DOWNEY >> The CIF Southe Section Division 2 boys soccer championship on Saturday afte oon at Warren High School was bookended by blunders for Long Beach Jordan. The miscues allowed Su y Hills to control possession, and net the golden goal in the first minute of overtime for a 1-0 win. Jordan (18-12)...

ANAHEIM >> It’s the one thing a coach never wants to admit after any game, let alone a CIF Southe Section championship: The deciding factor of the CIF-SS Division 2A boys basketball title game between second-seeded Lynwood and top-seeded Santa Barbara was simply who wanted it more. Unfortunately for...

If UCLA wants to extend its season, it must lea out how to forget. Forget that it has lost four straight games, including Saturday’s 86-82 faceplant at home against Oregon State. Forget that it is the 10th-place finisher in the Pac-12, and ranks among the most disappointing teams in all of college b...

ANAHEIM >> It’s the one thing a coach never wants to admit after any game, let alone a CIF Southe Section championship: The deciding factor of the CIF-SS Division 2A boys basketball title game between second-seeded Lynwood and top-seeded Santa Barbara was simply who wanted it more. Unfortunately for...

BAKERSFIELD >> Amid all the accomplishments that have come with one of the most successful seasons in the history of Mayfair High’s wrestling program, head coach Ibee Atalla said 160-pounder Justin Pichedwatana had one final goal entering the CIF State Championship tou ament: to become the area’s to...

UFC featherweight champion Conor McGregor and Nate Diaz go after each other as UFC president Dana White keeps the fighters apart during a face-off during the UFC 196 press conference at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Thursday, March 3, 2016. (Photo by Hans Gutknecht/Los Angeles Daily News) Live blog fr...

The shots seemingly dropped into the basket anytime D’Angelo Russell released the ball. He fired from 3-point range. He sank floaters. He attacked the basket. But four days after a career-best performance, Russell offered none of those images in the Lakers’ 106-77 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Friday...

SANTA ANA >> It took three quarters for the St. Anthony girls basketball team to get in gear on Friday, but once the Saints did, there was no stopping them. The Saints’ seniors helped them overcome a slow start as they ended up cruising to the school’s third CIF-SS Division 4A girls basketball champ...

JJ Fiddler is a sportswriter and videographer who has been covering the Long Beach-area sports world for multiple newspapers since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he adopted Long Beach as his home town and is a member of t...

SANTA ANA >> It took three quarters for the St. Anthony girls basketball team to get in gear on Friday, but once the Saints did, there was no stopping them. The Saints’ seniors helped them overcome a slow start as they ended up cruising to the school’s third CIF-SS Division 4A girls basketball champ...

JJ Fiddler is a sportswriter and videographer who has been covering the Long Beach-area sports world for multiple newspapers since 2004. After attending Long Beach State and creating the first full sports page at the Union Weekly Newspaper, he adopted Long Beach as his home town and is a member of t...

DOWNEY >> Moorpark was looking for redemption after losing to La Mirada last year in the CIF-SS Division 4 championship game. Instead, the Musketeers saw a replay. The top-seeded Matadores jumped on Moorpark early and didn’t let up, scoring right after the opening kick and keeping the pressure on th...

The ball left D’Angelo Russell’s fingertips and splashed into the net. The basket secured a career-high performance. It later cemented a rare Lakers win. Then, Russell kept pointing at his left arm and proclaimed his emergence this way: “I got ice in my veins.” The video soon went viral and caused L...

The shots seemingly dropped into the basket anytime D’Angelo Russell released the ball. He fired from 3-point range. He sank floaters. He attacked the basket. But four days after a career-best performance, Russell offered none of those images in the Lakers’ 106-77 loss to the Atlanta Hawks on Friday...

SANTA ANA >> It took three quarters for the St. Anthony girls basketball team to get in gear on Friday, but once the Saints did, there was no stopping them. The Saints’ seniors helped them overcome a slow start as they ended up cruising to the school’s third CIF-SS Division 4A girls basketball champ...

LAS VEGAS >> Few would agree that Nate Diaz is the best possible fight out there for Conor McGregor. But their welterweight clash in the main event at UFC 196 on Saturday at MGM Grand Garden Arena has generated its share of buzz, topped by Thursday’s skirmish at a press conference. On the other hand...

LAS VEGAS >> Go ahead and call it the Rematches on Manchester. UFC 199 will take place June 4 at The Forum in Inglewood, featuring a rematch between middleweight champion Luke Rockhold and former champion Chris Weidman and a trilogy bout between bantamweight champion Dominick Cruz and longtime rival...

An early crop of spring co is ready for harvest in the mountains of Southe Califo ia. This co does not appear in ears unless a hapless skier or snowboarder inadvertently does a face plant while attempting to slide on it. Falling is not as easy as may be thought, however, because snow in this form is...

MANHATTAN BEACH >> On the day Rams tried to provide as many answers as possible to their players about the relocation process from St. Louis to Los Angeles, one of the biggest questions of all stood quietly in a co er of a Manhattan Beach hotel ballroom Friday. Only this one had very little to do wi...

When your punter is one of your best players, that’s good. When the punter is one of your most active players, that’s not. In 16 games for the Rams, Joh y Hekker punted 96 times, most in the NFL. He did not suffer dead-foot syndrome. In fact Hekker led the NFL in two most coveted categories: punts d...