SAN DIEGO >> In the American League clubhouse before Tuesday’s All-Star Game, there was one Angels outfielder and one almost-Angels outfielder. Dressing just a few lockers down from Mike Trout was Michael Saunders, one of six Toronto Blue Jays on the AL roster. For a few hours in February, though, S...

Six hours was all it took for the Rams to run out of season tickets. In an email to deposit holders on Tuesday, the franchise told fans that it had sold out its allotment of 70,000 season tickets — tickets that will grant attendance to the Rams’ first set of home games at the Coliseum since 1979. Ja...

Four members of the silver medal-wi ing 2012 squad headline the U.S. women’s Olympic volleyball team for the Rio de Janeiro Games. Middle blockers Foluke Akinradewo and Christa Dietzen, outside hitter Jordan Larson and setter Courtney Thompson will be joined by eight players competing in their first...

REVEL, France >> Michael Matthews profited from the work of his teammates to win the 10th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish after a long breakaway on Tuesday. The Australian rider edged world champion Peter Sagan and Edvald Boasson Hagen to claim his first stage win at cycling’s biggest...

Carmilla Macchiato took off like a bat out of (heck). Bosco went nowhere slowly. And Schatzie didn’t even leave the gate. They joined about 40 other short-legged friends this week to practice for the heady competition coming up this weekend. It’s like the Olympic Games for dachshunds: The Wienerschn...

PLAYA VISTA >> Marreese Speights took note of what Cole Aldrich did last year for the Clippers and wants the same opportunity this season. Speights saw how Aldrich played a significant role off the bench and became an impact player when the Clippers lost Blake Griffin. Now, he gets the chance to do ...

Four members of the silver medal-wi ing 2012 squad headline the U.S. women’s Olympic volleyball team for the Rio de Janeiro Games. Middle blockers Foluke Akinradewo and Christa Dietzen, outside hitter Jordan Larson and setter Courtney Thompson will be joined by eight players competing in their first...

It was always a foregone conclusion the Rams will be on the move quite a bit during the three seasons they’d play at the Coliseum while their new stadium in Inglewood is being built. And it looks like that means an expected trip to China in 2018 moving closer and closer to reality. According to a re...

SAN DIEGO >> Clayton Kershaw has a target in mind for when he expects to pitch again for the Dodgers. But he’s keeping it to himself. “I do,” he said. “It just doesn’t make sense to share it. If I beat it, ‘Oh, you’re rushing back.’ And if I don’t, then it’s ‘Why not?’” Kershaw will be eligible to c...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who says former Pe State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy in 1976 testified in court documents unsealed Tuesday that head coach Joe Pate o was told about it the very next day and responded callously. The man identified as John Doe 150 said ...

Megan Rapinoe, who is coming off December knee surgery, has been named to the national team roster for the Rio Games along with Carli Lloyd, who has scored in the gold-medal wi ing final for the United States in the last two Olympics. Lloyd, who also scored three goals in 16 minutes to lead the Unit...

Documents unsealed by a Pe sylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that alleged current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Pe State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s. In a 2015 deposition, former Pe State assistant Mike McQueary, a m...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who says former Pe State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy in 1976 testified in court documents unsealed Tuesday that head coach Joe Pate o was told about it the very next day and responded callously. The man identified as John Doe 150 said ...

Documents unsealed by a Pe sylvania court Tuesday unveiled testimony that current UCLA defensive coordinator Tom Bradley, a former Pe State assistant coach, knew of Jerry Sandusky‘s sexual abuse of boys as early as the 1980s. In a 2015 deposition, former Pe State assistant Mike McQueary, a main witn...

HARRISBURG, Pa. — A man who says former Pe State assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky sexually abused him as a boy in 1976 testified in court documents unsealed Tuesday that head coach Joe Pate o was told about it the very next day and responded callously. The man identified as John Doe 150 said ...

REVEL, France — Michael Matthews profited from the work of his teammates to win the 10th stage of the Tour de France in a sprint finish after a long breakaway on Tuesday. The Australian rider edged world champion Peter Sagan and Edvald Boasson Hagen to claim his first stage win at cycling’s biggest ...

LAS VEGAS >> Out of the co er of his eye, Lakers coach Luke Walton saw something that took his temporary focus away from watching his players warm up. It was none other than Warriors coach Steve Kerr. Walton worked for him as an assistant the past two years and quickly became close through similar c...

SAN DIEGO >> Everyone else seems to have weighed in on the theoretical question – should the Angels trade their franchise player, Mike Trout, in order to jump-start a rebuilding project for a team whose farm system might be the worst in baseball? So Trout was asked at Monday’s All-Star media availab...

LAS VEGAS >> The highlight reels seemingly happen on every play, as D’Angelo Russell has dazzled the partisan crowd this past week with a confident presence, a game-wi ing 3-pointer and quick scoring outbursts. So much that in the Lakers’ 78-65 victory over the Golden State Warriors on Monday at Tho...

EUGENE, Ore. >> Her legs gave out before her heart did. So with her legs buckling beneath her in the final 20 meters of the Olympic Trials 1,500-meter final Sunday, Brenda Martinez willed herself across the finish line before crashing to the hard, wet track not knowing if she was headed to the Olymp...