LOS ANGELES >> DeAndre Jordan’s trying to hurry because the 8 p.m. bus was waiting and good teammates don’t make the 8 p.m. bus wait. But since Jordan’s at Staples Center, getting out of the building is going to be tougher than usual. First, there was a stop with the local TV station. Then, there we...

At 6-foot-3, 240 pounds with a large – he’ll tell you so – shaved head, dark beard and the ability to glower like an extra from “Sons of Anarchy,” Adam Liberatore is not the kind of guy to whom you want to deliver bad news. “Maybe a little,” Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said with a laugh when asked ...

LONG BEACH >> The Long Beach Open golf tou ament begins on Thursday with the final round scheduled for Sunday. The first two rounds will be played at El Dorado and Skylinks golf courses and the weekend rounds and awards ceremony will be at El Dorado. The tou ament will be 72 holes of stroke play and...

CHICAGO — The Chicago Cubs acquired hard-throwing reliever Aroldis Chapman in a trade with the New York Yankees on Monday, giving the NL Central leaders a boost as they try for their first World Series title in more than a century. The Cubs paid a steep price, parting with top shortstop prospect Gle...

It’s back-to-school time for the Rams’ rookies, and the syllabus appears rather daunting. Just a few months after most of them left college, the Rams’ 27 rookies will move into UC Irvine campus housing Tuesday, then hit the field Wednesday for the first of their two practices before veterans arrive....

MOSCOW — Seven Russian swimmers have been barred from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, including three linked to recent allegations of a major doping cover-up by Russian authorities, world swimming’s gove ing body FINA said Monday. Reigning world 100-meter breaststroke champion Yulia Efimova is among fo...

His first steps toward the NFL took him to El Paso, for a Texas vs. The Nation college All-Star Game. William Hayes was from the Nation. During practice, he was a Rogue Nation. “He saw all those offensive linemen lined up,” said Kermit Blount, Hayes’ coach at Winston-Salem (N.C.) State. “They had al...

Peyton Ma ing cleared by NFL of HGH allegations Former NFL star Peyton Ma ing was accused to taking performance-enhancing substances in a documentary by Al-Jazeera America last fall. (Jack Dempsey/The Associated Press) By The Associated Press NEW YORK — The NFL says it found no credible evidence tha...

MOSCOW — Seven Russian swimmers have been barred from the Rio de Janeiro Olympics, including three linked to recent allegations of a major doping cover-up by Russian authorities, world swimming’s gove ing body FINA said Monday. Reigning world 100-meter breaststroke champion Yulia Efimova is among fo...

WESTWOOD >> The United States and Russian women’s national water polo teams played a pre-Olympics inte ational friendly on Sunday afte oon at UCLA, but the game ending up being anything but, with plenty of fouls and a full-game ejection on the Russian side. Both teams showed they’re ready for Rio wi...

ST. LOUIS >> See you later? The Dodgers and St. Louis Cardinals played for the 2,057th time during the regular season Sunday night in a rivalry that stretches back into the 19th century. They aren’t scheduled to play again this season after the Dodgers took two of three at Busch Stadium with a 9-6 v...

HOUSTON >> Tim Lincecum is having something of an identity crisis. Once one of baseball’s most dominant pitchers, Lincecum is going through a difficult transition as he tries to become someone he has never been. And he doesn’t even know how to do that yet. After the Angels’ 13-3 loss to the Houston ...

COOPERSTOWN, N.Y. >> Two players who began their careers at opposite ends of the spectrum nearly three decades ago ended up in the same place on Sunday — with their names etched on plaques at the Baseball Hall of Fame. For Ken Griffey Jr. and Mike Piazza, the culmination of their long jou eys was ti...

LAUSANNE, Switzerland >> Rejecting calls by anti-doping officials for a complete ban on Russia, Olympic leaders on Sunday gave individual global sports federations the task of deciding which athletes should be cleared to compete in next month’s Rio de Janeiro Games. Citing the need to protect the ri...

CHICAGO >> The Chicago White Sox suspended ace Chris Sale five days without pay for destroying collared throwback uniforms the team was scheduled to wear. The White Sox a ounced the punishment on Sunday after Sale was scratched from his scheduled start and sent home the previous night. The suspensio...

LAS VEGAS — Bob Arum expected Terence Crawford to beat Viktor Postol on Saturday night. When it happened, he was still speechless. “I’m not talking to you guys anymore,” Arum told writers after Crawford took Postol’s WBO light-welterweight championship and kept his own WBA version. “From now on I’m ...

The car salesman seemed somewhat interested to hear I was a sports columnist, and at one point while his manager was crunching numbers inquired if I was working on anything interesting. “Well, there’s that whole story about the Rams moving back to Los Angeles after spending the last 22 years in St. ...

VENICE BEACH - More than 550 athletes will be officially a ounced as members of the 2016 U.S. Olympic team today at a fan event at Venice Beach. Beach volleyball player Kerri Walsh Je ings and basketball player Tamika Catchings, who will both be seeking their fourth gold medals at the Rio de Janeiro...

Dustin Johnson started and finished the day tied with Luke List for the Canadian Open lead. The U.S. Open champion had to make up a lot of ground to do it. Johnson had a double bogey and two bogeys on his first holes Friday in windy conditions at sun-baked Glen Abbey in Oakville, Ontario. He rebound...

Bubba Watson this week unveiled a jetpack golf cart that can climb up to 3,000 feet and reach a speed of 50 mph. And who says this sport is as out-of-date as the last remaining can of Jolt Cola? “We’re not just boring people,” Watson told the Golf Cha el. “We’re having fun with the game. We’re comin...