The Lakers’ Kobe Bryant #24 during their NBA game against the Thunder at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, Friday, January 8, 2016. UCLA beat Arizona 87-84. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News) Live updates, photos, stories, video throughout the final day of Kobe Bryant’s 20-year career...

With one play to decide the wi er of Wednesday’s practice, wide receivers Darren Andrews and Ke y Walker teamed up to win the day for the offense. Andrews took a screen pass from quarterback Josh Rosen and burst upfield. Walker threw an exceptional block to free a lane for Andrews to run into the en...

SALT LAKE CITY — Utah center Jakob Poeltl is leaving school to enter the NBA draft. He made his plans known Wednesday during a news conference at the Utah basketball practice facility. Poeltl was named a second-team All-American and was the Pac-12 Player of the Year. He ranked No. 2 in the Pac-12 wi...

A Florida court has issued an arrest warrant for Los Angeles Rams ru ing back Tre Mason, who failed to show up for a Monday arraignment relating to his misdemeanor charges from early March. Mason had been arrested in Hollywood, Fla., on March 5 on charges that included reckless driving, possession o...

USC continued its tradition of hiring athletic directors with no previous experience when it a ounced former football star Ly Swa would replace Pat Haden on July 1. Swa , 64, was a teammate of Haden’s at USC and almost mirrors him when it comes to taking over the athletic director’s position. Like H...

Tonight, one of the greatest players in basketball history takes the floor for the final time as a player. After at 20-year NBA career, Kobe Bryant will play his last game at a sold-out Staples Center in front of a crowd of his biggest fans. They’re playing the Utah Jazz at 7:30 p.m. but we’ll be Sn...

ARLINGTON, Va. — Police have arrested Atlanta Braves outfielder Hector Olivera after a woman accused him of assault at a hotel outside Washington. Arlington Police spokeswoman Ashley Savage said police were called just before 7 a.m. Wednesday to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Pentagon City. Savage says a...

A Florida court has issued an arrest warrant for Los Angeles Rams ru ing back Tre Mason, who failed to show up for a Monday arraignment relating to his misdemeanor charges from early March. Mason had been arrested in Hollywood, Fla., on March 5 for charges that included reckless driving, possession ...

PORTLAND, Ore. — Court records show U.S. soccer star Abby Wambach pleaded guilty to driving under the influence of intoxicants Tuesday in a county courtroom in Portland. The Oregonian reports the plea means Wambach could have her charges dismissed within a year by enrolling in a diversion program av...

LOS ANGELES — Married U.S. Air Force Tech. Sgts. Ruben and Olivia Munoz of Chino will be honored as the Military Heroes of the Game tonight when the Los Angeles Dodgers play host to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the second game of their three-game series. • PHOTOS: Opening Day at Dodger Stadium The co...

The smile on Kobe Bryant’s face changed as quickly as it takes for the Lakers’ standout to hit one of his many game-wi ing shots. Has Bryant ever lost a game of one-on-one to any player? “No one,” Bryant said as he offered a dismissive facial expression with furrowed eyebrows. “I’m not trying to be ...

The Clippers on Tuesday entered their second-to-last game of the regular season still not knowing which team they will play in the first round of the Weste Conference playoffs. There were three possibilities before tipoff, Portland, Dallas and Memphis, which took on the Clippers at Staples Center. T...

OAKLAND >> Ironically, Huston Street knew the Angels would be good when they lost four of their first five games. It wasn’t so much how they played. It was how they handled themselves. And now, after Geovany Soto’s ninth-i ing two-run homer lifted them to a 5-4 come-from-behind victory over the Oakl...

OAKLAND >> For most of the night, the Angels looked just as quiet offensively as they have throughout much of the season’s first eight games. But they came to life just in time. Albert Pujols’ two-run double in the eighth and Geovany Soto’s two-run homer in the ninth capped a rally in the Angels’ 5-...

Eager to show everyone why it’s too early to panic, the Dodgers bullpen loaded up a couple of gallons of gasoline, doused the pitching mound with it at Dodgers Stadium, threw in a couple of sticks of dynamite and lit a match. And KA-BOOM went Opening Day against the Arizona Diamondbacks on an otherw...

OAKLAND >> As a relief pitcher, Joe Smith joked that he’s usually only on the highlights for doing something bad, like a giving up a homer. Except on Tuesday he was all over national TV for doing something good. And it wasn’t even baseball. Smith beat the Golden State Warriors’ Steph Curry in a game...

Video: Gahr softball edges Warren in extra i ings CERRITOS >> Gahr took advantage of second chances against Warren to take a 3-2 extra i ings win and stay atop the San Gabriel Valley League. Advertisement About the Author JJ Fiddler is a sportswriter and videographer who has been covering the Long B...

The Clippers went 14-1 in their final 15 games of the regular season in 2014-15. But they lost a seven-game series to the Houston Rockets in the second round of the Weste Conference playoffs after blowing Game 6 at Staples Center, so that momentum didn’t hold up as long as they would have liked. Sti...

SACRAMENTO >> A Califo ia legislative panel advanced a bill Tuesday committing the state to cover up to $250 million in cost overruns as part of Los Angeles’ bid to host the 2024 Olympics. The Senate Gove mental Organization Committee approved the bill, SB1465, in a 7-0 vote after proponents said th...

PLAYER OF THE YEAR: EYASSU WORKU, Los Alamitos, Senior “Thank you so much for the honor,” Los Alamitos High School senior and UC Irvine signee Eyassu Worku said when told he was this year’s Press-Telegram Dream Team Player of the Year. In truth, Worku has piled up more awards and honors this year th...