There is plenty of time to join a fantasy football league and prepare a draft strategy before the start of the NFL’s 2017 regular season. Whether it is your first time playing fantasy football or you consider yourself a fantasy expert, here are 10 potential sleeper picks to consider as your upcoming...

The Los Angeles Chargers will host the New Orleans Saints at the StubHub Center for its second game of the preseason. Check back for live news, stats and updates during before, during and after the game. How to catch the game: Start Time: 5 p.m. PT Sunday at the StubHub Center TV: KABC or NFL NETWOR...

OAKLAND >> Coach Sean McVay is a quarterbacks guru who loves tight-end mismatches and now gets to plan with receiver Sammy Watkins. But don’t forget the Rams’ ru ing backs. McVay should not. The Rams have Todd Gurley, who underachieved badly in 2016 but seems poised for a bounce-back season after a ...

ANGELS at ORIOLES When: Saturday, 4 p.m. Where: Camden Yards TV: Fox Sports West THE PITCHERS ANGELS RHP JC RAMIREZ (10-10, 4.26) Vs. Orioles: 0-1, 7.27 At Camden Yards: 0-0, 5.40 Hates to face: None Loves to face: None ORIOLES RHP KEVIN GAUSMAN (9-5, 5.08) Vs. Angels: 1-2, 5.11 At Camden Yards: 19-...

DEL MAR >> Did Del Mar really run the San Diego Handicap on July 22? Was that race just a figment of our imagination? Did Arrogate, thought to be virtually unbeatable after four consecutive Grade I victories, really finish fourth, beaten by 15 1/4 lengths, as a 1-20 favorite? As far as Hall of Fame ...

DODGERS at TIGERS When: Saturday, 1:05 p.m. Where: Comerica Park TV: SportsNet LA THE PITCHERS DODGERS LHP HYUN-JIN RYU (4-6, 3.63) Vs. Tigers: 0-1, 27.00 At Comerica Park: 0-1, 27.00 Hates to face: Nick Castellanos, 2 for 2, 2B Loves to face: None TIGERS LHP MATT BOYD (5-6, 5.68) Vs. Dodgers: First...

The Los Angeles Rams travel to Oakland to play the Raiders for its second game of the preseason. Check back for live news, stats and updates during before, during and after the game. How to catch the game: Start Time: 7 p.m. PT Saturday at the O.co Coliseum TV: KCBS/KFTR Online: NFL Game Pass Radio:...

A brief look at the Chargers’ joint training-camp practice with the Saints on Friday at Jack Hammett Sports Complex: BIG MOMENT Ru ing back Austin Ekeler scored on a red-zone catch-and-run, sticking the ball over the pylon before being knocked out of bounds — a play that sparked cheers on the Charge...

WILLIAMSPORT. Pa. >> It only took Joey Gray one swing of the bat to make his name ring throughout Little League circles at the World Series in Williamsport on Friday. A walk, a double from Drew Rutter, and another walk set the stage for Gray, who walked to the plate for a bases-loaded, first-i ing a...

Coming off of a disappointing 2-8 season, some might say the Dominguez High football team is in a dubious state. However, new coach Deon Toliver sees the challenge and is ready for it. “It’s a challenge just getting the guys to show up to practice,” Toliver said. “Getting the structure of our team i...

A CIF Southe Section Division 10 championship and a trip to the CIF State Division 4-A championship game elevated the St. Anthony football program to new heights last year. The success pushed the Saints to Division 9 this season in the new CIF competitive equity format, and head coach Mario Morales ...

COSTA MESA >> Injuries dogged Manti Te’o through his first four professional seasons, reducing him from Heisman finalist to NFL afterthought. Has he escaped the curse? The former second-round pick looked healthy in his retu to Southe Califo ia, flying around the field during joint practices between ...

Little League World Series 2017 Santa Margarita Little League All-Stars by the numbers: 15-0: Santa Margarita’s record, which includes sweeps in District 68, Section 10, Southe Califo ia Divisional and West Regional tou aments. 2: Number of sets of twins on the team, Bobby and Joey Gray and Nick and...

MANHATTAN BEACH >> While players down on the sand Thursday were trying to qualify to get into the main draw of this week’s Manhattan Beach Open, four rather terrific beach volleyball players were up on the pier for the Walk of Fame ceremony honoring their 2016 championships at the granddaddy of them...

COSTA MESA >> There they stood on the same field, totems from the full span of Philip Rivers’ career. Norm Chow, who was Rivers’ first offensive coordinator at North Carolina State and helped tu him into the ACC Rookie of the Year. Norv Tu er, the former Chargers coach who oversaw some of Rivers’ mo...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> In a made-for-cable sports TV showdown perhaps worthy of a DVR replay someday, Collin Morikawa co-starred in a Round of 16 match play performance against Chun-An Yu that seemed to show almost every quirky angle and accident aspect of Riviera Country Club in one organic swatch. I...

PACIFIC PALISADES >> If a dad can’t make a difference at the 117th U.S. Amateur Championship by helping on the bag as a fill-in caddy, then there are other subtle ways without the usual baggage involved. Murli Theegala walked around the back side of Riviera Country Club on Thursday mo ing with a cou...

A brief look at the Rams’ training-camp practice on Thursday: BIG MOMENT It’s been a nice week for the Rams’ receivers. First, Sammy Watkins showed up and made some nice catches, and rookie Josh Reynolds flashed some moves. On the last official day of training camp, one of the veterans stood out, as...

A brief look at the Chargers’ joint training-camp practice with the Saints on Thursday at Jack Hammett Sports Complex: BIG MOMENT The Saints’ defensive backs came out on top during one-on-one drills, but the Chargers’ receivers responded emphatically during full team drills. Keenan Allen was respons...

LOS ANGELES >> Late in practice Thursday, USC linebacker John Houston lurched toward the line of scrimmage. USC’s first-team offense was positioned shy of the red zone against its first-team defense. Upon the snap, Houston continued forward on a blitz and looked to push past the center, Nico Falah, ...