Other than Jered Weaver’s rough outing for the Angels on Wednesday, there’s been plenty of good news lately for former Long Beach State players in Major League Baseball. In one of the more surprising stories across MLB, Marco Estrada is having a breakout season for the Toronto Blue Jays. The former ...

Long Beach State junior Robert Marlow opened the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Wednesday afte oon in Eugene, Oregon with a 24th-place finish in the men’s hammer throw. He started with a toss of 197 feet, 6 inches, his best of the day, before fouling on his next two attempts and finishi...

NEW YORK >> The Angels bullpen provided ... whatever the opposite of relief is. Starter Jered Weaver had a predictably tough game, but still walked off the mound in the sixth i ing with the score tied before three Angels relievers had a cumulative meltdown. In a span of 11 batters, the Angels went f...

He fights Americans in America, French-Canadians in Montreal, Welshmen in Wales. Sergey Kovalev is always hitting in the top of the i ing, always the roadie. Until now. On July 11, the 33-year-old light-heavyweight champion retu s to Russia to fight Isaac Chilemba of Malawi. Someone asked Kovalev if...

Mexico vs. Jamaica, Group C Kickoff: 7 p.m. at the Rose Bowl TV: FS1, Univision Group Standings: Mexico 3 points, 1st place; Jamaica 0 points, 4th place Gold Cup rematch Jamaica was the first Caribbean nation to reach a Gold Cup final when it did so in the 2015 tou ament. The Reggae Boyz knocked off...

NEW YORK >> Three Angels relievers provided ... whatever the opposite of relief is. Starter Jered Weaver had a predictably tough game, but still walked off the mound in the sixth i ing with the score tied before the Angels had a bullpen meltdown. In a span of 11 batters, the Angels went from a tie t...

Other than Jered Weaver’s rough outing for the Angels on Wednesday, there’s been plenty of good news lately for former Long Beach State players in Major League Baseball. In one of the more surprising stories across MLB, Marco Estrada is having a breakout season for the Toronto Blue Jays. The former ...

Long Beach State junior Robert Marlow opened the NCAA Outdoor Track & Field Championships on Wednesday afte oon in Eugene, Oregon with a 24th-place finish in the men’s hammer throw. He started with a toss of 197 feet, 6 inches, his best of the day, before fouling on his next two attempts and finishi...

OXNARD >> The Rams are playing the same game this month, but with varying stakes. It’s difficult to know what to make of the team’s OTA sessions, which reached a midpoint Wednesday afte oon. On one section of the field, teammates laugh and taunt each other. Nearby, linemen grunt as they repeatedly c...

Competition in the Special Olympics Southe Califo ia Summer Games is open to players of all skill and mental-disability levels, but in the upper echelons, many of the athletes are world-class competitors. The summer games will take place Saturday and Sunday on the campus at Cal State Long Beach. “Yo...

He fights Americans in America, French-Canadians in Montreal, Welshmen in Wales. Sergey Kovalev is always hitting in the top of the i ing, always the roadie. Until now. On July 11, the 33-year-old light-heavyweight champion retu s to Russia to fight Isaac Chilemba of Malawi. Someone asked Kovalev if...

Mexico vs. Jamaica, Group C Kickoff: 7 p.m. at the Rose Bowl TV: FS1, Univision Group Standings: Mexico 3 points, 1st place; Jamaica 0 points, 4th place Gold Cup rematch Jamaica was the first Caribbean nation to reach a Gold Cup final when it did so in the 2015 tou ament. The Reggae Boyz knocked off...

He fights Americans in America, French-Canadians in Montreal, Welshmen in Wales. Sergey Kovalev is always hitting in the top of the i ing, always the roadie. Until now. On July 11, the 33-year-old light-heavyweight champion retu s to Russia to fight Isaac Chilemba of Malawi. Someone asked Kovalev if...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — Kevin Love can’t help the Cleveland Cavaliers climb back into the NBA Finals just yet. Love remains slowed by a concussion suffered in Game 2 and will sit out Game 3 on Wednesday night, when the Cavs try to cut into the Golden State Warrior’s 2-0 lead in the series. Love took pa...

Here’s something you don’t see every day — or haven’t ever before. The Los Angeles Film Festival entry “Tracktown” is a film about an Olympic hopeful-in-training made by and starring an actual Olympic ru er, Alexi Pappas, while she was really preparing in Eugene, Ore., to run for Greece at the Olymp...

NEW YORK — Preakness wi er Exaggerator is the 9-5 mo ing-line favorite in a field of 13 entered for Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. The 3-year-old colt trained by Keith Desormeaux and ridden by his brother, Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux, drew the No. 11 pos...

Tuesday night featured a hard-fought 4-3 win by the Dodgers over the Colorado Rockies at Chavez Ravine. Among the highlights: • Rookie pitcher Julio Urias making his Dodger Stadium debut and Trayce Thompson hitting a wi ing homer in the bottom of the ninth i ing, • Outfielder Joc Pederson talking ab...

NEW YORK — Preakness wi er Exaggerator has been made the 9-5 favorite in a field of 13 for Saturday’s $1.5 million Belmont Stakes, the final leg of the Triple Crown. The 3-year-old colt trained by Keith Desormeaux and ridden by his brother, Hall of Famer Kent Desormeaux, drew the No. 11 post positio...

INDEPENDENCE, Ohio — The Cleveland Cavaliers say forward Kevin Love won’t play in Game 3 of the NBA Finals against the Golden State Warriors because of a concussion. Love, who was injured in Sunday’s Game 2, took part in the team’s shootaround Wednesday mo ing, a positive step toward his retu to the...

LONDON — Maria Sharapova was suspended from te is for two years Wednesday for testing positive for meldonium at the Australian Open, and immediately responded by saying she would appeal the decision to sport’s highest court. The ruling by an independent three-person panel appointed by the Inte ation...