Here are some of the possible candidates to replace Byron Scott as Lakers coach: • Luke Walton: Former Lakers forward, current assistant with Golden State who guided the Warriors to a 39-4 record this season as interim coach during Steve Kerr’s absence. • Mark Jackson: Former Golden State coach who ...

This is the fifth in a series of stories examining who the Rams might draft at each position group leading into their first season back in Los Angeles. We’ve already covered QB, RB, WR and TE. Next is a look at available offensive linemen, should the Rams feel the need to further protect their soon-...

After overseeing the Lakers finish with their worst record in franchise history for two consecutive years, Byron Scott will not coach the team in the 2016-17 season. Instead, the Lakers declined to pick up Scott’s options for both his third and fourth season. The third year of his deal was not fully...

Byron Scott is no longer the coach of the Lakers. Use your own verb. Fired, released, liberated. Maybe even promoted. Scott’s two seasons (38-126) were the Lakers’ worst of all time. That was about as much of a surprise as his firing. To find a more thankless job, he would have to become Joh y Manzi...

This is the fifth in a series of stories examining who the Rams might draft at each position group leading into their first season back in Los Angeles. We’ve already covered QB, RB, WR and TE. Next is a look at available offensive linemen, should the Rams feel the need to further protect their soon-...

Byron Scott will not retu for a third season as Lakers coach after his teams won 38 games in his first two seasons at the helm. The organization opted not to exercise a third-year option on Scott’s contract, the Register lea ed. Scott shepherded the Lakers through the final two seasons of Kobe Bryan...

RICHMOND, Va. >> Carl Edwards had been grinding for 30 laps, doing everything he could to catch Joe Gibbs Racing teammate Kyle Busch in a two-way breakaway from the pack at Richmond Inte ational Raceway. When he finally caught him on the last lap Sunday, and in the final tu , he had no time to think...

NASHVILLE >> Here we go again. This isn’t Game 7 yet. It isn’t time to fret about the Ducks having that series-deciding game at home once again and recall the times they’ve trudged off the Honda Center ice surface in dispirited fashion wondering how and why. But what they have right in front of them...

DENVER >> A six-run lead isn’t safe at Coors Field. If the baseball players don’t make sure of it, the baseball gods will. A whipping wind tu ed the Colorado Rockies’ home park into a swirl of napkins and plastic bags at times Sunday, not enough to cause a health hazard but enough to re-create a sce...

The NCAA selection committee a ounced Sunday afte oon that the Long Beach State men’s volleyball team made this year’s NCAA Championships as an at-large entrant, ea ing the No. 4 seed in the team’s first NCAA playoff appearance since 2008. The 49ers are among the six teams to make it and received on...

When Myles Jack first heard the anonymous reports suggesting his surgically repaired knee was “a timebomb,” the former UCLA linebacker had just finished his third game of pickup basketball that day. It was a Monday at Fischer Institute in Phoenix, where Jack has been preparing for this week’s NFL dr...

ANAHEIM >> It was the longest hitless streak of Albert Pujols’ career. For 26 consecutive at-bats, the Angels’ cleanup hitter remained without a hit. But Pujols broke out of the slump Sunday afte oon in the Angels’ 9-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners with a dramatic flair, hitting a two-run home run in...

The No. 18-ranked Long Beach State Dirtbags had a tough start to their weekend at UC Riverside, falling in a final-i ing loss Friday in Big West Conference play and trailing the Highlanders at press time Saturday. Friday night’s series opener saw LBSU fall 4-3 on a game-ending single from Vince Fe a...

Jack Reiss, the referee, grabbed Dominic Wade’s gloves and sent him back into the one-man jungle. Before doing so, he advised, “You better protect yourself.” Well, it was a little too late to call Geico. Or FEMA. A few seconds later Ge ady Golovkin dodged a left, stepped up and bashed Wade on the ch...

PORTLAND >> Chris Paul did a quick interview with this newspaper during the mo ing shootaround for Saturday night’s Game 3 of the first-round playoff series between his Clippers and Portland at Moda Center. Ten minutes later, he came through the arena’s media center to the visitor’s locker room. On ...

Springtime in Clipper Nation for Southe Califo ia. It has come to this ... again ... the Clippers as local fans’ last, best and only hope. Winter still belongs to the Lakers here, or did as long as they had Kobe Bryant, to his very last game April 13, 2016, a date that will live forever in fans’ hea...

Once upon a horrible time – and strangly not that long ago – baseball doctors thought that pulling the teeth of a pitcher who had a sore arm would somehow fix it. Now some refer to Tommy John surgery as nothing more than having a root canal. It depends on who, or what, you’re rooting around for. Jef...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com INGLEWOOD — Dominic Wade walked into the ring Saturday night to the accompaniment of Prince’s “1999,” which was respectful and appropriate. And then Ge ady Golovkin knocked him back into the previous century. Two rounds, three knockdowns, and the middleweight champ extended...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout versus Felix He andez is a matchup that keeps tilting in the Angels’ favor. Trout, again, touched off on the Seattle Mariners’ ace on Saturday night, as the Angels grabbed a 4-2 victory. When Trout stepped to the plate in the bottom of the sixth i ing, the Angels were trailing,...

NEWPORT BEACH >> Three weeks after the sixth a iversary of the day his new life began, the world’s most famous sports agent peers from behind a desk cluttered with papers, memorabilia and Diet Dr. Pepper cans to admire the scene outside of his bay window, where the water on Balboa Bay is a cool, mes...