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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 practiced as the No. 1 right guard for the past week, but knows nothing is settled when it comes to wh...

EL SEGUNDO >> As they strive to accelerate their rebuilding process without compromising their long-term assets, the Lakers have seemingly kept an open mind on every possible scenario. Most in NBA circles project the Lakers will select UCLA guard Lonzo Ball with their No. 2 pick on Thursday, b...

Interview with St. John Bosco football head coach Jason Negro at the college showcase with 50 colleges represented. Bosco will be trying to repeat as CIF Southe Section Pac-5 Division and state champions. With three months until the season begins, the team currently has 22 players with a Division 1 scholarship offer.AdvertisementLet's block ads! بخوانید...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> In the third quarter Case Keenum saw daylight, even indoors. He ran through the bad-intentioned Cardinals for 27 yards, and a first down on the Arizona eight. Hold everything. Penalty on Rams’ tackle Greg Robinson, for holding. In the fourth quarter Keenum felt the ceiling descending on him, and he took off, stutter-stepped, doubled back, kept hoofing, and lobbed a 27-yarder to Lance Kendricks that took the ball to the Arizona 12 and put a broad smile on the face of Fran Tarkenton, wherever he was watching. Hold everything. Penalty on Rams’ tackle Greg Robinson, illegal receiver downfield. “I was out of breath when I was calling the next play,” Keenum said. “I felt ...

The coaches have decided and the players have voted. The Rams have a quarterback plan for the first week. It’s not one that most thought probable a few months ago, but it’s a plan nonetheless. Case Keenum will start, as had been all but assured throughout training camp, and on Tuesday, Coach Jeff Fisher aounced that teammates voted Keenum as one of their five team captains. And not only will rookie Jared Goff not start, he likely won’t even be in uniform for Monday’s opener at San Francisco. Fisher strongly hinted last week that Sean Maion, not Goff, would be his season-opening backup quarterback. Given that NFL teams can only activate 46 players for a game, dressing three quarterbacks makes...

Da, if Case Keenum isn’t a thoughtful, intelligent and fuy guy. If you happened to stumble upon a 10-minute interview the current Rams’ No. 1 quarterback did with Fred Roggin and Leea Tweeden during the Tuesday afteoon “L.A. Today” show on KLAC-AM (570), that should have come across more than a couple of times. But if asked to measure your interest or likeability of Keenum based on what you’ve seen through the first couple episodes of HBO’s “Hard Knocks,” you may have little to no opinion at all. Leading up to Tuesday’s middle installment of the five-part series, the recurring storyline each week is some variation on: How long will it be before No. 1 overall pick and rookie Jared Goff is re...

LOS ANGELES >> The pass from Sam Daold fluttered in the late Wednesday afteoon sunshine. Daold spotted JuJu Smith-Schuster ruing untouched along the west sideline of Howard Jones Field and threw the ball downfield about 35 yards. Smith-Schuster waited, corralled it and barreled through a defensive back for a touchdown. USC’s first full-pads scrimmage of training camp started smoothly for the redshirt freshman quarterback. Not only did Daold coect with Smith-Schuster for the touchdown on his 11th pass attempt, but he completed his first eight passes after the team broke for the live 11-on-11 portion of practice. The ninth went down as an incompletion only because he spiked it to avoid a...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s power to freely punish Adrian Peterson has prevailed, two seasons after the Miesota ruing back became embroiled in a child-abuse case that heightened the dispute over league discipline. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday that an NFL arbitrator acted within his rights by upholding Goodell’s six-game suspension of Peterson in 2014. That came under the personal conduct policy the league toughened up following a brutal act of caught-on-video domestic violence committed by Baltimore ruing back Ray Rice. The 8th Circuit ruling overrode the decision issued Feb. 26, 2015, by U.S. District Judge David Doty that found NFL arbit...

IRVINE >> Now, with the Rams settled in Southe Califoia, the question can be asked: Are these guys any good? Evidence will begin presenting itself Saturday, with the first of 21 training-camp practices at UC Irvine. Most sessions are open and free to the public, so fans can opine as to whether offseason upgrades to the offense will be enough to improve a team that went 7-8-1, 7-9, 6-10 and 7-9 in its previous four seasons. That type of rigid consistency is valued in the military but not in the NFL, where it leads to firings. The contracts of Rams coach Jeff Fisher and general manager Les Snead expire after this season, so there’s pressure, and it’s amplified because the Rams want to bu...