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Long Beach State Athletics Director Andy Fee aounced Monday that Dirtbags head coach Troy Buckley signed a contract extension through the 2022 season. The extension includes four additional years, increased base salary and supplemental compensation based on success on and off the field. “I am very grateful and appreciative of this opportunity to continue to lead this historic program going forwa...

Willie Reed, a backup center who signed a one-season, $1.5-million contract with the Clippers last week, was arrested early Sunday moing in Miami on a misdemeanor battery charge stemming from a domestic violence incident, according to multiple reports. Reed was arrested at a downtown Miami condo, ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. >> Tim Raines played in the major leagues for more than two decades, and yet one at-bat still sticks in his mind. Nervous about making the Montreal Expos’ roster after two brief call-ups that didn’t work out so well (one hit in 20 at-bats), his performance on opening day 1981...

Patrick Rodgers shot a 7-under 64 on Friday to take a two-shot lead after the second round of the PGA Tour’s John Deere Classic in Silvis, Ill. Rodgers had eight birdies and a bogey to finish at 13-under 129 at TPC Deere Run. Finishing on the front nine, he had five birdies in a seven-hole stretch b...

Brief as it may have been, the Patrick Marleau sweepstakes is over and it was the Toronto Maple Leafs and not the Ducks who had the wiing numbers for that lottery. Marleau made his decision Sunday and the 500-goal scorer chose the Maple Leafs’ three-year bid worth $18.75 million over offers made b...

In two short months, Patrick Eaves saw all that he needed to feel at home with the Ducks, and they saw enough from him to decide on his future with them. The Ducks agreed to terms with Eaves on a three-year contract extension Friday night after the veteran winger made an instant impact by scoring 11...

LONG BEACH >> They could switch uniforms in the middle of these games, and only their parents and coaches would know. Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton grew their baseball programs from the same soil. They studied the same catechism. Today they begin a best-of-three series for a trip to...

LONG BEACH >> There won’t be many surprises this weekend at Blair Field where the Long Beach State baseball team is hosting Cal State Fullerton in the NCAA Super Regional. Familiarity has been breeding contempt and similar styles for the Big West Conference rivals since they started playing ea...

LONG BEACH >> The NCAA Regional baseball game at Blair Field on Saturday night was decided by a matter of inches. Impressive defensive plays from Texas robbed the Long Beach State Dirtbags of two possible game-wiing hits in the late iings and the Longhos came back to win 5-3 in 12 iing...

LONG BEACH >> While Long Beach State took advantage of Texas mistakes in the NCAA Regional game on Saturday night at Blair Field, the visiting Longhos used three solo home runs to pull even with the Dirtbags. The score was tied 3-3 after nine iing at deadline. Please visit PressTelegram.co...

LONG BEACH >> Pitcher Dave Smith and outfielder Lucas Tancas had uncertain futures with Long Beach State baseball a year ago. Tancas was recovering from serious injury while Smith was mired in the Tuesday night starting job. On Friday night, Smith and Tancas led the Dirtbags to their first NCA...

The Long Beach State Dirtbags (10-8) beat host Pepperdine and Grand Canyon on Saturday in nonconference play at Eddy D. Field Stadium in Malibu to extend their wiing streak to four games. LBSU allowed just one run in each game while holding their opponents to a combined seven hits.The Dirtbags edg...

ARCADIA — Trainer Jerry Hollendorfer’s assistant, Dan Ward, echoed jockey Mike Smith’s sentiments about Songbird drawing the rail for Friday’s $2 million Breeders’ Cup Distaff at Santa Anita. Songbird, the 6-5 moing-line favorite, brings an 11-0 record into the 1 1/8-mile race. She’s 7-0 this year and has won four Grade I stakes in three states. “It’s really not a conce,” Ward said. “She’s drawn the rail three times in the past and you know the result. This is going to be a very tough race, so I look at it as us having the shortest distance home.” Songbird’s three races when starting from the rail? All three resulted in gate-to-wire victories. She won by 6 1/2 lengths in her career debut in...

For the eighth consecutive season, Long Beach State had the most former players in Major League Baseball of any other college or university. However, the 13 Dirtbags in the MLB experienced mixed results this year. Dirtbag pitching legend Jered Weaver and the Los Angeles Angles had one of their worst seasons in years. While the Angles wallow in last place in the American League West, Weaver’s ERA of 5.17 is by far the highest of his career, and his 12 losses match a career high. This statistical drop off was a long time coming as Weaver, 33, struggled with arm injuries and a resulting loss of velocity. However, the veteran right-hander has found success by becoming more of a location pitcher....

FARMINGDALE, N.Y. >> Patrick Reed picked up two victories in one day. He won The Barclays to assure himself a clear shot at the $10 million bonus in the FedEx Cup, and he easily secured a spot on his second straight U.S. Ryder Cup team. Rickie Fowler, with a surprising meltdown, walked away empty from Bethpage Black. Reed overcame an early two-shot deficit and built a big enough lead on the back nine that some nervous shots and sloppy play didn’t keep him from wiing for the first time since the 2015 opener at Kapalua. A bogey on the final hole gave him a 1-under 70 and a one-shot victory over Sean O’Hair and Emiliano Grillo. “It’s just been great to finally be able to close one off,” ...

David Gazzolo of Riverside joined Phil Reedy of Henderson, Nevada tied atop the leaderboard of the 2016 Long Beach Open on Friday. The second rounds were played at El Dorado Golf Course and Skylinks Golf Course. Gazzolo jumped six spots with an 8-under-par 64 to move to 14-under after two rounds. Reedy shot 66 after an 8-under round on Thursday after finishing the first round tied for first. Zane Thomas of Las Vegas is one shot back after a 66 Friday. Blake Schmitt of Palm Desert jumped 105 spots to ninth after an impressive 10-under-par 62 on Friday. American Golf has guaranteed this year’s purse at $170,000, and it’s part of the aual Long Beach Golf Festival. The top 60 golfers will play ...

LAS VEGAS —— Wednesday night, MMA manager Ed Soares was lying on his couch in his Las Vegas hotel room. News broke that Jon Jones’ potential anti-doping violation had derailed the light heavyweight title fight with champion Daniel Cormier. UFC 200 was suddenly without a main event. And Cormier, after months of training, was without a fight. Soares called Glover Teixeira, his third-ranked light heavyweight, about filling in on short notice. Teixeira said he couldn’t make the 205-pound weight limit. Soares figured he had tried. It was worth a shot. Then he got a text message from one of his other fighters — MMA legend and former middleweight champion Anderson Silva. “I’ll fight,” it read. Twe...

PLAYA VISTA >> The closest UNLV’s Patrick McCaw has gotten to NBA players was two summers ago when the Clippers spent a portion of their fall camp on his college campus. “I said ‘What’s up?’ to DeAndre (Jordan) and Blake (Griffin) in the weight room. But that’s pretty much it,” said McCaw, a star guard for the Rebels. “These are the guys you do crazy stuff with on (NBA) 2K (video game) and to run alongside them or play against them, it’s just hard to believe.” Harder still could be landing that coveted spot in the NBA draft. McCaw, along with UNLV teammate Stephen Zimmerman and 10 other hopefuls worked out for the Clippers on Monday in an effort to impress coaches and scouts in the rem...