SACRAMENTO >> At long last, there was a celebration. The Chino Hills boys basketball team had promised as much all along the way, but its celebrations at each stop to this point had been rather modest. But with no other games to look forward to, the Huskies could finally let loose - and they did. Th...

Long Beach State’s baseball team bounced back from Friday’s loss with a 5-4 victory at Cal State Fullerton in Saturday’s rubber match. The No. 20 Dirtbags (16-7) tallied four runs through four i ings and leaned on the bullpen for six i ings of work as Joshua Advocate (3-0) picked up the win in relie...

LONG BEACH >> Long Beach State’s men’s volleyball team had a chance to reclaim its place in the nation’s top three Saturday night, but couldn’t make the final surge during any set in an eventual 25-22, 25-22, 25-22 defeat against No. 2 UCLA at Walter Pyramid. No. 4 LBSU (20-5, 14-4 MPSF) led early i...

Moore League swimming has definitely been the Wilson show for a very long time, with the boys team looking for its 44th consecutive league title this season and the girls set to defend the 2015 crown. There are some other teams, however, that may have a stronger chance than usual of upending the Bru...

ANAHEIM >> Airplanes once had to refuel before they reached Europe. Radio signals, before satellites, would fade as soon as you went over a hill. Buddy Hield and this whole unimaginably rangy band of shooters we see, they’re just an evolutionary step. They bring the drone to all levels of basketball...

SACRAMENTO >> It was the year of “almost” for the Long Beach Poly boys basketball team—the Jackrabbits almost won a CIF-SS title, and on Saturday at the Sleep Train Arena, they almost won a state title. Instead, another big game ended in heartbreak for the Jackrabbits, as they fell 48-43 to the San ...

EL SEGUNDO >> The good news for the Lakers is that Kobe Bryant is in. The bad news is that D’Angelo Russell is likely out. Russell was diagnosed with a moderate ankle sprain in the Lakers’ loss the Denver Nuggets on Friday. He did not practice on Saturday and Lakers coach Byron Scott is leaning towa...

BRIDGEPORT, Co . >> Texas’ goal all season has been to make it to a regional final. Mission accomplished. Imani Boyette scored 18 points and grabbed 10 rebounds to lead the second-seeded Longho s to a come-from-behind 72-64 win over UCLA on Saturday in the Sweet 16. Brooke McCarty added 15 points fo...

Buddy is going to the Final Four. Sooners star Buddy Hield scored 37 points and was 8 for 13 on 3-pointers as Oklahoma beat Oregon 80-68 in the West Regional final at The Honda Center. It is the fifth Final Four appearance for the Sooners and their first since 2002. The Sooners will meet the wi er o...

PLAYA VISTA >> Blake Griffin practiced with the Clippers on Saturday, which means he is nearing his retu to action for the first time since Christmas. He has missed 41 consecutive games with a partially to left quad tendon and fractured right hand. The Clippers (44-27) are 27-14 without their power ...

Bill Walton sounded exhausted. He was back in his home near Balboa Park in San Diego, but the 63-year-old had just hours earlier unfolded his bigger-than-life 6-foot-11 self after a cross-country flight from New York. Four days of signings, TV spots, radio, podcasts and other media related to his ne...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Vin Scully was holding court with a large group of reporters Friday, hours before the last spring training game he’ll maybe ever broadcast, when a cell phone rang. The sound was that of an old dial-up telephone — the kind that might have rang in Scully’s Manhattan apartment as a c...

The festive crowd gasped abruptly. Nearly all of Staples Center went silent. Numerous Lakers hovered around. Lakers rookie point guard D’Angelo Russell had just rolled his right ankle after stepping on the foot of Nuggets guard DJ Augustin during a defensive rotation. Moments later, Metta World Peac...

On the surface, it appeared that Lakers guard D’Angelo Russell and Nuggets guard Emmanuel Mudiay simply completed a pregame routine that showcased their potential. Russell made a few 3-pointers before working on post drills. On the other end of the court, Mudiay converted on some pull-up jumpers bef...

ANAHEIM >> It was September when Lon Kruger invited Dana Altman on a summer golf trip to Scotland. In other words, long before the Oklahoma and Oregon coaches knew their teams would face off Saturday for a berth in the Final Four. One can only imagine the conversation on the first tee. “That could b...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Vin Scully was holding court with a large group of reporters Friday, hours before the last spring training game he’ll maybe ever broadcast, when a cell phone rang. The sound was that of an old dial-up telephone — the kind that might have rang in Scully’s Manhattan apartment as a c...

The Long Beach City College men’s volleyball swept to a 14th consecutive victory Friday with a 25-16, 26-24, 25-18 Weste State Conference victory over Santa Barbara. Sophomore Joshua Nehls led with 15 kills and eight digs, with freshman Andrew Pearson chipping in 11 kills. LBCC retu s to action next...

Thirty-two minutes of basketball are all that stand between the Long Beach Poly boys basketball team and history. The Jackrabbits will face San Mateo Serra on Saturday at 4 p.m. in the Sleep Train Arena in Sacramento, with the CIF State Division II championship up for grabs. For Poly fans who aren’t...

Luis Gil scored in the fifth minute, and the United States held on for a 1-1 tie against Colombia at Barranquilla on Friday in the opener of a two-leg playoff for the final berth in this year’s men’s Olympic soccer tou ament. In the matchup of under-23 teams. Colombia had 76 percent possession in th...

J.J. Redick was one of the heroes for the Clippers on Thursday when he hit a 21-foot shot at the buzzer to lift the Clippers to a 96-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers at Staples Center. Chris Paul was the other. With 1.1 seconds left, he threw a bounce pass between the legs of Portland cent...