ANAHEIM >> Through their first 20 games, the Angels had scored 63 runs, the fewest across baseball and the fewest in franchise history since the designated hitter was implemented in 1973. They weren’t starved for offense Tuesday. Pushed ahead by a five-run i ing, the Angels defeated the Kansas City ...

With just seven players on the varsity roster, only one of whom stands more than 6-feet tall, it might have been hard to imagine the Gahr boys volleyball team ending the season on top of the San Gabriel Valley League standings. After Tuesday’s home match against Paramount, though, it looks like that...

Wilson High’s boys golf team captured its 12th consecutive Moore League championship and 136th league victory in a row with a 372-415 defeat of Millikan on Tuesday afte oon at El Dorado Park Golf Course. Senior Andrew Fe andes paced the Bruins (19-2, 10-0) with a 2-under round of 70, while Hunter Ep...

Jeff Fisher and Les Snead either are walking arm in arm, or they’re handcuffed together. At this point, given the high-stakes area the Rams are about to enter, the distinction is minimal. Fisher, the Rams’ coach, and Snead, the general manager, made a bold move this month to trade for the No. 1 over...

The man has seemingly accomplished everything in basketball. Ettore Messina has coached countless championship teams. Plenty consider him to have one of the most intelligent minds in the sports. Yet, Messina still has not become an NBA head coach. Perhaps his chance has come. The Lakers recently rec...

Goaltender Frederik Andersen was a member of the Norfolk Admirals of the American Hockey League when the Ducks lost Game 7 of their first-round Stanley Cup playoff series against the Detroit Red Wings at Honda Center on May 12, 2013. He made his Ducks debut in 2013-14. Ryan Kesler was a center with ...

MANCHESTER, England — Real Madrid coped well without the injured Cristiano Ronaldo to comfortably hold Manchester City to a 0-0 draw in the first leg of their Champions League semifinal on Tuesday. A thigh injury prevented Ronaldo from featuring and Madrid also played the second half at Etihad Stadi...

The man has seemingly accomplished everything in basketball. Ettore Messina has coached countless championship teams. Plenty consider him to have one of the most intelligent minds in the sports. Yet, Messina still has not become an NBA head coach perhaps until now. The Lakers recently received permi...

LOS ANGELES — Blake Griffin will miss the rest of the playoffs after aggravating his left quadriceps tendon and Chris Paul has undergone hand surgery, leaving the Los Angeles Clippers without their top two players for the rest of their first-round series against Portland. The team says Griffin had a...

AEG, the owner and operator of the Amgen Tour of Califo ia, a ounced this week that Amgen, one of the world’s leading biotechnology companies, renewed its title sponsorship of Califo ia’s largest professional cycling event. In addition, Coca-Cola, the world’s largest beverage company, and UnitedHeal...

NEW YORK — Candace Parker was shocked when the two-time Olympic gold medalist lea ed that she will not be on the U.S. women’s basketball roster for the Rio Games. “I was surprised and disappointed,” Parker said in a phone interview with The Associated Press on Tuesday. “Having gone to last two Olymp...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Two years ago, the Australian IOC member John Coates called the preparations for the Rio de Janeiro Olympics “the worst” in recent memory. A lot has happened since then as the countdown clock reaches 100 days on Wednesday. The venues that Coates worried about are 98 percent ready, a...

Steve Calhoun runs the Armed And Dangerous football camps. He has mid-wifed a lot of successful quarterbacks. One was Brock Jensen from North Dakota State. “I asked Brock why he was so focused every day,” Calhoun said. “He mentioned the guy that was playing behind him. He said, ‘If I’m not good ever...

The Rams are clearly comfortable with their starting linebackers. Comfortable enough, anyway, to cut ties with one of their defensive anchors. A month after the NFL approved its move to Los Angeles, the team released middle linebacker James Laurinatis, who had notched 743 total tackles since arrivin...

DALLAS — Former Cleveland Browns quarterback Joh y Manziel was indicted by a grand jury on Tuesday on a misdemeanor charge stemming from a domestic violence complaint by his ex-girlfriend. The 2012 Heisman Trophy wi er and Texas A&M star was accused by ex-girlfriend Colleen Crowley of hitting her an...

PORTLAND >> Think of Steve Ballmer. Maybe you see him on stage at a conference screaming “developers.” Maybe you see him at a pep rally screaming “Larry.” Maybe you see him sitting courtside screaming after a Clippers dunk. You don’t see him like this. Before Chris Paul walked out of the Moda Center...

This is my chance to pass on some very important education to all my fellow fishermen. In this week’s Weste Outdoor News, there was an article about the invasive Quagga mussel, making its way into Califo ia’s lakes and waterways. The potential environmental problems that these critters can cause is ...

LONG BEACH >> At a well-attended ceremony in the Wilson gymnasium on Monday afte oon, the school recognized 31 Bruins who are pla ing on continuing their athletic careers at the NCAA or junior college level. “It’s great to see such a wide spread of sports represented,” said Wilson athletic director ...

PORTLAND >> To say Clippers coach Doc Rivers and his players were bummed out following Monday’s 98-84 Game 4 loss to the Portland Trail Blazers at Moda Center, would be putting it mildly. Not only did the Trail Blazers tie the series 2-2 with Game 5 on Wednesday night at Staples Center, the Clippers...

The double-edged sword of strong drafting and development often means teams are forced to make difficult decisions in free agency. For the Rams, that manifested itself this offseason in the departures of starting co erback Janoris Jenkins to the Giants and safety Rodney McLeod to the Eagles. In a no...