Amid a season that started off with fluctuating roles and frustration, Lakers forward Julius Randle could end the 2015-16 campaign writing a relatively happier ending. Nothing will change the missed playoff fortunes surrounding the Lakers, which lost to the San Antonio Spurs, 119-113, on Friday at S...

Amid a season that started off with fluctuating roles and frustration, Lakers forward Julius Randle could end the 2015-16 campaign writing a relatively happier ending. Nothing will change the missed playoff fortunes surrounding the Lakers. But coach Byron Scott plans to keep Randle as the starter fo...

KINGS AT PREDATORS Faceoff: 5 p.m. TV/Radio: FSW / 790-AM Update: Kings center Anze Kopitar was forced from a 2-1 overtime loss Thursday to the St. Louis Blues, their third consecutive defeat. He played only nine shifts for a total of 5:12, departing after the first period with what a team spokesman...

The Long Beach State Dirtbags opened the 2016 baseball season Friday night with a 7-1 win over Holy Cross at Blair Field. Sophomore Luke Rasmussen went 3 for 3 with three RBIs, while sophomore Darren McCaughan picked up the win on the mound after allowing three hits and one run over seven i ings. Th...

The Long Beach Poly boys basketball team looked every bit the top seed in the CIF Southe Section Division 1AA bracket, as the Jackrabbits hosted a talented Windward team and overaome some offensive sputtering to still win easily, 69-45 on Friday. Most encouraging for Jackrabbit fans was the play of ...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> Jason Kokrak bounded up the stairs at Riviera Country Club like a gazelle. He’d just put the finishing touches on an impressive 7-under 64, which included eight birdies, to take the 36-hole lead at the Northe Trust Open. His adrenaline was working overtime. Normally, golfers dre...

DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. >> Joh y Sauter won the crash-filled Truck Series season opener at Daytona Inte ational Speedway on Friday night, giving Chevrolet its first series victory at the famed track. Sauter was out front on the final lap when the caution flag dropped following a harrowing wreck that sen...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> Jordan Spieth didn’t check out of his Los Angeles hotel Friday mo ing even though his chances to make the cut at Riviera Country Club were slim. Fans won’t get to see the superstar and reigning PGA Tour player of the year on the weekend, though. It’s not superstition that he doe...

At the front of the classroom, Dr. Chris Kimball stood just off to the side of an overhead PowerPoint projection, one that showed an illustration of a baseball field that had an odd shape. It was somewhere in Brooklyn in 1862, right about the time of the Battle of Antietam was going on in the Civil ...

Clippers coach Doc Rivers is realistic. He knows what’s been happening with the Golden State Warriors, who have been torrid this season while posting a record of 48-4 ahead of their games Friday night at Portland and Saturday night against the Clippers at 5:30 at Staples Center (on ABC). The Warrior...

For several seconds, Steve Alford stared around the room. It was Thursday night at Pauley Pavilion, shortly after Utah handed UCLA a 75-73 loss, and a reporter asked about what exactly went wrong on the Bruins’ final defensive play: a long inbound pass that led to an uncontested dunk by the Utes’ Ky...

At the front of the classroom, Dr. Chris Kimball stood just off to the side of an overhead PowerPoint projection, one that showed an illustration of a baseball field that had an odd shape. It was somewhere in Brooklyn in 1862, right about the time of the Battle of Antietam was going on in the Civil ...

Where there’s smoke, there’s fire. Where there’s fire, there are charred ruins ... which is where the Clippers will be headed if someone in the organization — say, owner Steve Ballmer — says Blake Griffin has to go. The trade deadline passed with Griffin still here amid reports the Clippers shopped ...

The guy who used to be Justin Leonard finally reached the crossroads. He hasn’t gotten into the past five Masters. He has made only one of the past five U.S. Opens. Despite his 12 tou ament victories and three Ryder Cups, he wasn’t qualified to stay on the 2016 PGA Tour on the basis of his 2015 play...

Sven Thorgen typically snowboards down slopes between pine trees and mountain ridges. This weekend, the Swede will ride between palm trees and high-rises. Thorgren and 23 other top snowboarders will be competing in Shaun White’s Air+Style event in the southe parking lot of the L.A. Sports Arena. Las...

The Rams got an earlier start than expected to free agency, and it came at the expense of three popular veteran players. The Rams released linebacker James Laurinaitis, defensive end Chris Long and tight end Jared Cook, the team a ounced Friday. “This is the time of year when all NFL teams are faced...

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...

Not only did the Millikan Rams (19-9) take a CIF-SS Division 1AA first-round game in dominant fashion at home, topping Warren 90-57, but they also ea ed head coach Lorene Morgan her 500th win as coach, all at Millikan. “It’s great to have all of the wins for Millikan,” Morgan said after the game. He...

UCLA knew it would have its hands full this week. Set to arrive at Pauley Pavilion was Utah’s Jakob Poeltl, a 7-footer who may be the odds-on favorite to win Pac-12 Player of the Year. Entering Thursday night’s tipoff in Los Angeles, the sophomore center ranked second in the conference in scoring, f...

It was a bittersweet Thursday for the Clippers. They made a trade that brought forward Jeff Green from the Memphis Grizzlies for Lance Stephenson and a protected first-round draft pick in either 2019 or 2020, or a second-round pick in 2022. But Clippers coach Doc Rivers wasn’t able to talk about the...