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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 prac...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> Pete Carroll accomplished many things at USC and one of them was owning November with a 28-1 record. If USC coach Clay Helton wants to tu this season into something more than quarterback Sam Daold’s fantastic freshman season, he needs a November similar to Carroll. It’s not unthinkable with three teams on USC’s remaining schedule (Oregon, UCLA, Notre Dame) currently sporting mediocre 3-5 records. The only tough game appears to be at No. 4-ranked Washington, which is 8-0. Thi...

LOS ANGELES >> USC running back Justin Davis, who has a high ankle sprain, will not play on Saturday at Arizona, Trojans head coach Clay Helton announced. Davis was not at practice this week. “He’s still being very tender on the ankle,” Helton said. Through six games, the 6-foot-1 senior leads the Trojans in rushing with 476 yards on the ground and two touchdowns. He had 341 yards in the past three games, including consecutive 100-yard rushing efforts against Utah and Arizona State. Davis ...

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...

LOS ANGELES >> USC junior center Toa Lobendahn will miss the rest of the season after tearing both the medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, USC football coach Clay Helton said Thursday. Lobendahn missed the second half of last season following surgery to repair a to ACL in his left knee. He also had surgery on his right knee at La Habra High School. Lobendahn sustained the most recent knee injury in the first quarter against Alabama last Saturday, th...

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 announced 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. F...

LOS ANGELES >> Ronald Jones played high school football 51 miles from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, where he will line up in the Trojans' backfield on Saturday night."It's really a homecoming," Jones said.The sophomore running back from McKinney, Texas, said this week that he has been lobbying teammates for extra tickets for family and friends for the season opener against Alabama....

LOS ANGELES >> USC reserve inside linebacker Osa Masina will not travel with the team for the season opener against Alabama because of an unspecified violation of team rules, Coach Clay Helton announced Monday on the Trojans live weekly radio show. Masina, a sophomore, was co-listed with Quinton Powell as the backup for Mitchael Hutchings on the team’s depth chart released last week. Last season, he had 25 tackles in 12 games. It was expected he would see a role this season. In training ca...

LOS ANGELES — On Sunday, as USC prepared to enter its first “mock game week,” it released a two-deep chart and seemed to have settled on most of the position battles from camp. Some, though, will carry over into the remaining days before the season opens against Alabama on Sept. 3 in Arlington, Texas. Of particular note, the Trojans remain in search of a starting left guard. That spot will fall on the shoulders of either redshirt sophomore Chris Brown or junior Damien Mama, who were co-listed th...

Da, if Case Keenum isn’t a thoughtful, intelligent and funny guy. If you happened to stumble upon a 10-minute interview the current Rams’ No. 1 quarterback did with Fred Roggin and Leeann 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...

LOS ANGELES >> The pass from Sam Daold fluttered in the late Wednesday afteoon sunshine. Daold spotted JuJu Smith-Schuster running 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 connect with Smith-Schuster for the touchdown o...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s power to freely punish Adrian Peterson has prevailed, two seasons after the Minnesota running 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...

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...

LONG BEACH >> It was an Eastside Long Beach reunion at Chittick Park on Saturday afteoon, as Tennessee Titan and Long Beach Poly alum Jurrell Casey retued to the city to host his second annual free football camp for offensive and defensive linemen. Despite the positional specialization and a rainy moing, Casey’s camp still had over 100 attendees, more than double what it got during its first year. Youth players of all ages received free T-shirts, a free lunch from Chick-fil-A, and instruct...

The culmination of a celebrated Southe Califoia high school sports season comes to another moment worth acknowledging — the first-of-its-kind televised awards show to recognize those who shined the brightest. Friday night’s Southe Califoia Toyota Dealers SoCal Prep Legends Awards show on KABC-Channel 7, airing at approximately 8:30 p.m. immediately after Game 4 of the NBA Finals, will spotlight nine categories, including the boys and girls athlete of the year. Rob Fukuzaki will host the live hou...

CLEVELAND — Kevin Love was cleared to fly. His playing status remains up in the air. Cleveland’s forward, who sustained a concussion in the first half Sunday in a Game 2 NBA Finals loss to Golden State, traveled with his teammates on Monday as they regrouped. A Cavs spokesman said in an email that Love was on the team’s flight from San Francisco to Cleveland. It’s not yet known if Love, who dislocated his left shoulder in the first round of last year’s playoffs and missed the finals, will play a...

INGLEWOOD — Cub Swanson and Johnny Case probably weren’t the massive, intimidating UFC fighters their audience was expecting. But for the youth gathered at Inglewood Public Library on Wednesday, the pair packed quite a punch. Swanson and Case spoke for an hour to a group of teens about their upbringing, lives and careers as part of the UFC’s outreach to the community while in town for UFC 199 on Saturday at The Forum. Swanson (22-7), the sixth-ranked featherweight in the UFC, spoke about his dif...

DALLAS — Johnny Manziel has been booked and posted bond in a domestic violence case, one day before the former Cleveland Browns quarterback faces his first court hearing. Manziel attoey Robert Hinton said Wednesday that the 23-year-old quarterback presented himself for booking and a mugshot, which was not immediately available. The Heisman Trophy winner and former Texas A&M star was indicted by a grand jury last month after his ex-girlfriend alleged he hit her and threatened to kill her duri...