The giddiness sounded clear, even through Timofey Mozgov’s thick Russian accent. The reasons seemed plenty. Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak contacted Mozgov’s representatives a minute after the free agency period began last week. The Lakers soon presented to Mozgov a four-year, $64 million offe...

The giddiness sounded clear, even through Timofey Mozgov’s thick Russian accent. The reasons seemed plenty. Lakers general manager Mitch Kupchak contacted Mozgov’s representatives a minute after the free agency period began last week. The Lakers soon presented to Mozgov a four-year, $64 million offe...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. >> Geovany Soto’s rehab from knee surgery has been almost over for a couple weeks now, with no end in sight. Manager Mike Scioscia said Monday that Soto, whose surgery was May 19, is still feeling some tightness in his legs, which has pushed his expected retu back again. He cont...

ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. >> Fe ando Salas doesn’t know exactly what’s wrong, but he seems to know the exact moment when it started going wrong. After Salas continued his extended struggle, giving up the decisive runs in the Angels’ 4-2 loss to the Tampa Bay Rays on Monday, he insisted that he’s not hurt...

For at least two years, Joe Lacob and Bob Myers plotted and pla ed and hoped and juggled salaries and, yes, believed that the Warriors could land Kevin Durant to create an ultimate NBA dynasty. They dreamed. They got signs that it was possible over the last few years and months, but just signs. Just...

LOS ANGELES >> The Lakers do not want to distance themselves entirely from a team that finished with the worst record in the franchise’s history. The Lakers agreed to retain backup forward/center Tarik Black on a two-year deal worth $12.85 million, according to The Vertical. Black appeared to confir...

OKLAHOMA CITY >> Kevin Durant is joining All-Stars Stephen Curry and Klay Thompson with the Golden State Warriors. Durant a ounced his decision Monday mo ing on The Players’ Tribune Monday mo ing. He can’t officially sign until July 7. His decision has been the most highly anticipated move of the su...

LOS ANGELES >> The crisis has passed. Or so the Dodgers hope. Dodgers president of baseball operations Andrew Friedman acknowledged the team “scrambled” to acquire right-hander Bud Norris in a trade with the Atlanta Braves after losing ace Clayton Kershaw to the DL this past week. But Brandon McCart...

Ranking top 10 sports events July 4-10 you won’t want to miss: NO. 1: FOURTH OF JULY SPORTING EVENTS 2016 NATHAN’S HOT DOG EATING CONTEST Details/TV: At Coney Island, Brooklyn, N.Y., Monday, noon, ESPN (delayed; live on ESPN3 at 9 a.m.) MLB: DODGERS vs. BALTIMORE Details/TV: At Dodger Stadium, Monda...

Joe Jares, a former Los Angeles Daily News sports editor and columnist in the 1980s and ’90s who spent more than 15 years at Sports Illustrated, died Saturday night in Los Angeles. He was 78. A general-assignment reporter at the Los Angeles Times as well as a writer for United Press Inte ational and...

LOS ANGELES >> Abbey Weitzeil of Saugus and Jordan Wilimovsky of Malibu will both attempt to qualify for second individual events at the Rio Games Sunday on the final day of the U.S. Swimming Olympic Trials in Omaha, Nebraska. Weitzeil had the fastest semifinal time Saturday in the women’s 50-meter ...

LOS ANGELES >> Brandon McCarthy made a quick scan of the home clubhouse at Dodger Stadium. He gestured to his left. That was Brett Anderson’s locker. Midway through his third season with Oakland in 2011, Anderson was shut down. He headed for Tommy John surgery. McCarthy gazed across the room in the ...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers’ placement of Clayton Kershaw on the disabled list this week caused plenty of conste ation. But their starting rotation again looked stable on Saturday night. One day after Bud Norris, who took Kershaw’s scheduled start after being acquired in a five-player trade with Atla...

By The Associatted Press Jason Day hit only three fairways and still managed a 1-under 69 to share the lead Saturday with Scott Piercy at the Bridgestone Invitational at Akron, Ohio. Day hoped to try to expand his one-shot lead at Firestone. Instead, he goes into the final round of this World Golf C...

LOS ANGELES >> The Long Beach Poly boys basketball team played a spirited week of ball in order to reach the championship game of the Fairfax summer basketball tou ament. The Jackrabbits didn’t put their best foot forward in the final, however, losing to Mater Dei 81-52. The loss ends the summer for...

Brad Keselowski had his confidence shaken at Daytona Inte ational Speedway more than once. He was a good plate racer, but never could find his way to victory lane at NASCAR’s most famous track. That changed Saturday night with a dominating performance that gave Team Penske its 100th career Sprint Cu...

ARCADIA >> Fans leaned against the waist-high lattice fence lining the track at Santa Anita Park with race programs tucked beneath their arms. “Danzing Candy” were the only two words you could pluck out from the flurry of cheers that lasted the length of the 1 1/16 miles in Saturday’s $100,000 Grade...

EUGENE, Ore. >> The Olympic trials high jump final Sunday afte oon features two strong-willed, deeply religious women, Chaunte Lowe and Vashti Cu ingham, too focused on their own obsession with defying gravity to limit their view of the competition to merely a showdown against each other. “The way t...

SAINTE-MARIE-DU-MONT, France >> Mark Cavendish can finally wear the yellow jersey. The British cyclist won a sprint in the crash-marred Tour de France opening stage that finished on Utah Beach, where Allied troops landed on D-Day in 1944, and took the overall lead on Saturday. It was Cavendish’s 27t...

The Lakers landed an established veteran that could inject both talent and leadership to complement their young roster. The Lakers and Luol Deng agreed to a four-year, $72 million deal, according to league sources. Deng had extensive conversations with other NBA teams, including the Washington Wizar...