DENVER — Bad news: A Rams starting offensive lineman got hurt. Good news: It created an opportunity for Cody Wichma to prove himself. Bad news: Wichma has to do it, daily, against Aaron Donald. So what is it like to line up and practice against Donald, one of the NFL’s premier defensive tackles? “He...

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LONG BEACH >> Phil Dalhausser and Nick Lucena had just defeated Martins Plavins and Haralds Regza of Latvia in straight sets Thursday in pool play at the ASICS World Series of Beach Volleyball at Alamitos Beach. Only 10 days earlier, the Americans were ousted in the quarterfinals at the Rio Games, f...

IRVINE >> It’s another first for Rams rookie quarterback Jared Goff, who will play his first NFL preseason road game at Denver on Saturday. Goff hopes for another first: a successful first drive. “I’d love to go out there and score a touchdown,’’ Goff said after Thursday’s practice at UC Irvine. “Th...

Backers of a proposed NFL stadium said they’ve whittled their list to two sites just west of the Las Vegas Strip and refuse to accept any less than $750 million in public funding toward the project, which they hope will soon be home to the Raiders. Representatives from Majestic Realty and the Las Ve...

LOS ANGELES >> Baseball superstition holds that you don’t mention a no-hitter in progress, at least if you want it to continue. The home dugout at Dodger Stadium might well have been a very loud place Thursday night. Until Corey Seager singled with two outs in the ninth i ing, it could do nothing to...

Friday evening marks the kickoff of the high school sports season and Long Beach football teams will be in action across Southe Califo ia. All game times at 7 p.m. unless otherwise noted. Long Beach Poly vs. Los Alamitos at Cerritos College, 7 p.m.: The game of the week is a rematch of the Jackrabbi...

Long Beach State women’s soccer team takes on USC Long Beach State women's soccer (Thomas R. Cordova/Staff Photographer, file) By From staff reports The Long Beach State women’s soccer team will be back at George Allen Field tonight at 7 to host No. 11 USC in the third game of the season. The Trojan...

LOS ANGELES >> Each spring, Clay Helton said, the names of about 60 to 80 college football players matriculate into USC’s compliance office. Their former schools have granted them their release, allowing them to transfer elsewhere. “The waiver wire,” as the Trojans’ coach put it this week. Helton an...

When Saad Awad and Georgi Karakhanyan last shared a main-event card, it was an autumn night in 2008 in a San Diego casino ballroom. The longtime friends and stablemates at Rancho Cucamonga’s Mille ia MMA have come a long way since Gladiator Challenge 85: Cross Fire, rising side by side in the Bellat...

“Peacock should not be proud of coverage” — Headline from Aug. 14, 1992, Daily News sports media column. Plenty of news becomes reshaped and reformatted in today’s 24-hour news cycle. But in a 24-year cycle of NBC Olympic production, much of it doesn’t. The first sports media column I was asked to d...

When Victor Espinoza proclaimed himself “the luckiest Mexican in the world” last year during Triple Crown wi er American Pharoah’s historic jou ey, little did we know that we were the lucky ones. Lucky enough to watch a 44-year-old jockey develop into one of the finest in his profession right before...

LOS ANGELES — On Sunday, as USC prepared to enter its first “mock game week,” it released a two-deep chart and seemed to have settled on most of the position battles from camp. Some, though, will carry over into the remaining days before the season opens against Alabama on Sept. 3 in Arlington, Texa...

LOS ANGELES — The plan for USC at left tackle, 10 days before its season opener against Alabama, remained muddied. Two weeks have passed since Chad Wheeler last practiced. Wheeler, who underwent a PRP shot for plantar fasciitis, again was out Wednesday. Coach Clay Helton forecasted his chances of pl...

LOS ANGELES >> Amazon Prime offers same-day delivery. The Dodgers had to be more patient. Twenty-three days after they traded three well-regarded prospects to the Oakland A’s for outfielder Josh Reddick and someone suited to fill the void at the front of their starting rotation, Rich Hill finally ma...

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. >> Jude Abbadessa was 5 for 5 with six RBIs to lead Endwell, New York past Bowling Green, Kentucky 13-10 on Wednesday night for a place in the U.S. championship game of the Little League World Series. Abbadessa hit a two-run homer to center field to give New York a 4-3 lead i...

BRIDGEVIEW, Ill. >> Giovani dos Santos and Gyasi Zardes scored and the Galaxy tied the Chicago Fire 2-2 on Wednesday night. Dos Santos tied it in the 69th minute. Sebastian Lletget dumped it to Alan Gordon on the right side of the box. Gordon fed it to dos Santos who chipped in high with the outside...

LOS ANGELES >> When Juan Castro served as a roving assistant in the Dodgers’ front office, Pedro Baez was a young third baseman cutting his chops in the low minor leagues. As he canvassed the Dodgers’ farm system, Castro would occasionally cross paths with Baez. Both men spoke Spanish and played the...

The United Soccer League a ounced it has suspended Orange County Blues FC midfielder Richard Chaplow for two games and fined him an undisclosed amount for “offensive and abusive language directed at another player” during the Aug. 20 game against LA Galaxy II. The incident involves the Galaxy’s Robb...

Flanked by his wife and two daughters, Kobe Bryant gri ed wide Wednesday as the Los Angeles City Council declared Aug. 24 as Kobe Bryant Day. Bryant’s wife, Vanessa, is pregnant with the couple’s third daughter and the retired Lakers superstar told his other two girls, Natalia and Gia a, they would ...