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The coffee cup still sits on Peter O”Malley’s desk. The Dodgers logo, in that familiar cursive script, is on the cup. But the baseball that flies out of that logo is replaced by a football. Undeeath, there is a date: 199? It represents what might have been, the first and best replacement of the Rams and Raiders, who left after the 1994 season. Had O’Malley wound up with an expansion NFL franchise in a football palace bordering Dodger Stadium, we might be looking at our 16th or 17th NFL campaign. Instead, L.A. skipped a football generation. Maybe that’s not all bad. Maybe the new Rams fans, who tune in for the season opener against San Francisco on Monday night and then fish out their old Di...

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...

Considering Saul “Canelo” Alvarez took so much heat for defending his middleweight title against a welterweight - Amir Khan - in May, it was surprising to hear Friday moing that middleweight champion Geady Golovkin will now do the same. Golovkin will defend his three belts against Kell Brook, who holds one of the welterweight titles, on Sept. 10 at O2 Arena in Brook’s native England (on HBO). Golvokin is trained by West Covina native Abel Sanchez. He was asked via telephone why Golovkin will be fighting a welterweight. “Well, if you recall, the first welterweight in our time that did that was Ray Leonard and he beat the middleweight (Marvin Hagler), so he (Brook) is willing to do what other...