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Lisa Nehus Saxon has stories to tell today, including the one about the time Vin Scully gave her some career-affirming advice at a very low point in her run as a sports writer about 30 years ago. As the L.A. Daily News’ Dodgers beat writer in her mid-20s, she had just been publicly humiliated in the...

LOS ANGELES >> There’s a difference between an excuse and an explanation. Logan Forsythe won’t make any of the first. But he does acknowledge that the toe and hamstring injuries that hit him early in his first season with the Dodgers might explain why he was sporting a .190 average in mid-June...

LOS ANGELES >> If he hadn’t injured his toe, Logan Forsythe probably would have played through his hamstring issues. And if he didn’t have those hamstring issues, he probably would have retued from the toe injury sooner. The combination, however, kept Forsythe on the sidelines for 30 games b...

LOS ANGELES >> Dodgers Hall of Famer Tommy Lasorda has been hospitalized for several days.Details of Lasorda’s illness are being kept private, but a number of Lasorda’s former players have been among those in contact with Lasorda, who has been ...

OAKLAND >> ESPN reporter Shelley Smith said Sunday night she was doing well and undergoing tests at an East Bay hospital for stroke symptoms after a scare in the Golden State locker room following the Warriors’ 113-111 victory over San Antonio ...

Kerri Walsh Jeings, the all-time wiingest beach volleyball player and three-time Olympic gold medalist, has refused to sign an agreement with the Association of Volleyball Professionals to play during its 2017 season, begiing with this weekend’s Huntington Beach Open.Walsh Jeings won the event last year with teammate April Ross before going on to capture the bronze medal in beach volleybal...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Jeings is set to play two matches today as men’s and women’s main draw play begins in the $800,000 World Series of Beach Volleyball on Alamitos Beach in Long Beach. Seven days after wiing Olympic bronze medals, Walsh Jeings and April Ross will face Canadians Melissa Humana-Paredes and Taylor Pischke at 9:50 a.m. and Brazilians Carol and Ana Patricia at 4 p.m. in pool play matches. There will be two rounds of women’s play and one round of men’s play today. The men’s and women’s fields will both be reduced to 24 teams at the conclusion of Thursday’s play. Walsh Jeings and Ross are seeded first in the 32-team women’s field from 15 nations. The Brazi...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Before the Olympics began, Kerri Walsh Jeings said she welcomed the thought of playing one of host Brazil’s duos and facing a potential hostile environment. “In our minds,” the three-time Olympic champion joked, “since we don’t speak Portuguese, I think we’ll pretend that they’re cheering for us.” That would have taken quite an imagination Tuesday. In suffering her first loss ever in Olympic beach volleyball, Walsh Jeings and partner April Ross were clearly the villains as they fell to Agatha Bednarczuk and Barbara Seixas, 22-20 and 21-18. And that quickly, one of the most decorated volleyball careers - male or female, sand or indoor - took a stuing tu, a tu from ano...

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 more, starting from Goff’s jouey on a Goodyear blimp ride above the South Bay, to center Eric Kush’s eclectic collection of tank tops, the one piece of news that came to light from Episode 1 is Rams ...

RIO DE JANEIRO — It always has been among the most popular events at the Olympics, right there with the long jump, high jump and triple jump. It’s the conclusion jump, which is bound to happen when the world gathers in one spot and a narrative that’s so easy to perpetuate emerges, quickly gaining the unstoppable momentum of the torch relay. So there’s no doubt what you’re thinking while reading the following sentence: Another day at the Olympics, another Olympian offering commentary on the accommodations. Here’s guessing, however, that you didn’t stick this landing: “It’s really incredible. Our building is great. Our room is amazing.” April Ross said she even has a balcony, from which she c...

LOS ANGELES — UCLA head coach Jim Mora said Friday at Pac-12 Media Days that recent allegations against defensive coordinator Tom Bradley conceing the Pe State sexual abuse scandal did not prompt a new investigation from the school. “Tom made a statement through his lawyer, I think was very specific,” Mora said. “This is a situation that has obviously been delved into with great depth. And Tom will stand by his statement, I will stand by his statement, and we will all stand by Tom.” Through a statement from his representative, Bradley denied allegations earlier this week that he had known about Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys at Pe State as early as the 1980s. Documents unsealed by a ...

