AP testing may have created a slight wrinkle in scheduling for the Moore League te is finals, but Da y Nguyen found a way to concur both obstacles. While the Millikan High senior and future UCLA student has focused his life on te is for the last 14 years or so, he has also remained extremely focused...

Darren McCaughan makes a great first impression because he’s not worried about making a great first impression. “I’m not a nervous person,” the Long Beach State sophomore pitcher says. “I put in the hard work and fall back on my highest level of training. I just go out, be free, and play.” It’s been...

Darryl Sutter had plenty of reasons to agree to a new multi-season contract with the Kings. In fact, he said Friday during a conference call with reporters that his decision to stay with the team he led to Stanley Cup championships in 2014 and ‘12 was “clear and easy.” “I wasn’t interested in going ...

EXPOSITION PARK >> After more than five decades, the clock has run out for the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. As elected officials, local residents and the news media gathered Thursday for the official closing ceremony, the facility got a glitzy send-off before it’s to down to make way for a soc...

LA MIRADA >> After La Mirada baseball suffered its first Suburban League loss of the season on Tuesday at Bellflower, the Matadores took a long, silent trip home. “When we parked, I told (the team) that I hoped they were reflecting,” La Mirada coach Jimmy Zu said. “I said that the moment we got off ...

Ross Stripling said he and his former college teammate started doing the math on the calendar “maybe two starts ago.” “I knew it would be close,” the Dodgers rookie right-hander said about matching up against his friend, St. Louis Cardinals right-hander Michael Wacha. “Then they had that off day and...

Bartolo Colon might be king of the GIF. But Clayton Kershaw is master of his domain. Kershaw struck out 13 in a three-hit shutout as the Dodgers beat Colon and the New York Mets, 5-0, Thursday night to salvage a split of their four-game series at Dodger Stadium. In his 250th career start, Kershaw th...

ANAHEIM >> The cat did its part anyway. In the fourth i ing on Thursday night at Angel Stadium, a fluffy orange cat found its way on to the field and darted between the pitchers mound and the plate, a diversion that the cheering crowd clearly enjoyed. Moments later, the Angels scored two runs to tak...

OXNARD >> An NFL team is the sporting equivalent of the Kremlin. In medieval times, it would be surrounded by moats. This is the league where the coaches speak into their flip cards, lest Bill Belichick read their lips, and former Chargers general manager John Butler chased fans off a hilltop that o...

With an HBO film crew set to follow the Los Angeles Rams around this summer, Jeff Fisher had some simple advice for his players. “We want them to be football players, not actors,” the head coach said Thursday. “It’s not going to be a day-to-day reminder of that.” In other words, go about your busine...

LA MIRADA >> After La Mirada baseball suffered its first Suburban League loss of the season on Tuesday at Bellflower, the Matadores took a long, silent trip home. “When we parked, I told (the team) that I hoped they were reflecting,” La Mirada coach Jimmy Zu said. “I said that the moment we got off ...

LONG BEACH >> The Big West Conference will be at the Jack Rose Track in Long Beach this weekend as the 49ers host the conference championships. The a ual two-day event starts with prelims today, and concludes with finals on Saturday. The LBSU men’s team is defending its conference title for a third ...

EXPOSITION PARK >> After more than five decades, the clock has run out for the Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena. As elected officials, local residents and the news media gathered Thursday for the official closing ceremony, the facility got a glitzy send-off before it’s to down to make way for a soc...

Cross one item from Kings general manager Dean Lombardi’s offseason to-do list. The Kings and Darryl Sutter have agreed on a new contract for the two-time Stanley Cup championship-wi ing coach. A team spokesman said a formal a ouncement would be made Friday. Reports indicated the new deal could be f...

Stephania Haralabidis can already see it. In her mind, when the final whistle blows in Sunday’s NCAA women’s water polo championship, the USC junior who leads the Trojans in scoring will start crying tears of joy. She’ll rush to hug her teammates. She’ll tell her she loves them. She’ll be a national...

As a horse racing fan for more than 40 years, I feel like a little kid who just woke up on Christmas mo ing to the sight of a countless number of presents under the tree with my name on ’em. It’s unbelievable, the number of top-notch, Eclipse Award-wi ing thoroughbreds that Southe Califo ia racing f...

LONDON >> The World Health Organization is wa ing pregnant women not to travel to areas with Zika, and advising other travelers to take precautions against the mosquitoes that spread the virus ahead of the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In a statement issued on Thursday, the U.N. health agency also said t...

PARIS — French prosecutors said Thursday that $2 million tied to Tokyo’s wi ing bid for the 2020 Olympics was apparently paid to an account linked to the son of the disgraced former IAAF president in the months immediately before and after the Japanese capital won the games. The French financial pro...

MANCHESTER, England — At least $35 million in Champions League cash. Reputation in the game. The fate of one of the managers. Local bragging rights. Future transfer targets. There’s plenty at stake Sunday when Manchester City and Manchester United vie for the last Champions League qualification plac...

Drag racing will come full circle for Leah Prichett this weekend in Atlanta. The Top Fuel dragster driver from Redlands, wi er of the second NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series national event of the 2016 season, will compete with her third team in the past four national events Prichett, who started ...