LOS ANGELES >> Dodgers infielder Rob Segedin had no more control over the date his Predictive Analytics project was due than the day he would retu to the major leagues, but this was the life he chose. As luck would have it, Segedin lea ed the Dodgers were bringing him up from Triple-A the day before...

Mike McCoy was the Broncos’ offensive coordinator. Then he became the Chargers’ head coach. And now? The Broncos’ offensive coordinator. Again. Not much of a move, geographically, but the changes have taken their toll. “Well, I’m gray,” he told Denver reporters on Friday with a laugh. “I’ve aged a l...

St. John Bosco 31, Chaminade 17 St. Anthony 14, Wilson 6 Mayfair 21, Lakewood 18 Ba ing 25, Millikan 21 St. Margaret 32, Valley Christian 22 Paramount 56, Jordan 6 Gahr 48, Cerritos 0 Mater Dei 42, La Mirada 0 Downey 35, Burbank 7 San Pedro 42, Cabrillo 0 Compton 43, Santa Monica 22 Norwalk 34, Bell...

LOS ANGELES — Los Angeles’ celebration of landing the 2028 Olympic Games next week will include Inte ational Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach. Bach will light the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum’s Olympic cauldron during the Rams-Washington game Sept. 17, the Southe Califo ia News Group has lea...

SEATTLE — If the Angels hope to get to the postseason, they are going to have to reverse this trend with their starting pitchers. Ricky Nolasco provided the latest disappointing performance, allowing four runs in 3⅔ i ings in the Angels’ 4-3 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Friday night. Angels start...

For the first time since 2006, the “Milk Bucket” is headed back to Mayfair as the Monsoons (3-0) beat Lakewood (0-3), 21-18, at Ron Yary Stadium. “This is the biggest win in 30 years,” Mayfair coach Derek Bedell told the team. “We have a lot of things to work on but we are going to celebrate first.”...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers had a 100 percent chance of qualifying for the postseason on Aug. 25, according to the website FanGraphs.com. Their odds are still 100 percent today. On paper, the last two weeks have changed nothing. Yet to anyone scrutinizing the Dodgers with their hearts, everything has...

Christian McCaffrey torpedoed USC’s defense the last two seasons. As Stanford upended the Trojans three times in 2016 and 2015, McCaffrey tallied 970 all-purpose yards. How tough was it to bring down the elusive ru ing back? Reporters covering the Pac-12 championship game in 2015 overheard then-USC ...

TORRANCE >> In a showdown of nationally-ranked programs, St. John Bosco wore down Chaminade in the second half for a 31-17 victory over the Eagles. “They’re a good football team, that was a quarterfinalist last year,” said Bosco coach Jason Negro. “I didn’t think we’d play so poorly offensively; we ...

LONG BEACH >> Deshaun Harvey was the spark St. Anthony needed on Friday against Wilson, with the quarterback picking up a crucial third down in the fourth quarter before throwing the wi ing touchdown in a 14-6 victory at Clark Field. The Saints (2-0) have won 13 consecutive games at home, and this i...

LOS ANGELES >> Of the 159 rushing yards Ronald Jones amassed in USC’s season-opening victory over Weste Michigan, 122 came after contact. Deland McCullough, the Trojans’ ru ing backs coach, took notice. “It ain’t always the flash and long runs,” McCullough said. “It’s the dirty work of lowering your...

LOS ANGELES >> Scott Quessenberry’s phone blew up with congratulatory messages after UCLA pulled off the second-biggest comeback in NCAA history on Sunday night. It took the better part of two days for the UCLA center to respond to every text and tweet. He didn’t finish until Tuesday. When he finall...

LOS ANGELES >> For months they lived together, trained together and prayed together. So it only made sense that when the Dodgers’ two teams in the Dominican Summer League played each other for the championship Sunday, they celebrated the win together. When “DSL Dodgers 2” beat “DSL Dodgers 1” in the...

COSTA MESA >> You can count them all on one hand. There is John Lee, an All-America kicker at UCLA whose NFL career lasted 11 games. There is Hines Ward, the five-time Pro Bowl receiver who spent the first months of his life in Seoul. There is Kyle Love, the Panthers defensive tackle whose father wa...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers found a new way to lose Tuesday. For a team that has lost 10 of its past 11 games, it was no small feat. In the 10th i ing of a tie game against the Arizona Diamondbacks, Dodgers pitcher Pedro Baez walked the first two batters he faced. Both scored when third baseman Justi...

By Ryan Kartje [email protected] @Ryan_Kartje on Twitter THOUSAND OAKS >> Wade Phillips has been in this position before. Four of the past six times he has switched teams, to be exact. And so, when you ask about his conce transitioning from last year’s 4-3 defense to his vaunted 3-4, a topic that see...

OAKLAND >> This time, Garrett Richards walked off the mound alone, perhaps only disappointed at the hanging slider he’d just thrown. It was better than the last time he’d walked off the mound at the Oakland Coliseum, that time accompanied by trainer Eric Munson. Although no one knew it at the time, ...

PASADENA — Former UCLA quarterback Cade McNown, former Texas coach Mack Brown and 1997 Heisman Trophy wi er Charles Woodson will be among four men inducted into the Rose Bowl Hall of Fame, the Tou ament of Roses a ounced. The fourth member of the hall’s Class of 2017 is the late Charles West, the fi...

The Los Angeles Football Club continues building its roster ahead of its 2018 Major League Soccer debut. LAFC a ounced the signing of 21-year-old Argentine forward Rodrigo Pacheco, who joins on loan from Club Atletico Lanus in Argentina’s first division. Pacheco will be loaned to Orange County SC, t...

OAKLAND — Just as Albert Pujols’ bat is heating up, his legs are giving him trouble again. Pujols retu ed to Southe Califo ia on Wednesday to be evaluated, according to General Manager Billy Eppler, who said a plan would be determined after the examination. Manager Mike Scioscia said he’s expecting ...