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LOS ANGELES — Right tackle Andre James cut down two would-be Hawai’i rushers and right guard Michael Alves cleared out another as ruing back Nate Starks saw a rushing lane larger than almost anything the UCLA offense had produced in more than a year. The senior ruing back galloped through, untouched for 25 yards. With quarterback Josh Rosen and the receivers surging, UCLA’s ruing game is hop...

The best reason to watch the Galaxy game in Carson this weekend (7:30 p.m. Spectrum SportsNet) is not to see L.A., plumbing new MLS depths, but to take in all-conquering, MLS-leading Toronto FC, already being talked about as the best team ever in MLS. Toronto (17-3-8) became the first MLS team to qualify for the playoffs last weekend, with U.S. inteational Jozy Altidore scoring twice in a 4-0 ro...

LOS ANGELES >> For months they lived together, trained together and prayed together. So it only made sense that when the Dodgers’ two teams in the Dominican Summer League played each other for the championship Sunday, they celebrated the win together. When “DSL Dodgers 2” beat “DSL Dodgers 1” in the title game, 6-4, it marked the second time in the history of the 33-year-old league that two ...

Ranked No. 4 in the CIF Southe Section’s Division 4 poll, the Downey High football team expected a better start to the season than what it got against Santa Margarita. The Vikings were totally overmatched against a Trinity League opponent in a 56-0 loss last Friday night. Particularly uncharacteristic for the Vikings was an offensive line that struggled to slow down the Eagles’ pass rushers. “Th...

For the first time since 1984, the Long Beach State women’s volleyball team opens its season with a new head coach. Recently retired head coach Brian Gimmillaro didn’t miss a match in the last 32 years, and only missed one practice in that time (not due to illness but to recruit a high school player). Gimmillaro didn’t even miss practice after he had knee surgery, hobbling into the gym that afte...

MANHATTAN BEACH >> While players down on the sand Thursday were trying to qualify to get into the main draw of this week’s Manhattan Beach Open, four rather terrific beach volleyball players were up on the pier for the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring their 2016 championships at the granddaddy of them all. Jake Gibb and Casey Patterson, and Emily Day and Brittany Hochevar were the happy recipients of plaques they could take home. And they were overjoyed knowing that identical plaques would be forever embedded in the concrete deck of the pier. For Gibb, it was his third such honor, so his ...

GLENDALE >> So many baseball men in khakis and collared shirts strolled the grounds of Oakmont Country Club on Monday, you would be tempted to think this is what they do in retirement: golf. You would only be half right. There was Eddie Murray, the Hall of Fame first baseman. There was Charlie...

More than half of the players on the Santa Margarita National Little League all-star team play together on a travel ball team when the Little League season is over. Assuming the Little League season would be finished by now, the travel ball team was scheduled to be competing in a touament in Coope...

ATLANTA >> Legend has it everything is bigger in Texas. After getting their first up-close-and-personal look at Yu Darvish, the Dodgers might believe it. “It’s impressive how big he is,” Dodgers pitching coach Rick Honeycutt said after overseeing Darvish’s first bullpen session with his new te...

The Long Beach PONY 14U All-Stars have reached the PONY World Series twice since 2008, and four times since 1959. This summer, the LB PONY 13U All-Stars took a tu at making history for the storied youth baseball organization by wiing the Super Regional for the first time. Long Beach 13U won its ...

SEATTLE >> Tameka Butt scored in the 67th minute and Australia beat the United States for the first time in the 28-game series, 1-0 in the Touament of Nations on Thursday night. The Matildas also snapped the Americans’ four-game wiing streak. Just moments after Butt’s goal got past goalkee...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers still aren’t prepared to declare a probable date for Clayton Kershaw’s retu from the disabled list. But there was good reason to take the under on the initial four- to six-week timeline reported Monday, before Kershaw met with a back specialist. Kershaw is taking p...

The Long Beach Mizuno 17s had a weekend to remember, claiming a title in Mieapolis at the USA Volleyball Girls Junior National Championships. Competing in the National Division, the second-highest of five brackets at the touament, Mizuno swept through to the championship. The team, made up mostl...

LONG BEACH >> It wouldn’t be a championship Sunday at the World Series of Beach Volleyball in Long Beach without Phil Dalhausser. The three-time Olympian has been in the gold medal match of all five WSOBV events, and this year he won his third title along with partner Nick Lucena. The American...

LONG BEACH >> Familiar faces are navigating unfamiliar circumstances this weekend at the World Series of Beach Volleyball in Long Beach. Some of the best players in the world are adjusting on the fly to new partners, fast playing surfaces and the USA vs. The World exhibition format. The inaugu...

LONG BEACH >> Veteran Brittany Hochevar is one of four Long Beach State alumni retuing to Long Beach this weekend for the fifth aual World Series Of Beach Volleyball and Long Beach Presidents Cup exhibition touament. The WSOBV features inteational competition for men and women and open...

When Chris Paul bolted for Houston, the general sentiment around the NBA was he slammed the franchise’s championship window on his way out. But then the Clippers coaxed Blake Griffin to stay on a maximum contract, and on Monday night, the Clippers were close to another free agency win, finalizing a ...

Long Beach State will name Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer as its new women’s volleyball coach, athletic director Andy Fee confirmed Monday moing. McKienzie-Fuerbringer will be the successor to legendary coach Brian Gimmillaro, who won three national titles and recently aounced his retirement after 32...

Long Beach State will name Joy McKienzie-Fuerbringer as its new women’s volleyball coach, athletic director Andy Fee confirmed Monday moing. McKienzie-Fuerbringer will be the successor to legendary coach Brian Gimmillaro, who won three national titles and recently aounced his retirement after 32...

ATHLETE OF THE YEAR: ARIYONNA AUGUSTINE, Long Beach Poly, Jr. Junior sprinter Ariyoa Augustine will be the first to admit that this year caught her off guard. After wiing state titles in the 100 and 200, Augustine shook her head when asked if she could believe what had just happened. “No, not re...