LAS VEGAS >> The UFC 200 main event was called off Wednesday evening after the U.S. Anti-Doping Agency informed interim light heavyweight champion Jon Jones of a potential drug violation from an out-of-competition sample collected in June. Jones was scheduled to fight light heavyweight champion and ...

The saying goes that the hardest team in the world to make is the United States Olympic team. That goes for USA Track and Field, USA Swimming and, really, just about any sport. There are so many elite athletes in this country of both genders that making the final cut for an Olympic team is far less ...

LONG BEACH >> Misty May-Treanor shared stories about the process of becoming the new director of volleyball at Long Beach City College at the Long Beach Century Club’s meeting at the Boathouse on the Bay late Tuesday. Her new boss, LBCC athletic director Randy Totorp, introduced her and joked, “How ...

EL SEGUNDO >> The Lakers no longer can attract stars with the same effectiveness as they once did. But the Lakers became instrumental in facilitating a deal that involved a star player going to another team. In a move to clear up cap space for Dwyane Wade, the Chicago Bulls traded point guard Jose C...

Members of the Southe Califo ia News Group provide live updates for the big UFC 200 weekend. Schedule (All Times are PT) WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2016 Noon-1 p.m.: UFC 200 press conference 3-4:30 p.m.: Fight Night 90 weigh-ins THURSDAY, July 7, 2016 9-11 a.m.: UFC 200 open workouts 11:30-12:30: UFC 202 pr...

EL SEGUNDO >> The smiles soon formed and laughs quickly erupted. The Lakers just started their summer-league practice, but it also marked the begi ing of coach Luke Walton casting a favorable impression. He participated in rebounding drills with his players. He knocked down some 3-pointers. He also ...

Members of the Southe Califo ia News Group provide live updates for the big UFC 200 weekend. Schedule (All Times are PT) WEDNESDAY, July 6, 2016 Noon-1 p.m.: UFC 200 press conference 3-4:30 p.m.: Fight Night 90 weigh-ins THURSDAY, July 7, 2016 9-11 a.m.: UFC 200 open workouts 11:30-12:30: UFC 202 pr...

EL SEGUNDO >> The skeletal, 195-pound frame of Brandon Ingram prompted a knee-jerk reaction from a Lakers teammate. “This kid is real ski y,” Larry Nance Jr. recalled thinking. “He can play, but it’ll take a while.” Then, Nance Jr. experienced Ingram defending him with force. He became physical when...

Gilberto “Zurdo” Ramirez is a world-champion boxer from Mexico with movie-star looks. Sounds familiar. Like Saul “Canelo” Alvarez, right? Alvarez has, for years, been Mexico’s most popular active boxer. But Ramirez recently made history by becoming the first from Mexico to win a major world title at...

SAN MARTIN, Calif. >> There is very little separating the top two women’s golfers in the world in Lydia Ko and Brooke Henderson. The two teenage sensations have won the past three majors heading into this week’s U.S. Women’s Open with the 19-year-old Ko taking two and the 18-year-old Henderson follo...

LE LIORAN, France >> Belgian rider Greg van Avermaet won the first mountain stage of the Tour de France with an audacious solo attack in the Massif Central on Wednesday and also claimed the overall leader’s yellow jersey. The BMC rider was part of an early nine-man breakaway and he methodically whit...

LYON, France >> Cristiano Ronaldo had just propelled Portugal into another European Championship final when he made for Gareth Bale, shared a long conversation with his Real Madrid teammate and gave him a sympathetic hug. The battle of the superstar forwards tu ed into a one-man show — and, as ever,...

There’s just a month to go before the Summer Olympics begin in Rio de Janeiro. And the bad news keeps coming. We’ve all heard about Brazil’s gove ment meltdown, its corruption scandals, recession and — who could forget — the Zika virus. But the country is also witnessing some pretty crazy incidents ...

After suffering his first UFC knockout loss in October, Alan Jouban found rejuvenation. After knocking out Brendan O’Reilly in March, he found redemption. And after reading quotes from UFC Fight Night 90 opponent Belal Muhammad, Jouban has his motivation. Most of all, the Los Angeles welterweight is...

EUGENE, Ore. >> By the time Brenda Martinez sat down alone with a turkey sandwich and her four dogs Monday night in the house she and her husband/coach Carlos Handler are renting in nearby Springfield, she had already tu ed her focus to the Olympic Trials 1,500-meter later this week. A devastating a...

EL SEGUNDO >> The fireworks were set off seemingly all night and it did not just happen on the Fourth of July. The same thing happened last week in Croatia. There, Ivica Zubac’s friends waited nearly a week for him to come home after the Lakers drafted him with their No. 32 pick. “Everybody was so h...

LOS ANGELES >> The floorboards were creaking for four i ings. Something was closing in on Kenta Maeda. Maeda couldn’t escape danger any longer. He gave up a monstrous three-run home run in the fifth i ing to Ma y Machado that nearly reached the back row of the left-field pavilion. That was enough to...

The expectations for Brandon Ingram seemingly increase by the day. The Lakers drafted him with their No. 2 pick. Ingram’s versatility, long wingspan and rail-thin frame elicited comparisons to Kevin Durant. And Ingram lea ed on Tuesday he will have Kobe Bryant’s vacated locker at the Lakers’ practic...

EL SEGUNDO >> On the official tour of his new basketball home, Brandon Ingram walked onto the court of the Lakers practice facility and upstairs to Jeanie Buss’s office to gaze at the franchise’s championship trophies; into the weight room to eye the iron he will use to pack muscle onto his wiry fra...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. >> C.J. Wilson’s time with the Angels is almost certainly over. Wilson, who has been plagued by shoulder trouble since the start of spring training, will have surgery to “address fraying on the labrum and rotator cuff,” the Angels a ounced on Tuesday. With Wilson’s five-year Ang...