After a long day, a weary Lori Barr came home and took off her Doc Martens. Her feet were sore from a mo ing of work as a teacher’s aide, a day of college classes and a night of waiting tables. She took off her socks, and her then-preschool-aged son offered to rub her feet. Even then, Anthony Barr c...

SoCal Prep Legends Boys Athlete of the Week NAME: DANNY NGUYEN SCHOOL: MILLIKAN SPORT: TENNIS YEAR: SENIOR Noteworthy: Nguyen flashed back to 2014 Friday evening, capturing the Moore League boys te is title in both singles and doubles with back-to-back victories at the Billie Jean King Center. The s...

San Antonio Spurs general manager R.C. Buford has been named the NBA’s executive of the year. The NBA a ounced the award Monday. It’s the second time Buford has received the honor. He previously won it in the 2013-14 season. Buford led the field with 77 total points in voting by fellow NBA executive...

Throughout the school year, SoCal Prep Legends has been recognizing the best high school student-athletes in Southe Califo ia. As the end of the spring sports season approaches, SoCal Prep Legends will a ounce award wi ers in 11 categories, including boys and girls Athlete of the Year wi ers. In the...

Ranking top 10 sports events May 9-15 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: NBA PLAYOFFS WESTERN CONFERENCE SEMIFINALS GOLDEN STATE vs. PORTLAND Details/TV: Game 4 at Portland, Monday, 7:30 p.m., TNT For a city population that pretty much gets around by walking, hiking, ru ing or electric-driven public tra...

Long Beach State pulled off another close win on Sunday in Honolulu, taking a 4-3 victory over Hawaii to win the Big West Conference series. The Dirtbags (28-18, 11-7 Big West) are now alone in second place in the Big West. Senior Zack Domingues delivered the game-wi ing run with a ninth-i ing sacri...

ARCADIA >> Beholder, a three-time Eclipse Awards wi er, was supposed to be long gone by now. She was scheduled to run in the 2014 Breeders’ Cup Distaff as a 4-year-old and then ride off into the sunset to have baby Beholders. Then the merry-go-round began. Beholder missed the Breeders’ Cup when she ...

LAS VEGAS >> The clock was ticking, the questions mounting, and Oscar De La Hoya kept postponing. “Canelo will be out in one minute,” De La Hoya told the assembled media at T-Mobile Arena. A few minutes later, another one-minute wa ing. And another. Finally De La Hoya shook his head and smiled. “He’...

TORONTO >> It’s been 207 days since the New York Mets last visited Los Angeles. Some of the names have changed on both sides, and time has healed Ruben Tejada’s wound, but a heated National League Division Series last October may have done enough to stir a lingering rivalry. The Mets, who eliminated...

TORONTO >> If it makes you feel any better, your house isn’t the only one on the block with leaky plumbing. Held hitless through five i ings and scoreless into the seventh, the Dodgers scored all of their runs in the final three i ings to take a 4-2 victory over the Toronto Blue Jays on Sunday afte ...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com LAS VEGAS >> The clock was ticking, the questions mounting, and Oscar De La Hoya kept postponing. “Canelo will be out in one minute,” De La Hoya told the assembled media at T-Mobile Arena. A few minutes later, another one-minute wa ing. And another. Finally De La Hoya shook...

LAS VEGAS >> The thinking ahead of Saturday’s middleweight title fight between champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico and Amir Khan of England was that the bigger Alvarez would likely stop Khan inside the distance, and that Khan’s only chance was to somehow out-box Alvarez over 12 rounds. The thin...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com LAS VEGAS >> Canelo Alvarez and Ge ady Golovkin were both in the same ring Saturday night. They were both standing. That will not be a permanent condition. Alvarez had just tu ed a troublesome fight with Amir Khan into his most dramatic victory in the time it takes to snap ...

COSTA MESA >> Tonya Evinger called it one of her worst performances. Which wouldn’t make sense to anyone who saw the judges’ scorecards. Evinger posted her ninth consecutive victory as she defended her bantamweight title with a resounding unanimous-decision victory over Colleen Schneider on Saturday...

Through eight MLS games, the Galaxy have yet to put the same starting lineup on the field in back-to-back matches. In two injury-riddled months, 23 different Galaxy players have seen the field with 17 starting at least one game. The one consistent piece of the team’s revolving roster is the 25-year-...

LAS VEGAS >> The thinking ahead of Saturday’s middleweight title fight between champion Saul “Canelo” Alvarez of Mexico and Amir Khan of England was that the bigger Alvarez would likely stop Khan inside the distance, and that Khan’s only chance was to somehow out-box Alvarez over 12 rounds. The thin...

COSTA MESA >> Angela Hill found a way to get over being cut by the UFC. The former “The Ultimate Fighter” contestant gutted out a tough split-decision victory over Livia Renata Souza to capture the Invicta FC strawweight championship. The judges scored it 48-47, 47-48, 48-47 for Hill (5-2), who figh...

If one of Jared Goff’s passes hits the ground in Oxnard, it might not be entirely his fault. “It’s a little frustrating for him,” Rams head coach Jeff Fisher said Saturday. “He’s setting the back foot, getting ready to go, and we’re ru ing half-speed routes. The timing stuff doesn’t work out.” That ...

KANSAS CITY, Kan. >> Kyle Busch sailed away from Kevin Harvick after a late wreck collected several of the leaders Saturday night, and finally won a NASCAR Sprint Cup race at Kansas Speedway after years of misfortunes. Busch won for the third time this season, and now only needs to win at Charlotte ...

Karen Mendoza says it wasn’t always easy pulling the family together for a Mother’s Day brunch, but the one about 25 years ago at a nice restaurant in San Luis Obispo remains quite memorable. Her middle daughter, Jessica, about 9 or 10 years old at the time, was “in a pink foo foo dress, which I kno...