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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...

HOLLYWOOD — The Chargers will get a big welcome to Los Angeles today with the formal introduction of the “Chargers Chili Cheese” special at Pink’s Hot Dogs.The famed Hollywood hot dog eatery at 709 N. La Brea Ave. in Hollywood will be offering the special for a limited time to commemorate the NFL te...

LOS ANGELES — Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw will start a do-or-die Game 4 of the National League Division Series today against the Washington Nationals. Right-hander Joe Ross starts for Washington. The game begins at 2 p.m. at Dodger Stadium by virtue of the Chicago Cubs’ loss to the San Francisco Giants last night. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts and Nationals manager Dusty Baker did not reveal their starting pitchers until the moing of the game. Roberts said the decision to start Kershaw hinged on the availability of his relief pitchers — “with how they’ve been used the last couple days, and looking at potential for Julio (Urias), and obviously there’s some pitch-count mindfulness with Julio. W...

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...

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...

Viewing parties will be held at six locations in Southe Califoia for today’s telecasts of the U.S.-Colombia Copa America Centenario third-place game. The men’s soccer game from University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona will begin at 5 p.m. and be televised in English by cable’s FX and in Spanish by Univision and cable’s Univision Deportes Network. The viewing parties will be held at: -- The Auld Dubliner, 2497 E Ave., Tustin; -- The Brew & Meatball Co., 325 N. Citrus Ave., Covina; -- Q’s Billiard Club, 11835 Wilshire Blvd., Brentwood; -- 1739 Public House, 1739 N. Vermont Ave., Los Feliz; -- Shaon’s On Pine, 209 Pine Ave., Long Beach; and -- Underground Pub & Grill, 1332 He...

James Bone and his family have their week-long vacation all mapped out, with three days of braving the summer crowds at Disneyland and maybe a few baseball games. But first, on Thursday, the Texas travelers had a must see stop: The Wedge. • Photos: The Wedge in Newport Bech “I’ve never seen anything like it, in person. I’ve seen it on television and magazines,” said Bone, a 42-year-old who has never surfed but fell in love with the surfing culture as a teenager. “It’s pretty amazing.” Bone was just one of the spectators who on Thursday trekked to the Balboa Peninsula in Newport Beach to check out the Wedge. There, waves in the 15-foot range pounded surfers, bodyboarders, skimboarders and bod...