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LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles’ celebration of landing the 2028 Olympic Games next week will include Inteational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. Bach will light the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s Olympic cauldron during the Rams-Washington game Sept. 17, the Southe Califoia News Group has leaed. Bach’s two-day visit to Southe Califoia will come four days after the IOC in Lima, Per...

LONG BEACH >> As the Long Beach crowd chanted “USA” on championship point of the Long Beach Presidents Cup at the World Series of Beach Volleyball, Brazil’s duo of Larissa and Talita defeated the USA duo of Lauren Fendrick and April Ross for the gold medal on Saturday afteoon. “The crowd mad...

The Long Beach City College duo of Sarah Miller and Paige Panter won the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference beach volleyball championship at Granada Beach on Friday. Miller and Panter defeated Kiaa Niu and Brittany Mitchell of Palomar 22-20, 21-15 in windy conditions.“I didn’t put any expectations on these girls for the first year,” LBCC coach Misty May-Treanor said. “We started to make goals tow...

Eric Gomez laughed when recalling his first fight-night duties at Golden Boy Promotions. “One of my jobs was unfolding the chairs,” he said. “Putting the chairs on the floor, putting the little stickers with the numbers on the chairs, picking up the managers, picking up the fighters from the airport, renting the van. I’d do the travel, I used to do the hotel reservations, I used to do the medical certifiers, I used to do the licensing.” That was 2002, the year Golden Boy opened its doors. Fourteen years later, on Sept. 7, Gomez was promoted to president of the company owned by childhood friend and Hall of Fame fighter Oscar De La Hoya. Gomez on Thursday spoke in prideful tones about his mov...

LONG BEACH >> The question for the Wilson Bruins football program before this season started was how to replace dynamic playmaker Josh Wise. Through two games and two convincing victories, they have their answer: Jacobi Hardy and Semaj Parker. The Bruins’ dynamic duo has combined for 628 of the 945 all-purpose yards gained by Wilson (2-0) this season, and has scored five of the eight touchdowns. “They’re impact players and special kids,” Wilson head coach Mark Ziegenhagen said of Hardy and Parker. Ziegenhagen took over at Wilson last year and tued the program around, going from 3-7 to 9-2 and wiing a Moore League title for the first time since 1991. The Bruins are currently ranked No. ...