RIO DE JANEIRO >> Katie Ledecky held off a late bid by Sweden’s Sarah Sjostrom to win the Olympic Games 200 meter freestyle final Tuesday night and capture her second gold medal of the Rio Games. With her 1 minute, 53.73 victory, Ledecky is one victory away from being the first woman in nearly a hal...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Michael Phelps won his 20th Olympic gold medal Tuesday night, taking the 200-meter butterfly final. Phelps’ powered to a 1 minute, 53.36 second clocking for his 24th overall Olympic medal. Phelps charged into the lead in the second 50, opening up a 0.43 second lead by the halfway p...

IRVINE >> It wasn’t the equivalent of changing a chess board to a checkers board and asking a rook to leap diagonally rather move horizontally or vertically. But you can’t blame Quinton Coples for feeling a bit out a place through all the various scheme and position changes through his first three s...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Team USA repeated as Olympic women’s team gymnastics champion with a performance that was beyond fierce. The U.S. presented a convincing case as the greatest team in history at the Rio Olympic Arena Tuesday, rolling up 184.897 total points, more than the U.S. squad, the self-procla...

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 10 (DAY 5) NBC 10 a.m. – Noon Men’s Beach Volleyball – Gibb/Patterson (U.S.) vs. Herrera/Gavira (Spain) (LIVE) Men’s Water Polo – U.S. vs. France (LIVE) Noon – 2 p.m. Swimming – Qualifying Heats (LIVE) 2 p.m. – 3:45 p.m. Women’s Volleyball – U.S. vs. Serbia (LIVE) 3:45 p.m. - 5 p.m...

CHICAGO >> Undeterred when the Angels ended one phase of his comeback attempt, Tim Lincecum is going to continue trying to find himself at Triple-A. Lincecum, who by virtue of his service time had the option of accepting a minor league assignment or becoming a free agent, agreed on Tuesday to go to ...

UCLA has a three-headed monster at ru ing back, but in offensive coordinator Ke edy Polamalu’s perfect world, it’ll be down to one by the season opener. “I would like to have one guy at the top of the list,” Polamalu said. “Then the other guys will get their playing time. We’re going to play all tho...

Myles Garrett is the earth-scorching pass rusher for Texas A&M. He says his goal in 2016 is 20 sacks. Conor McDermott is the placid, smiling left tackle for UCLA. His goal is to make sure Garrett still needs 20 sacks after Sept. 3. Garrett is the top pick in the 2017 NFL draft, according to Draftsit...

Seeing fullback Ainuu Taua rumble down the sideline with a defender in his wake brought a smile to offensive coordinator Ke edy Polamalu’s face. That’s what his offense looks like. On Monday, Taua caught a pass in the flat and ran over a defender on his way to the end zone. The former defensive line...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Team USA repeated as Olympic women’s team gymnastics champion with a performance that was beyond fierce. The U.S. presented a convincing case as the greatest team in history at the Rio Olympic Arena Tuesday, rolling up 184.897 total points, more than the U.S. squad, the self-procla...

Myles Garrett is the earth-scorching pass rusher for Texas A&M. He says his goal in 2016 is 20 sacks. Conor McDermott is the placid, smiling left tackle for UCLA. His goal is to make sure Garrett still needs 20 sacks after Sept. 3. Garrett is the top pick in the 2017 NFL draft, according to Draftsit...

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Abbey Weitzeil of Saugus ea ed her first Olympic medal, helping the U.S. women’s team to a silver in the 4x100 meters relay on Sunday. The U.S. team of Simone Manuel, Weitzeil, Dana Vollmer and Katie Ledecki finished with a time of 3 minutes, 31.89 seconds, behind the Australian team of Emma McKeon,...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> It was the smallest of gestures on the largest of stages, a tiny rubber bracelet meaning more than the five giant rings that tower over these Olympics. McQuin Baron didn’t play Monday in the U.S. men’s water polo game against Spain. That, however, didn’t stop the backup goalkeeper ...

While the U.S. men’s 4x100 relay team made headlines Sunday with its gold medal performance, Valencia’s Anthony Ervin was also key part of the story and one of the Rio Olympics’ unlikeliest gold medal wi ers. Ervin helped the men’s team advance from the prelims Saturday, but didn’t swim the finals a...

What to watch The U.S. women’s gymnastics team is a heavy favorite to win the team gold on Tuesday, led by Simone Biles and Gabby Douglas. If the U.S. team performs at a level near its effort in preliminaries, it has a chance to be remembered as one of the best ever. Read more. In swimming, Katie Le...

As of early Monday afte oon, Josh Rosen had yet to see his face splashed on the cover of Sports Illustrated. He was otherwise accounted for that mo ing. He had practice. UCLA opened camp Monday with what head coach Jim Mora called one of the best first days of training camp since his arrival on camp...

LOS ANGELES >> No matter what past USC teams lacked, the Trojans often made up for in their ability to knock the other team around. In 1982, the Trojans no longer featured star tailback Marcus Allen and were not especially gifted at quarterback as Sean Salisbury and Scott Tinsley each played. But th...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Sailing, not the dirty water, was finally the focus on troubled Guanabara Bay during a spectacular start to the Olympic regatta. Windsurfers sped across the waves toward Flamengo Beach in a fresh breeze, against the imposing backdrop of Sugarloaf Mountain. Christ the Redeemer, Rio’...

Rio de Janeiro >> The slimmest of medal chances rested in the hands of Danell Leyva, Team USA’s last man on the last rotation, the absolute last hope in the Olympic Games men’s gymnastics team all-around final Sunday. So Leyva chased the medal around and around the high bar, growing faster, more con...