It’s nervous time for the Clippers as well as their long-suffering fans. After years of wandering in the NBA wilde ess, the Clippers have qualified for the playoffs for the fifth year in a row. However, they have failed to win more than one playoff round during this otherwise successful run even wit...

It’s April in Long Beach, which means the city’s biggest event has arrived. The 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach runs Friday to Sunday, featuring the third round of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series. The featured race is Sunday afte oon’s Verizon IndyCar Series event, which includes an inte ...

The way to get to the Dodgers has always been through Vin Scully. The City of Los Angeles literally made that so Monday. Elysian Park Avenue street signs came down and city workers replaced them in the mo ing with blue Vin Scully Avenue signs at the intersections of Sunset Boulevard and, further up ...

It’s nervous time for the Clippers as well as their long-suffering fans. After years of wandering in the NBA wilde ess, the Clippers have qualified for the playoffs for the fifth year in a row. However, they have failed to win more than one playoff round during this otherwise successful run even wit...

It’s April in Long Beach, which means the city’s biggest event has arrived. The 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach runs Friday to Sunday, featuring the third round of the 2016 Verizon IndyCar Series. The featured race is Sunday afte oon’s Verizon IndyCar Series event, which includes an inte ...

Residents could hear some noise coming from Belmont Shore before the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach — Roar in the Shore. The free, fifth a ual event will be from 5 to 8 p.m. Wednesday. “There are so many visitors the week of Grand Prix, and Belmont Shore offers race fans a chance to explore our uni...

What’s been touted as the kickoff party for the 42nd a ual Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach — one of them, anyway — happens Wednesday. The Miss Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Finals is at 7 p.m. on April 13 at Hotel Maya-Vista Del Mar. In years past, the pageant was part of Thunder Thursday in downt...

Say, that’s a nice race car. Actor Robert Patrick, most famous for his role as the killer T-1000 in “Terminator 2: Judgement Day” is set to reappear in Long Beach Saturday as Grand Marshal of the Toyota Pro/Celebrity Race. Patrick, who presently portrays the character of Cabe Gallo on the television...

SoCal Prep Legends boys athlete of the week: Spencer Steer, Millikan baseball SoCal Prep Legends Boys Athlete of the Week NAME: SPENCER STEER SCHOOL: MILLIKAN SPORT: BASEBALL YEAR: SENIOR Noteworthy: The senior pitcher notched 6 1/3 scoreless i ings Friday afte oon at Blair Field to guide the Rams (...

SoCal Prep Legends girls athlete of the week: Anja Oca, Long Beach Poly swimming SoCal Prep Legends Girls Athlete of the Week NAME: ANJA OCA SCHOOL: LONG BEACH POLY SPORT: SWIMMING YEAR: SOPHOMORE Noteworthy: The sophomore continued her stellar second campaign Friday afte oon, capturing two more ind...

Sheffield is where they make steel. As such, it was nearly bombed into oblivion by the Luftwaffe in 1940. In two nights, the German blitz and its subsequent fires killed 660 people and destroyed 40,000 homes. Da y Willett, the new Masters champion, is being described as “steely” all over the United ...

Vin Scully is the big hit today. The legendary L.A. Dodgers a ouncer will see a stretch of Elysian Park Avenue between Sunset Boulevard and Stadium Way officially renamed “Vin Scully Avenue.” Scully began broadcasting Dodgers games in 1950. That was when the team still played in Brooklyn. He has sai...

HOUSTON >> The boos serenaded around the arena, representing the sound Kobe Bryant once heard in most opposing arenas. That noise has mostly vanished during Bryant’s farewell tour that will soon end. Yet, the boos represented part of the soundtrack in Bryant’s final appearance here during the Lakers...

The searing pain in Kobe Bryant’s back left him struggling to walk. He sat in a cold tub nearly all night, but his back still felt tight. He rested hours leading into tipoff, but he still felt stiff. So in a season in which he hoped he could log all 82 games, Bryant did the unthinkable. He sat on th...

Blake Griffin shot a combined 3 of 12 his first two games back after missing the previous 45, then shot 5 of 10 during a 91-81 victory over the Lakers on Wednesday. Griffin sat out Friday at Utah, then began Sunday’s game against the Dallas Mavericks by shooting 2 of 11 in the first half. Certainly,...

WASHINGTON >> It had to be played. This is the NHL and it demands that all 82 games for each team are in the league’s ledger each season. It isn’t Major League Baseball where it’ll occasionally let a postponed game go quietly away when it really isn’t needed. So the Ducks did the absolute most with ...

Tautalafua hit two, including the go-ahead home run, in a 7-5 win to start the day, and hit a pair of solo homers in a 3-0 win in the second game. The third baseman passed Cal State Fullerton’s Yasmin Mossadeghi for the conference record and now has 49 career home runs. Pitcher Christina Clermont ea...

WASHINGTON >> It had to be played. This is the NHL and it demands that all 82 games for each team are in the league’s ledger each season. It isn’t Major League Baseball where it’ll occasionally let a postponed game go quietly away when it really isn’t needed. So the Ducks did the absolute most with ...

Cole Aldrich sat in his locker stall proudly showing off his array of black and blue. There’s the deep bruise on his right forearm, the one that’s fading away on his right bicep. There’s the shiner under his left eye and, of course, the missing tooth. “He thinks he’s a hockey player,” Clippers coach...

You can thank the NFL for the three-day music festival coming to Pasadena next year. The nearly 100-year-old Rose Bowl Stadium, once sought as a possible home for an NFL team, passed on the league after voters and officials agreed that it wouldn’t be a good fit. But now, the ramifications of that de...