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Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee aounced 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 Deis 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 iings limit not an iings 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, Teessee. Matt Herges, the Oklahoma City pitching coach, watched and waited as Urias threw one scoreless iing after another. Urias’ pitch count reached 73 after five iings when it was decided he’d met his limit. He still hadn’t allowed a run. Often, the decision to remove Urias wasn’t easy. “There were times when it was ‘hey we need to get him out of the game’ — yeah but he’s only...

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 iings, 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 for Julio.” And yet, Friday’s start might be his last of the season. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman stopped short of saying Urias would move to the bullpen after facing the Pad...

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 pick (No. 8 overall) out of West Virginia by the Rams in 2013. He is considered the team’s primary big-play threat, both as a receiver and on frequent ruing plays, and is also the Rams’ primary punt ret...

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 aouncement comes as little surprise. Earlier this month the Blaze and the Mavericks, who have played in Adelanto since 1991, did not have their affiliation contracts renewed by the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers, respectively. ...

CINCINNATI >> While most of the Dodgers’ starting pitchers are operating on a performance-induced iings 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 Cinciati Reds scoreless through six iings 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 iings,” Dodgers catcher Yasmani Grandal said. “Having the last two starters go less than three or four iings, we needed someone to go deep in a game. He did that for us, stepped up big time and threw a great game....

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 iings 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 recalled to start in Washington this week when Hyun-Jin Ryu went to the DL. Austin Baes was called up from Triple-A to replace Urias on the roster. With three off days in an eight-day span starting Monday, ...

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 iings 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 been impressed with the way Urias has handled the uncertainty as well as being asked to make five of his nine big-league starts against first-place teams (the Cubs, Orioles, Giants and Nationals twice). ...

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 agreement on a contract and avoid having to use the franchise tag on a player. At one point, the Rams hoped to sign both of last year’s starting coerbacks, Johnson and Janoris Jenkins, to long-term exte...

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 ridiculous hypothetical,” Irsay said. According to NFL.com, the life of Luck’s contract includes $87 million guaranteed for injury. There are many different ways to determine a deal’s value, but Luck’s has ...

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 ridiculous hypothetical,” Irsay said. According to NFL.com, the life of Luck’s contract includes $87 million guaranteed for injury. There are many different ways to determine a deal’s value, but Luck’s has ...

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 iings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five iings and 85 pitches this time, a decision that quickly became lamentable. The Brewers scored twice against Dodgers relievers in the sixth iing and it took Justin Tuer’s second home run of the game (in the eighth iing) and his game-wii...

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 iings against the Milwaukee Brewers on Friday night. But Dodgers manager Dave Roberts pulled him after those five iings and 85 pitches this time, a decision that quickly became lamentable. The Brewers scored twice against Dodgers relievers in the sixth iing and it took Justin Tuer’s second home run of the game (in the eighth iing) and his game-wii...