USC a ounced Pat Haden will resign as athletic director June 30, but it doesn’t mean Haden is severing ties with the university. USC president Max Nikias said Haden “has agreed to a one-year term to guide our renovation of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. Begi ing July 1, 2016, and ending June 30,...

PASADENA >> The La Salle High School girls soccer team took one of its biggest steps in a decade on Thursday evening. The Lancers defeated rival Bishop Amat for the first time in seven years and ended Amat’s seven-year reign as the Del Rey League champion with a 2-1 victory. Madison Burgh scored wit...

The Warren High soccer team is now second place in the San Gabriel Valley League after beating Downey High 1-0 Thursday. This crosstown rivalry has become a must-see game with both team’s fans traveling well. “These guy know each other really well,” Downey coach Marvin Mires said. “They have played ...

USC swept UCLA so casually this season, the fans did not even bother to storm the court after the Trojans defeated the Bruins, 80-61, before a sellout crowd of 10,258 at the Galen Center. The students were obviously aware that the Bruins suffered their 10th loss of the season, and neither game again...

George Raveling was USC’s basketball coach and a determined resident of reality. Every February he read all the National Signing Day stories, about the football schools who miraculously got every recruit they wanted. “Where did all the average players go?” Raveling wondered. Nobody else asks. Nobody...

NEW ORLEANS >> This city conjured up more memories for Lakers coach Byron Scott beyond the tasty seafood, the festive jazz music, his initial success here and his unceremonious firing. But this hardly marked a joyful moment. With Kobe Bryant playing in the Lakers’ 99-96 victory over the New Orleans ...

PASADENA >> The La Salle High School girls soccer team took one of its biggest steps in a decade on Thursday evening. The Lancers defeated rival Bishop Amat for the first time in seven years and ended Amat’s seven-year reign as the Del Rey League champion with a 2-1 victory. Madison Burgh scored wit...

Key play: Team captain Ryan Getzlaf’s first even-strength goal of the season gave the Ducks an early lead and propelled them to a 4-2 victory Thursday over the Kings at Staples Center. The Ducks never trailed after Getzlaf scored for only the fourth time in 2015-16 en route to their fifth victory in...

Kings center Anze Kopitar is having another Selke Trophy-caliber season. Ducks center Ryan Getzlaf is not having another Hart Trophy-caliber season. Kopitar is the Kings’ best player game after game. Getzlaf is the Ducks’ top player now and then. The difference between an award-wi ing season with pr...

LONG BEACH >> Opponents don’t like the Jordan High boys soccer team after 80 minutes against the scrappy squad from North Long Beach. The Panthers are OK with that. A relentless high-pressure style mixed with impressive technical skill and organization makes Jordan a tough side to beat, and an easy ...

SANTA ANITA LEADERS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Santiago Gonzalez / 24 Rafael Bejarano / 23 David Lopez / 18 Flavien Prat / 17 Edwin Maldonado / 13 Joe Talamo / 13 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 14 Doug O’Neill / 11 Peter Miller / 9 Bob Baffert / 8 Richard Baltas / 7 STAKES SCHEDULE SANTA ANIT...

NEW ORLEANS >> This city conjured up more memories for Lakers coach Byron Scott beyond the tasty seafood, the festive jazz music, his initial success here and his unceremonious firing. With Kobe Bryant playing when the Lakers visited the New Orleans Pelicans on Thursday at Smoothie King Center, Scot...

Live updates and chat for Pac-12 basketball game between UCLA (13-9) and USC (17-5) from Los Angeles News Group staff live at the Galen Center, including Inside UCLA blogger Jack Wang and Inside USC blogger Scot Wolf. Game time is 7:30 p.m. (PACN) • Having trouble seeing on mobile device? Try this l...

George Raveling was USC’s basketball coach and a determined resident of reality. Every February he read all the National Signing Day stories, about the football schools who miraculously got every recruit they wanted. “Where did all the average players go?” Raveling wondered. Nobody else asks. Nobody...

Big day at Santa Anita Park on Saturday. Four graded stakes races worth $1.15 million. Su y skies. Champion filly Songbird, Kentucky Derby hopeful Mor Spirit and a field full of older horses whose co ections have their eyes pointed squarely toward the $1 million Big ’Cap on March 12. Yep, huge day i...

Ask any baseball executive about his depth chart, and he’ll tell you more is better. Depth is a good thing. Ask Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman to name his starting second baseman and even a simple, straightforward answer of “Howie Kendrick” would seem to betray the infallib...

When competitors in the Alpine Skiing World Cup hit the slopes at Mount Gariwang in South Korea this week, they will have their minds on one thing: wi ing. But for many others the 2018 Winter Olympics test event will serve as a painful reminder of the “ecocide” perpetrated on a mountain that conserv...

J.J. Redick shoots the basketball with the best in the NBA. He’s having the finest season of his 10-year career. Now the Los Angeles Clippers’ shooting guard has become a member of the media as he recently signed with Yahoo Sports’ The Vertical to do a weekly podcast for 52 weeks. What a show-off. “...

It would be easy for the Clippers to chalk up Wednesday’s loss to the Mi esota Timberwolves as just one of those things that can happen on a given night. But even though the Clippers (32-17) still have 33 games to play in the regular season, they know they can’t afford to lose any game they should w...

CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Tony Stewart will miss the start of his final NASCAR season after fracturing his back in an accident on an all-terrain vehicle. Stewart-Haas Racing said the three-time NASCAR champion sustained a “burst fracture of the L1 vertebra” when he crashed on an ATV Sunday. He had surgery W...