WACO, Texas (AP) — Baylor University’s board of regents said Thursday that it will fire football coach Art Briles and re-assign university President Ke eth Starr amid questions over the school’s handling of sexual assault complaints against players. The nation’s largest Baptist university said in a ...

Julio Urias to debut for Dodgers on Friday Julio Urias, 19, will make his debut in New York on Friday. (John Locher/The Associated Press) By LANG Staff Reports Dodgers top pitching prospect Julio Urias will make his major league debut Friday against the Mets. The 19-year-old left-hander has been pit...

The Dodgers a ounced Thursday that top pitching prospect Julio Urias will make his debut Friday against the New York Mets at Citi Field in New York. Urias, 19, will start for fellow left-hander Alex Wood, who is experiencing tightness in his left tricep. So who is Urias and why are baseball fans exc...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com Buffalo Bills general manager Doug Whaley was asked why receiver Sammy Watkins is frequently hurt. Whaley said football injuries weren’t unusual. Then he said: “It’s a violent game that, personally, I don’t think human beings are supposed to play.” Whaley quickly went into ...

Julio Urias to debut for Dodgers on Friday Julio Urias, 19, will make his debut in New York on Friday. (John Locher/The Associated Press) By LANG Staff Reports Dodgers top pitching prospect Julio Urias will make his major league debut Friday against the Mets. The 19-year-old left-hander has been pit...

PARIS — Rafael Nadal set another milestone at the French Open on Thursday, posting the 200th Grand Slam match win of his career. Nadal got off a sluggish start but once he got into his swing, he was in control. The record nine-time champion at Roland Garros ended up beating Facundo Bagnis 6-3, 6-0, ...

SAN BERNARDINO >> It had been nearly 10 months since Angels left-hander C.J. Wilson had pitched in a competitive game, so you’ll have to forgive him if he had some conflicting emotions on Wednesday, his first game of his rehabilitation assignment with the Inland Empire 66ers. “Emotionally, it was ki...

Like a bingo card, the National League schedule comes with some free squares. The Dodgers cashed in three this week, completing a sweep of the Cinci ati Reds with a 3-1 victory Wednesday night despite managing just three hits in the game. “It was good to play some clean baseball,” Dodgers manager Da...

ARLINGTON, Texas >> Not even for a second did the ball appear headed anywhere else. In the bottom of the second i ing, Texas Rangers right fielder Nomar Mazara smoked an 83 mph cutter left inside by Hector Santiago deep into the upper deck in right field at Globe Life Park. MLB Statcast data measure...

MADRID — Besides being from the same city and vying for the Champions League title, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid don’t have much in common. Real Madrid is the rich and powerful club filled with some of the world’s biggest stars. Atletico is the humble, down-to-earth team that thrives on the hard ...

How big of a deal is it that venerable Copa America, soccer’s oldest inte ational tou ament that’s being played outside South America for the first time, is coming to 10 U.S. cities, including Pasadena? So big that disappointed New York City FC midfielder Mix Diskerud, left off the U.S. roster for t...

Wednesday afte oon, the Long Beach State track and field team dodged a pair of to adoes in Kansas en route to this week’s NCAA West Prelims, which will be held Thursday through Saturday at the University of Kansas’ Rock Chalk Park. The team’s flight made it into Kansas unharmed, but the turbulence w...

LONG BEACH >> The impromptu joyous chant of “Slider! Slider!” that rang out from the Blair Field clubhouse after practice on Tuesday afte oon meant two things. The first is that the No. 22-ranked Long Beach State Dirtbags are clearly loose before hosting No. 23 Cal State Fullerton in a Big West Conf...

How big of a deal is it that venerable Copa America, soccer’s oldest inte ational tou ament that’s being played outside South America for the first time, is coming to 10 U.S. cities, including Pasadena? So big that disappointed New York City FC midfielder Mix Diskerud, left off the U.S. roster for t...

PARIS — The funky shorts have gone and, it seems, taken some of Stan Wawrinka’s mojo with them. To defend his French Open title, he knows he will need to get it back. Following a five-set win in the first round, Wawrinka again wasn’t convincing in the second round on Wednesday at Roland Garros, with...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. >> In distance, the space separating Casey Wasserman from the hotel ballroom he was leaving to the one is was headed was no more a 15 or 20-yard slant patte . In time, well, he might as well have been stuck in a parking lot on the 405 Freeway. Based on the satisfied smile Wasserman f...

MADRID — Besides being from the same city and vying for the Champions League title, Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid don’t have much in common. Real Madrid is the rich and powerful club filled with some of the world’s biggest stars. Atletico is the humble, down-to-earth team that thrives on the hard ...

How many Dodgers pitchers does it take to screw in a light bulb? It took five pitchers Tuesday night to do – sort of – what Clayton Kershaw did much more impressively all by himself one night earlier. The relay team combined to hold the woeful Cinci ati Reds to three hits as the Dodgers won 8-2, han...

The Lakewood Lancers took an aggressive game plan to Edison on Tuesday in the second round of the CIF Southe Section Division 1 playoffs and came away with a 7-1 victory. Lakewood (26-4) will visit Orange Lutheran on Thursday for the quarterfinal round. Lancer ace Vanessa Foreman only allowed three ...

The Paramount Pirates took the top-seeded South Hills Huskies to extra i ings in the second round of the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs at home on Tuesday, but couldn’t hang on and fell 3-1 in 11 i ings. Pitching was the story in this one. Both teams were held scoreless going into extra i ings, but with...