It was a CIF-SS Division 1AA quarterfinal rubber match at the Ron Palmer Pavilion on Tuesday night, as two Moore League boys basketball teams who split their regular-season series faced off. In the end, it was Long Beach Poly that capitalized on its significant size advantage in a runaway win over M...

Casey Crook became the all-time coaching victory leader in Long Beach City College baseball history Tuesday afte oon when the team put him at 514 with an 8-0 nonconference victory at Irvine Valley. The 23rd-year head coach surpassed LBCC legend Joe Hicks, who won 513 over 25 seasons. Sophomores Jack...

It’s become a sportswriting cliché to refer to basketball players as different kinds of machines, as though they were manufactured with specialized skill sets in mind. Such and such player might be known as a “rebounding machine,” or a “scoring machine,” so effective and efficient at one aspect of t...

LONG BEACH >> Long Beach State finished in third place in its own golf tou ament, The Gold Rush, at Old Ranch Country Club on Tuesday. The 49ers, who won the tou ament last year, shot a 26-over-par 890. Freshman Haley Tygret was the top player for the 49ers, tying for 12th with a 6-over-par 222. Sen...

SABRES AT DUCKS Faceoff: 7:30 p.m. TV/Radio: FSW / 830-AM Update: The Ducks (31-19-8) have won five consecutive games, including a resounding 5-2 victory Sunday over the Calgary Flames, the first game on a five-game homestand. They also are 12-1-1 in their past 14 games and are 19-4-2 since the Chri...

GLENDALE, Ariz. — Together, the pitcher and catcher on a baseball field are said to comprise the “battery.” Their working dynamic powers a club pitch after pitch. A year ago, the Dodgers’ battery took longer than usual to recharge. Yasmani Grandal was new to the team. A.J. Ellis was adapting to a ne...

Imagine being 25, a proven player in the NBA with a long career ahead. You go in for a routine preseason physical and the doctor lowers the boom with the news you have an aortic aneurysm. If it’s not corrected through surgery, it could mean instant death should it rupture. That’s what happened to Je...

Ready or not, here it comes. Still a week and a half before the MLS season starts, the L.A. Galaxy and their retooled roster kick off 2016 competition at 7 p.m. Wednesday in the CONCACAF Champions League quarterfinals against Liga MX side Santos Laguna. Only two weeks ago, the team’s final offseason...

LONDON — Two goals from Lionel Messi steered Barcelona to a convincing 2-0 victory over Arsenal in the last 16 of the Champions League on Tuesday. Messi provided a clinical finish to a breakaway move that featured strike partners Luis Suarez and Neymar in the 71st minute and then scored an 83rd minu...

TURIN, Italy — Juventus came back from two goals down to draw 2-2 against Baye Munich in the first leg of their Champions League last 16 match on Tuesday. Thomas Mueller and Arjen Robben scored either side of halftime for Baye but Paulo Dybala reduced the deficit with his first Champions League goal...

UFC lightweight champion Rafael dos Anjos has been forced to withdraw from next week’s UFC 196 main-event superfight against featherweight champion Conor McGregor because of a broken foot. Multiple sources reported dos Anjos suffered the injury last week, forcing him out of his title defense against...

A widely reported three-team trade that would have sent Toronto Blue Jays outfielder Michael Saunders to the Angels could be on life support. According to Ken Rosenthal of Fox Sports, one of the prospects going from the Blue Jays to the Cinci ati Reds presented enough of a medical risk to stall the ...

LOS ANGELES — The Oxnard City Council is expected today to approve an agreement for the Los Angeles Rams to use the city-owned River Ridge Fields for their spring practices. NFL teams customarily use their practice facility for spring practices, but the Rams have not found a practice facility. The a...

MILWAUKEE – Kobe Bryant’s presence did not fill the arena. D’Angelo Russell’s continued role as a starter did not yield new growth. And the Lakers’ interior defense did not do anything to prevent the Bucks from treating a basketball game like a slam-dunk contest. That made the Lakers look like a dee...

MILWAUKEE >> The numbers suggested both Jason Kidd and Kobe Bryant felt Father Time’s unforgiving touch. Kidd, the Bucks coach, ranks fourth in the NBA in minutes played (50,111) through a 19-year NBA career. Following the Lakers’ 108-101 loss to the Milwaukee Bucks on Monday at BMO Harris Bradley C...

MILWAUKEE – Kobe Bryant’s presence did not fill the arena. D’Angelo Russell’s continued role as a starter did not yield new growth. And the Lakers’ interior defense did not do anything to prevent the Bucks from treating a basketball game like a slam-dunk contest. That made the Lakers look like a dee...

It was one thing for forward Jeff Green to be traded 50-plus games into the regular season from Memphis to the Clippers this past week. But to have to face the Golden State Warriors in his first game when he doesn’t know the system well, was quite another for Green, who scored five points on 2-of-7 ...

Twenty-seven games in the regular season remained for the L.A. Clippers when they took on the struggling Phoenix Suns on Monday night at Staples Center. The playoffs are less than two months away. The Clippers would like to do some housekeeping before then - such as getting forward Blake Griffin and...

SoCal Prep Legends Boys Athlete of the Week NAME: CODY WILLIAMS SCHOOL: LAKEWOOD SPORT: WRESTLING YEAR: JUNIOR Noteworthy: Williams brought home a title by defeating Bloomington’s Luis Melecio in the 182-pound final at the CIF Southe Section Central Division Individual Wrestling Championships, which...

Well another year has passed. It seems like we just attended the Fred Hall Fishing Show, just as I did with my father when I was in junior high. That was 1946 when Fred had his first show at Gilmore Field in Hollywood. The show is now celebrating 70 years. Fred’s eldest son Bart took over the reins ...