The Long Beach Yacht Club plays host to the 52nd a ual Congressional Cup this week, regarded as World Match Racing Tour’s “granddaddy of match racing” among avid sailors. The Congressional Cup features 12 of the top skippers in the world, from eight different nations, all of whom have the prestigiou...

The sense of deja vu isn’t lost on Jeff Fisher as he helps oversee the Rams move from St. Louis to Los Angeles. Fisher finds himself in the identical position he was back in 1996 – the head coach of a football team closing shop in one city and starting a new future in another. Back then he was with ...

Rip Scherer couldn’t shake the couching bug, no matter how much he tried to convince himself he could. So when a position opened up two years after UCLA head coach Jim Mora first approached him about coaching again, Scherer didn’t hesitate. “I missed the relationships with players, the competition,”...

CERRITOS >> In a clash of undefeated top dogs in the Suburban League, the Bellflower High School boys volleyball team outlasted Cerritos in a thrilling five set match. After dropping the first two sets on the road at Cerritos, the Buccaneers battled back and cruised to a fifth-set win to take sole p...

LONG BEACH >> Millikan High School is celebrating the retu of Moore League softball. After losing 12 of their first 15 games in a difficult nonleague schedule, the Rams (6-12, 3-0) stayed perfect in league play after beating Long Beach Poly, 9-3, on Tuesday afte oon at Joe Rodgers Stadium. Millikan ...

Want to get into the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach free of charge? The Press-Telegram will again offer free tickets for the first race day on Friday, April 15. Pick up a paper this Friday (April 8), Sunday (April 10) or on April 15 for a coupon that allows you to sign up for a voucher to gain admi...

As a preview to the 2012 Summer Olympics in London, Constantine Markides began a profile in Rolling Stone magazine about Anthony Ervin: “The fastest swimmer in America right now may not be Michael Phelps or Ryan Lochte but a tattooed, half-black, half-Jewish grad student with Tourette’s syndrome who...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Every golfer alive has thrown his head back, looked at the clouds and asked “Why?” When Bryson DeChambeau was 17, he did the same thing. The difference was that he demanded an answer. DeChambeau is the reigning U.S. Amateur and NCAA champion, from SMU. He will tu professional next wee...

MILLIKAN 5, CABRILLO 0 >> The Rams (12-5, 3-0) stayed tied atop the Moore League at Blair Field. - JJ Fiddler Boys golf WILSON 358, POLY 389 >> Hunter Epson, Andrew Fe andes and Andre Calubid all shot 1-under-par 71 at Recreation Park for the first-place Bruins (10-1, 4-0 Moore League). Jericho Bett...

LONG BEACH >> Millikan High School is celebrating the retu of Moore League softball. After losing 12 of their first 15 games in a difficult nonleague schedule, the Rams (6-12, 3-0) stayed perfect in league play after beating Long Beach Poly, 9-3, on Tuesday afte oon at Joe Rodgers Stadium. Millikan ...

When the Lakers’ Kobe Bryant took the floor against the Clippers on Tuesday night, he did so knowing that he had only six games left in his Hall of Fame career. The Clippers knew that, too, “I’ve got a few of them, a lot of them,” Clippers guard Chris Paul said about his Bryant memories. “It’s hard ...

SAN DIEGO >> Two infield singles. That’s all that stood between the Dodgers and a combined perfect game in Tuesday’s 3-0 victory over the San Diego Padres. The a ounced crowd of 28,329 at Petco Park braved the possibility of another blowout; the fans were rewarded with a slightly more competitive ga...

John Gibson started in goal Tuesday for the Ducks against the Wi ipeg Jets with Anton Khudobin serving as his backup in the regular-season home finale at the Honda Center. The lineup could be exactly the same Thursday when the Ducks face the Kings at Staples Center. Ducks coach Bruce Boudreau said h...

Key play: Blake Wheeler scored 3:07 into overtime and the Wi ipeg Jets rallied from a one-goal deficit late in the third period to take a 2-1 victory Tuesday over the Ducks at the Honda Center. The Ducks dominated the play in OT, but Wheeler scored on a counterattack. Playoff update: The Ducks (44-2...

USC quarterbacks coach Tyson Helton was asked Tuesday what he would tell fans who think the coaches would never start a redshirt freshman at quarterback in the season opener against Alabama. “I would say. ‘Don’t ever put anything past anybody,’” Helton said. “The best player plays. Whether it’s reds...

LONG BEACH >> If the 40th a ual Toyota Pro/Celebrity race on April 15 is indeed the final time the race is to be run in Long Beach, at least the well-loved tradition will be going out with a bang. Nineteen of the 21 drivers are former champions, making it both the largest and the most talented field...

MUNICH — Arturo Vidal’s early header was enough for Baye Munich to beat Benfica 1-0 at home on Tuesday and take a slender advantage from the first leg of their Champions League quarterfinal. The Chilean midfielder struck in the second minute, heading home from five meters (yards) after being picked ...

If next Saturday’s 40th a ual Toyota Pro/Celebrity race is indeed the final time the race is to be run in Long Beach, at least the well-loved tradition will be going out with a bang. Nineteen of the 21 drivers are former champions, making it both the largest and the most talented field in the race’s...

LOS ANGELES — Kelly Drysdale remembers seeing her dad’s Cy Young Award in her house growing up. Now she’s heartbroken that Don Drysdale’s widow is selling memorabilia from his years as a star pitcher for the Dodgers. A Meyers Drysdale, the Hall of Fame basketball player who was married to the Hall o...

AUGUSTA, Ga. — Last year’s PGA champion shot 20-under-par. Last year’s Masters champ shot 18-under-par. Last year’s U.S. Open champ shot 5-under, and the 2014 champ shot 9-under. The last two British Open wi ers shot 15-under and 17-under. “I need to get my skates on,” Adam Scott said. They say golf...