The words flowed out of Mitch Kupchak’s mouth perhaps as quickly as Kobe Bryant shot the ball in his career finale. Kupchak sounded as giddy as any of the 18,997 fans at Staples Center that witnessed Bryant scoring 60 points in a season-ending win over the Utah Jazz on Wednesday. “I would put that n...

Giovani dos Santos scored twice and the visiting Galaxy beat the Houston Dynamo 4-1 on Friday night to extend their unbeaten streak to four games. The Dynamo took an early lead when David Horst scored in the first minute, but it was all Galaxy from there. Dos Santos put away a long feed from Ashley ...

LONG BEACH >> The memories come flooding back. James Hinchcliffe first attended the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach when he was 6 years old. He won his first Indy Lights race on the 1.968-mile circuit. His first podium in the old Toyota Atlantics series was on the course. So was his first IndyCar To...

LAKEWOOD >> The Lakewood Lancers used timely hitting and another shut-down performance from Matt Fields to defeat Poly on Friday and stay perfect in the Moore League. The Poly bats gave Lakewood a scare in the top of the seventh , but with a six-run cushion, junior reliever Bryan Sandoval shut the d...

Bellflower High’s baseball team had no trouble Friday afte oon in a 22-0 Suburban League win over Artesia. The Bucs (13-4, 6-0) totaled 20 hits and were led by big offensive performances from Jorge Rodriguez (single, triple, home run, seven RBIs, three runs), Aaron Orozco (double, home run, five RBI...

Before Darian Tautalafua was breaking Long Beach State and Big West Conference softball records, she needed to lea how to navigate a field. “My very first time playing T-ball, I was playing at second base and I went to the wrong side of the base,” Tautalafua said. “And my first at-bat, I held the ba...

There’s a lot more to the Grand Prix than racing. In fact, we spent all of Friday at the track and only saw a minute or two of actual racing. Mostly, we horsed around at the Lifestyle Expo, ate our way around the circuit and people-watched. Here are some of the high points of our nonracing visit to ...

Under a bright blue sky and to the roar of engines, thousands of racing fans attended the opening day of the 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach on Friday, either watching the competition on the track, or taking in cold drinks, live bands and hand-crafted munchies. Larry Schaffer, who has att...

A day after a ouncing a blockbuster trade for the No. 1 overall pick in the NFL draft, the Los Angeles Rams made a much quieter move: re-signing free-agent kicker Greg Zuerlein. The Rams inked Zuerlein to a one-year deal, bringing back a former sixth-round draft pick who tied the NFL record with two...

PHILADELPHIA — As cities across the country honored Jackie Robinson’s pioneering baseball career, one also apologized for its racist treatment of Major League Baseball’s first black player nearly 70 years ago. When Robinson’s Brooklyn Dodgers played the Philadelphia Phillies in 1947, he was told to ...

Drew Doughty played 29 minutes, 19 seconds during the Kings’ 4-3 loss Thursday to the San Jose Sharks in Game 1 of their first-round playoff series. He played on the Kings’ power-play and penalty-killing units. He had three shots on goal, blocked two and had a minus-2 defensive rating. Doughty’s wor...

LA Lakers GM Mitch Kupchak said coach Byron Scott “has done an excellent job under the circumstances that he’s had to deal with the last two years.” Photos by Brad Graverson/LANG/09-24-15 It usually seems like a foregone conclusion the Lakers make changes anytime their season does not end in a champ...

There was about 10 minutes left in the third period of the Kings’ opening game of the Stanley Cup playoff series against San Jose on Thursday night, but Bob Miller decided it was time to go home. It’s not that his recently repaired heart couldn’t take the Kings trying to scramble back from another o...

This was going to be about the Clippers’ playoff opener rather than the Lakers who haven’t made the playoffs in three seasons and don’t figure to be back soon. I thought I had said everything I had to say about Kobe Bryant in 20 years from his first game to his last, which figured to be exciting, if...

So this is what it feels like to be collateral damage? Kind of like what’s inside a Dodger Dog. And you know how much those go for at the concession stand these days. We’re two weeks into the Dodgers’ third nuclear summer in a row. The SportsNet L.A./Time Wa er Cable/DirecTV cold war continues as th...

JJ Fiddler is a sportswriter and videographer who has been covering the Long Beach-area sports world for multiple newspapers since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he adopted Long Beach as his home town and is a member of t...

Long Beach Poly’s boys volleyball team cooled off a red hot Millikan squad in three sets Thursday afte oon and now controls its own destiny for a shot at a Moore League title. The Rams, which came into the match having won four consecutive Moore League contests, were not able to slow down Poly’s fas...

Game 1: Friday at Honda Center, 7:30 p.m.Game 2: Sunday at Honda Center, 7:30 p.m.Game 3: Tuesday at Nashville, 6:30 p.m.Game 4: April 21 at Nashville, 5 p.m. ANAHEIM - Love him. Loathe him. Ryan Kesler is not everyone’s favorite flavor and he knows it. Good with it. Even revels in it. The feelings ...

ANAHEIM – Considering his circumstances, it seemed natural to ask Huston Street if he was coming into this season in a better place than he had been in the past few years. Street interrupted. Not just in a few years. “In my life,” he emphasized. “No question.” Which is saying something, because the ...

Los Angeles Rams ru ing back Tre Mason missed his court date Monday because he didn’t know it had been scheduled, according to court documents filed by his atto ey. On Friday mo ing, H.T. Smith filed a motion in a Broward County (Fla.) court to quash the active arrest warrant for Mason, who had miss...