Here’s a scouting report for Josh Forrest, whom the Rams selected with the 15th pick of the sixth round (190th overall) in the NFL Draft on Saturday: Josh Forrest Position: Linebacker School: Kentucky Year: Senior Size: 6-3, 249 Strengths: Good, tall athlete with long arms. Can play on third downs, ...

Here’s a scouting report for Michael Thomas, whom the Rams selected with the 31st pick of the sixth round (206th overall) in the NFL Draft on Saturday. The Rams received this pick from Chicago on Saturday after swapping their 15th pick of the fourth round for the Bears’ 19th pick. Michael Thomas Pos...

Here’s a scouting report for Temmarick Hemingway, whom the Rams selected with the second pick of the sixth round (177th overall) in the NFL Draft on Saturday: Temmarick Hemingway Position: Tight end School: South Carolina State Year: Senior Size: 6-5, 244 Strengths: Fluid receiver who does well afte...

Here’s a scouting report for Tyler Higbee, whom the Rams selected with the 12th pick of the fourth round (110th overall) in the NFL Draft on Saturday: Tyler Higbee Position: Tight end School: Weste Kentucky Year: Senior Size: 6-5, 249 Strengths: Tall and athletic former receiver who has excellent pa...

The Rams had the 15th pick of the fourth round and traded down four spots with the Chicago Bears, who sent the Rams the 31st pick of the sixth round (206th overall pick) and took LB Nick Kwiatkoski of West Virginia. Here’s a scouting report for Pharoh Cooper, whom the Rams selected with the 19th pic...

LONG BEACH >> They say you should never look a gift horse in the mouth, so the Long Beach State Dirtbags did exactly that on Friday night when they hosted the Big West-leading Cal Poly Mustangs in the first of three imperative conference games at Blair Field. Three throwing errors and poor relief pi...

CHICAGO >> A day after sharing the most excruciating three hours of his life with the entire professional football world, Myles Jack went black Friday night in Chicago. He pulled the plug on the cameras and scrutiny and pity of the green room adjacent to the Auditorium Theater at Roosevelt Universit...

PORTLAND >> What now? It’s the question Doc Rivers was forced to ask himself after the Clippers, besieged by Donald Sterling’s nonsense and a Game 5 collapse, left the playoffs two years ago. It’s the question he was forced to ask after a 3-1 lead over the Houston Rockets proved to be not enough. An...

Their voices sounded excited. The tone in their text messages conveyed elation. With the Lakers hiring Golden State assistant Luke Walton as their next head coach on Friday, his future players offered a jolt of energy that seemed absent during parts of the 2015-16 campaign that ended with their wors...

There’s always a gravitational pull, however slight, toward Matt Kemp and Yasmani Grandal whenever the San Diego Padres play the Dodgers. The game seems to find them. Kemp and Grandal were the two pillars of a December 2014 trade that set both franchises on their current course: The Dodgers into a p...

It’s been quite a month for Leah Pritchett, the NHRA Top Fuel driver from Redlands. In that time span, she lost her regular ride in the Mello Yello Drag Racing Series when Bob Vandergriff Racing folded its racing operations after four of 26 national events, and has had two part-time rides, the lates...

LONG BEACH >> They say you should never look a gift horse in the mouth, so the Long Beach State Dirtbags did exactly that on Friday night when they hosted the Big West-leading Cal Poly Mustangs in the first of three imperative conference games at Blair Field. Three throwing errors and poor relief pi...

Now to see if the Lakers can still tell which way is up. Byron Scott never had a chance, wasn’t the problem but had to go anyway. Now to see if they can hire someone who won’t be as overmatched as Scott was, even if he won’t have much better talent than Scott did. The Lakers have a distinguished — o...

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Long Beach State’s women’s te is team had its 11-match win streak snapped at quite an inopportune time Friday afte oon. A 4-3 semifinal setback against Hawai’i at the Indian Wells Te is Garden could end its season and will keep the squad out of the Big West Conference Tou ament championship round fo...

After once helping the Lakers to back-to-back NBA championships with his superior passing, Luke Walton will try to hand out an assist to his former team in another way. Walton and the Lakers agreed to a multi-year deal to become their head coach. The 36-year-old Walton replaced Byron Scott, who was ...

ANAHEIM — Bruce Boudreau is gone but everyone else is still here, and maybe this first step in the latest progression of the Ducks suddenly doesn’t feel like a step forward at all. In a move that was as predictable as this team losing a Game 7, Boudreau was terminated Friday, the event officially ha...

“This is going to be a good answer,” Jeff Fisher said, “because we prepped him on it.” Sitting to the coach’s left on Friday afte oon was Jared Goff, the newly anointed franchise quarterback of the Rams. Less than 24 hours earlier, the club had selected the 21-year-old with the No. 1 overall pick of...

Now to see if the Lakers can still tell which way is up. Byron Scott never had a chance, wasn’t the problem but had to go anyway. Now to see if they can hire someone who won’t be as overmatched as Scott was, even if he won’t have much better talent than Scott did. The Lakers have a distinguished — o...

Reports of a serious problem with Myles Jack’s surgically repaired right knee dropped the former UCLA linebacker out of the NFL Draft’s first round completely on Thursday, but he finally heard his name called Friday as the 36th overall pick to the Jacksonville Jaguars. Jacksonville traded its No. 38...