They have been Vin Scully’s colleagues in the baseball broadcast booth, and shared many more life experiences outside it. These are some of their stories, as a week-long tribute to Scully begins at Dodger Stadium for his final seven home games: • Ross Porter, Dodgers play-by-play man from 1977 to 20...

World Cup of Hockey Here’s what you need to know about the World Cup of Hockey, which starts with the round-robin preliminary round Saturday. All games (PDT) are played at Air Canada Centre in Toronto. Group A Team Canada Team Czech Republic Team Europe Team USA Group B Team Finland Team North Ameri...

Live updates, scores, photos, videos and stories from the Press-Telegram high school sports reporters and photographers covering high school football in Long Beach on Friday, Sept. 16. Trouble viewing on mobile? See full stream. • See updates for all of Southe Califo ia at SoCal Prep Legends. Advert...

Rams safety T.J. McDonald has been charged with one count of driving under the influence of drugs, a decision tied to McDonald’s arrest in May in Woodland Hills. The Los Angeles City Atto ey’s Office a ounced its decision to file charges Friday afte oon. McDonald has an Oct. 7 arraignment in Van Nuy...

The first hometown NFL game at the Coliseum in more than two decades could have been an even more special occasion for Howie Long. First, the former Los Angeles Raider Hall of Fame defensive end says he clearly remembers that “we won a Super Bowl in L.A., and the Rams didn’t,” so there’s that sense ...

LOS ANGELES >> Although the UCLA offense has been inconsistent through its first two games, head coach Jim Mora gave first-year offensive coordinator Ke edy Polamalu an “A-plus” for his play-calling. Ahead of Saturday’s game against BYU at 7:15 p.m., Mora said he is impressed with Polamalu’s confide...

Suspended USC linebacker Osa Masina has been charged with one count of first-degree rape and two counts of first-degree forcible sodomy, according to papers filed Thursday in district court in Salt Lake City. Masina, 19, surrendered to police in Utah at 10:30 a.m. local time Thursday, according to h...

CLEVELAND >> CM Punk could have used a folding chair or a tag-team partner. Out of pro wrestling’s scripted ring, his first trip into the octagon didn’t last long. Punk, who was one of WWE’s biggest stars when he left it two years ago to try his hand in ultimate fighting, tapped out just 2:14 into t...

RICHMOND, Va. >> It was yet another De y Hamlin runaway for Joe Gibbs Racing on Saturday night in what tu ed out to be an anticlimactic end to NASCAR’s regular season. The fireworks came off the track at Richmond Inte ational Raceway, where Tony Stewart intentionally wrecked Ryan Newman before Newma...

PASADENA >> Old offenses die hard for the UCLA football team. After spending the offseason preaching physicality in a power-ru ing offense, the Bruins resurrected shades of their old spread offense to tally their first win of the season, a 42-21 victory over UNLV on Saturday at the Rose Bowl. Throug...

Junior ru ing back Al Fisher paced a powerful ru ing game that carried visiting Paramount to a 28-6 victory Friday night over Jordan. Fisher rushed for a game-high 121 yards on 18 carries. He scored a pair of touchdowns. Pierre Robinson Jr., had a 30-yard run in the fourth quarter that was the longe...

ANAHEIM >> Tyler Skaggs didn’t have much to work with Friday at Angel Stadium. The Angels’ bullpen couldn’t sustain his excellence in the late i ings and their hitters couldn’t provide much help, either, against Texas Rangers starter Yu Darvish. Adrian Beltre’s one-out solo homer off reliever J.C. R...

Live blog from the USC vs. Utah State football game, 11 a.m.., Saturday, Sept. 10.Where: The ColiseumTV/Radio: Pac-12 Networks; 710 AMRecords: Utah State (1-0); USC (0-1)Trouble viewing on your mobile device? See full stream. Advertisement Let's block ads! (Why?)

ANAHEIM — Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait’s opposition to extending a host city contract with USA Volleyball could result in the Olympic medal-wi ing U.S. national men’s and women’s teams leaving their home training base for the past decade, the Orange County Register has lea ed. USA Volleyball chairman Lori...

MIAMI >> It felt like a win to everyone but the man who took the loss. Seventy-five days after his most recent start — and nearly two months after he admitted doubting whether he would pitch again this season — Clayton Kershaw lasted just three i ings in his retu from the disabled list as the Dodger...

The coffee cup still sits on Peter O”Malley’s desk. The Dodgers logo, in that familiar cursive script, is on the cup. But the baseball that flies out of that logo is replaced by a football. Unde eath, there is a date: 199? It represents what might have been, the first and best replacement of the Ram...

USC vs. Utah State When: 11 a.m. Saturday Where: The Coliseum TV/Radio: Pac-12 Networks; 710 AM Records: Utah State (1-0); USC (0-1) Utah State stats QB Kent Myers — 11-17, 100 yards RB Devante Mays — 18 carries, 208 yards, 3 TDs WR Wyatt Houston — 3 catches, 32 yards LB Leki Uasike — 9 tackles DB D...

Live updates, scores, photos, videos and stories from Long Beach Press-Telegram high school sports reporters and photographers covering high school football in the Long Beach on Friday, Sept. 9. Trouble viewing on mobile? See full stream. • See scores and updates from throughout Southe Califo ia Adv...

LOS ANGELES >> USC junior center Toa Lobendahn will miss the rest of the season after tearing both the medial collateral ligament and anterior cruciate ligament in his right knee, USC football coach Clay Helton said Thursday. Lobendahn missed the second half of last season following surgery to repai...

“We play when we want to play,” said Lancers coach Mike Wadley, whose team let its foot off the gas pedal in the third set. The Lancers were without a starting back row player and didn’t always have crisp passing. But front row players Destynie Viliamu and Julia Crawford were solid wire-to-wire. Vil...