Da , if Case Keenum isn’t a thoughtful, intelligent and fu y guy. If you happened to stumble upon a 10-minute interview the current Rams’ No. 1 quarterback did with Fred Roggin and Leea Tweeden during the Tuesday afte oon “L.A. Today” show on KLAC-AM (570), that should have come across more than a c...

Three-time Olympic gold medalist Kerri Walsh Je ings is set to play two matches today as men’s and women’s main draw play begins in the $800,000 World Series of Beach Volleyball on Alamitos Beach in Long Beach. Seven days after wi ing Olympic bronze medals, Walsh Je ings and April Ross will face Can...

NEWPORT BEACH – Alix Marinovich sat in a Chevrolet Tahoe outside her mom’s home Tuesday afte oon, pondering how life had become so dark for her estranged husband, former USC star and Raiders quarterback Todd Marinovich. Four days earlier, the 47-year-old football star was cited after he was found na...

LOS ANGELES >> On a day when they placed two more starting pitchers on the disabled list, the Dodgers went out and demonstrated why it hasn’t mattered. The Dodgers’ third, fourth and fifth hitters — Corey Seager, Justin Tu er and Adrian Gonzalez — went 7 for 7 and drove in four runs in the first fiv...

LOS ANGELES >> When major league rosters expand to 40 players on Sept. 1, teams often tu to the minor leagues to give their top prospects some prime-time exposure. Clayton Kershaw and Andre Ethier aren’t your typical September call-ups, but the Dodgers are awaiting their arrival just the same. Kersh...

IRVINE – The wrong way to explain the struggles of Greg Robinson over his first two years with the Rams was that he just didn’t care. Or that he cashed in a bonus check befitting the second overall pick in the 2014 draft and throttled down to kick-back mode. It may have seemed that way judging by hi...

The Weste Conference standings are starting to look like there’s a playoff chase shaping up. The Galaxy begin Wednesday tied with Sporting Kansas City in fourth place with 38 points, two points out of third and five out second. Of the top five teams in the Weste Conference, the Galaxy are the only o...

IRVINE >> Without any context, “weak safety” could be considered an insult, but for the Rams’ Mark Barron, it’s something of a status symbol. Barron has embraced the move to outside linebacker, which he made early last season, and defensive coordinator Gregg Williams described Barron as being “light...

LOS ANGELES >> The UCLA defense made its main objective clear as early as spring camp. The Bruins want to stop the run. Not a day went by in spring and fall practice when players didn’t work on achieving that goal. Coaches pla ed daily 9-on-7 sessions in which there were only ru ing plays. Linebacke...

LOS ANGELES >> If Eddie Vanderdoes finds himself in a third-and-short situation near the goal line in Kyle Field on Sept. 3 and he sees a big lineman run into the backfield, he’ll know exactly what’s going on. That big lineman used to be him. “I’m just going to yell, ‘Panda! Panda! Panda!’” Vanderdo...

LOS ANGELES — There is a lot of work to be done before the Los Angeles Football Club makes its debut in Major League Soccer in 2018. Tuesday was another step on that jou ey. The club’s owners and local politicians, including Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, took part in a ceremonial groundbreaking c...

The tu around that was expected for Warren High’s football program when Raul Lara took over as head coach before the 2014 campaign has come swiftly with the Bears combining for 13 wins and a playoff appearance over the last two seasons. Despite being in the midst of a bit of a youth movement, the co...

Discipline, or lack there of, is the theme for Paramount High football this season. “I’m tired of being more talented on paper and then losing to a more disciplined team,” Paramount seventh-year head coach Matt Howard said. “We have to do things right all the time. In practice, in school. Everything...

“Ghostbusters” might have been the 1980s movie franchise that was revived this summer in theaters, but on the football field at Lakewood High School, it’s been “Back to the Future” for the last month. That’s because the Lancers new football coach — their fourth in the last six years — is also their ...

Four months after the final buzzer sounded on his playing career, Kobe Bryant rang the opening bell of the New York Stock Exchange on Monday and a ounced a foray into the world of investing. Bryant and entrepreneur Jeff Stibel a ounced a $100 million fund that will support companies at the “converge...

Before he was the top dog in Southe Califo ia’s prep sports world, CIF Southe Section commissioner Rob Wigod was a high school coach for nearly two decades at Long Beach Wilson (his alma mater), Lakewood, and Los Alamitos. So he’s familiar with that fluttery feeling in his stomach as his section pre...

CINCINNATI — The space between ‘Ball’ and ‘Park’ in the officially named Great American Ball Park is just making room for a baseball to pass through. The most homer-happy stadium in the majors — yes, more so even than Coors Field — played it coy with the Dodgers for three days before letting them go...

Ryan Lochte lost his first major sponsor when Speedo USA a ounced Monday it was dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery. In a brief statement, Speedo USA said it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children to b...

Ryan Lochte lost two major sponsors when Speedo USA and Ralph Lauren a ounced Monday they were dumping the swimmer over a drunken incident during the Rio Olympics that he initially described as an armed robbery. Speedo USA also said it would donate $50,000 of Lochte’s fee to Save The Children to ben...

The High Desert Mavericks and Bakersfield Blaze will be contracted from the Califo ia League today, the Southe Califo ia News Group has lea ed. According to a report Sunday on the website todaysknuckleball.com, the league will not seek to replace the two franchises. That would leave the Cal League w...