@MWhicker03LANG on Twitter It’s the hockey version of a rimshot. Whack-boom. Somebody winds up and fires a puck that thuds against the boards, rather than making that little “thunk” against a goalie’s pads. Goals themselves make hardly any sound at all, not until the light goes on and the crowd noti...

The No. 66 Long Beach State women’s te is team finished the regular season on Saturday at Rhodes Te is Center by beating No. 44 Oregon, 5-2. The 49ers (18-4) have now won 10 straight matches as they head into the Big West Conference Tou ament that starts April 27. LBSU’s No. 5 singles player Hayley ...

Editor’s note: Alexander Rossi, a member of Andretti Autosport, is giving us an insight into competing at the IndyCar Series Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach. Saturday is always an exciting day because it’s when everyone finally gets to see the ultimate pace of the cars around the track in qualifying...

LONG BEACH >> On Saturday afte oon at Blair Field, great hitting conditions helped No. 18 Long Beach State swing its way to an 8-3 victory over visiting UC Irvine, the Dirtbags’ second consecutive win in the three-game Big West Conference series. “The ultimate deal is to win the series,” Long Beach ...

MINNEAPOLIS >> The Angels apparently have their eyes on the end of the season already with Tyler Skaggs. Skaggs, who is coming back from Tommy John surgery, has thrown three i ings in three consecutive outings, including two at Triple-A. Manager Mike Scioscia said Saturday mo ing the relatively cons...

LOS ANGELES — Jake Olson ran onto the Coliseum field in a Southe Califo ia uniform and completed two field goal snaps Saturday. After the Trojans’ blind long snapper achieved another lifelong goal, he became even more determined to follow up this spring game performance by playing in a real game som...

ANAHEIM >> Kevin Bieksa sat in the Ducks’ locker room and watched on television as his teammates lost Game 1 of their Stanley Cup playoffs to Nashville. As the minutes ticked down to a 3-2 defeat, Bieksa’s frustration mounted. He wasn’t on the ice Friday because he had been nursing an upper-body inj...

LONG BEACH >> After 40 years of thrilling race fans, the final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach went out with one final blockbuster show. There were crashes, a hit tow-truck worker, and doughnuts on Shoreline Drive in the middle of the race, as well as one final checkered flag for accomplishe...

As any conversation about this 6-foot-5, 235-pound North Dakotan with a howitzer arm, barrel frame and the undeniable look of a franchise quarterback seems to begin these days, let us first address the Bison in the room. Carson Wentz spent the past five years playing college football in Fargo, N.D. ...

Mark.Whicker@langnews.com It’s like traveling to England and taking your first drive on the left side of the yellow line. Doable. But dangerous. Brent Bu s of the Sharks can navigate that transition better than almost anyone. He was a wing. Then a defenseman. Then a wing. Then a defenseman again. Am...

Game 1 was decided Friday when a 21-year-old winger fired the puck off the skate of a 20-year-old defenseman and past a goalie who’s 22. And this is the perfect opportunity to remind you that you’ve never been older than you are right now. When it comes to the principals involved in the decisive mom...

LONG BEACH >> Team Penske is one-up on Chip Ganassi Racing. For now. Helio Castroneves won his second consecutive IndyCar pole at the 42nd Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach in front of a large crowd on a warm, su y Saturday afte oon. Scott Dixon, who races for Ganassi, will be beside him when the gree...

LONG BEACH >> After 40 years of thrilling race fans, the final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach went out with one final blockbuster show. There were crashes, a hit tow-truck worker, and doughnuts on Shoreline Drive in the middle of the race, as well as one final checkered flag for accomplishe...

It’s doubtful the Clippers will ever forget their humiliating experience in the 2015 playoffs. Up 19 points with 2:34 left in the third quarter of Game 6 of the Weste Conference semifinals against Houston, the Clippers collapsed and lost by 12 (119-107) at Staples Center. A win, and the Clippers wou...

LONG BEACH >> After 40 years of thrilling race fans, the final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race in Long Beach went out with one final blockbuster show. There were crashes, a hit tow-truck worker, and doughnuts on Shoreline Drive in the middle of the race, as well as one final checkered flag for accomplishe...

The fallout happened nearly as quickly as it took for D’Angelo Russell to make a nifty cross-court pass. Russell secretly recorded a video that showed Nick Young admitting to infidelities. Once the video inadvertently became public, Lakers coach Byron Scott observed the incident “divided that locker...

By SCOTT M. REID / STAFF WRITER On an unseasonably cold April mo ing in 1959, a 19-year-old quarter-miler named Ron Allice squeezed into a station wagon with his teammates for what tu ed out to be for the Long Beach City College freshman the adventure of a lifetime. Allice and the rest of the team h...

The image of Kerry Collins in a Te essee Titans uniform has always stuck with Ke edy Polamalu. He briefly brushed past Collins in a short-lived stint as Te essee’s ru ing backs coach and hasn’t forgotten the way the quarterback controlled the offense. “He used to get me to jump offsides, and I was a...

LONG BEACH >> Take a walk on pit lane before the 40th and final Toyota Pro/Celebrity race at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach, and hear from the drivers in the post-race press conference. • On your mobile device, find the video here Advertisement Let's block ads! (Why?)

There is a white board inside the office of Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak, on which the Lakers’ current roster is written in custom marker. In the natural course of sports business, players come and players go. And when they leave the Lakers, Kupchak takes out an eraser and wipes their names ...