Drew Doughty played 32:10 in the Kings’ victory Tuesday over the Calgary Flames, after he played 32:02 in their win Saturday over the Nashville Predators, after he played 35:16 in a loss Feb. 18 to the St. Louis Blues, after he played 31:29 in a loss Feb. 16 to the Washington Capitals. Doughty said ...

LA MIRADA >> Defending CIF Southe Section Division 4 girls soccer champion La Mirada took one more big step toward repeating Thursday night with a 2-1 victory over visiting Santa Monica in the quarterfinals. The Matadores will be at Royal (Simi Valley) in the semifinals Tuesday. . Junior forward Van...

STANFORD, Calif. — Dorian Pickens scored 22 of his career-high 25 points in the first half and Stanford beat USC 84-64 on Thursday night. Rosco Allen added 17 points, Marcus Allen had 15 and Michael Humphrey had 10, all in the second half, as the Cardinal (14-12, 7-8 Pac-12) won their third in four ...

Shortly after he posted up and jabbed his feet with precision, Kobe Bryant leaped and offered some symbolism that went beyond one of his signature scoring moves. Bryant faded away and hoisted a shot that swished into the basket early in the Lakers’ loss on Wednesday in Memphis. The moment sparked Gr...

LA MIRADA >> Defending CIF Southe Section Division 4 girls soccer champion La Mirada took one more big step toward repeating Thursday night with a 2-1 victory over visiting Santa Monica in the quarterfinals. The Matadores will be at Royal (Simi Valley) in the semifinals Tuesday. . Junior forward Van...

LONG BEACH >> The CIF Southe Section Division 7 girls soccer quarterfinal at Clark Field was very familiar for the St. Anthony Saints. However, it was also very foreign for Saints goalkeeper Cassandra Campbell. The senior was a defender for her whole playing career, but volunteered last month to ste...

The Long Beach City College baseball team wrapped up a home-and-home sweep of Irvine Valley on Thursday afte oon with a 9-5 victory at Joe Hicks Memorial Field. LBCC notched 14 hits as sophomore Tai Tiedema (Poly HS) paced the Vikings (6-5), finishing the day 3 for 5 at the plate with two triples an...

EL SEGUNDO >> Byron Scott is an NBA coach, not a babysitter. While the Lakers coach is aware that even at the highest levels of sports, coaching can sometimes require a fair amount of babysitting, Scott isn’t about to go that route as the Lakers end the season playing 16 of their final 23 games at h...

Friday’s CIF playoff schedule Boys Soccer Quarterfinals Division 1 Paramount at Santa Barbara, 5 p.m. Los Alamitos at Ventura, 5 p.m. Warren at Peninsula, 3 p.m. Division 2 Cabrillo at Rancho Verde, 5 p.m. Jordan at Century, 5 p.m. Division 6 Valley Christian vs. Desert Mirage, 5 p.m. Boys Basketbal...

The La Mirada High School boys basketball team’s push to play for a first CIF Southe Section championship might likely go through a player who has sat on the bench for nearly the entire season. Vittorio Reynoso-Avila missed the Matadores’ first 27 games because of a broken foot suffered during a pre...

NEW YORK — Baseball made its call on the Chase Utley slide: out. Major League Baseball and the players’ union have ba ed rolling block slides to break up potential double plays, hoping to prevent a repeat of the takeout by Utley that broke the leg of New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in last year...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Every time Joc Pederson entered the batter’s box last year, you wondered if he would dig a hole to China. As part of his powerful, coiling swing, Pederson’s front foot always landed with a thud, then twisted and rolled into the dirt. When Pederson reported for batting practice dur...

DALLAS — Dallas police said Thursday they have referred their domestic violence case against Joh y Manziel to a grand jury, which will consider whether to charge the troubled Cleveland Browns quarterback on allegations that he attacked his ex-girlfriend. Police released a statement saying they have ...

The Clippers had some explaining to do following their unlikely 87-81 loss to the lowly Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night at Staples Center. It reminded guard J.J. Redick of another home loss this month to another lousy team on the same night of the week. “You’re going to have games throughout the s...

The Clippers had some explaining to do following their unlikely 87-81 loss to the lowly Denver Nuggets on Wednesday night at Staples Center. It reminded guard J.J. Redick of another home loss this month to another lousy team on the same night of the week. “You’re going to have games throughout the s...

He feels like a fifth-year senior, sometimes. And several times removed. The Los Angeles D-Fenders take the bus to play Bakersfield. Otherwise they cram themselves into a commercial 737, next to the babies and the laptops and the people who stare and wonder how the weather is up there. For Ryan Gome...

NEW YORK — Major League Baseball and the players’ union have ba ed rolling block slides to break up potential double plays, hoping to prevent a repeat of the takeout by the Los Angeles Dodgers’ Chase Utley that broke a leg of New York Mets shortstop Ruben Tejada in last year’s playoffs. Under the ru...

Denver 87, Clippers 81, the mo ing after: • Emanuel Mudiay, Denver’s rookie point guard, hit two key free throws with 25.5 seconds left for the final margin. It’s still too early to tell if the Lakers did the right thing when they drafted D’Angelo Russell instead of Mudiay, who was 1 for 12 from the...

PARAMOUNT >> If it keeps on raining, the levee is going to break. The famous Led Zeppelin song lyric gave the Paramount High School boys soccer hope while it dominated Fountain Valley in the second round of its CIF Southe Section Division 1 playoff game on Wednesday, and it ended up being true. The ...

The Long Beach Poly girls basketball team survived its first scare of the postseason. The top-seeded Jackrabbits trailed by as many as seven points on the road against a sharpshooting Troy team, but pounded the ball inside to a pair of special post players to dig out a 56-52 win in the CIF-SS Open D...