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LYNWOOD >> Famous NBA players and not-so-famous collegians have all played a part in the development of one of Southe Califoia’s key basketball leagues. Players from schools such as USC, Long Beach State and Cal State Fullerton compete in the eight-team Real Run Basketball league Mondays t...

Cerritos College’s athletic program eaed Califoia’s No. 7 ranking for the 2016-17 athletic year, a year in which the Falcons won a national championship, three state championships and six conference championships. More than 100 of the Falcons’ student-athletes will continue their athletic and ac...

OMAHA, Neb. >> Sean Wymer struck out national player of the year Brendan McKay in two key situations while pitching 4 1/3 iings of shutout relief, and TCU was on the right side of two close plays in a 4-3 win over Louisville in a College World Series elimination game Thursday night. The Ho...

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...

The Long Beach City College duo of Sarah Miller and Paige Panter won the Pacific Coast Athletic Conference beach volleyball championship at Granada Beach on Friday. Miller and Panter defeated Kiaa Niu and Brittany Mitchell of Palomar 22-20, 21-15 in windy conditions.“I didn’t put any expectations on these girls for the first year,” LBCC coach Misty May-Treanor said. “We started to make goals tow...

Michigan moved up to No. 3 in The Associated Press college football poll, right behind No. 2 Ohio State, to give the Big Ten rivals their best combined ranking since the 2006 season, when they played the only 1-vs.-2 game in the series. Alabama remained No. 1 on Sunday with a season-high 60 first-place votes. The Buckeyes stayed No. 2 after an overtime victory against Wisconsin, which fell two spots to 10th. The Wolverines moved up in an off week with Clemson slipping to fourth. The Tigers had their own overtime escape at home against North Carolina State. Michigan has its best ranking since it was No. 3 after losing to Ohio State in ‘06. No. 5 Washington, No. 6 Texas A&M and No. 7 Loui...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wiers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals and wasn’t on the podium Sunday. Nonetheless, he received a gold, along with finals swimmers Caeleb Dressel, Michael Phelps, Ryan Held and Nathan Adrian. It was Phelps’ 19th gold medal and 23rd altogether, but Ervin’s story is as extraordinary. This spring, Ervin answered questions from Southe Califoia News Group columnist Tom Hoffarth about his...

The College Football Playoff has abandoned a plan to play most of its semifinals on New Year’s Eves after television ratings tumbled last year, moving the dates of future games to ensure they will be played either on a weekend or a holiday. The changes will start with the 2018 season. The TV ratings for last year’s semifinal games played on Thursday, Dec. 31, dropped 36 percent from the semifinals played the season before on New Year’s Day. This season’s semifinals are still set for Saturday, Dec. 31. Next season’s playoff is scheduled to be back on Jan. 1. In 2018, the games initially scheduled to be played on New Year’s Eve, will now be played Saturday, Dec. 29. The 2019 games will move t...

The College Football Playoff is moving the dates of future semifinals to ensure the games will be played either on a Saturday or a holiday. The changes will start with the 2018 season and come in response to the television ratings for last year’s games played on Thursday, Dec. 31, dropping 36 percent from the semifinals played the season before on New Year’s Day. This season’s semifinals are still set for Saturday, Dec. 31. Next season’s playoff is scheduled to be back on Jan. 1. After 2018, the games initially scheduled to be played on New Year’s Eve, will now be played Saturday, Dec. 29. The 2019 games will move to Saturday, Dec. 28. Advertisement Let's block ads! بخوانید...

The biggest question circling around the city last week after the blockbuster aouncement that Misty May-Treanor was going to be coaching at Long Beach City College was also one of the shortest questions possible: Why? Why was a three-time Olympic gold medalist, the most famous female volleyball player of at least her generation (and possibly of all time) going to start coaching at a local junior college? May-Treanor’s response to that question was the same as her response to much in life: she laughed. “A lot of people want to coach in the NCAA, I’ve always wanted to coach at the community college level,” she said. “I love working with those athletes, both my parents coached at Santa Monica ...

The biggest question circling around the city last week after the blockbuster aouncement that Misty May-Treanor was going to be coaching at Long Beach City College was also one of the shortest questions possible: Why? Why was a three-time Olympic gold medalist, the most famous female volleyball player of at least her generation (and possibly of all time) going to start coaching at a local junior college? May-Treanor’s response to that question was the same as her response to much in life: she laughed. “A lot of people want to coach in the NCAA, I’ve always wanted to coach at the community college level,” she said. “I love working with those athletes, both my parents coached at Santa Monica ...

