a vow of abstinence that has become more difficult to stand by with each of his five big-league starts. Urias keeps getting better, a trend that led to five scoreless innings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five innings and 85 pitches this time,...

SAN FRANCISCO >> The Dodgers have handed Julio Urias his leaer’s permit. They just didn’t put any gas in the tank. Urias pitched into the sixth inning for the first time in his four big-league starts Sunday night and showed the kind of poise and talent that prompted the Dodgers to promote him to the majors at age 19. The precocious left-hander made just one mistake and it didn’t come until his 86th pitch of the game. But Brandon Belt crushed that 85-mph slider left over the heart of the pl...

The Dodgers are certainly not making it easy for Julio Urias to break into the major leagues. They asked the 19-year-old prospect to make his major-league debut in New York against the Mets then follow that up with a start against the best team in baseball, the Chicago Cubs, at Wrigley Field. Now after one start at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers will shuffle their rotation in order to start Urias in San Francisco on Sunday night against the NL West-leading Giants — oh, and the game will be on natio...

The Dodgers are certainly not making it easy for Julio Urias to break into the major leagues. They asked the 19-year-old prospect to make his major-league debut in New York against the Mets then follow that up with a start against the best team in baseball, the Chicago Cubs, at Wrigley Field. Now after one start at Dodger Stadium, the Dodgers will shuffle their rotation in order to start Urias in San Francisco Sunday night against the NL West-leading Giants — oh, and the game will be on national...