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ANAHEIM >> One day before the most decorated team in the history of USA Gymnastics enters the Hall of Fame, the next generation was on display Friday night at the P&G Championships. Simone Biles, in the building at Honda Center but not in a leotard, is contemplating her future along with the rest of the Final Five. Ragan Smith is the future. The alteate for the gold-medal wiing team at the 2016 Olympics showed why she is the current face of a rebuilding program with an impressive performance to open the U.S. national championships. Smith, 17, leads the all-around competition aft...

OAKLAND >> Coach Sean McVay is a quarterbacks guru who loves tight-end mismatches and now gets to plan with receiver Sammy Watkins. But don’t forget the Rams’ ruing backs. McVay should not. The Rams have Todd Gurley, who underachieved badly in 2016 but seems poised for a bounce-back season after a strong training camp. McVay, the Rams’ rookie coach and their play-caller, might be tempted to throw the ball a lot, but his recent history suggests that the ground game works. McVay’s second preseason game as a head coach takes place today, when the Rams play at Oakland. Last week against Da...

NASHVILLE, Te. — Adoree Jackson caught a punt and ran about 20 yards up the field. Then the Teessee Titans rookie ran to the other end zone to retu a kickoff, showing off his ability to kick into a faster gear and taking the ball 45 yards. No time to be winded, though. The rookie coerback ha...

LOS ANGELES >> Amidst the chaos of UCLA’s first fall practice on Wednesday night, Coach Jim Mora didn’t make note of many individual performances. But when asked of any players who jumped out at him, he singled out two of the team’s youngest players: defensive tackles Greg Rogers and Martin An...

LAS VEGAS >> The IRS says boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. still owes $22.2 million in taxes from 2015, the year he eaed his biggest payday with a blockbuster fight against May Pacquiao. A notice of a federal tax lien filed against the undefeated fighter nicknamed “Money” shows the balance as un...

Interview with St. John Bosco football head coach Jason Negro at the college showcase with 50 colleges represented. Bosco will be trying to repeat as CIF Southe Section Pac-5 Division and state champions. With three months until the season begins, the team currently has 22 players with a Division 1 scholarship offer.AdvertisementLet's block ads! بخوانید...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> On a day when they placed two more starting pitchers on the disabled list, the Dodgers went out and demonstrated why it hasn’t mattered. The Dodgers’ third, fourth and fifth hitters — Corey Seager, Justin Tuer and Adrian Gonzalez — went 7 for 7 and drove in four runs in the first five iings against ace left-hander Madison Bumgaer as the Dodgers hit their way to a 9-5 victory over the San Francisco Giants on Tuesday night at Dodger Stadium. The win in the first of nine head-to-head meetings between the two rivals over the final 38 games of the regular season doubled the Dodgers’ lead in the National League West to two games over the Giants. It is only the second day in th...

LA QUINTA >> The oldest living Ram is Jim Hardy. He’s been too busy living to notice. Every week Hardy drives two hours to watch USC practice. He quarterbacked two Rose Bowl victories for the Trojans, in 1944 and 1945. He and his wife Henrietta, whom he calls Hank, don’t miss USC home games either. He is 93. He drives, without glasses. He takes not one single pill. “My blood pressure is real low,” he said. He can sit in his handsome house at the La Quinta Golf Estates, and pull up obscure names from more than 60 years ago, as he did Wednesday. As the former general manager of the Coliseum Commission, he’s glad the Rams are back there. And he seems determined to stick around until USC ...

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...

TROON, Scotland >> Henrik Stenson is the champion golfer of the year, thanks to a final round for the ages. He kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, and he needed each one to stay ahead of Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in major championship history. Stenson made 10 birdies, including a 50-foot putt across the 15th green that had him pumping his fist in a rare show of emotion Sunday. The final stroke in this masterpiece was a 20-foot birdie putt on the 18th hole that curled into the cup on the final tu. It gave him an 8-under 63, tying Johy Miller at Oakmont for the greatest closing round by a major champion, and Stenson didn’t ev...

TROON, Scotland >> Henrik Stenson and Phil Mickelson delivered what everyone expects out of a major championship. They matched birdies and improbable par saves. Momentum could change with any shot. The lead changed four times over four hours of golf at its highest level, played in the cold wind and occasional rain off the Irish Sea. All the British Open lacked Saturday was a wier. Tus out this was only the preview to a duel at Royal Troon. Stenson took the lead for the last time with another two-shot swing on an inward par 3, and he kept it with a nifty up-and-down on the 18th for par and a 3-under 68, the second straight day that no one had a better score. That gave the 40-year-old S...

TROON, Scotland >> The smile spoke louder than anything Dustin Johnson had to say Wednesday at the British Open. His game has never been better. Just one month ago, Johnson was known as golf’s best athlete who had won every year he has been on the PGA Tour — the longest streak since Tiger Woods — but who had everything go wrong in the majors. Now he’s the U.S. Open champion and a favorite at the British Open who can move to No. 1 in the world with a victory. But that’s not what brought the biggest smile. It was a question about whether he could think of anything that stressed him out. Anyone who has spent time around the 32-year-old American during his eight years and 11 victories on ...

TROON, Scotland — The smile spoke louder than anything Dustin Johnson had to say Wednesday at the British Open. His game has never been better. Just one month ago, Johnson was known as golf’s best athlete who had won every year he has been on the PGA Tour — the longest streak since Tiger Woods — but who had everything go wrong in the majors. Now he’s the U.S. Open champion and a favorite at the British Open who can move to No. 1 in the world with a victory. But that’s not what brought the biggest smile. It was a question about whether he could think of anything that stressed him out. Anyone who has spent time around the 32-year-old American during his eight years and 11 victories on tour — ...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> Five days after he writhed in pain on the infield grass at Chase Field in Phoenix, after a 95 mph line drive by Paul Goldschmidt jolted into his right leg, Kenta Maeda answered any lingering questions about his durability. The rookie right-hander, making his scheduled start on a sweltering, 99-degree Sunday afteoon at Dodger Stadium, threw 107 pitches to equal his season high as he lasted into the seventh iing. “First and foremost, Kenta’s got a lot of fight, a lot of heart,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said. “When you’re not feeling 100 percent, to go out there and compete, that’s what Kenta does.” Maeda, whose right leg was considered bruised after X-rays were negati...