FOXBOROUGH, Mass. — Tom Brady said on Friday he will stop fighting his suspension for “Deflategate,” a scandal that taished the reputation of one of the sport’s best players, tested the authority of Commissioner Roger Goodell and exposed rifts inside the league office. “It has been a challenging 18 months and I have made the difficult decision to no longer proceed with the legal process,” the New England Patriots quarterback said in a Facebook post. “I’m going to work hard to be the best player I can be for the New England Patriots and I look forward to having the opportunity to retu to the field this fall.” Brady’s decision comes two days after his case was tued aside by the 2nd U.S. Circu...

NEW YORK — Quarterback Tom Brady’s last best chance to avoid serving a four-game “Deflategate” suspension to start the new season was flatly rejected Wednesday by an appeals court. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan issued a one-sentence rejection of requests by the National Football League Players Association and Tom Brady to reconsider an April decision that found NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell acted within his powers by upholding a four-game suspension of the star quarterback for his role in a scheme to doctor footballs used in a January 2015 playoff game. The court’s action leaves intact the 2-1 ruling by a three-judge panel that affirmed wide-ranging powers given to the...

Documents unsealed by a Pesylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that alleged current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Pe State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s. In a 2015 deposition, former Pe 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 deposition continues to state that when McQueary told Bradley about the abuse, Bradley told him Greg Schiano, a former Pe State assistant and the current Ohio State defensive coordinator, came to him in the earl...

Documents unsealed by a Pesylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Pe State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s. In a 2015 deposition, former Pe 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 hearing about the crime. • STORY: Pe State coach Joe Pateo ignored 1976 complaint about Jerry Sandusky The deposition continues to state that when McQueary told Bradley about the abuse, Bradley told him Greg Schiano, a former Pe State assistant and current Oh...

BOSTON >> The Andrew Heaney stem cell experiment failed. The Angels aounced on Thursday that Heaney will undergo Tommy John surgery because they had not seen sufficient results from the stem cell treatment after nearly two months. Heaney’s surgery will be performed Friday in Los Angeles by noted orthopedist, Dr. Neal ElAttrache. Although it’s possible Heaney could be back by sometime in the second half of 2017, it’s more likely that he won’t pitch again in the majors until 2018. The rehab period for Tommy John surgery is 12 to 18 months, although teams in recent seasons have been leaning more toward the later end of that range. The Angels are still hoping that Garrett Richards, who un...

OMAHA, Neb. >> Tom Shields covered his mouth, congratulated the most decorated Olympian of all time and rested his head on the wall in Lane 3 trying to grasp a two-minute blur that will send him to the Olympics. One jouey for the 24-year-old from Huntington Beach ended in triumph at the U.S. Olympic Swimming Trials on Wednesday night as another trek began. Shields soaked in the moment as his faithful of 25 family and friends, clad in black “Team Tom 2016” T-shirts, celebrated amongst the nearly 14,000 at CenturyLink Center. He finished second to Michael Phelps in Phelps’ most dominant event, the 200-meter butterfly, to qualify for the Rio Olympics on historic Day 4. The laid-back Shie...

Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spaing five decades, died Monday moing at his home in Encino after a long battle with cancer. Kelly died two days before his 89th birthday Wednesday. Bo in Mieapolis and starting his career in Wisconsin, Kelly came to Los Angeles from Illinois via a recommendation from Jack Buck to join Chick Hea on USC football and basketball for the 1961-62 season at KNX radio. When Hea left the next year to start broadcasting the newly relocated Lakers, Kelly began a Southe Califoia broadcasting career that included calling five USC national championship football seasons from John McKay to Pete Carroll. Kelly’s booming voice tha...

Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spaing five decades, died Monday moing at his home in Encino after a long battle with cancer. Kelly died two days before his 89th birthday Wednesday. Bo in Mieapolis and having started his career in Illinois, Kelly came to Los Angeles to join Chick Hea on USC football and basketball for the 1961-62 season at KNX radio. When Hea left the next year to start broadcasting the newly relocated Lakers, Kelly began a Southe Califoia broadcasting career that included calling five USC national championship football seasons from John McKay to Pete Carroll. Kelly’s booming voice that rose to the level of the action was also he...

Tom Kelly, the signature voice of USC sports starting in the early 1960s and spaing five decades, died Monday moing at his home in Encino after a long battle with cancer. Kelly died two days before his 89th birthday Wednesday. Bo in Mieapolis and having started his career in Illinois, Kelly came to Los Angeles to join Chick Hea on USC football and basketball for the 1961-62 season at KNX radio. When Hea left the next year to start broadcasting the newly relocated Lakers, Kelly began a Southe Califoia broadcasting career that included calling five USC national championship football seasons from John McKay to Pete Carroll. Kelly’s booming voice that rose to the level of the action was also he...