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LOS ANGELES — Right tackle Andre James cut down two would-be Hawai’i rushers and right guard Michael Alves cleared out another as running back Nate Starks saw a rushing lane larger than almost anything the UCLA offense had produced in more than a year. The senior running back galloped through, untouched for 25 yards. With quarterback Josh Rosen and the receivers surging, UCLA’s running game is hop...

Middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin is coming off his toughest fight, a narrow victory over Daniel Jacobs in March at Madison Square Garden. It strengthened Golovkin’s legacy some, but not as much as it could have because Jacobs’ name doesn’t carry worldwide weight. Universally, Canelo Alvarez’s carries a whole lot, so that’s why Golovkin and his team are looking at Saturday’s highly anticipate...

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 >> One didn’t ea a penalty and one did, but two controversial incidents of targeting between UCLA and Hawaii last Saturday might leave the Bruins without two of their starting linebackers for this week’s game against Memphis. Senior Kenny Young, who was forced out of last Saturday’s game after getting leveled on a blindside block, will go through the concussion protocol this we...

LOS ANGELES >> Scott Quessenberry’s phone blew up with congratulatory messages after UCLA pulled off the second-biggest comeback in NCAA history on Sunday night. It took the better part of two days for the UCLA center to respond to every text and tweet. He didn’t finish until Tuesday. When he finally did, it was just in time for practice. The Bruins (1-0) are trying to move past the euphoria...

LOS ANGELES >> For months they lived together, trained together and prayed together. So it only made sense that when the Dodgers’ two teams in the Dominican Summer League played each other for the championship Sunday, they celebrated the win together. When “DSL Dodgers 2” beat “DSL Dodgers 1” in the title game, 6-4, it marked the second time in the history of the 33-year-old league that two ...

PASADENA — Former UCLA quarterback Cade McNown, former Texas coach Mack Brown and 1997 Heisman Trophy winner Charles Woodson will be among four men inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, the Touament of Roses announced. The fourth member of the hall’s Class of 2017 is the late Charles West, the first black quarterback to play in the Rose Bowl Game. McNownxa0had a record 538 yards of total offen...

Dog Haus, a Pasadena-based restaurant chain known for its gourmet hot dogs and sausages, is about to unveil a new eatery in the Rose Bowl. Dog Haus and the stadium’s management announced a multiyear partnership Wednesday, making Dog Haus the first restaurant to have a permanent location at the iconic venue. The new location by Tunnel 6 on the stadium’s east side will be up and running Sunday, just...

LOS ANGELES >> Canelo Alvarez on Monday was asked what a victory over middleweight champion Gennady Golovkin would mean to him, and to his native Mexico. Alvarez pulled no punches. “It’s very important for me, it’s very important for Mexico - for my people, for my country,” said Alvarez, who Sept. 16 will challenge Golovkin at T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas (on HBO pay-per-view). “My team and I...

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

Despite Noel Mazzone’s departure to Texas A&M, UCLA head coach Jim Mora continues to keep in touch with his former offensive coordinator. They texted regularly this spring and summer, but that communication has stopped this week. It’s game week. “As good of friends as we are, I want to kick his tail and he wants to kick mine,” Mora said Tuesday as the Bruins prepare for their season opener aga...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 28 to Sept. 3 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: COLLEGE FOOTBALL SEASON OPENERS USC vs. WESTERN MICHIGAN Details/TV: At the Coliseum, Saturday at 2:15 p.m., Pac-12 Network UCLA vs. TEXAS A&M Details/TV: At the Rose Bowl, Sunday at 4:30 p.m., Channel 11 Admire Sam Daold while he’s still in got some Coliseum eligibility and a Heisman campaign. Also keep in mi...

ANAHEIM >> Needing a victory to salvage a split against a division rival, the Angels came up frustratingly empty on Thursday night. The Angels were shut down by Martin Perez for seven innings in a 3-0 loss to the Texas Rangers, despite having a steady flow of traffic on the bases against him. In four of Perez’s innings, the Angels had a leadoff hit. In the third, they started the inning with...

Apparently, Jim Mora had seen enough. The head coach abruptly ended UCLA’s training camp early Sunday when he cancelled the team’s final practice. His players celebrated wildly in the team room upon hearing the news that they would finally receive a night off after 17 practices in 18 days. Here are five things we leaed in those 17 training camp practices with UCLA less than two weeks away from its season opener against Texas A&M on Sept. 3. Josh Rosen is at home in Jedd Fisch’s offense When ...

Ranking the top 10 sports events Aug. 21-27 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: BOXING: FLOYD MAYWEATHER JR. vs. CONOR McGREGOR Details/TV: At T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas, Saturday, 6 p.m., pay-per-view (suggested price: $99.95) It’s the latest piece of non-circumstantial evidence that sports has eclipsed sanity, with or without a special pair of $100 glasses to watch it sear our retinas. All the time, space, ink, verbiage, video, expectations and deviations dedicated to this Battlestar Galactica pre...

LOS ANGELES >>xa0When UCLA opened its training camp on Aug. 2, a picturesque sunset tinted the sky over Wasserman Football Center pink and purple. Admiring the view from afar, former UCLA receiver Jordan Payton, who is currently in his second NFL training camp with the Cleveland Browns, perhaps felt a small tinge of jealousy. “@UCLAFootball spoiled now,” the school’s all-time leader in receptions tweeted. “I still remember San Beardino.” Not only did the Bruins not have to spend training c...

LOS ANGELES >> A text from UCLA offensive line coach Hank Fraley flashed across Michael Alves’ phone screen. “You’re going with the ones tomorrow,” it read. Instead of being excited about his promotion from second-string guard to the first group, Alves was conceed. “Is someone injured or something?” the redshirt freshman recalls thinking after hearing of the change. But it wasn’t an injury that shook up UCLA’s once-solid No. 1 offensive line. It was Alves’ consistent improvement. He’s prac...

OAKLAND >> Coach Sean McVay is a quarterbacks guru who loves tight-end mismatches and now gets to plan with receiver Sammy Watkins. But don’t forget the Rams’ running backs. McVay should not. The Rams have Todd Gurley, who underachieved badly in 2016 but seems poised for a bounce-back season after a strong training camp. McVay, the Rams’ rookie coach and their play-caller, might be tempted to throw the ball a lot, but his recent history suggests that the ground game works. McVay’s second p...

A brief look at UCLA’s training camp practice at Spaulding Field: Everyone wins Instead only the winning side run at the end of the team competition, both the offense and defense took a celebratory lap after the final team period. The No. 1 offense scored a touchdown against the No. 2 defense with quarterback Josh Rosen connecting with receiver Darren Andrews from 10 yards out. The No. 2 offense went backward for the majority of its drive, thanks to a false start, delay of game and sack from Jac...

LOS ANGELES >>xa0The pass rush is bearing down. Josh Rosen’s blue eyes glance at it. He steps up in the pocket and zips the ball through what seems like an impossibly small window. Somehow it misses a tangle of hands from defensive backs and lands in the waiting arms of a receiver at the back of the end zone. Rosen pumps his fist. The real Rosen is back. Although he’s been throwing for months since his season-ending shoulder surgery, the junior quarterback said Tuesday that he’s finally fe...