BOSTON >> Like a broken clock that is right two times a day, the Angels are a broken baseball team that is right four times a day. Those moments when Mike Trout steps to the plate are when Angels fans can – for a moment – forget all that has gone wrong in this lost season. While the Angels are havin...

MILWAUKEE — Whatever deficiencies, dilemmas or disabled list moves the Dodgers had to deal with four out of every five days, they could count on everything being right in their world on that fifth day. They won’t have that rock to lean on for awhile. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw was diagnosed with a ...

MILWAUKEE — Well, they certainly put on a brave front. On the day they lea ed they would be without ace and MVP candidate Clayton Kershaw for an unknown period of time, the Dodgers pounded the Milwaukee Brewers, 8-1, Thursday afte oon at Miller Park. The win ended a 3-4 trip and sent the Dodgers hom...

MILWAUKEE — The Dodgers will plug the gaping hole in their starting rotation left behind by Clayton Kershaw’s back injury with a pitcher who lost his spot in the Atlanta Braves’ rotation earlier this season. The Dodgers acquired jou eyman right-hander Bud Norris from the Atlanta Braves on Thursday i...

MARSEILLE, France — Ricardo Quaresma scored the wi ing penalty as Portugal beat Poland 5-3 in a shootout in the European Championship quarterfinals on Thursday following a 1-1 draw after extra time. After scoring an extra-time wi er in the round of 16 against Croatia, Quaresma sent his spot-kick pas...

When: 2-4 p.m. Sunday Where: Gatsby Books, 5535 E. Spring St., Long Beach Cost: Event is free. Book is for sale at Gatsby Books, Amazon and Ba es & Noble. Information: www.geoffgriffin.com, www.gatsbybooks.com There’s no question Jackie Robinson had an immense influence on American culture. The base...

ARCADIA — Horses tell you things, if you’re watching. Dave Hofmans has a photo in Santa Anita’s Ba 76 that still speaks. It’s a gray, 19-to-1 shot named Alphabet Soup, who was going after the legendary Cigar in the 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Alphabet Soup’s ears are poised and his whole head is foc...

LONDON — Garbine Muguruza’s first major tou ament as a reigning Grand Slam champion didn’t last long. Less than a month after wi ing the French Open, the second-seeded Spaniard was beaten in the second round of Wimbledon on Thursday by a Slovakian qualifier ranked No. 124. In the biggest upset of th...

ARCADIA — Horses tell you things, if you’re watching. Dave Hofmans has a photo in Santa Anita’s Ba 76 that still speaks. It’s a gray, 19-to-1 shot named Alphabet Soup, who was going after the legendary Cigar in the 1996 Breeders’ Cup Classic. Alphabet Soup’s ears are poised and his whole head is foc...

OMAHA, Neb. — Coastal Carolina capitalized on two errors on the same play for four unea ed runs in the sixth i ing, and the Chanticleers won their first national championship in any sport with a 4-3 victory over Arizona in Game 3 of the College World Series finals on Thursday. Coastal Carolina (55-1...

DALLAS — Joh y Manziel has been suspended for the first four games of next season for violating the NFL’s substance-abuse policy, and the free agent quarterback could face further discipline over his domestic violence case if he signs with another team. The suspension a ounced Thursday is not relate...

MILWAUKEE — Whatever deficiencies, dilemmas or disabled-list moves the Dodgers had to deal with four out of every five days, they could count on everything being right in their world on that fifth day. They won’t have that rock to lean on for awhile. Dodgers ace Clayton Kershaw received an epidural ...

In case you haven’t been keeping track, Southe Califo ia’s Ron Capps is firmly entrenched atop the Fu y Car standings in the NHRA Mello Yello Drag Racing Series. The Carlsbad resident won the most recent national event last week in Norwalk, Ohio, at the Summit Racing Equipment Nationals. It was the ...

The top-six left wing that can put the puck in the net would be nice. The backup goalie that can win games and start in the playoffs if it came to that will be necessary. As NHL free agency officially opens for business Friday mo ing, the Ducks seemingly have the money available to operate as a big ...

Steven Stamkos re-signed with the Tampa Bay Lightning for $68 million over eight seasons, declining the option to test the free-agent market as the prized catch of the summer of 2016. P.K. Subban was traded, unexpectedly going in a nanosecond from the Montreal Canadiens to the Nashville Predators in...

LONDON — Garbine Muguruza’s first major tou ament as a reigning Grand Slam champion didn’t last long. Less than a month after wi ing the French Open, the second-seeded Spaniard was beaten in the second round of Wimbledon on Thursday by a Slovakian qualifier ranked No. 124. In the biggest upset of th...

The top-six left wing that can put the puck in the net would be nice. The backup goalie that can win games and start in the playoffs if it came to that will be necessary. As NHL free agency officially opens for business Friday mo ing, the Ducks seemingly have the money available to operate as a big ...

Chris Froome realizes he’s on the cusp of greatness. The British rider already has two Tour de France victories and a third win in cycling’s biggest event — which starts Saturday — would make him the most dominant rider of his generation. Another yellow jersey would also put Froome into an elite clu...

Dodgers ace Clayon Kershaw will be placed on the 15-day lisabled list for lower back discomfort, manager Dave Roberts said before Thursday’s game in Milwaukee. Kershaw, 28, reportedly received an epidural for the pain, which hampered his last start Sunday in Pittsburgh in which he allowed four runs ...

OMAHA, Neb. >> Tom Shields covered his mouth, congratulated the most decorated Olympian of all time and rested his head on the wall in Lane 3 trying to grasp a two-minute blur that will send him to the Olympics. One jou ey for the 24-year-old from Huntington Beach ended in triumph at the U.S. Olympi...