INGLEWOOD — UFC 199 delivered on many levels. It was a night of firsts, along with some great and not-so-great moments. Here are our thoughts on Saturday night’s event at The Forum in Inglewood: King Bisping What a moment for Michael Bisping. After 10 years and 25 fights in the UFC, he accepts a tit...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com CARSON >> Muhammad Ali would have stood and applauded like everyone else at StubHub Center on Saturday night, even though it was nothing he would recognize. Stick and move? No, stick and stick and stick again. Float like a 2-by-4, sting like a crowbar. The WBC super-feather...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com CARSON >> Muhammad Ali would have stood and applauded like everyone else at StubHub Center on Saturday night, even though it was nothing he would recognize. Stick and move? No, stick and stick and stick again. Float like a 2-by-4, sting like a crowbar. The WBC super-feather...

CARSON >> Muhammad Ali fought in Southe Califo ia only a handful of times. He faced Ken Norton twice (at the San Diego Sports Arena and The Forum). He also fought three times at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, considered one of the prime fighting spots in the area during the 1960s and 1970s. Today the...

Pinch hitter Jeff Nellis’ home run in the bottom of the ninth i ing on Saturday night gave Long Beach State renewed life in the fourth game of the NCAA Regional at the University of Miami. However, the host Hurricanes came back to win in the 11th i ing, 4-3, and hand the Dirtbags their first loss of...

A solid day of racing for the 10 Press-Telegram area entries in the CIF State Track & Field championships was highlighted by a sensational second-place finish from Los Alamitos senior Thomas Heib in the 800 meters. Heib, a senior, was the area’s top finisher at the state finals on Saturday. He ran s...

SAN ANTONIO >> Candace Parker scored 15 points, Kristi Toliver made three 3-pointers and finished with 13 points and the Sparks beat the San Antonio Stars 74-61 on Saturday night to improve to 7-0. The Sparks are off to their best start since opening 9-0 in 2003. The Sparks also beat the Stars (1-5)...

The “greatest untold story in Olympic swimming history” is the not-so-subtle subtitle attached to the new documentary, “The Last Gold,” making its world debut at the L.A. Film Festival on Monday night before an already close-to-sold-out theater in Culver City. More to the point: It’s a story that pe...

PITTSBURGH >> The Angels' 8-7 loss the Pittsburgh Pirates on Saturday included one particularly painful moment.Matt Joyce, who suffered through a .174 average with the Angels last season, continued his bounceback with a three-run homer against his former team.Joyce's sixth homer of the season - he h...

ARCADIA >> Beholder had just won her eighth consecutive race, a 1 1/2-length victory over Stellar Wind in the $400,000 Grade I Vanity Mile on Saturday at Santa Anita that put her over $4.7 million in career ea ings, when owner B. Wayne Hughes was asked in the wi er’s circle if he was looking forward...

PASADENA >> After the second scoreless draw in one day of Copa America Cenentario play, an a ounced crowd of 53,158 rained boos onto the Rose Bowl pitch as Brazil and Ecuador walked off following a 0-0 tie on Saturday. A cross from Ecuador’s Miler Bolanos that came within inches of being saved off t...

OAKLAND >> Win or lose, the call was always going to be placed. Clippers coach Doc Rivers and Cleveland coach Tyro Lue were going to discuss what happened in Game 1. They were going to figure out what went wrong, what went right and they were going to exchange ideas. This happens all the time. “I ta...

LOUISVILLE, Ky. >> Muhammad Ali crafted the plan for his final tribute years ago, long before he died. On Friday, his family will honor him just like he pla ed, with a global celebration in his hometown. A procession will carry his body down an avenue in Louisville that bears his name, through his b...

INGLEWOOD >> Brian Ortega is known to be a patient fighter, but even Saturday’s performance at UFC 199 might have had his fans on the edge of their seat. The South Bay featherweight engaged in a surprisingly close brawl with veteran Clay Guida before finally landing a thunderous knee to TKO Guida at...

What struck me was his age. Only 74. Muhammad Ali had to be older than that, right? The mouth that famously roared had been comparatively hushed for so long, the image more oversized than any in the history of sports inevitably shrinking in the shadows. How did a career that began in black-and-white...

We’re in the presence of greatness, all right, with the Warriors, who just won a record 73 games, about to win back-to-back titles ... Oh, right. They haven’t beaten the Cavaliers yet. Actually, the Warriors only lead 1-0, meaning the Finals have only started. On the other hand, after wi ing Game 1 ...

LONG POND, Pa. >> Dale Ea hardt Jr. tweeted this week that he had become a fan of the cult series “The Walking Dead.” Fitting, perhaps, because Ea hardt has found nothing but dead ends as he tries to race into victory lane for the first time in 2016. Ea hardt is winless for the season through 13 rac...

The Latest on the death of Muhammad Ali (all times EDT): 3:45 p.m. Basketball Hall of Famer Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says one of the many ways that he’ll fondly remember Muhammad Ali is for how he liked to torment his opponents before fights. “He would go to the training camp of his opponents and talk to...

UFC president Dana White keeps UFC Middleweight Champion Luke Rockhold and challenger Michael Bisping apart during UFC 199 weigh-ins at the Forum in Inglewood, CA. Thursday, June 3, 2016. (Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News) Live updates from MMA reporter Brian Martin at UFC 199. Your comments ar...

SAN JOSE >> The San Jose Sharks can take at least one positive out of losing the first two games of the Stanley Cup Final in Pittsburgh. Despite being severely outplayed for almost the entire two games, the Sharks still managed to lose by only one goal with the game-wi er coming in the final three m...