BRUINS AT DUCKS Faceoff: 7 p.m. TV/Radio: Prime / 830-AM Update: The Ducks (38-22-9) have cooled considerably since their franchise-record 11-game wi ing streak. They’re 1-3-1 going into Friday’s game against the Boston Bruins, the final contest before begi ing a five-game trek across Canada that st...

The season came to an end Thursday night for the Long Beach State women’s basketball team after an 84-76 loss at Oregon in the opening round of the NIT. The contest was close throughout and Raven Benton led the Beach (24-9) with 22 points, eight rebounds and five assists. A a Kim and Gigi Hascheff a...

LONG BEACH >> It’s a new season for the Long Beach Poly boys volleyball team. The Jackrabbits, ranked No. 9 in CIF Southe Section Division 2, proved it on Thursday afte oon against crosstown rival Wilson. Poly under performed last season despite a talented roster, but the Jackrabbits looked like the...

RALEIGH, N.C. – USC did everything possible to lose to Providence in the final minute Thursday night and the Trojans finally paid when they forgot to cover Friars forward Rodney Bullock, who made a layup with 1.5 seconds left and a 70-69 victory at PNC Arena. The Trojans could only blame themselves....

Wrestler of the Year: Da y Salas, St. John Bosco The back-to-back CIF Southe Section divisional champion added to his list of accomplishments in 2016 with a first place finish in the 195-pound division at the CIF-SS Masters Meet en rout to tou ament MVP honors and later a sixth-place finish at the C...

In the entire state of Califo ia, there are 4,495 high schools and only 52 high school boys or girls basketball teams still practicing and playing. Two of them are at the public powerhouse Long Beach Poly, where the Jackrabbits’ pair of teams are the last ones standing in the area. Poly is having a ...

Lakers fans still cheer over every basket. They yell when the purple and gold streamers fall out of the Staples Center rafters to signify a rare victory. The volume level rises even more when the Lakers secure free tacos by holding opponents under 100 points. But there remains a large segment of fan...

In the entire state of Califo ia, there are 4,495 high schools and only 52 high school boys or girls basketball teams still practicing and playing. Two of them are at the public powerhouse Long Beach Poly, where the Jackrabbits’ pair of teams are the last ones standing in the area. Poly is having a ...

If the Nyquist-Mohaymen showdown in the Florida Derby on April 2 goes off as pla ed, it will be one of the few times in recent memory that the top two 3-year-olds in most experts’ Kentucky Derby rankings squared off before the Run for the Roses. Even Zulu, one of trainer Todd Pletcher’s top Derby ho...

PROVIDENCE, R.I. — Marshall Plumlee ditched the mask guarding his broken nose and responded by scoring a career-high 23 points to lead defending national champion Duke past UNC Wilmington 93-85 on Thursday in the first round of the NCAA Tou ament. Plumlee had 10 of his points and two blocks as the B...

Dwight Howard of the Houston Rockets was a royal pain to the Clippers the first three times the teams played this season. He went for 20 points and 20 rebounds in the Rockets’ 109-105 victory over the Clippers on Nov. 7 at Staples Center. He scored 22 points and grabbed 14 rebounds in a 107-97 win o...

Nate Koch becomes the life of the party when he climbs up on his bike, comes out of the saddle and balances himself up on the crossbar. Organizers of the World Cycling League call it showmanship. The rider from Long Beach says it’s just a matter of when a party favors itself inside a velodrome and c...

RALEIGH, N.C. >> Julian Jacobs heard the buzzer and heaved the basketball high into the ozone of Orleans Arena. What he would do, when it came down, was anyone’s guess. The point guard at Las Vegas’ Desert Pines High School had decided on USC long before he won the Nevada I-A state championship with...

Brandon Pirri joined the Ducks after a deadline day trade from the Florida Panthers on Feb. 29. He didn’t truly become a Duck until Wednesday, when he finally made his long-delayed, much-anticipated debut with his new team after sitting out for seven games because of a sprained ankle. The Ducks acti...

UFC 199 already has a strong Califo ia presence with two championship fights. And now it’s getting a local vibe in a battle of kings. Hawtho e’s Kevin “King” Casey will take on Elvis “The King” Mutapcic in a middleweight clash on June 4 at The Forum in Inglewood. The two main bouts feature three fig...

The two words sounded blasphemous as the Lakers heard the phrase uttered around their practice facility on Wednesday. Apparently the “rookie wall” does not explain why the Lakers (14-54) enter Friday’s game against the Phoenix Suns (18-49) at Staples Center with a patch of sub-par performances again...

FONTANA >> Looking on as Derrick Cope and his small crew worked on his Xfinity Series Chevrolet out in the Auto Club Speedway parking lot, it was a stark reminder of the wide financial range in NASCAR. Cope is best known as the West Coast underdog who stu ed the racing world in 1990 by wi ing the Da...

La Mirada High School’s Shawn Dumser pitched a no-hitter Wednesday afte oon to lead the Matadores baseball team to a 7-0 victory over visiting Lakewood in the second game of a doubleheader. Earlier, La Mirada (6-3) dropped a 1-0 contest to the Lancers (5-4). La Mirada retu s to the field Friday at 3...

LONG BEACH >> Local high school softball is very top-heavy this season and multiple teams in multiple divisions have the talent to make CIF Southe Section championship runs. Los Alamitos and Gahr are the No. 2-ranked teams in CIF-SS Division 1 and 3, respectively. Calvary Chapel Downey is No. 7 in D...

Player of the Year: Cameron Cordial, Wilson, Senior Normally a goalie would not be considered for the Player of the Year award because they are only playing defense. But when you have a player such as Wilson High School’s Cameron Cordial to protect the net, it’s hard to overlook the impact she has o...