Poly junior middle blocker Sam Lewis stands 6-foot-11, just a little more than a foot shorter than the top of a volleyball net. When he rises up, he reaches 11-8. Those attributes are a big part of why Lewis is a top five recruit in the junior class, committed to USC. With physical tools like he has...

Baron Davis’ basketball career isn’t quite ready for the closing credits. The 37-year-old who is actually eight months younger than Kobe Bryant has a couple of D-Leagues on his radar, powering through a comeback from what should have been a career-ending right knee injury in 2012 while in the playof...

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...

General manager Bob Murray said he’s “not in a hurry whatsoever” when it comes to hiring a coach to replace Bruce Boudreau, who was fired Friday mo ing, two days after the Ducks’ fourth consecutive defeat in a Game 7 at Honda Center. Murray said he plans to meet with the Ducks players over the next ...

Las Vegas marriages can consummate in a flash. A couple of dirty martinis, a shared Uber ride up the Strip to the Cosmopolitan, tracking down a notorious Elvis impersonator who can also notarize a license. Bingo, bango, bongo. Regrets, and a ulments, often follow. The Raiders’ bridal path to “Just S...

Jared Goff, who was raised in the Bay Area and played for Cal, caught some grief for his tweet from 2013 that read, “I really hope Yasiel Puig gets a fastball in his ribs tomorrow.” After Goff was drafted at the No. 1 pick in the NFL Draft Thursday, the tweet was widely shared. Puig, the Dodgers sta...

Boxing features 17 divisions and none of them is at 155 pounds. That was the message from Abel Sanchez following Ge ady Golovkin’s second-round destruction of Dominic Wade this past Saturday at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood. Sanchez trains Golovkin (35-0, 32 KOs), the middleweight champion from Ka...

The Ducks on Friday a ounced that they have fired Bruce Boudreau as their coach. “I would like to thank Bruce for his hard work and dedication to the franchise,” Ducks general manager Bob Murray said in a statement. “This was a very difficult decision to make. Bruce is a good coach and character per...

Ducks general manager Bob Murray figures to take a good look at several candidates to replace Bruce Boudreau, who was fired Friday after five seasons with the team. Among them: • Paul MacLean and Trent Yawney, the Ducks’ assistant coaches who orchestrated the team’s NHL-leading power-play and penalt...

MIAMI — Reigning NL batting champion Dee Gordon of the Miami Marlins says he unknowingly took the performance-enhancing drugs that led to his 80-game suspension, but he’ll accept the penalty. The a ouncement of the suspension by Major League Baseball came shortly after the Marlins’ victory at Los An...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com SAN DIEGO >> No truth to the rumor that the Chargers tried to trade their first-round pick for a transponder, so they could get to L.A. quicker. Traffic can gather quickly around their Murphy Canyon Road headquarters. Instead, they held the No. 3 selection, hunkered down am...

HIGHLAND >> Many mock NFL drafts had UCLA defensive lineman Ke y Clark getting drafted in the second round. But Clark, the Carter High product, had other ideas. “I had a lot of confidence I was going in the first round,” Clark said. “A lot of stuff did say I was going in the second round, but that’s...

woodland hills >> Trailing two sets to one and just two points from its season ending, the Long Beach City College men’s volleyball team came up with a rally for the ages in Thursday night’s state semifinal match against Golden West at Pierce College. The Vikings won five straight points in the four...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com SAN DIEGO >> No truth to the rumor that the Chargers tried to trade their first-round pick for a transponder, so they could get to L.A. quicker. Traffic can gather quickly around their Murphy Canyon Road headquarters. Instead, they held the No. 3 selection, hunkered down am...

As the seconds before the NFL draft’s top pick ticked off in Microsoft Square, a sea of yellow and blue buzzing with two decades’ worth of anticipation for pro football settled into a quiet hum. Nearly 4,000 had come to wait for these final moments, for the promise of new quarterback for their new R...

CHICAGO >> The Joffrey Ballet will perform at the Auditorium Theatre in two weeks. Not in attendance, most likely, will be a middle-aged man wearing a full Bart Starr retro uniform, topped by a foam cheesehead. The usual patrons of this o ate theater might have fainted from fright Thursday night. Th...

After nearly six hours, the gates finally opened. Jeff and Lori Naylor were first in line for the Rams’ NFL draft party, one of the roughly 3,600 who soon packed themselves into an open-air plaza at L.A. Live on Thursday afte oon. They were dressed demurely, considering the time they had dedicated: ...

Video: 4 quick takeaways from Rams’ first draft back in LA Califo ia’s Jared Goff waves as after being selected by the Los Angeles Rams as 1st pick in the first round of the 2016 NFL football draft, Thursday, April 28, 2016, in Chicago. (AP Photo/Charles Rex Arbogast) Please enable JavaScript to vie...

DOWNEY >> The Gahr High School softball team left 23 ru ers on base in 14 i ings against Warren this season. However, timely hitting and phenomenal pitching from sophomore Danielle Martinez led the Gladiators to two wins. The second victory came on Thursday afte oon at Warren where Gahr (18-5-2, 6-0...