SANTA CLARA >> Cristian Zapata scored his first inte ational goal, James Rodriguez added a 42nd-minute penalty kick and Colombia beat the United States 2-0 Friday night in the opener of the Copa America. U.S. coach Jurgen Klinsma spoke about the importance of a strong showing in this special edition...

The Dodgers would never label this season a youth movement. But it has become one – luckily for them. Rookie shortstop Corey Seager hit three home runs and combined with Trayce Thompson to produce all of the Dodgers offense in a 4-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves Friday night. Seager is the first D...

Bob Arum’s first promotion was a Muhammad Ali fight 50 years ago — in 1966. Arum was obviously bummed out late Friday after hearing of the death of Ali, who died at a Phoenix hospital the day after entering it with respiratory troubles that were exacerbated by his decades-long fight with Parkinson’s...

And now the 60s are over. Everything in that technicolor decade was contained in the voice, hands and courage, of Muhammad Ali, who passed away Friday night at 74. When Ali knocked out So y Liston in Miami Beach in 1964,, black Southe ers couldn’t use white people’s bathrooms, couldn’t sit in their ...

The Dodgers have not labeled this season a youth movement. But it has become one – luckily for them. Rookie shortstop Corey Seager hit three home runs and combined with Trayce Thompson to produce all of the Dodgers offense in a 4-2 victory over the Atlanta Braves, 4-2, Friday night. Seager is the fi...

Julio Urias spent his first day as a big-leaguer at Dodger Stadium ru ing the wa ing track and the stairs of an empty lower deck Friday afte oon, a typical between-starts conditioning routine for starting pitchers. The 19-year-old will likely make his first appearance on the mound here Tuesday again...

INGLEWOOD >> The time for talk is over, thank goodness. In case you missed all the squawking in the lead-up to UFC 199 Saturday at The Forum, here’s a quick rundown. Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold says he requested to fight Michael Bisping, taunted Bisping about his damaged eye, and said he’ll ...

Three-time heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali, who boasted that he was “The Greatest” and usually backed it up, has died at the age of 74. Perhaps the most controversial and yet colorful athlete of the 20th Century, he was villified for refusing induction into the Army during the Vietnam War b...

This month, Lakewood High will be looking for its fifth head football coach in the last seven years for a program that reached back-to-back CIF Southe Sections PAC-5 semifinals eight years ago. Fountain Valley called Lakewood head coach Jimmy Nolan on Friday mo ing to tell him it is the process of h...

INGLEWOOD — Up-and-comer vs. veteran. Brazilian jiu-jitsu specialist vs. brawler/wrestler. Calm and patient vs. high-octane Tasmanian devil. What’s not to like about the matchup Saturday between Lomita’s Brian Ortega and Clay Guida at UFC 199 at The Forum? The UFC has the featherweight bout pegged a...

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SEAL BEACH >> Chaminade freshman Jacob Bullard gave Los Alamitos senior Riley Smith all he could handle Friday in the quarterfinals of the CIF Southe Section individual te is championship. Bullard took set one 6-3, but the tou ament favorite Smith came back to win sets two and three 6-3, 7-5 despite...

Muhammad Ali remained hospitalized Friday in the Phoenix area, battling respiratory problems serious enough to draw family members to his bedside. The 74-year-old boxing great’s respiratory issues have been complicated by the Parkinson’s that he was diagnosed with in the 1980s, two people told The A...

Chris Mathewson picked a great time for his best outing of the season. The Long Beach State sophomore starter has struggled to find the form that won him the 2015 Big West Freshman Pitcher of the Year award. On Friday in the first game of the Coral Gables Regional, Mathewson looked like his old self...

INGLEWOOD >> The time for talk is over, thank goodness. In case you missed all the squawking in the lead-up to UFC 199 Saturday at The Forum, here’s a quick rundown. Middleweight champion Luke Rockhold says he requested to fight Michael Bisping, taunted Bisping about his damaged eye, and said he’ll ...

Muhammad Ali is hospitalized in the Phoenix area with what two people familiar with his condition say may be more serious problems than his previous hospital stays. The 74-year-old boxing great is fighting respiratory issues that are complicated by the Parkinson’s that he was diagnosed with in the 1...

Muhammad Ali is hospitalized in the Phoenix area with what two people familiar with his condition say may be more serious problems than his previous hospital stays. The 74-year-old boxing great is fighting respiratory issues that are complicated by the Parkinson’s that he was diagnosed with in the 1...

Young basketball players around America are emulating the three-point shot form of NBA star Stephen Curry, and the multiple MVP-wi ing swagger of LeBron James. But lest the kids think those high-level basketball skills magically appear or naturally evolve, one former professional player, now a San P...

UCLA sophomore pitcher Selina Ta’amilo hit the first Aubu batter she faced in Thursday’s Women’s College World Series first-round game. It was a sign of things to come for the Bruins. Two UCLA pitchers combined to hit four batters in the first i ing as Aubu scored five runs on only one hit during th...

INGLEWOOD — Cub Swanson and Joh y Case probably weren’t the massive, intimidating UFC fighters their audience was expecting. But for the youth gathered at Inglewood Public Library on Wednesday, the pair packed quite a punch. Swanson and Case spoke for an hour to a group of teens about their upbringi...