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CARSON >>The bus ride was worth it. Gabriel Gonzalez had arrived in town a day earlier, after a 12 1/2-hour trip from Ciudad Juárez. The 50-year-old had been a Chargers fan for more than three decades — the obsession taking root when, as a teenager, he watched them pull off the thriller later...

CARSON >> The Chargers lost their preseason opener. They may have also lost their starting middle linebacker. A 48-17 loss to the Seahawks isn’t an ideal way to open their first year at StubHub Center, but the line between exhibition performances and playoff berths rarely runs a direct course....

LOS ANGELES >> Mikaela Mayer of Los Angeles realized a dream when she competed for Team USA in the 2016 Rio Games. On Saturday, it was time for her to take her talents to the pro ranks. It didn’t take long for Mayer to make her debut successful as she pounded Widnelly Figueroa with a barrage o...

ANAHEIM >> Jon Jones is back to claim what he never lost. Jones, in his first appearance since April 23, 2016, won back his UFC light heavyweight title with a third-round TKO stoppage of Daniel Cormier at Honda Center. After a back and forth opening two rounds, Jones started his path to victor...

Cris Cyborg finally completed a remarkable career metamorphosis. Tyron Woodley continued to hold on to his title amid the displeasure of some. Yet UFC 214 was all about Jon Jones on Saturday night at Honda Center. Here are our next-day thoughts after an epic night led by the greatest fighter in UFC ...

ANAHEIM >> Only one undefeated fighter remains in the top 10 of the UFC’s featherweight division, and Brian Ortega made sure it wasn’t Renato Moicano. After two competitive rounds spent almost entirely on their feet, No. 8 Ortega tued a takedown attempt from No. 9 Moicano into a guillotine c...

With his Hollywood good looks, Brian Ortega delivered a dramatic performance Friday moing. And it almost cost him his hair. With one minute to spare, Ortega made the featherweight limit of 146 pounds at the UFC 214 weigh-ins at Sheraton Cerritos, one day before taking on Renato Moicano at UFC 145 ...

Kailin Curran joins Lomita featherweight Brian Ortega as the only true locals on the UFC 214 card. Curran, 26, faces Alexandra Albu in a strawweight bout in the featured early prelims fight on UFC Fight Pass. From Ewa Beach, Hawaii, Curran has been living and training in Orange County for the past f...

Outside of its lightweight champion fitting himself with bigger gloves and longer odds and stepping into a boxing ring next month, the UFC is bringing its hottest fight to Anaheim. The light heavyweight championship rematch between Daniel Cormier and Jon Jones is the biggest fight of the year, and U...

The UFC has confirmed Cris ‘Cyborg’ Justino and Megan Anderson will fight for the recently vacated women’s featherweight championship at UFC 214 after champion Germaine de Randamie was stripped of her title. De Randamie, who won the inaugural 145-pound champ with a narrow decision over Holly Holm in...

Holloway stops Aldo in 3rd, wins UFC featherweight belt Max Holloway, of the United States, wears a champion’s belt after defeating Jose Aldo, of Brazil, during their UFC featherweight mixed martial arts bout in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, early Sunday, June 4, 2017. (AP Photo/Leo Correa) ...

LOS ANGELES >> There were only a handful of seconds remaining in a scoreless first period when Ducks center Ryan Kesler drifted into the left circle to battle Kings counterpart Nic Down for a faceoff in the attacking zone Tuesday at Staples Center. Ducks coach Randy Carlyle substituted Rickard Rakell for Andrew Cogliano just before the puck was dropped, stationing him just to Kesler’s left. Kesler, a wily veteran, tied up Dowd, a first-year player, at the drop of the puck and kicked it behind him to a hard-charging Rakell. With a flick of his wrists, Rakell snapped the puck through the legs of first Kings defenseman Jake Muzzin and then goaltender Peter Budaj for a goal in his season ...

