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The Lakers appear set to retire Kobe Bryant’s jersey on Dec. 18, less than two years after he last doed it in a dazzling and dramatic 60-point sendoff. The only question will be which number hangs from the rafters: No. 8? No. 24? TMZ reported early Tuesday moing that the Lakers had informed season-ticket holders to “hold on to tickets” for the Dec. 18 game against Golden State for a “special e...

LOS ANGELES — A key step in the selection of an Olympic host city is the Inteational Olympic Committee evaluation commission’s tour of candidate cities. These visits give IOC officials the chance to tour proposed venues and Olympic Village sites, ride subway lines and gauge the interest of the community in hosting the Games and then report back to the rest of the IOC’s 94 members prior to the ho...

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles City Council voted unanimously to authorize Mayor Eric Garcetti to sign a Host City Contract with the Inteational Olympic Committee in which the city agrees to host the 2028 Olympic Games and guarantees that it will cover any potential financial shortfall from those G...

EAST MEADOW, N.Y. >> Ryan Lochte set a meet record with a time of 1:59.24 in the finals of the men’s 200 meter individual medley Sunday at the U.S. Open. Lochte bested the previous mark of 1:59.26 set by Michael Phelps on Nov. 30, 2006. Xavier Mohammed finished second in 2:00.47, and Sam Stewa...

Los Angeles’ agreement to host the 2028 Olympic Games could bring the focus and urgency needed to house thousands of people who live on the city’s streets, but only if local leaders treat homelessness like an emergency, said one downtown social service provider. Rev. Andy Bales, CEO of the Union Res...

It was an ill wind that blew San Pedro’s big chance at hosting an Olympics event right out of reach — all the way into cross-harbor tourism rival Long Beach. Two years ago, news that San Pedro’s waterfront was picked as the potential L.A. Olympics sailing venue was hailed by locals who have long tri...

LOS ANGELES >> Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Friday he is optimistic the city can reach an agreement with the Inteational Olympic Committee next week that will result in Southe Califoia hosting a third Olympic Games. While Los Angeles officials have spoken to the IOC about hosting...

INGLEWOOD >> At 18 he has already found the secret to boxing longevity. Don’t box much. Ryan Garcia’s career looks like Noah’s Ark. He had won his five previous fights in two, two, two, two and two rounds. He trained hard for this one Saturday night at The Forum, as he ran five hours a day in ...

Inteational Olympic Committee officials on Wednesday confirmed that discussions have begun between the IOC and Los Angeles and Paris officials that are expected to result in Southe Califoia hosting the 2028 Games. IOC, Los Angeles and Paris officials had informal talks over a celebratory die...

Olympic events will retu to Long Beach for the third time after the Inteational Olympic Committee aounced Tuesday that either the 2024 or 2028 Olympic Games will be awarded to Los Angeles or Paris later this year. Although the IOC is not scheduled to select the 2024 host city until Sept. 13 in...

Los Angeles will play host to the Olympics in either 2024 or 2028. This is going right over the heads of us who can’t retu their library books on time. Michael Nelson Trout will be 33 years old in 2024. Tiger Woods will tu 53 in 2028. By then Califoia might have seceded, the Daytona 500 might ...

At9 a.m.Central European Summer Time on Tuesday(midnight PDT), Los Angeles officials will formally present to the Inteational Olympic Committee their vision for hosting a third Olympic Games. “An opportunity to tell our story in a unique and creative and iovative way,” said Los Angeles 2024 b...

LOS ANGELES >> Los Angeles and Paris, two cities with bold visions for hosting the 2024 Olympic Games as distinct as their iconic landscapes, could positively impact the Olympic movement for decades, according to a report released by the Inteational Olympic Committee evaluation commission We...

LAS VEGAS >> Perhaps in other years with other finalists, Ducks center Ryan Kesler might have taken home his second Frank J. Selke Trophy as the NHL’s top defensive forward. But when it came to the voting from the Professional Hockey Writers’ Assocation, there was no dislodging Boston’s Patric...

Long Beach State was awarded the 2016-17 Big West Conference Commissioner’s Cup, it was aounced Thursday. The award is given to the school with the best athletics program, encompassing all 17 sports. The 49ers have won the award in six of the last seven years, and seven of the last nine. The 49ers averaged 116.7 points with UC Santa Barbara in second and Cal Poly third. Long Beach State had only one conference championship (baseball) in 2016-17, but it had nine sports that finished in the top three. Advertisement ...

ANAHEIM>> The Edmonton Oilers have a serious matchup problem in their second-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Ducks. It’s the same one the Calgary Flames had against the Ducks in the first round, which ended in a four-game sweep.The...

Gov. Jerry Brown signed legislation Thursday that provides Los Angeles’ bid for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games a state-funded $250 million guarantee against cost overruns. Brown’s signing of SB 1465 into law was viewed as critical in the eyes of the Inteational Olympic Committee if Los Angeles’ bid to host a third Olympic Games was to remain viable. The move comes a week before Los Angeles 2024, the local organizing committee, has to submit Stage II bid documents regarding goveance, legislation and venue funding. “The state’s financial support underscores the united support behind bringing the Games back to LA, but also confidence in our city’s ability to host a fiscally responsible ...

“Peacock should not be proud of coverage” — Headline from Aug. 14, 1992, Daily News sports media column. Plenty of news becomes reshaped and reformatted in today’s 24-hour news cycle. But in a 24-year cycle of NBC Olympic production, much of it doesn’t. The first sports media column I was asked to do when arriving at the Daily News had to do with analysis of NBC’s production of the 1992 Summer Games. “Could NBC really be happy with the job it did in Barcelona?” I asked. “Of course. It achieved what it set out to do: Rack up ratings, make good on its promises to advertisers.” That week, the network boasted a 17.5 prime-time rating and 34 share. Ad people were stoked (if that was the right wo...

Flanked by his wife and two daughters, Kobe Bryant gried wide Wednesday as the Los Angeles City Council declared Aug. 24 as Kobe Bryant Day. Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is pregnant with the couple’s third daughter and the retired Lakers superstar told his other two girls, Natalia and Giaa, they would need to help explain to their sister why Bryant had a day named in his honor. • PHOTOS: City of LA celebrates Kobe Bryant Day in council chambers “She’s going to have no idea that I was actually an OK basketball player,” he joked. Bryant retired from the Lakers in April, after 20 seasons, five championships and rising to No. 3 on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Aug. 24 — 8/24, representing both je...

Four months after the final buzzer sounded on his playing career, Kobe Bryant rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday and aounced a foray into the world of investing. Bryant and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel aounced a $100 million fund that will support companies at the “convergence of technology, media and data,” Stibel said on CNBC Monday moing. The Bryant Stibel Investment Portfolio has already invested in 13 ventures, including The Players’ Tribune, video game company Scopely and Legal Zoom. Stipel is the former president of Web.com. Sporting a beard and a sharp blue suit on the floor of the NYSE, Bryant said he and Stibel have been quietly working on putting together ...