TEMPE, Ariz. — While his teammates played catch in the outfield Friday mo ing at Tempe Diablo Stadium, Angels pitcher C.J. Wilson stood behind in foul territory, a glove on his right hand. He wouldn’t need the glove this time. He won’t need it for a while. Wilson, who still hasn’t faced live hitters...

When Long Beach Poly’s boys basketball team takes the floor for Saturday’s CIF State Division II state championship game in Sacramento, the Jackrabbits will have decades of history and a dozen CIF championships on the bench. Poly’s varsity coaching staff this year is made up entirely of alumni, all ...

Formula E and Virtually Live, a San Francisco-based virtual reality technology business, have a ounced a partnership to bring virtual reality to the electric racing series. Virtually Live lets e-enthusiasts experience live events in real time, and is aimed at fans who can’t attend in person. Several...

Andre Ward is one of the world’s most talented fighters, but he’s fought just once since November 2013 because of a contract dispute with his former promoter, the late Dan Goossen. And that one fight was against some cat named Paul Smith in June. Suffice to say, Ward is not on the minds of boxing fa...

ANAHEIM — Jordan Bell, ninth grader, waited for a Lakewood High player to come down the lane. The guy pumped. Bell jumped. At that point, he realized what he would be doing for at least the next eight years. “I went super high, and when the guy started to shoot it, I was still in the air,” Bell said...

A Palos Verdes Estates man pleaded not guilty today to assaulting a man in a parking lot at Dodger Stadium after a Dodgers-Mets game last October. Michael Rae Papayans, 27, is charged with a felony count of assault by means likely to produce great bodily injury, with an allegation that he caused gre...

Each of Kerri Walsh Je ings’ pieces of jewelry has meaning. The Olympic champion always wears an Olympic necklace. She has a golden courage bead on her wrist and a gold scapular-inspired necklace with a hand-etched lion, symbolizing her astrological sign of Leo, and a wolf, symbolizing her wolfpack ...

LONG BEACH >> After dropping to No. 4 in the AVCA rankings, Long Beach State men’s volleyball got back to wi ing way by sweeping No. 7 UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday night at the Walter Pyramid, 25-15, 25-21, 25-19. This is the 17th 20-win season for the 49ers (20-4, 14-3 Mountain Pacific Sports Fede...

When Califo ia Chrome runs in Saturday’s prestigious World Cup at Meydan Racecourse in Dubai, he’ll try to join Gloria de Campeao (2010) as horses who finished second in the $10 million race and then won it the next year. Trainer Art Sherman is confident his 5-year-old Kentucky Derby wi er can tu ar...

Through the legs of Mason Plumlee to J.J. Redick went the pass from Chris Paul. Redick buried a 21-foot jump-shot at the buzzer and the L.A. Clippers and their fans wildly celebrated a 96-94 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers before a sellout of 19,359 Thursday at Staples Center. It was the Cli...

For the Clippers, or any other team, playing with the right spirit is the only way to advance deep into the post-season. The Clippers fell short of that for most of the just-concluded five-game road trip, during which they went just 1-4. The Clippers got some of it back Wednesday at Golden State. Th...

John Force owns plenty of NHRA records, including most national event victories (142 in Fu y Car) and championships (16). However, there is little doubt he’s most proud of being the patriarch of the greatest racing family in drag racing. The family total also includes Fu y Car victories by daughters...

ANAHEIM >> Oregon football jerseys dotted the stands at Honda Center Thursday night as the Ducks took one more significant step toward establishing their basketball tradition. An 82-68 win over Duke, a program with one of the richest traditions in college basketball, was certainly a symbolic way for...

ANAHEIM >> Blake Griffin couldn’t carry Oklahoma to a Final Four. Buddy Hield doesn’t have to. The Sooners’ latest national Player of the Year candidate ga ered so much attention Thursday, his teammates were freed up to shoulder plenty of the load in a 77-63 win over Texas A&M in the West Region sem...

LONG BEACH >> After dropping to No. 4 in the AVCA rankings, Long Beach State men’s volleyball got back to wi ing way by sweeping No. 7 UC Santa Barbara on Wednesday night at the Walter Pyramid, 25-15, 25-21, 25-19. This is the 17th 20-win season for the 49ers (20-4, 14-3 Mountain Pacific Sports Fede...

LONG BEACH >> After suffering their first Moore League loss to Lakewood earlier in the week, the Long Beach Poly boys volleyball team bounced back with a home win against a gritty Cabrillo team, scoring a 25-12, 25-20, 24-26, 25-19 victory. It looked to be a complete tu around from their start in th...

ROSAMOND >> There’s usually a lea ing curve for some of the celebrities who race in the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach Pro/Celebrity Race. In past practices at the Willow Springs Inte ational Raceway, there have been some who have never driven a manual transmission car before and lea to shift gears...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> You don’t have to look too far into the future to imagine Kobe Bryant as a motivational speaker, standing on an auditorium stage and speaking to rows of eager corporate folks wearing pressed khakis. For now, imagine this: Wednesday night in Phoenix, Bryant was on a trainer’s table...

It’ll take a while before Danica Patrick and Kyle Busch forget what happened at the past NASCAR weekend at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Following a review of what transpired in the Xfinity TreatMyClog.com 300 and the Sprint Cup Auto Club 500, NASCAR officials handed down fines against Kyle Busch a...

It seemed Kobe Bryant could never satisfy his appetite for basketball enough. He played throughout his childhood and endlessly studied the NBA’s history. He woke up at ungodly hours to expedite his development. He watched film endlessly. He lasted 20 mostly productive NBA seasons by endlessly adding...