TORRANCE — UFC 204 is being billed as Bisping vs. Henderson 2, but the middleweight champion says don’t call it a rematch. Michael Bisping is well aware what happened the first time he tangled with Dan Henderson. In his mind, their main event and his first title defense Oct. 8 in his hometown of Manchester, England, is night and day from what occurred at UFC 100. Seven years ago, Henderson famously flattened Bisping with one of his vaunted H-bomb rights in one of MMA’s most spectacular one-punch knockouts. Today, the 37-year-old wier of Season 3 of “The Ultimate Fighter” claims Henderson was on steroids, though it’s not accurate. Henderson was one of several UFC fighters who had received an...

CLEVELAND >> CM Punk could have used a folding chair or a tag-team partner. Out of pro wrestling’s scripted ring, his first trip into the octagon didn’t last long. Punk, who was one of WWE’s biggest stars when he left it two years ago to try his hand in ultimate fighting, tapped out just 2:14 into the first round after he was pummeled and choked by Mickey Gall on the UFC 203 undercard Saturday night. The 38-year-old Punk was on his back less than 10 seconds into the fight. Pied up against the octagon’s cage, he was unable to get out from under Gall, who landed numerous blows to both sides of Punk’s head. Looking confident and mugging for the sellout crowd, Punk, whose debut had been d...

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LOS ANGELES >> Amazon Prime offers same-day delivery. The Dodgers had to be more patient. Twenty-three days after they traded three well-regarded prospects to the Oakland A’s for outfielder Josh Reddick and someone suited to fill the void at the front of their starting rotation, Rich Hill finally made his debut for the Dodgers. There was no buyer’s remorse. Hill looked like the top-tier starter the Dodgers thought they were getting – and have sorely lacked since Clayton Kershaw went to the DL. He pitched six scoreless iings Wednesday night as the Dodgers won, 1-0. “I’m not surprised. That’s Rich,” Reddick said. “I’ve seen it all year. “It just shows what a competitor he is. He hasn’t ...

LAS VEGAS >> UFC 202 didn’t feature any title fights, but it offered several compelling matchups and scintillating performances. And while no belts were on the line Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, championship ramifications were all over the card. Here’s a look at what happened and what could happen as it pertains to UFC gold: Conor McGregor Can we just call his welterweight rematch against Nate Diaz a fight for the People’s Championship? Each fighter has his rabid fans, yet both delivered efforts that could be applauded by any MMA fan. (And by the way ... the UFC roster should regard McGregor as THEIR champion, seeing how McGregor was reportedly paid a UFC record $3 million and Diaz rake...

LAS VEGAS >> The time for the trash-talking and bottle-chucking is thankfully over. Bring on the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The heated rivals will step back into the Octagon in the UFC 202 main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, more than five months after their epic welterweight clash at UFC 196. In March, Diaz famously stepped up on 11 days’ notice after a broken foot forced then-lightweight champion Rafael Dos Anjos out of his bout with McGregor, who was looking to become the first fighter to hold two UFC belts at the same time. McGregor and Diaz agreed to fight at 170 pounds — 25 pounds greater than the division McGregor reigns...

LAS VEGAS >> The UFC’s next big thing is ready for approach — and his landing could come at UFC 202. Cody Garbrandt, a rising star out of Sacramento’s Team Alpha Male, is in an ideal spot Saturday when he takes on Japanese veteran Takeya Mizugaki in the featured bout on the UFC 202 prelims card on Fox Sports 1. Nicknamed “No Love,” Garbrandt is about as recognizable as they come: handsome and typically sharply dressed, with countless tattoos covering most of his body, including his neck where it meets his trim beard. He’s also the eighth-ranked bantamweight in the UFC, sporting a spotless 9-0 record. And he just tued 25 last month. “Cody’s looking great. It’s fight week. That’s when h...

LAS VEGAS — Nate Diaz and Conor McGregor really don’t like each other. Or apparently press conferences for that matter. Just five months after their press conference for UFC 196 broke into a wild melee, the pair and their camps hurled insults, profanities and drinks at each other Wednesday at the UFC 202 press conference at the David Copperfield Theatre at the MGM Grand. Diaz and McGregor are the main event Saturday in a welterweight rematch of their scintillating March showdown, shockingly won by Diaz via a second-round rear-naked choke. McGregor arrived nearly 25 minutes late to the presser Tuesday, which also featured UFC President Dana White and light heavyweights Anthony Johnson and Gl...