Don’t bother looking for Hammertown on a map of the High Desert. Although there will be more than 60,000 people in the area east of Johnson Valley and north of Landers off Highway 247 this week, it’s only because of the King of the Hammers, an off-road event now in its 10th season. The weeklong even...

Clippers coach Doc Rivers was a bit bummed out Wednesday night that the punishment for Blake Griffin had not yet been doled out by the NBA. Then things got worse when the Clippers were defeated 108-102 by the lowly Mi esota Timberwolves before a sellout crowd of 19,060 at Staples Center. The Timberw...

NORWALK >> Not very often does an emotional high school boys soccer draw feel fair for both sides, but that’s what transpired at Cerritos College on Wednesday. St. John Bosco and Servite battled through a sleepy first half before a dramatic second half saw the two CIF Southe Section Division 1 top-5...

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...