As he tries to hang on to his career, Jered Weaver reached a new low Friday night. Weaver gave up four homers in the Angels’ 7-0 loss to the New York Yankees, bringing his season total to 30 for the first time in his career. Weaver’s previous worst was 27, and he matched that on the first batter of ...

CINCINNATI >> The Dodgers look forward to the days when starting pitchers such as Rich Hill and Clayton Kershaw move from the DL to their rotation. This retu they could probably have done without. Right-hander Bud Norris was activated from the DL on Friday after missing 2 1/2 weeks with a strained m...

LAS VEGAS >> The time for the trash-talking and bottle-chucking is thankfully over. Bring on the welterweight rematch between Nate Diaz and featherweight champion Conor McGregor. The heated rivals will step back into the Octagon in the UFC 202 main event Saturday at T-Mobile Arena, more than five mo...

LOS ANGELES >> By not showing up, Tre Mason made a huge impact on the Rams’ ru ing-back battle in training camp. If Mason had not been arrested in March, to start an apparently sad, complicated saga in his life, the Rams’ depth chart would have been fairly well set with Todd Gurley, Mason and Be y C...

NBC 7 a.m. – 9:15 a.m. Women’s Triathlon – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 9:15 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Canoe/Kayak – Sprint Gold Medal Finals Men’s Diving – 10m Platform Semifinal Women’s Golf – Final Round (LIVE) 11:30 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. Women’s Basketball – Gold Medal Final (LIVE) 1:45 p.m. – 3 p.m. Men’s Water ...

Venturing down memory lane to co ect Rams’ past to Rams’ current, there’s a curious, colorful sidepath that leads to Paraquat Kelley. Southe Califo ia rock music fans from the 1970s and ‘80s grew up with the exuberant and iconic KMET radio personality – “Whoo-ya!” – who jokingly took his nickname fr...

The United States will play for another gold medal in men’s basketball, and they’ll be doing it thanks largely to Clippers center DeAndre Jordan. On the surface, this seems like a remarkable sentence. Jordan is the third best player on his team, he can’t make free throws and he’s not exactly a tacti...

ANAHEIM >> More than once this season, Angels catcher Geovany Soto told teammate Carlos Perez to relax. And more than once, the 25-year-old Perez would grip the bat tightly, resisting the advice of his 33-year-old mentor. Perez ultimately lea ed his lesson the hard way. By the All-Star break, he had...

LOS ANGELES >> Jack Jones’ pledge to USC last February started with flash. When Jones a ounced his commitment in February, he did so in a three-minute video with rapper Snoop Dogg. As the clip winds down, Snoop tu s to the five-star prospect from Long Beach Poly High School and asks, “Mr. President,...

LOS ANGELES >> After USC’s training camp commences Friday, the team will begin preparations for Alabama. Coach Clay Helton said he plans to install game-week installation on Sunday, coinciding with the release of a two-deep depth chart and a decision as far as a starting quarterback. “I’m looking fo...

RIO DE JANIERO >> The U.S. team made the most of its second chance to qualify for the women’s 4x100-meter relay final, ru ing the fastest time of the day in a solo re-run before the night session began. The Americans dropped the baton during the mo ing preliminaries and appeared to be out of content...

LAS VEGAS >> The UFC’s next big thing is ready for approach — and his landing could come at UFC 202. Cody Garbrandt, a rising star out of Sacramento’s Team Alpha Male, is in an ideal spot Saturday when he takes on Japanese veteran Takeya Mizugaki in the featured bout on the UFC 202 prelims card on F...

Rio de Janeiro >> In a sort of victory lap before the victory, Usain Bolt held up his left arm, his index finger extended into a wet night, as he walked slowly clockwise from a tu el entrance, around the Olympic Stadium curve to his blocks in Lane 6 and the start of the Olympic Games 200-meter final...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Leaning over, hands on her knees and cheering at every chance, injured U.S. star Foluke Akinradewo could only watch. The top-ranked Americans had fought back to force a fifth set against Serbia before falling short – short of the gold-medal goal that had driven her and others back ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Helen Maroulis made a great run in women’s wrestling Thursday, reaching the gold medal match at 53-kg in the Rio Olympics. Once there, she reached an entirely higher level, defeating a legend in the sport, Japan’s Saori Yoshida, 4-1. It was the first Olympic gold medal for an Ameri...

We’ve apparently reached the point in Rio 2016 when the media is trying to catch itself from drifting out of its lane. Having to check with its accountants and its better judgment as to what resources it has to devote to the athletes who are wi ing medals, lodging protests, tripping over hurdles and...

ANAHEIM >> Mike Trout — and the Angels — had their hopes dashed by a surprising slider and an electric fastball. The Angels superstar came to the plate twice in Wednesday night’s game against the Seattle Mariners with the potential tying runs on base, and both times he struck out. They represented t...

There was high drama on the track for the USA women’s 4x100 relay team on Thursday mo ing at the Rio Olympics. The Americans, ru ing in the second of three heats, failed to advance after dropping the baton on the second exchange, between Allyson Felix and English Gardner. However, Felix told NBC tha...

RIO DE JANEIRO — A Brazilian police official told The Associated Press that American swimmer Ryan Lochte fabricated a story about being robbed at gunpoint in Rio de Janeiro. The official, who has direct knowledge of the investigation, spoke on the condition of anonymity Thursday because he was not a...

LONG BEACH >> Bob Moran had been the Fullerton College offensive coordinator for the past decade and had never coached at the high school level. Moran, who has ties to Cabrillo High School co-principal Elio Mendoza and his brother, longtime coach Lalo Mendoza, jumped at the chance to coach high scho...