USC co erback Isaiah Langley was suspended for the Trojans’ season opener against Alabama, a school spokesman confirmed Tuesday. Langley was arrested in early May at a UCLA frate ity party on misdemeanor charges of resisting arrest, providing false information and trespassing, according to UCLA poli...

CARSON — The Galaxy have won the U.S. Open Cup twice in its history (2001 and 2005) and made the finals two more times (2002 and 2006). Aside from that, the club’s history in the tou ament is a lot of misses rather than hits, and Wednesday night the Galaxy have another chance to get over the quarter...

Tiger Woods out of PGA Championship while rehabbing back Tiger Woods will miss all four majors in a year for the first time in his storied career. (Chuck Burton/The Associated Press) By The Associated Press Tiger Woods has pulled out of the PGA Championship, the first time in his career he will miss...

The Long Beach Unified School District Board of Education on Monday unanimously approved name changes for three schools, as well as for a few district facilities. Despite some opposition, the board approved a motion for Inte ational Elementary to be renamed Je y Oropeza Elementary School, in honor o...

The Hollywood stuntman doesn’t want to follow in his idol’s footsteps so much as rocket above them — over a gaping canyon, no less. Evel Knievel’s iconic launch, Take II. Eddie Braun, fueled by the memory of the late daredevil, plans to strap into a steam-powered rocket cycle on Sept. 17 for his mos...

LONG BEACH >> Long Beach State men’s basketball head coach Dan Monson confirmed on Monday that forward Travis Hammonds is receiving his full release from the 49ers after wi ing the Big West Conference Sixth Man of the Year award. “We have agreed it is in the best interest for (Hammonds) and our bask...

ANAHEIM >> Miles out of playoff contention, the Angels seem intent on at least making the second half interesting. They equaled their biggest comeback of the season, overcoming an early four-run deficit to beat the Texas Rangers, 9-5, on Monday night. The Angels equaled their longest wi ing streak o...

LAS VEGAS >> The Lakers chased another star. Once again, that star ran away. This time, the reasons had nothing to do with personality conflicts with teammates, salary or a poor sales pitch in its meeting. Kevin Durant did not grant the Lakers a meeting at all namely because he figured it would be a...

The Inte ational Olympic Committee could decide as early as Tuesday whether to ban all Russian athletes from the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro next month in the wake of a World Anti-Doping Agency report that details how a Russian state-sponsored doping and cover-up system extended across dozens of...

The Philadelphia district atto ey’s office a ounced Monday that it will not file sexual assault charges against former USC receiver Nelson Agholor following an incident at a Philadelphia strip club. Agholor, 23, was accused of rape by a 27-year-old dancer at Cheerleader’s Gentlemen’s Club on June 9,...

LOS ANGELES >> Baseball’s deep dive into statistical analysis has created a new language of exit velocities, launch angles, FIPs, WHIPs and BABIPs. But this is another new concept courtesy of the analytics crowd – a 37-year-old “bounceback candidate.” Chase Utley posted career-lows across the board ...

An investigator looking into Russian doping found the country’s state-directed cheating program resulted in no fewer than 312 positive results that were withheld, covering 28 sports and lasting from 2011 through at least last year’s world swimming championships. The investigator, Richard McLaren, du...

TORONTO >> Will Power used pit strategy to grab his third victory of the season and close in on Team Penske teammate Simon Pagenaud in the race for the IndyCar championship. Power’s victory Sunday on the temporary road course at Exhibition Place was his third in four races, and he was second last we...

@MWhicker03LANG on Twitter The only game he played was basketball. He didn’t pose, he didn’t sell, he didn’t market, he didn’t Tweet, he didn’t post (except in the lane), he didn’t “brand.” He played like nobody was watching and sometimes it seemed nobody was, except for the five times he would surf...

ANAHEIM >> Slowly but surely, Jered Weaver’s pitches aren’t so slow. After Weaver threw seven i ings in the Angels’ 8-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Sunday, Mike Scioscia was excited about how “frisky” Weaver had gotten with his fastball. He was talking about fastballs that were only 85-86 ...

TROON, Scotland >> Henrik Stenson is the champion golfer of the year, thanks to a final round for the ages. He kept hitting the best shots of his life, one after another, and he needed each one to stay ahead of Phil Mickelson in a British Open duel that ranked among the best in major championship hi...

ANAHEIM >> Matt Shoemaker didn’t get much air Saturday. His feet barely left the ground after he struck out Justin Mo eau to complete a 1-0 victory over the Chicago White Sox. He hopped off the mound, pumped his fist and smiled broadly as a crowd of 39,620 at Angel Stadium roared its approval. Shoem...

PHOENIX >> Singer Luis Coronel’s post-game concert at Chase Field Saturday started a little late. The opening act couldn’t hit the right notes. The Dodgers went 1 for 15 with ru ers in scoring position and stranded 15 ru ers on base, failing to hold a one-run lead in the ninth i ing and eventually l...

Maybe it just took being insulted for Zach Walters to unlock the potential three previous organizations have seen in him. Walters was promoted from Triple-A by the Dodgers on Saturday, taking the place of outfielder Trayce Thompson who went on the DL with lower back irritation. Walters has been to t...

PHOENIX >> The Dodgers were one pitch away from a 1-0 victory Saturday at Chase Field, but the Arizona Diamondbacks rallied to tie the game in the ninth i ing against All-Star closer Kenley Jansen and then won it, 2-1, in the 12th i ing. The Diamondbacks’ Jake Lamb was the local hero in both i ings....