It's East vs. West in Florida Derby showdown
One of the colts, the Doug O’Neill-trained Nyquist, is named for Detroit Red Wings winger Gustav Nyquist. Seems the horse’s owner, J. Paul Reddam, and his wife, Zillah, are huge hockey fans. They love their Red Wings. The other, the Kiaran McLaughlin-trained Mohaymen, means “guardian” or “protector”...
Santa Anita Park statistics, horse racing notes
SANTA ANITA LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Rafael Bejarano / 66 Santiago Gonzalez / 47 Flavien Prat / 41 Edwin Maldonado / 40 Joe Talamo / 31 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 30 Doug O’Neill / 30 Jerry Hollendorfer / 24 Bob Baffert / 21 Richard Baltas / 20 STAKES SCHEDULE GULFSTREAM PARK Sa...
Alex Guerrero lands on LA Dodgers' expansive disabled list
The Dodgers’ disabled list is growing by one, which is the only appropriate ending to a bleak March. Alex Guerrero joined Howie Kendrick, Andre Ethier, Brett Anderson, Brandon McCarthy, Brandon Beachy, Mike Bolsinger, Frankie Montas and Josh Ravin among those nowhere to be seen at Dodger Stadium on ...
Moore League baseball enjoys spring break tournaments
The top four Moore League baseball teams have had relatively successful trips to spring break tou aments this week. Millikan (11-5, 2-0 Moore League) won three games at the Ryan Lemmon Memorial Tou ament to reach the final, where it fell to Marina in a pitchers’ duel, 2-1, on Wednesday night. Ram ac...
Long Beach State Dirtbags hosting Big West opener
LONG BEACH >> The first Big West Conference series of the season could end up being the most important one for Long Beach State. The Dirtbags (16-7), ranked No. 17 by Baseball America, host No. 18 UC Santa Barbara (18-4) in a three-game series at Blair Field. The conference’s top two ranked teams i ...
Knee surgery sidelines LA Galaxy's Robbie Keane 4-6 weeks
Galaxy captain Robbie Keane underwent arthroscopic surgery on his right knee Thursday. Keane is expected to miss four to six weeks. He underwent the procedure at the Santa Monica Orthopedic and Sports Medicine Group and Kerlan-Jobe Institute at Cedars-Sinai. The 35-year-old forward, who has a team-h...
Clippers' Chris Paul chooses family over Rio Olympics
MINNEAPOLIS — Chris Paul is passing up a shot at Olympic history to take a much-needed summer off. The Los Angeles Clippers star said it was a difficult decision to pull his name from consideration for this summer’s Olympics in Rio, but after spending a decade playing for USA Basketball he felt it w...
USC point guard Julian Jacobs will test NBA draft
USC basketball suffered a potentially big blow when point guard Julian Jacobs decided to declare for the NBA draft. Jacobs said he has not decided whether to hire an agent yet so there is a chance he could retu for his senior season. “I’m not going to hire one right now,” Jacobs said. However, if Ja...
Here's how much LA Rams season-ticket packages will cost
Rams fans who wish to be in the Coliseum for every game in 2016 will need to shell out at least $360. The team will a ounce eight season-ticket pricing tiers Thursday, a team source confirmed, with packages costing as much as $2,025. The Rams will email the prices out to the 56,000 people who made $...
UCLA football commits to all-around physical play
It took exactly two days for tempers to flare at UCLA’s spring practice. After a one-on-one drill, offensive lineman Andre James and defensive lineman Matt Dickerson tangled and threw punches before teammates separated them. It was the first scuffle of the young spring campaign and it might not be t...
Salvador Duran has found home in Formula E
Salvador Duran has the opportunity to race in nearly any inte ational event he desires. The Mexican race-car driver won the 2007 Rolex 24 Hours of Daytona, sharing driving duties with 2015 Indianapolis 500 wi er Juan Pablo Montoya and Scott Pruett. He has raced in Italy’s Formula Renault series, NAS...
5 USWNT players accuse soccer federation of wage discrimination
Five players from the World Cup-wi ing U.S. national team have accused the U.S. Soccer Federation of wage discrimination in an action filed with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Alex Morgan, Carli Lloyd, Megan Rapinoe, Becky Sauerbru and Hope Solo maintain in the EEOC filing they were pa...
Game report: Anaheim Ducks 8, Calgary Flames 3
Key play: Corey Perry’s goal 57 seconds into the game propelled the Ducks to an 8-3 victory Wednesday over Calgary, sending them past the idle Kings and into first place in the Pacific Division. The Ducks’ win also was their 23rd in a row over the Flames at the Honda Center, dating to 2003-04. Playo...
Chris Paul leads LA Clippers to fourth consecutive win
MINNEAPOLIS >> With a showdown with the Oklahoma City Thunder looming on Thursday, the Clippers didn’t want to mess around and expend too much energy against the Mi esota Timberwolves. That his young Timberwolves provided so little resistance to the Clippers’ get-in-and-get-out approach left coach S...