OMAHA, Neb. — Coastal Carolina capitalized on two errors on the same play for four uneaed runs in the sixth iing, and the Chanticleers won their first national championship in any sport with a 4-3 victory over Arizona in Game 3 of the College World Series finals on Thursday. Coastal Carolina (55-18) became the first team since Miesota in 1956 to win the title in its first CWS appearance. Arizona (49-24) was trying for its second national title since 2012. Andrew Beckwith (15-1), the national leader in wins, went 5 2/3 iings after pitching two complete games and picked up his third victory of the CWS. He was named the Most Outstanding Player. Alex Cuingham eaed his first save, striking out Ry...

OMAHA, Neb. >> The College World Series championship game between Coastal Carolina and Arizona has been postponed until Thursday because of inclement weather in the Omaha, Nebraska area on Wednesday night. NCAA officials waited 2 hours, 23 minutes after the scheduled start time to postpone the game. More rain and lightning were forecast for the area in the early moing hours, meaning a delay would have been likely. The best-of-three series is tied at a game apiece. Coaches Gary Gilmore of Coastal Carolina (54-18) and Jay Johnson of Arizona (49-23) agreed with the decision to play Thursday. Neither aounced whether their pitching plans would change with the extra time off. Coastal Caroli...

KNOXVILLE, Te. >> Pat Summitt, the wiingest coach in Division I college basketball history who uplifted the women’s game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38-year career at Teessee, died Tuesday moing. She was 64. With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and prominence on a campus steeped in the traditions of the football-rich south until she retired in 2012. Her son, Tyler Summitt, issued a statement Tuesday moing saying his mother died peacefully at Sherrill Hill Senior Living in Knoxville surrounded by those who loved her most. • Photos: Pat Summitt, legendary women’s basketball coach dies at 64 “Since 2011, my mot...

KNOXVILLE, Te. >> Pat Summitt, the wiingest coach in Division I college basketball history who uplifted the women’s game from obscurity to national prominence during her 38-year career at Teessee, died Tuesday moing. She was 64. With an icy glare on the sidelines, Summitt led the Lady Vols to eight national championships and prominence on a campus steeped in the traditions of the football-rich south until she retired in 2012. Her son, Tyler Summitt, issued a statement Tuesday moing saying his mother died peacefully at Sherrill Hill Senior Living in Knoxville surrounded by those who loved her most. “Since 2011, my mother has battled her toughest opponent, early onset dementia, ‘Alzheim...

After the retu of a familiar face at athletic director, Long Beach City College teams won seven conference championships and two state titles in the 2015-16 year, a season that saw only three Vikings teams miss the playoffs. Randy Totorp, who played and later coached men’s volleyball at LBCC and was the school’s interim AD from 2011-2013, was brought back in a permanent position last August and helped guide the Vikings to many triumphs in his first season. Third-year football coach Brett Peabody continued his impressive tuaround of the program with a 10-2 record, a SCFA National Central League title (the Vikings’ first since 2011) and a Southe Califoia Bowl win over Cerritos. At one point, t...

OMAHA, Neb. >> Light-hitting David Parrett had three RBIs in his first College World Series start and Coastal Carolina converted three Texas Tech errors into six uneaed runs in a 7-5 victory that eliminated the Red Raiders on Thursday night. Coastal Carolina (51-17) will play TCU in the Bracket 2 final on Friday night. The Chanticleers, in the CWS for the first time, would have to beat the Hoed Frogs in that game and again Saturday to reach next week’s best-of-three finals. Texas Tech (47-20), at No. 5, was the third and final national seed knocked out of the CWS. The Red Raiders committed seven errors in three CWS games, and seven of the 12 runs against them were uneaed. Mike Morriso...

In the biggest “name” hire for a Long Beach sports team since George Allen came to Cal State Long Beach a quarter century ago, Long Beach City College confirmed Thursday that the Vikings’ new director of volleyball operations will be three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor. May-Treanor will start in the first week of July, and she will be the head coach for the women’s volleyball team as well as a newly created beach volleyball team. She will also oversee the defending state champion LBCC men’s volleyball team. “I really like the community college level,” said May-Treanor. “I love getting the players to move on to four-year schools; it’s rewarding.” May-Treanor’s Long Beach ties ...

In the biggest “name” hire for a Long Beach sports team since George Allen came to Long Beach State a quarter century ago, Long Beach City College confirmed on Thursday that the Vikings’ new director of volleyball operations will be three-time Olympic gold medalist Misty May-Treanor. May-Treanor will start in the first week of July, and will be the head coach for the women’s volleyball team as well as a newly-created beach volleyball team. She will also oversee the defending state champion LBCC men’s volleyball team. “I really like the community college level,” said May-Treanor. “I love getting the players to move on to four-year schools, it’s rewarding.” May-Treanor’s Long Beach ties run d...