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LOS ANGELES — As Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti and Los Angeles 2028 chairman Casey Wasserman stood on the edge of a tarmac at Los Angeles Inteational Airport, a long flight from Lima, Peru and an improbable victory behind them, the sun was setting on what is once again an Olympic city. In a sense, the Olympic Games were retuing home as wellxa0Thursdayxa0evening. A day earlier the Inteational O...

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — The New York Giants have waived third-year defensive end Owa Odighizuwa a day after the NFL suspended him for the first four games of the regular season for violating the league’s policy on performance-enhancing substances. The Giants announced the move Tuesday. “It is unfortunate that things have gone in this direction,” general manager Jerry Reese said, “but we wish nothi...

ANAHEIM >> Every baseball game is a like a nine-inning math problem, with a string of positives and negatives that all add up at the end to either a win or a loss. Some games are simple, with one or two performances so glaring that they overshadow everything else. And some games are like the Angels’ 7-5, 10-inning loss to the Texas Rangers on Wednesday night, one that left players in the los...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> In a made-for-cable sports TV showdown perhaps worthy of a DVR replay someday, Collin Morikawa co-starred in a Round of 16 match play performance against Chun-An Yu that seemed to show almost every quirky angle and accident aspect of Riviera Country Club in one organic swatch. If not for an exchange of equal-opportunity mistakes at every tu, they could still be playing in prime time. Eventually, Yu, an 18-year-old incoming sophomore at Arizona State out of Taiwan, outl...

Every time Chris Hibbs flies into LAX, before landing he’ll peek out his window a minute or two to peruse the 300 acres in Inglewood sitting across the street from the Forum. Invariably, a bit of a jolt will overcome him. It represents the daily progress being made on the $2.6 billion sports and ent...

LOS ANGELES >> Vasyl Lomachenko has established himself as one of the top pound-for-pound fighters in the world, and he has big plans for himself. “I want to be in the history book of boxing,” he says. Lomachenko on Saturday entered his junior lightweight title defense against Miguel Marriaga ...

If Eclipse Award voters had to cast their ballots today for the top 3-year-old male of 2017, it would be like trying to find a needle in a haystack. Luckily, we still have the mid-summer classics and Breeders’ Cup to help sort out this jumbled mess. We had three different winners in the Triple Crown...

After Santa Anita was plagued by a shortage of entries during its spring-summer meet when running only four days per week, it could be assumed Del Mar might encounter similar problems with its traditional five-day race weeks. But Tom Robbins, a veteran racing official who serves as Del Mar’s directo...

PHILADELPHIA >> Omar Gonzalez had just left the Galaxy to join Mexico’s Pachuca when his new club’s chairman had a request: Would the 6-foot-5 defender walk into his introductory news conference dressed as Darth Vader? Of course, he obliged. Ever since, he has become a defensive force. “I had ...

INGLEWOOD — Except for doing something no one else has — knock out Beard Hopkins — Joe Smith Jr. hasn’t done a da thing. Perhaps that’s why he wasn’t all smiles and blowing kisses to the world Thursday at the Forum in Inglewood. Smith was among those hosting a news conference promoting Saturday’...

On May 13, Aric Almirola was involved in a high-speed crash at Kansas Speedway. At first, the three-car accident looked just like any other NASCAR Monster Energy Cup Series incident. However, it soon became apparent it wasn’t just another wreck. The race was red-flagged as safety crews cut the roof ...

Floyd Mayweather’s boxing match against Conor McGregor will be held at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas after promoters reached an agreement with Ice Cube to move the championship game of his Big3 basketball league. The final game of the 3-on-3 season of former NBA players will now be held at the MGM Gra...

VITTEL, France >> Mark Cavendish has been forced out of the Tour de France after suffering a fractured shoulder blade in a serious crash caused by world champion Peter Sagan, who was disqualified from cycling’s showcase event. Hours after Tuesday’s crash in a chaotic sprint finish to Stage 4, ...

ANAHEIM >> At one point on Thursday night, the field at Angel Stadium mirrored the stands. Red and blue, all mixed together, emotions overflowing in the heat of the moment. It all started in the eighth inning, after Angels’ third baseman Yunel Escobar was hit by a pitch from the Dodgers’ Brand...

CALABASAS >> When Long Beach Poly and Oregon product Jordan Bell had his pro day workout with the Golden State Warriors, one of the people who popped in was the team’s owner, Joseph Lacob. Although the Warriors didn’t have a pick in this year’s NBA Draft, Lacob told Bell they were planning on ...

PLAYA VISTA >> Hall of Famer Jerry West officially joined the Clippers on Friday, and the man who spent four decades with the Lakers, called his job as a consultant with the other team in Los Angeles “the last adventure of my life.” Wearing a trim blue suit, the 79-year-old West said he never ...

SANTA ANITA LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Flavien Prat / 31 Rafael Bejarano / 29 Joe Talamo / 29 Evin Roman / 24 Tyler Baze / 16 Tiago Pereira / 16 TRAINERS / WINS Peter Miller / 27 Richard Baltas / 23 Philip D’Amato / 19 Bob Baffert / 12 Steven Miyadi / 12 STAKES SCHEDULE SANTA ANITA Satu...

LOS ANGELES >> The ink has dried on the five-year, $80 million contract Kenley Jansen signed with the Dodgers last December after flirting — and nearly going home — with the Washington Nationals and Miami Marlins. But a deal like that can change a player. “Guys go one of two ways,” Dodgers man...

SHERMAN OAKS >> Former Los Angeles Laker and ex-New York Knicks head coach Derek Fisher was arrested on suspicion of drunken driving after his vehicle overtued today on the 101 Freeway. His lone passenger, former “Basketball Wives” reality star Gloria Govan, escaped injury. The crash was a l...

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...