SoCal Prep Legends Boys Athlete of the Week NAME: EDGAR SANCHEZ SCHOOL: BELLFLOWER SPORT: VOLLEYBALL YEAR: SENIOR Noteworthy: The Bucs (15-7, 11-0) picked up a pair of come-from-behind five-set victories, with the first coming in a 23-25, 25-18, 25-27, 25-19, 15-10 home win over Cerritos on Tuesday ...

Throughout their six-game losing streak, the Dodgers looked for a handful of solutions. They held a closed-door meeting Friday. manager Dave Roberts hoped to hit the reset button. They sought some levity Saturday. One person wrote, “Wi ing baseball games is the ONLY thing that matters!” on a whitebo...

PORTLAND >> Everywhere you looked, the Clipper season was being to down around them. The video equipment was packed up and headed out of the arena, the uniforms were gathered and the locker room was emptying out of players. Jeff Green, already dressed, sat in front of his locker quietly eating di er...

By The Associated Press KANSAS CITY, Kan. >> Giovani dos Santos scored to help the Galaxy tie Sporting Kansas City 1-1 and extend their unbeaten streak to six games Sunday night. Dos Santos slipped behind the Sporting defense on the counterattack and chipped the ball, high over the head of hard-char...

TALLADEGA, Ala. >> Brad Keselowski won a demolition derby at Talladega Superspeedway, where multiple wrecks caused two cars to go airbo e and led to millions of dollars in damage to race teams. Keselowski’s cruise to the checkered flag was anticlimactic Sunday compared to all the other trouble. “Rac...

QB Jared Goff, Cal » No. 1, first round The perception of the Rams’ 2016 draft class will ride or die with Jared Goff’s career. If he tu s into a pere ial Pro Bowler, then the team should be a contender for the foreseeable future. If he’s just average, then the cost of acquiring him — six draft pick...

OAKLAND >> Years before instant success and ready-made acumen won him his dream job with the Lakers, Luke Walton had a long flight over the Pacific Ocean and much of the mainland to agonize over a loss in the fifth-place game of the 2011 Maui Invitational. “Luke took it hard after we lost in Maui,” ...

Yasiel Puig sounded frustrated after his latest 0-for-4 performance Sunday. More than that though, he sounded happy to be alive. “Felt good,” Puig said in English after the Dodgers beat the San Diego Padres. “Six-game losing (streak) — that was like somebody died. The Dodgers didn’t win today, maybe...

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...

RANCHO CUCAMONGA >> When the Dodgers signed right-hander Yaisel Sierra to a six-year, $30 million contract in February, it was an expectation that the 24-year-old Cuban defector would help the Dodgers soon. Saturday night was the first chance to see how close he might be to helping at the big-league...

ARLINGTON, Texas >> Andrew Heaney’s rehab just got longer. The Angels a ounced on Saturday that Heaney will have a platelet-rich plasma injection in his sore left elbow, which will keep him from throwing for another four to 12 weeks, general manager Billy Eppler said. “I don’t think he’ll be on a mo...

In early April, Ross Stripling stood five outs from becoming only the second pitcher to throw a no-hitter in his major-league debut. At the end of the month, the Dodgers’ rookie couldn’t get out of the fifth i ing. In the Dodgers’ 5-2 loss to the San Diego Padres on Saturday night, Stripling surrend...

Yasiel Puig started the season on a tear, batting .405 over the Dodgers’ first 10 games. It didn’t last. Since then, he has hit .137, with only one hit coming in his past 18 at-bats. His average has sunk to .250. Dodgers manager Dave Roberts opted to give the slumping Puig the day off on Saturday ni...

Josh Sborz made his name as a closer. It was in that role he led Virginia to the College World Series title last summer and was named the tou ament’s Most Outstanding Player. It was in that role the Dodgers drafted him No. 74 overall, and it was in that role he helped lead the Rancho Cucamonga Quake...

ARLINGTON, Texas >> Matt Shoemaker is creating a difficult problem for the Angels. Shoemaker allowed seven runs and failed to make it out of the third i ing of the Angels’ 7-2 loss to the Texas Rangers on Saturday. Through five starts, Shoemaker has been hit hard three times, to the tune of a 9.15 E...

LONG BEACH >> The sixth a ual Ballislife All-American Game at LBCC’s Hall of Champions Gym featured a show-stopping slam dunk contest, a large crowd, and even less defense than the usual all-star affair. After 40 minutes of up-and-down ru ing, Team Elite beat Team Future 152-134. Lonzo Ball and Aubu...

Caleb Benenoch heard his name called in the fifth round of the NFL Draft on Saturday and tears flowed from the former UCLA offensive lineman’s eyes. As the tears rolled, UCLA draft prospects started to roll off the draft board almost as fast. Benenoch’s selection as the ninth pick in the fifth round...

Sports April 30, 2016 Updated 4:45 p.m. Luke Walton, right, handled all the normal duties of an assistant coach when he spent time on the staff of Memphis coach Josh Pastner, left, a former college teammate at Arizona. NIKKI BOERTMAN, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS OAKLAND - Years before instant success and r...

Luke Walton left his Thursday interview with Mitch Kupchak and Jim Buss feeling confident, but with no idea how fast the Lakers would make him an offer. A day after he sat with the top Lakers executives, he was named the head coach of the team he won a pair of championships with. A day after that, h...

It would be easy to just say the Clippers’ season ended because Chris Paul and Blake Griffin were injured in Game 4 of their first-round 4-2 series loss to Portland. That would be ignoring other season-long issues. In revamping his bench this past summer, coach/president of basketball operations Doc...