sport world

LAGUNA HILLS >> Mayfair kept it close for as long as it could against Santa Margarita on Thursday night at Laguna Hills High. Eventually, the Eagles took over in the trenches and ran away for a 49-3 nonleague victory. Santa Margarita (4-0) rushed for 328 yards and six touchdowns as a team. The Eagles are ranked No. 9 in CIF Southe Section Division 1, and No. 13 in Califoia according to M...

SAN FRANCISO — Good moing. The Dodgers did not lose a game Monday. But their demons pursued them into the early-moing hours. It took until 2:11 Tuesday moing but the Dodgers’ losing streak reached 11 (the longest in Los Angeles history) thanks to an 8-6 loss to the San Francisco Giants that took more than six hours to complete. The forces of nature helped the Dodgers avoid their fate for awh...

SAN FRANCISCO >> After losing 10 games in a row and 15 of their past 16, the Dodgers arrived at AT&T Park on Monday afteoon willing to go to extremes if that’s what it took to tu things around. They would have to. The dark clouds that have followed them the past two weeks dropped rain on AT&T Park, two separate delays – one before the game even started and another after just one ...

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 aounced the move Tuesday. “It is unfortunate that things have gone in this direction,” general manager Jerry Reese said, “but we wish nothi...

The Galaxy coaching staff gained even more experience Tuesday with the official hiring of Dominic Kiear as assistant coach. Kiear, 50, has won two MLS Cups (2006 and 2007) and recorded 166 career victories, second behind current Galaxy coach Sigi Schmid and former Galaxy coach Bruce Arena. Kiear began his new assignment Tuesday. He started the season coaching the San Jose Earthquakes, but wa...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. >>The pregame was once again packed with activity as Santa Margarita’s all-stars were greeted by players from both the Pittsburgh Pirates and St. Louis Cardinals at the Little League World Series. The MLB teams were in town forSundayNight Baseball, which was played at a minor league baseball stadium in Williamsport as part of the festivities. Before getting ready for their game, the big-league players met the young ballplayers. The moment was special, but the Southeast Region champions from Greenville, North Carolina, gave Santa Margarita little to celebrate once the...

WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. >> The bond between twin brothers can become stronger than most in the dynamic of the family. A twin brother can be both a best friend and brother at the same time. They can be motivators and they can even be there in the for the most important moments. They can also give their brothers an extra wardrobe just in case. The important things in life. For Santa Margarita, the bond between twins is on full display every practice, every game. The team has the rarity of two sets of twins in Nick and Matt Haddad and Bobby and Joey Gray. “We have the humblest group of boys I’ve...

WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. >> It only took Joey Gray one swing of the bat to make his name ring throughout Little League circles at the World Series in Williamsport on Friday. A walk, a double from Drew Rutter, and another walk set the stage for Gray, who walked to the plate for a bases-loaded, first-iing at-bat against the Northwest’s Caiden Thomsen. Gray worked his way to a full count, then hit a towering shot over the right-field fence. It was the second grand slam of the Little League World Series, and it proved more than enough for Santa Margarita as Joey’s brother Bobby Gray took a no-hit...

Little League World Series 2017 Santa Margarita Little League All-Stars by the numbers: 15-0: Santa Margarita’s record, which includes sweeps in District 68, Section 10, Southe Califoia Divisional and West Regional touaments. 2: Number of sets of twins on the team, Bobby and Joey Gray and Nick and Matt Haddad 1: Number of iings in which Santa Margarita trailed through four games of the West Regional Touament 33: Total number of runs Santa Margarita scored in four games of the West Regional Touament The team Bobby Gray Age: 12 Height: 5-9 Weight: 150 pounds School: home schooled Fa...

More than half of the players on the Santa Margarita National Little League all-star team play together on a travel ball team when the Little League season is over. Assuming the Little League season would be finished by now, the travel ball team was scheduled to be competing in a touament in Coope...

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...

Huntington Beach >> There was no way around it – one of the San Clemente surfers in the water was going to be sent packing. Would it be one of the Gudauskas brothers, Taer or Pat, who are no strangers to the competitive circuit, grinding for the past decade alongside the world’s best surfers...

LOS ANGELES >> During last summer’s presidential pageant, we as Americans were promised so much wiing “you’re going to be sick and tired of wiing. You’re going to go, ‘Please, please – we can’t win anymore.’” So – are you tired of wiing yet? “Not yet,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said a...

GIANTS AT DODGERS When: Sunday, 5 p.m. Where: Dodger Stadium TV: ESPN THE PITCHERS DODGERS LHP HYUN-JIN RYU (3-6, 4.17) Vs. Giants: 4-5, 3.79 At Dodger Stadium: 13-10, 3.35 Hates to face: Hunter Pence, 11 for 25 (.440), 2 doubles Loves to face: Brandon Crawford, 3 for 16 (.188) GIANTS LHP MADISON BU...

GIANTS at DODGERS When: Friday, 7:10 p.m. Where: Dodger Stadium TV: SportsNet LA THE PITCHERS DODGERS LHP ALEX WOOD (11-1, 2.17 ERA) Vs. Giants: 1-2, 5.40 ERA At Dodger Stadium: 12-3, 2.10 ERA Hates to face: Brandon Crawford, 3 for 6 (.500), 1 double, 1 HR Loves to face: Gorkys Heandez, 0 for 9, 1...

WNBA preview: LA Sparks visit San Antonio Stars on Friday night SPARKS (15-6) at SAN ANTONIO (3-19) Tipoff: 5 p.m. TV: Spectrum SportsNet, NBA League Pass Update: Coming off a defensive battle with the Seattle Storm, the Sparks will try to get their road record above .500 against the wor...

The first steps toward putting last week’s embarrassing 6-2 loss in the rearview mirror for the Galaxy was to actually get away. After a hectic stretch of seven games in 21 days, the Galaxy stepped away from for a couple of days, retuing late in the week to begin preparation for Monday night’s 7:3...

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. ...

At this point last year, the Rams had arrived back in Los Angeles to much pomp and circumstance, as well as open arms and checkbooks wide enough to gobble up more than 70,000 season tickets. That isn’t the case this year. The Rams opened season-ticket sales to the general public at 10 a.m. Monday — ...

SANTA ANA — A friendly game between two professional Mexican soccer clubs on Sunday afteoon, June 25, tued violent when dozens of fans rushed the field and began beating each other, forcing authorities to suspend the match. The “game of legends” between former Club America and Pumas players at E...