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RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Mother Nature supplied the spectacular lightning in the distant San Gabriel Mountains but it was Alta Loma Little League and Upland Foothill reliever Tommy Pincin who supplied the thunder. Alta Loma advanced into the wier’s brac...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA – Mother Nature supplied the spectacular lightning in the distant San Gabriel Mountains but it was Alta Loma Little League and Upland Foothill reliever Tommy Pincin who supplied the thunder. Alta Loma advanced into the wier’s bracket of the Section 8 Touament Saturday with a 13-0 win over Apple Valley American in a game that lasted just four iings. Upland Foothill also advan...

CARSON >> The U.S. women’s national soccer team feels right at home at the StubHub Center. Thanks to goals from Megan Rapinoe, Mallory Pugh and Alex Morgan, the U.S. won its 13th consecutive victory in Carson, defeating Japan, 3-0 in the final game of the Touament of Nations, Thursday. Austr...

The Pac-12 Conference’s media days, with the first of the two-day press junket to begin Wednesday, will unfold at a shopping mall by the star-filled sidewalk of the Hollywood Walk of Fame. One coach after another will take the stage and field questions from 300-plus credentialed media members. The c...

PARIS >> Riding a bright yellow bike to match his shiny leader’s jersey, defending champion Chris Froome won his fourth and most challenging Tour de France title on Sunday. The 32-year-old Kenyan-bo British rider finished 54 seconds ahead of Colombian Rigoberto Uran overall, the smallest mar...

ROMANS-SUR-ISERE, France >> Ahead of two grueling Alpine stages likely to decide the outcome of the 104th Tour de France, Chris Froome and his teammates have sent a clear message to their rivals with another impressive display of collective strength. Amid heavy crosswinds that played havoc in ...

CARSON >> The love and admiration for Manchester United ran throughout StubHub Center Saturday. The majority of the 25,667 in attendance came dressed in the shirt of their favorite Manchester United player, both past and present, and erupted in cheers at every run and move by players like Paul...

RODEZ, France >> Fabio Aru was dropped in the last 500 meters of Stage 14 of the Tour de France won by Michael Matthews and relinquished the yellow jersey to Chris Froome on Saturday. Aru lost touch with the leaders in the final short, sharp ascent of the Cote de Saint Pierre in the town of Ro...

After the setback, the fightback. The day after losing the Tour de France lead to Fabio Aru, Chris Froome and his Team Sky showed on Friday they still have cards up their sleeves. On the shortest stage of the 104th Tour, barring the two time-trials, Sky brought Mikel Landa into play sending Froome’s...

PEYRAGUDES, France — Chris Froome cracked during a grueling climb to the finish and lost the overall lead in the Tour de France to Fabio Aru on Thursday after a demanding stage won by Romain Bardet. Froome’s Sky teammates had perfectly controlled the race until the final kilometer leading to the ski...

PAU, France — Ahead of two grueling days filled with some truly punishing ascents, the main contenders on the Tour de France were all hoping that Wednesday would be a nice, relaxed day on the bike. It didn’t happen. Instead of what riders call a “transition” day, with a comfortable run to the gatewa...

BERGERAC, France — Marcel Kittel has no serious challenger for the King of the Sprint title at this year’s Tour de France. The German sprinter won the 10th stage with remarkable ease on Tuesday, while Chris Froome stayed safely in the main pack to retain the race leader’s yellow jersey. Kittel perfe...

The most anticipated fight of the year will be embarking on a world publicity tour, with the first stop here in Los Angeles. Undefeated boxing champion Floyd Mayweather Jr. and UFC lightweight champion Conor McGregor kick off a four-city inteational press tour begiing Tuesday at Staples Center. ...

CHAMPAGNEY, France>> After losing two of its biggest stars in one horror crash, the Tour de France needed a pick-me-up. Italy’s Fabio Aru answered the call. On the first mountain climb of this 104th Tour, after the lower altitudes where Mark Cavendish and Peter Sagan were forced out of the rac...

LONGWY, France — Shaking off an equipment glitch in the furious finishing sprint, Peter Sagan bagged his eighth career Tour de France stage victory on Monday with an impressive display of power and quick-thinking on a short, sharp final uphill dash. Geraint Thomas of Team Sky retained the yellow jer...

LONG BEACH >> For the second time in his career, Kelvin Hoefler of Sao Paulo, Brazil, won a Dew Tour event in Southe Califoia on Sunday after he captured the 2017 Dew Tour Long Beach skateboarding title with 95.40 points. Hoefler won the 2015 contest in Los Angeles. “I can’t describe my pe...

Alex Midler had home turf advantage in the opening round of the Dew Tour’s first round of amateur competition on Thursday on the grounds of the Long Beach Convention Center. The Los Angeles resident had the highest score among 54 amateurs in the three-part street course skateboard semifinals. Midler...

Waa’ see something exciting?The largest aual spectator sporting event in Califoia will soon be taking place right in our backyard — and it’s a big money generator.And contrary to what many might assume, this isn’t related to football, baseball, basketball, hockey or golf. No, I’m talking about the 2017 Amgen Tour of Califoia, an event that is now ranked among the top four cycling stage rac...

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...

SACRAMENTO >> Freshman Lonzo Ball shined in his NCAA Touament debut, breaking the UCLA single-season assist record in the team’s 97-80 win over Kent State in the first round of the touament on Friday in Sacramento.Ball passed Larry Drew II for UCLA’s single-season assist record with 256 on...