A brief look at the Trojans’ training-camp practice on Thursday at Howard Jones-Brian Ke edy Field: BIG MOMENT Quarterback Sam Da old co ected with senior receiver Steven Mitchell for a pair of touchdowns in a 7-on-7 period late in practice. On the first scoring toss, Mitchell hauled in the pass whi...

BELLFLOWER >> Most of the local high school football teams are participating in preseason scrimmages this week, and reigning CIF State champion St. John Bosco hosted its scrimmage Thursday against Long Beach Wilson. Bosco, ranked No. 4 in the nation according to MaxPreps, dominated the abbreviated g...

Barry Thomas is committed to the Cerritos High football program. Thomas, who coached at Huntington Beach and Millikan previously, heads into his second year as head coach of the Dons and will look to improve on a team that finished the 2016 season with a 2-7 record and a last-place finish in the Sub...

sports@presstelegram.com Low numbers and a late coaching switch have forced the Compton Cente ial football team to forfeit its first three games of the season. First-year coach Adam Leonard hasn’t held a full practice yet due to low numbers but he and athletic director Dominic McGiffert-Sandoval are...

A brief look at UCLA’s training camp practice at Spaulding Field: Everyone wins Instead only the wi ing side run at the end of the team competition, both the offense and defense took a celebratory lap after the final team period. The No. 1 offense scored a touchdown against the No. 2 defense with qu...

A brief look at the Chargers’ training-camp practice Tuesday at Jack Hammett Sports Complex: Big moment A candidate to replace injured linebacker Denzel Perryman (ankle), third-year pro Nick Dzubnar broke up a pass in the end zone while working with the first-team defense. Dzubnar led the Chargers i...

All the Los Alamitos High football team did under then first-year head coach Ray Fenton in 2016 was advance to the CIF Southe Section Division 3 semifinals, where it fell to La Mirada, 36-20. After posting a 9-4 record last season and finishing second in the Sunset Lesgue, the Griffins have high hop...

LOS ANGELES >> He had just caught another comeback victory and hit another home run, Yasmani Grandal now standing in the Dodgers clubhouse and being asked to discuss his team’s astonishing and utter awesomeness. Yet, instead of effervescing with the sort of delight that must come from playing on a c...

COSTA MESA >> A meaningless, routine play will cost Denzel Perryman a large chunk of his third NFL season. On Sunday, the Chargers’ starting middle linebacker limped to the sideline at StubHub Center, his left ankle betraying him just seven snaps into the preseason. Attempting to defend a quarterbac...

LOS ANGELES >> The pass rush is bearing down. Josh Rosen’s blue eyes glance at it. He steps up in the pocket and zips the ball through what seems like an impossibly small window. Somehow it misses a tangle of hands from defensive backs and lands in the waiting arms of a receiver at the back of the e...

LOS ANGELES >> USA Gymnastics reached a confidential, out-of-court settlement in Califo ia before this year with a former teenage U.S. national team gymnast who alleges U.S. women’s Olympic and national team physician Larry Nassar sexually abused her, a former U.S. Olympian familiar with the case to...

LOS ANGELES >> The Dodgers’ magic number is so low, they can clinch a playoff berth before the calendar tu s to September. They are 50 games over .500 for the first time since 1953. Still, the schedule insists that the regular season lasts another six weeks. For Manager Dave Roberts, that means find...

As a brand new program, St. Pius X-St. Matthias Academy has its work cut out for it this season. Building an 11-on-11 tackle football program from the ground up is not an easy task. Coach Todd Butler has the challenge of converting the remnants of St. Pius’ flag football team into a functioning full

LOS ANGELES — They were on a three-game losing streak when Nico Falah’s Signing Day came around. They had just been shredded by Georgia Tech in the Sun Bowl, and by the media covering it. They had lost their five-game wi ing streak over UCLA, which had the new coach and the style and the promise. F

COSTA MESA — Chargers linebacker Denzel Perryman could be out for at least two months after undergoing ankle surgery on Tuesday. A former second-round pick who was slated to start at middle linebacker, Perryman injured his left ankle during Sunday’s preseason loss to the Seahawks at StubHub Center.

LOS ANGELES — The Rose Bowl, Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the under-construction Rams-Chargers football stadium in Inglewood were among 49 potential venues revealed today as part of a joint bid by the United States, Mexico and Canada to host the 2026 FIFA World Cup soccer tou ament. The United

LOS ANGELES >> Talk about one eclectic country club meet-and-greet tee party. The weeklong 117th U.S. Amateur Championship began Monday with introductions necessary in some cases, and explanations with others. So, how did you get here? What compels you to put this kind pressure on yourself wit

LOS ANGELES >> All-Pac 12 Oregon standout Norman Xiong, Virginia Tech’s Mark Lawrence Jr. and Oklahoma State’s Hayden Wood somehow managed to separate themselves from the pack on the first day of play at the 117th U.S. Amateur Championship with 6-under 64s. Xiong, an 18-year-old San Diego nati

GLENDALE >> So many baseball men in khakis and collared shirts strolled the grounds of Oakmont Country Club on Monday, you would be tempted to think this is what they do in retirement: golf. You would only be half right. There was Eddie Murray, the Hall of Fame first baseman. There was Charlie

WHITE SOX AT DODGERS When: Today, 7:10 p.m. Where: Dodger Stadium TV: SportsNet LA (where available) THE PITCHERS DODGERS LHP ALEX WOOD (14-1, 2.37) vs. White Sox: Has never faced them before At Dodger Stadium: 13-3, 2.26 ERA (135 2/3 i ings) Hates to face: None Loves to face: None PADRES RHP MIGUEL...