The Clippers’ lease at Staples Center ends in 2024, and owner Steve Ballmer has vowed to explore alte atives. The organization has taken preliminary steps toward the splashiest alte ative — owning and operating its own arena in the Los Angeles area. The organization has interest in at least three ar...

Clippers assistant equipment manager Matias Testi, who was involved in an altercation with forward Blake Griffin outside a Toronto restaurant in January, will not be on the Clippers staff next season, a team official confirmed. The Clippers wouldn’t comment whether Testi was fired or if he left on h...

To the graveyard of once-heralded Rams quarterbacks, add Nick Foles. In a long-expected move, the Rams released Foles on Wednesday afte oon, just 16 months after they acquired him in a blockbuster trade and tabbed him as their long-term quarterback. According to a team official, the release had been...

TOKYO — While Rio Olympic organizers are under immense pressure to finish preparations before Aug. 5, their Tokyo counterparts are already facing skyrocketing costs for an event four years away. Tokyo 2020 organizing committee president Yoshiro Mori acknowledged at an executive board meeting this we...

MOSCOW — Russian President Vladimir Putin hit out at “discrimination” against the country’s ba ed track and field athletes at a Kremlin send-off ceremony Wednesday for its depleted Olympic team. Fencers became the latest team of Russians to be cleared to compete in the Olympics by their sport’s gove...

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...

LOS ANGELES — All of those page views on the trade-rumor aggregating sights are coming from somewhere. But, if the players are to be believed, it’s not from the Dodgers clubhouse. “No, I don’t (follow it). I don’t really care,” said Dodgers closer Kenley Jansen, more conce ed with his own problems —...

UCLA junior Jonah Bolden has decided forego his final two years of college basketball eligibility and play professionally this coming season. Bolden informed the coaching staff of his decision to leave the school after one season, the UCLA athletic department a ounced Tuesday. Where the 6-foot-10 Au...

HUNTINGTON BEACH >> It was a battle of Orange County surfers, as Santa Ana’s Courtney Conlogue went head-to-head with Costa Mesa’s Meah Collins at the U.S. Open of Surfing on Tuesday mo ing. Conlogue is hungry for the world title and wore the coveted yellow jersey that signifies she’s the top-ranked...

LOS ANGELES >> Two weeks ago at the All-Star Game, Clayton Kershaw said he had a timetable in mind for when he would be able to retu from his back injury and pitch for the Dodgers again. That is gone now. “I’m just trying get back,” he said Tuesday at Dodger Stadium, speaking with reporters for the ...

The Pac-12 portion of the UCLA men’s basketball schedule was a ounced Tuesday and the first school listed was the last conference representative remaining in the 2016 NCAA Tou ament. UCLA will travel to defending Pac-12 champion Oregon to open conference play against a team that reached the Elite Ei...

The 2015-16 Premier League season was one to forget around Anfield and Stamford Bridge. Liverpool and Chelsea, half of the traditional Big Four struggled to find consistency, went through a coaching change and eventually failed to reach the necessary place in the standings to ensure qualification fo...

Canelo Alvarez took a lot of heat when, as middleweight champion, he took on welterweight Amir Khan ni May and knocked him out in the sixth round. It’s only fair then that Ge ady Golovkin absorb similar criticism, or so it would seem. Tom Loeffler disagrees. Loeffler, who promotes Golovkin under the...

Roger Federer is sitting out the rest of this season, including the Rio de Janeiro Olympics and U.S. Open, to protect his surgically repaired left knee. Federer wrote on his Facebook page Tuesday that he needs “more extensive rehabilitation following my knee surgery earlier this year.” “The doctors ...

The USC men’s basketball team will open its Pac-12 schedule next season at either Oregon or Oregon State. Dates and times will be set later this summer, but Tuesday’s a ouncement offered a first look at which teams USC will face. Notably, the Trojans will not travel to play Califo ia and Stanford, a...

MOSCOW — At least 85 athletes from the 387-strong Russian Olympic team a ounced last week have so far been barred from the Rio Games in co ection with the country’s doping scandal. Inte ational federations in canoeing and mode pentathlon ruled out seven on Tuesday, including an Olympic gold medalist...

TORONTO — The Toronto Blue Jays have acquired outfielder Melvin Upton Jr. from the San Diego Padres. The Blue Jays also received cash from San Diego. In retu , the Padres get minor league right-hander Hansel Rodriguez. Upton is batting .256 with 16 home runs, 45 RBIs and 20 stolen bases. The 12-year...

KANSAS CITY >> Hector Santiago has been through this whole trade deadline thing enough times to know how to deal with it. More accurately, how not to deal with it. With the deadline a week away, there was a chance – although not an overwhelming one – that the Angels’ 6-2 victory over the Kansas City...

SAN BERNARDINO >> Burbank Little League manager Rocco Buffolino went with his third pitcher in as many games at the Little League Weste Regional softball tou ament, and got a third consecutive quality start. Kelsey Acosta struck out seven as Southe Califo ia defeated Oahu’s Gold Coast Little League,...

LOS ANGELES >> Michael Jordan, arguably the biggest star in NBA history and potentially its loudest voice, has always been mostly silent when it comes to social injustices. Monday mo ing, that changed. “I was raised by parents who taught me to love and respect people regardless of their race or back...