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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...

Las Vegas Summer League did not just provide a platform for Lonzo Ball to show early retus on his NBA potential. It also gave Alex Caruso a setting to convince the Lakers to keep him. The Lakers and Caruso agreed to a two-year deal on a two-way contract, a new mechanism that allows NBA teams and t...

The Ducks signed forward Deis Rasmussen to a one-year contract worth $725,000 on Friday. Rasmussen, 27, spent his first two NHL seasons with Chicago after playing with the Blackhawks’ American Hockey League team in 2014-15 following three seasons playing professionally in his native Sweden. Rasmus...

LOS ANGELES >> Adrian Gonzalez has been dealing with back pain on and off since 2012 – more frequently on than off over the past two years. He is not willing to put up with it much longer. The Dodgers’ veteran first baseman said he went to the DL for the first time in his 14-year career last m...

EL SEGUNDO >> Teddy Purcell was here once before. It was six years ago, but it seems as if it was only yesterday. The Kings’ training facility is the same now, but different. Many of the faces are familiar, making his homecoming all the more comfortable, the transition to a new team far easier. “The weight room has a retractable roof now,” Purcell said Saturday after the first of two practice sessions at the Kings’ workout facility. “It’s almost fuy when you hear about it, especially when you come from Edmonton and your car doesn’t start when you leave the rink.” No sub-zero temperatures are in the forecast in Southe Califoia, where summer seems endless. “I bought a beach cruiser,” Pu...

DENVER >> The Rams have signed receiver Tavon Austin to a four-year contract extension worth $42 million, the team confirmed Saturday, shortly before the Rams’ preseason game against the Denver Broncos. In May, the Rams had picked up the fifth-year option on Austin’s rookie contract, which kept him under contract through the 2017 season. Now, Austin will be with the Rams through at least 2021. The new contract includes $30 million in guaranteed money. Austin, 25, was a first-round draft pick (No. 8 overall) out of West Virginia by the Rams in 2013. He is considered the team’s primary big-play threat, both as a receiver and on frequent ruing plays, and is also the Rams’ primary punt ret...

The High Desert Mavericks and Bakersfield Blaze will be contracted from the Califoia League today, the Southe Califoia News Group has leaed. According to a report Sunday on the website todaysknuckleball.com, the league will not seek to replace the two franchises. That would leave the Cal League with eight teams — including the advanced Single-A affiliates of the Dodgers (Rancho Cucamonga Quakes) and Angels (Inland Empire 66ers) — for the first time since 1978. The aouncement comes as little surprise. Earlier this month the Blaze and the Mavericks, who have played in Adelanto since 1991, did not have their affiliation contracts renewed by the Seattle Mariners and Texas Rangers, respectively. ...

Trumaine Johnson’s first season in Los Angeles also might be his last. The Rams failed to reach agreement with Johnson, their top coerback, on a long-term contract extension, so on Friday afteoon, the team officially applied its franchise-player tag to Johnson for the 2016 season. Johnson will receive a guaranteed salary of $13.95 million this season, but if he fails to sign a new contract with the Rams by next March, he will become a free agent. Friday marked the deadline for teams to reach agreement on a contract and avoid having to use the franchise tag on a player. At one point, the Rams hoped to sign both of last year’s starting coerbacks, Johnson and Janoris Jenkins, to long-term exte...

INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck has signed the richest contract in NFL history, a deal worth up to $140 million with the Indianapolis Colts that covers the next six seasons through 2021. Colts owner Jim Irsay revealed the contract’s maximum value on Wednesday for Luck, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft who missed nine games last year because of injuries to his shoulder, ribs and kidney. Irsay said Luck would be guaranteed $47 million if the Colts were to cut him before the season. “Obviously a ridiculous hypothetical,” Irsay said. According to NFL.com, the life of Luck’s contract includes $87 million guaranteed for injury. There are many different ways to determine a deal’s value, but Luck’s has ...

INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew Luck has signed the richest contract in NFL history, a deal worth up to $140 million with the Indianapolis Colts that covers the next six seasons through 2021. Colts owner Jim Irsay revealed the contract’s maximum value on Wednesday for Luck, the No. 1 pick in the 2012 draft who missed nine games last year because of injuries to his shoulder, ribs and kidney. Irsay said Luck would be guaranteed $47 million if the Colts were to cut him before the season. “Obviously a ridiculous hypothetical,” Irsay said. According to NFL.com, the life of Luck’s contract includes $87 million guaranteed for injury. There are many different ways to determine a deal’s value, but Luck’s has ...