Alex Kim of Fullerton and Phil Reedy of Henderson, Nevada share the lead after the first round of the 2016 Long Beach Open on Thursday. Both leaders shot an eight-under par 64 at El Dorado Golf Course while Brandon Petelski, Mitchell Fedorka, Tyler Weworski and Zane Thomas are tied for third after s...

Le’Veon Bell believes his surgically repaired right knee feels so good he could play “tomorrow.” The wait will be considerably longer for the Pittsburgh Steelers ru ing back, perhaps all the way until October if his appeal for violating the NFL’s substance abuse policy is denied. While Bell apologiz...

ANAHEIM >> Angels manager Mike Scioscia could only scowl and walk slowly from the dugout to the clubhouse in obvious agony. David Ortiz had just won the decisive Game 3 of the 2004 American League Division Series for the Boston Red Sox with a blast over the Green Monster at Fenway Park. It’s one of ...

DEL MAR STANDINGS Through Thursday JOCKEYS / WINS Flavien Prat / 12 Santiago Gonzalez / 10 Tyler Baze / 7 Rafael Bejarano / 7 Kent Desormeaux / 7 TRAINERS / WINS Philip D’Amato / 6 Mark Glatt / 5 John Sadler / 5 Peter Miller / 4 Five tied / 3 STAKES SCHEDULE DEL MAR Today • $100,000 CTBA Stakes, 2-y...

A proud franchise with a tradition of speed, from Maury Wills and Davey Lopes to Dee Gordon, is moving rather slowly these days. A look at the July leaderboard shows three players with more stolen bases than the 32 the Dodgers have as a team. The Dodgers didn’t steal many bases last year either. A q...

The College Football Playoff has abandoned a plan to play most of its semifinals on New Year’s Eves after television ratings tumbled last year, moving the dates of future games to ensure they will be played either on a weekend or a holiday. The changes will start with the 2018 season. The TV ratings...

Richard Childress has won six NASCAR Sprint Cup championships, but none since 1994 with Kevin Harvick in a Chevrolet. In fact, the last NASCAR title was in the Xfinity Series in 2013 with Austin Dillon behind the wheel and Da y Stockman the crew chief. Stockman is from a racing family in Yucaipa. In...

SPRINGFIELD, N.J. — The search for another first-time major champion in the final one of the year began Thursday with Jimmy Walker at the PGA Championship. Walker had no problem with the stifling heat at Baltusrol, and he was thrilled to see some putts finally go in. It led to six birdies on his way...

The College Football Playoff is moving the dates of future semifinals to ensure the games will be played either on a Saturday or a holiday. The changes will start with the 2018 season and come in response to the television ratings for last year’s games played on Thursday, Dec. 31, dropping 36 percen...

PASADENA — It might have been an exhibition, but Wednesday’s Inte ational Champions Cup game between English Premier League foes Chelsea and Liverpool had that mid-season rivalry feel to it. In the 10th minute, Gary Cahill scored the only goal on a header from a co er kick sent in by Cesc Fabregas t...

KANSAS CITY >> This weekend is going to carry a little extra meaning for Albert Pujols. The Angels will be playing their last series of the season against the Boston Red Sox, which means Pujols will likely be playing his final games against retiring star David Ortiz. “He’s like a big brother to me,”...

HUNTINGTON BEACH >> Inconsistent waves provided little to no swells for much of the U.S. Open contests on Wednesday, making the day’s heats challenging for even the most experienced surfers. “It was just really tricky conditions,” said Courtney Conlogue, the top-ranked female surfer from Santa Ana. ...

IRVINE >> The Rams cut quarterback Nick Foles on Wednesday in a move that, apparently, can be considered an act of mercy. Oh, no, not for Foles, who reportedly asked for his release. Rather, the team evidently was looking out for the rest of us, the Rams already showing how deeply they care about th...

KANSAS CITY >> A nice tidy Angels ballgame – heading toward a rare victory for hard-luck Matt Shoemaker – all went up in smoke in one wild exchange that began with a simple bunt. A two-run Angels lead in the seventh i ing vanished on that play and the Angels lost, 7-5, to the Kansas City Royals on W...

New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick acknowledged on Wednesday that Jimmy Garoppolo will have to start the first four games of the season at quarterback and said the top priority of training camp would be to get the former backup ready. “We have finally some definition with Tom’s situation,” Be...

LOS ANGELES >> Trayce Thompson began swinging off a tee Wednesday, and the Dodgers’ injured outfielder believes he’ll be ready to begin a minor league rehabilitation assignment sometime next week. After trying to push through tightness in his lower back, Thompson was placed on the 15-day disabled li...

LOS ANGELES >> Major League Baseball’s schedule makers devised a devilish week at Dodger Stadium. There was no game Monday and there is no game Thursday. In between were two games against the Tampa Bay Rays, a team constructed largely by Dodgers’ president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman. As ...

This summer has been full of youth baseball success for teams across greater Long Beach, and two more picked up tou ament titles over the last week. The Long Beach Los Altos 8U All-Stars, nicknamed the Big Red Machine, won the Pacific Southwest Regional in Utah last week for the first time in 10 yea...

Former Long Beach Poly and University of Arizona star Ryan Anderson has signed an inte ational contract to begin his professional basketball career. Anderson, the 2011 Gatorade State Player of the Year for the Jackrabbits, has signed a deal with the Port of Antwerp Giants, putting him in one of Euro...

SOUTH EL MONTE — Joseph Diaz Jr. recently moved out of his parents’ home in South El Monte into an apartment in Glendora. “Oh, it was very tough, man, because I had my mom and my dad cooking meals for me and my mom babying me, washing my clothes when I was done working out,” said Diaz, a world-class...