SEATTLE >> In baseball, five days can be a lifetime. The Angels and Hector Santiago demonstrated that Sunday when a 3-0 victory over the Seattle Mariners left the team and the pitcher with vastly different perspectives than they had a few days earlier. Last Tuesday, when Santiago made his previous s...

SEATTLE >> Tyler Skaggs and C.J. Wilson will take steps Monday that could bring them closer to the Angels rotation. Skaggs, who has not pitched in three weeks because of what has been diagnosed as biceps tendinitis, will have a strength test on Monday, after which the Angels are hoping he can resume...

LOS ANGELES >> A 95-year-old Torrance resident, wounded in the Japanese attack on the USS Arizona in 1941, will be honored as the Military Hero of the Game Sunday at Dodger Stadium. Lauren Bruner and his crew were the last to leave the battleship before it sank on Dec. 7. 1941, in what military hist...

Just short of mid-May, there’s already about 100 hours of material shot and logged about these relocated Rams for the HBO series “Hard Knocks.” Most of it chronicles the logistics involved in the move from St. Louis to L.A., but there are choice cuts collected from having chronicled the NFL Draft ci...

The Clippers aren’t lacking when it comes to having targets of criticism, and maybe the biggest, easiest target is the team’s president of basketball operations. See, Doc Rivers wasn’t just going to leave the Boston Celtics for any opportunity, and the chance to do more than coach – to run a competi...

Before Friday’s game, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts was asked to preview the weekend series with the St. Louis Cardinals. He accommodated the questioner, saying he expected “good, clean baseball.” Boy, was he wrong. Not that Roberts should mind. The Dodgers and Cardinals have combined for eight error...

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. >> Jason Day saw The Players Championship at its easiest and toughest, all in the span of nine hours Saturday on what felt like two golf courses. He set a record when it felt like a shootout. He was even stronger when the TPC Sawgrass tu ed into a battle for survival. And whe...

After wi ing the first two sets of its CIF Southe Section Division 3 quarterfinal match at El Segundo on Saturday, Valley Christian High’s boys volleyball team dropped the next two before responding in time for a 25-20, 25-20, 23-25, 16-25, 15-8 win. The Crusaders will host top-seeded Quartz Hill, w...

MALIBU >> Two weeks disappeared from the life of A.J. Puckett. He furiously pitches as if he can get them back. Puckett is a junior right-hander for Pepperdine who, 10 days ago, gave up a two-run home run to Brigham Young’s Bre on Lund. Those were the first runs off Puckett in 45 2/3 i ings, or in t...

The first words out of the USC huddle after a 9-6 semifinal win over Michigan in the NCAA women’s water polo tou ament on Saturday were simple: “One more.” After 25 straight wins, the Trojans have eyes for one more that would complete a perfect season and cap the year with a national championship. T...

LONG BEACH >> After two long days of the Big West Track & Field championships at Long Beach State’s sparkling new Jack Rose Stadium, it was 8-year-old Callie Sythe who had the last word: “Daddy smells like champagne.” Indeed, longtime Long Beach State head coach Andy Sythe was drenched in champagne,...

LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach State Dirtbags clinched their 11th weekend series in 13 tries this season by shutting out San Jose State 2-0 at Blair Field on Saturday, thanks to a dominant performance from starter Darren McCaughan. The sophomore right-hander tossed his first collegiate complete game a...

Five years ago, San Francisco Giants fan Bryan Stow was in a coma clinging to life at LAC+USC Medical Center after being beaten to a pulp outside a Los Angeles Dodgers opening game. On Saturday, he received a hero’s welcome when he retu ed to thank trauma unit doctors, nurses and staff for saving hi...

CHICAGO >> The 6-foot, 11-inch frame has made Marquette center Henry Ellenson feel tall. Apparently his confidence is growing, too. After completing 13 interviews on Friday at the NBA pre-draft combine, including one with the Lakers, Ellenson proclaimed something that usually has described Ben Simmo...

Ross Stripling is going to be insufferable at his college reunion. Matched up against his former Texas A&M teammate, Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha, Stripling not only outpitched his friend to get his first major-league win but he also collected his first major-league hit off Wacha as the Dodg...

CHICAGO >> With the Lakers hoping to accelerate their rebuilding process, they spoke with one college prospect who believes he can emulate a certain player that once delivered them NBA championships. “I can be a lot like Pau Gasol,” said University of Utah sophomore center Jakob Poeltl, who intervie...

SEATTLE >> This time, the Angels got the hit they needed. A day after their furious comeback came up just short, the Angels finished the job in a 7-6 victory over the Seattle Mariners on Friday night. The Angels had lost their sixth straight game Thursday, leaving the bases loaded in the ninth. But ...

Long Beach area CIF playoff schedule and results Valley Christian’s John Fey (5) battles Mission Prep’s Michael He andez (10) and Christian Harvey (11) at the net in a CIF Southe Section Division 3 first round volleyball playoff game,Tuesday, May 10, 2016, Cerritos, CA. Photo by Steve McCrank/Staff ...

Los Alamitos High and Harvard-Westlake added another closely contested match to their growing rivalry Friday afte oon, with the defending CIF Southe Section Division 1 boys te is champion Griffins eventually pulling out a 10-8 victory at home in a second-round rematch of last season’s final. Through...

The 11th edition of the Amgen Tour of Califo ia is going in a different direction when America’s premier eight-day cycling event begins Sunday in San Diego. Nine times the race has started in Northe Califo ia and finished in Southe Califo ia, often in the Greater Los Angeles Area. Last year’s finale...