While Long Beach may not be duplicating the 32-member delegation that represented the city during the London Olympics in 2012, the city will still have a large group of athletes and coaches with co ections to Long Beach in Rio. Here’s a look at who’s competing in 2016’s #TeamLB. Regular updates on a...

ANAHEIM >> Jefry Marte has exemplified the versatility Angels manager Mike Scioscia said is often times required of a young player looking for any way into the lineup. Marte, 25, has played just 18 games in the major leagues at his natural position of third base. This season, he has ma ed third just...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Should a collective sigh of relief echo across Maracana Stadium when the cauldron is lit at Friday night’s opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games, look no further than the VIP section. There, officials from the Inte ational Olympic Committee, Rio organizing committee and Brazil...

ANAHEIM >> The earliest retu on the Angels’ trade deadline deals didn’t inspire any bargain hunters. But Ricky Nolasco’s first start for his new team was practically a footnote by the end of the Angels’ 10-i ing, 8-6 loss to the Oakland A’s on Thursday. He may ea a similar distinction in the final a...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Should a collective sigh of relief echo across Maracana Stadium when the cauldron is lit at Friday night’s opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games, look no further than the VIP section. There, officials from the Inte ational Olympic Committee, Rio organizing committee and Brazil...

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell’s power to freely punish Adrian Peterson has prevailed, two seasons after the Mi esota ru ing back became embroiled in a child-abuse case that heightened the dispute over league discipline. A three-judge panel of the 8th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Thursday tha...

IRVINE — At the start of his first training camp last July, nine months removed from a to anterior cruciate ligament in his left knee and three months after the Rams made him just the second ru ing back in five years drafted in the top 10, Todd Gurley was only permitted to run in straight lines. Con...

Will NHRA history repeat itself this weekend at the Northwest Nationals outside Seattle? In 1994, John Force became the only Fu y Car driver to sweep the traditional Weste Swing, wi ing in Denver, Sonoma and Seattle. This year, the 67-year-old from Yorba Linda heads to the northwest with wins in Den...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> Should a collective sigh of relief echo across Maracana Stadium when the cauldron is lit at Friday night’s opening ceremony of the 2016 Olympic Games, look no further than the VIP section. There, officials from the Inte ational Olympic Committee, Rio organizing committee and Brazil...

While Long Beach may not be duplicating the 32-member delegation that represented the city during the London Olympics in 2012, the city will still have a large group of athletes and coaches with co ections to the city in Rio. Here’s a look at who’s competing in 2016’s #TeamLB. Regular updates on all...

The Oklahoma City Thunder have reached a new deal with All-Star guard Russell Westbrook. The two sides have agreed on a new three-year contract worth $85.7 million, according to a person with direct knowledge of the terms. The person spoke to The Associated Press on condition of anonymity Thursday b...

RIO DE JANEIRO — Novak Djokovic will face 2009 U.S. Open champion Juan Martin del Potro in the first round at the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro. Del Potro’s ranking has fallen to 145th after he endured three operations on his left wrist. But at his first Grand Slam in 21/2 years, he upset fourth-seeded...

Will NHRA history repeat itself this weekend at the Northwest Nationals outside Seattle? In 1994, John Force became the only Fu y Car driver to sweep the traditional Weste Swing, wi ing in Denver, Sonoma and Seattle. This year, the 67-year-old from Yorba Linda heads to the northwest with wins in Den...

A large group of Olympic volunteers pose for a picture in front of a set of Olympic rings in the Olympic Park in the Barra area of the games. (Michael Goulding/Orange County Register) Live headlines, photos, updates from Southe Califo ia News Group reporters Scott Reid and Jeff Miller, with updates ...

ANAHEIM >> The Angels seemed determined to win this game, no matter how hard they also seemed to be trying to lose it. Throughout the late i ings, one Angel after another did something wrong, each followed by a teammate who bailed him out. The conga line of goats and heroes ended with Albert Pujols,...

DENVER >> The Dodgers might have been paying for their starting pitching sins Wednesday night — for all the gambles taken, bad luck absorbed and hubris for thinking they had assembled uncommon depth at the position. Scheduled to start in Colorado Springs for Triple-A Oklahoma City this week, right-h...

ANAHEIM – Cam Bedrosian is now officially a closer. The Angels unhittable phenom, who gradually worked his way from the sixth to the ninth i ings on a two-month string of strikeouts and scoreless i ings, endured a closer’s rite of passage. He failed. Bedrosian’s streak of 25 straight scoreless outin...

ANAHEIM >> The glimmer of hope Garrett Richards once had continues to get brighter. Garrett Richards got the go-ahead to increase his workouts, perhaps throwing a baseball in a couple of weeks, as he continues to try to dodge Tommy John surgery that would have him out until 2018. On a day the Angels...

LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach State women’s soccer team officially started the 2016 campaign on Wednesday with two training sessions. The 2015 Big West Conference regular-season champions, who are hosting the conference tou ament this year, will host its alumni on Saturday at 7 p.m. and Air Force in ...

RIO DE JANEIRO >> When the Inte ational Olympic Committee awarded Riou2009de Janerio the 2016u2009Olympic Games on Oct.u20092, 2009, in Copenhagen, Brazil’s then-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva was so overcome with emotion that he couldn’t stop sobbing, spending much of a post-a ouncement press ...