What to watch: The United States women’s gymnastics team begin 2016 Olympics competition that will feature Gabby Douglas, Simone Biles and Aly Raisman. The U.S. women’s basketball team led by Diana Taurasi and Sue Bird, will play Senegal in a Group B preliminary round game. The team will look to hav...

SEATTLE >> The Angels bullpen is, to put it mildly, in a state of flux. Jose Valdez and Deolis Guerra combined to give up four runs in the eighth i ing of the Angels’ 8-6 loss to the Seattle Mariners on Saturday night. With Joe Smith having been traded and Huston Street on the disabled list, the Ang...

LOS ANGELES >> USC coach Clay Helton has not weighed in much this training camp on USC’s ongoing quarterback competition between Max Browne and Sam Da old. The Trojans are through three practices, but have not yet practiced in full pads or scrimmaged, what are expected to be far more determining fac...

SEATTLE >> It is fitting for Mike Trout to be at Safeco Field this weekend. As Trout is celebrating his 25th birthday — a natural moment to take stock of his accomplishments, to mark where he stands in history — he has a front-row seat to a weekend of events dedicated to Ken Griffey Jr. The freshly ...

LOS ANGELES >> The nostalgia will wear off at some point. Sooner or later the Rams will blend back into Los Angeles as if they never left L.A. for St. Louis and spent two decades away from the region they called home for nearly 50 years. The magic will fade. The charm of their retu will dim. And the...

Carl Edwards, who won the pole at Watkins Glen Inte ational, has become somewhat of a master at qualifying on NASCAR’s two Sprint Cup road courses. Edwards tu ed a fast lap of 126.562 mph on Saturday to edge Kyle Larson for the top spot for today’s Cheez-It 355. It was the fourth pole of the season ...

LOS ANGELES >> It was almost like walking into a Yellowstone meadow and confronting a bison. With the crowd standing on behalf of the bison. “He’s a monster,” Ross Stripling said of his first-i ing encounter with David Ortiz on Saturday. “He takes up the whole box. It was awesome, all the people che...

LOS ANGELES >> When Bud Norris was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday with a back strain, that meant Ross Stripling would get another chance to help the Dodgers. Stripling, up and down from the minors to the majors this season, threw five shutout i ings as the Dodgers rebounded from a Frida...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Sam Mikulak isn’t a scoreboard watcher. Yet if the U.S. gymnast had allowed himself a glimpse of the giant video screens high above Rio Olympic Arena after the first four of six rotations in the second sub-division of the Olympic Games men’s team qualifying round Saturday, he would...

Marty Callner’s remarkable resume of producing music videos and concert specials for the last 40-plus years co ects him more in the Hollywood community with Whitney Houston than the Houston Texans. But should he receive another Emmy Award as an executive producer of HBO’s “Hard Knocks” after what ha...

Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti said Saturday that the results of November’s U.S. presidential election could weigh heavily on his city’s chances of hosting the 2024 Olympics, saying that a victory by Donald Trump could tu off IOC voters. In an exclusive interview with The Associated Press, Garcetti...

LOS ANGELES >> Left-hander Rich Hill knew that when he went looking for work in 2015 it was going to be difficult to get a major league team to give him a chance because he wanted to go back to starting, which he had done the first five years of his career before becoming a reliever in 2010 for the ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Brazilian military and police say the bullet which flew through the roof of a media tent at the Olympic Equestrian Center was simply “an unfortunate incident.” There was a scare during the lunch break at the dressage event Saturday as a military-looking bullet pierced the roof of t...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Virginia Thrasher went through a three-week spring whirlwind, wi ing three NCAA titles and a spot on the U.S. Olympic Shooting team. The precocious 19-year-old closed out the summer with her biggest surprise yet. Keeping her nerve on sport’s biggest stage, Thrasher on Saturday ea e...

KNBC/4 8-10:30 a.m. - Rowing; Men’s cycling; Men’s water polo (U.S. vs. Croatia) 10:30-11:30 a.m. - Men’s cycling; Swimming 2:30-4:15 p.m. - Rowing; Men’s beach volleyball (Gibb/Patterson-U.S. vs. Jefferson/Cherif-Qatar) 4:15-6 p.m. - Women’s volleyball (U.S. vs. Puerto Rico) xxxx 8 p.m. -midnight -...

There are obvious doubts regarding USC’s defensive line, which does not retu a single starter from last season. But that can obscure the fact that in many other years, the current linebacker situation would be considered a serious conce entering the season. “It has a lot of questions,” USC coach Cla...

LOS ANGELES >> When David Ortiz was chosen to participate in the All-Star Game in July, a representative from the Major League Baseball Players’ Association asked him to say a few words to his American League teammates before the game. Ortiz is 40 years old. He’s pla ing to retire after the season. ...

It’s almost most absurd to think about it now, what with Kevin Greene do ing the iconic gold jacket signifying membership into the Pro Football Hall of Fame and his bust soon on display in Canton. But back in the mid 1980s the rangy fifth-round pick from Aubu was so starved for playing time he was l...

SEATTLE >> If Tim Lincecum is making progress, it’s not showing up in the box score. Seeking to rediscover even a sliver of his Cy Young form after four dark years, Lincecum was pounded once again in the Angels’ 6-4 loss to the Seattle Mariners. He gave up six runs — all in the first i ing — and did...

What’s everyone talking about after the Rio 2016 opening ceremony? Gisele. She’s married to Tom Brady, she’s a famous super model and she’s from Brazil. Naturally, she made an appearance at the opening ceremony for her country’s Olympic Games. And the world loved it. Gisele walked across the stadium...