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GLENDALE >> So many baseball men in khakis and collared shirts strolled the grounds of Oakmont Country Club on Monday, you would be tempted to think this is what they do in retirement: golf. You would only be half right. There was Eddie Murray, the Hall of Fame first baseman. There was Charlie...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to authorize Mayor Eric Garcetti to sign a Host City Contract with the Inteational Olympic Committee in which the city agrees to host the 2028 Olympic Games and guarantees that it will cover any potential financial shortfall from those G...

Inteational Olympic Committee officials on Wednesday confirmed that discussions have begun between the IOC and Los Angeles and Paris officials that are expected to result in Southe Califoia hosting the 2028 Games. IOC, Los Angeles and Paris officials had informal talks over a celebratory die...

CARSON >>For a brief moment in the second half, the Galaxy had hope of another batch of late-game heroics. Dave Romney’s 77th minute goal cut Sporting Kansas City’s lead in half, leaving the Galaxy with a chance to steal a point. Unfortunately, there would be no such delight this time around ...

Bellator MMA President Scott Coker likes to dream big and Saturday night is just that and more. Coker’s Bellator MMA lands at Madison Square Garden with a split card, with Bellator 180 on SpikeTV and Bellator NYC on Pay-Per-View ($49.95). “From top-to-bottom, this is a card I would watch and that’s ...

The Long Beach City College duo of Sarah Miller and Paige Panter won the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference beach volleyball championship at Granada Beach on Friday. Miller and Panter defeated Kiaa Niu and Brittany Mitchell of Palomar 22-20, 21-15 in windy conditions.“I didn’t put any expectations on these girls for the first year,” LBCC coach Misty May-Treanor said. “We started to make goals tow...

Flanked by his wife and two daughters, Kobe Bryant gried wide Wednesday as the Los Angeles City Council declared Aug. 24 as Kobe Bryant Day. Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is pregnant with the couple’s third daughter and the retired Lakers superstar told his other two girls, Natalia and Giaa, they would need to help explain to their sister why Bryant had a day named in his honor. • PHOTOS: City of LA celebrates Kobe Bryant Day in council chambers “She’s going to have no idea that I was actually an OK basketball player,” he joked. Bryant retired from the Lakers in April, after 20 seasons, five championships and rising to No. 3 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Aug. 24 — 8/24, representing both je...

Spring training was over, and David Reid-Foley and Corey Copping were eager to pitch in some games that counted. Copping, 22, was entering his first full season of pro baseball after the Dodgers grabbed him in the 31st round of the 2015 draft. Reid-Foley, 25, was in the second act of his career. The Dodgers signed him as an undrafted free agent catcher out of Mercer University in 2013, then converted him into a pitcher the following year. While their peers were shipping out to Michigan, Oklahoma and Southe Califoia to begin the season, Copping and Reid-Foley were grounded in Arizona. They were two out of a handful of pitchers told to stay in extended spring training, forbidden from throwing ...

Plumes of fear rise from Rio de Janeiro almost hourly, as if the Olympics should be happening someplace organized and safe, like Falluja. The Australian athletes were greeted by standing water and dysfunctional showers in the Athletes Village. When they complained, Rio mayor Eduardo Paes said he’d try to find a kangaroo to comfort them. Media members were told to put minimal currency in cheap wallets to placate the thieves. Sewage and trash assumed their normal position in the bays and lagoons. Body parts washed up near the beach volleyball venue. Disgusted by lack of govement support, police have told tourists that they can’t be protected. Pre-Olympic hysteria is a common condition. Athens...

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, ...

The biggest question circling around the city last week after the blockbuster aouncement that Misty May-Treanor was going to be coaching at Long Beach City College was also one of the shortest questions possible: Why? Why was a three-time Olympic gold medalist, the most famous female volleyball player of at least her generation (and possibly of all time) going to start coaching at a local junior college? May-Treanor’s response to that question was the same as her response to much in life: she laughed. “A lot of people want to coach in the NCAA, I’ve always wanted to coach at the community college level,” she said. “I love working with those athletes, both my parents coached at Santa Monica ...

The biggest question circling around the city last week after the blockbuster aouncement that Misty May-Treanor was going to be coaching at Long Beach City College was also one of the shortest questions possible: Why? Why was a three-time Olympic gold medalist, the most famous female volleyball player of at least her generation (and possibly of all time) going to start coaching at a local junior college? May-Treanor’s response to that question was the same as her response to much in life: she laughed. “A lot of people want to coach in the NCAA, I’ve always wanted to coach at the community college level,” she said. “I love working with those athletes, both my parents coached at Santa Monica ...

After the retu of a familiar face at athletic director, Long Beach City College teams won seven conference championships and two state titles in the 2015-16 year, a season that saw only three Vikings teams miss the playoffs. Randy Totorp, who played and later coached men’s volleyball at LBCC and was the school’s interim AD from 2011-2013, was brought back in a permanent position last August and helped guide the Vikings to many triumphs in his first season. Third-year football coach Brett Peabody continued his impressive tuaround of the program with a 10-2 record, a SCFA National Central League title (the Vikings’ first since 2011) and a Southe Califoia Bowl win over Cerritos. At one point, t...

In the biggest “name” hire for a Long Beach sports team since George Allen came to Cal State Long Beach a quarter century ago, Long Beach City College confirmed Thursday that the Vikings’ new director of volleyball operations will be three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor. May-Treanor will start in the first week of July, and she will be the head coach for the women’s volleyball team as well as a newly created beach volleyball team. She will also oversee the defending state champion LBCC men’s volleyball team. “I really like the community college level,” said May-Treanor. “I love getting the players to move on to four-year schools; it’s rewarding.” May-Treanor’s Long Beach ties ...

In the biggest “name” hire for a Long Beach sports team since George Allen came to Long Beach State a quarter century ago, Long Beach City College confirmed on Thursday that the Vikings’ new director of volleyball operations will be three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor. May-Treanor will start in the first week of July, and will be the head coach for the women’s volleyball team as well as a newly-created beach volleyball team. She will also oversee the defending state champion LBCC men’s volleyball team. “I really like the community college level,” said May-Treanor. “I love getting the players to move on to four-year schools, it’s rewarding.” May-Treanor’s Long Beach ties run d...