There’s no evidence Drew Doughty lost sleep over the Norris Trophy. When you’re done playing 28 minutes, 1 second per game in the NHL, you sleep through everything. If the Kings didn’t feel Doughty was already the best defenseman in the league, they wouldn’t have paid him $7 million last season. Nor...

Hilda Chester was one heck of a heckler in her day. Ringing her cowbell, whacking a frying pan with an iron ladle, screaming at the top of her lungs, she was embraced by the Dodgers as their Ebbets Field Brooklyn-bo superfan in the 1920s and ‘30s when “Wait’ll Next Year” was the rally cry. Kind of l...

Viewing parties will be held at six locations in Southe Califo ia for today’s telecasts of the U.S.-Colombia Copa America Centenario third-place game. The men’s soccer game from University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona will begin at 5 p.m. and be televised in English by cable’s FX and in S...

After the retu of a familiar face at athletic director, Long Beach City College teams won seven conference championships and two state titles in the 2015-16 year, a season that saw only three Vikings teams miss the playoffs. Randy Totorp, who played and later coached men’s volleyball at LBCC and was...

With Cristiano Ronaldo finally showing his scoring prowess, Portugal is hoping to achieve something it hasn’t managed yet at the European Championship - win a match. After three consecutive draws, Portugal squeezed its way into today’s round of 16 game against Croatia in Lens, France, which beat def...

Jon Rahm and Billy Hurley III shared the Quicken Loans National lead, three strokes ahead of Vijay Singh going into the weekend at Congressional in Bethesda, Maryland. Playing together again Friday, Rahm and Hurley went shot-for-shot to reach 11 under. Hurley, a Naval Academy graduate who lives in n...

GLENDALE, Ariz. >> Tim Howard — remember him? — will be in goal for just the fourth time in five months when the United States plays Colombia tonight for third place in the Copa America. Howard started in his second straight World Cup two years ago and had 16 saves in the 2-1, extra-time loss to Bel...

BUFFALO, N.Y. >> Once the “Go Leafs, Go!” chants subsided after Toronto selected Arizona-bo center Auston Matthews with the first pick in the NHL draft, the Fi s began their march to the podium. Three players from Finland were selected among the top five picks, the most by the northe European nation...

ANAHEIM >> Nick Tropeano was obviously not happy as he packed his bags on Friday. He had just gotten the surprising news that the Angels had optioned him to Triple-A, despite a 3.25 ERA that is better than any of the five pitchers currently in the rotation. Tropeano chose not to speak to reporters, ...

It was a low moment for Max Jones, one that the big winger lea ed from and one that didn’t scare away Ducks general manager Bob Murray. A blindside hit to the head of Owen Sound’s Justin Brack in the Ontario Hockey League playoffs this spring got Jones a 12-game suspension and some time for reflecti...

It was the surprise of the 2012 Olympic Games swimming competition, an upset of such grand proportion that even now, nearly four years later, its author still can’t quite get his head around it. “It still hasn’t sunk in, I’d say,” Tyler Clary said recently. Ryan Lochte, the reigning Olympic and Worl...

The Lakers’ 16 NBA championship trophies, the su y skies and proximity to Hollywood once represented the only visual selling points they needed to land their next star. That hardly impressed LaMarcus Aldridge, though. Aldridge thought his first free agency meeting with the Lakers last summer focused...

After almost calling an audible and keeping Hoppertunity in the ba , trainer Bob Baffert has decided he’ll run the 3-1 mo ing-line favorite in Saturday’s $500,000 Grade I Gold Cup at Santa Anita. Hoppertunity, the most accomplished of the eight horses in the 1 1/4-mile Gold Cup, has not raced since ...

Pat Haden, officially done as USC’s athletic director in less than a week now, will stay with the program and embark on a new assignment: Hitting up alums for donations to get renovation work done on the Coliseum. That can be problematic. How do we trust anymore where the money is actually going? Th...

PITTSBURGH — Dodgers pitcher Frankie Montas, who missed the first six weeks of the regular season while recovering from off-season rib surgery, has an injury to his second rib and won’t pitch for four to eight weeks. The news was first reported by Ken Rosenthal of FoxSports.com. Montas, 23, last pit...

Keith “One Time” Thurman earlier this year escaped major injury when his car hydroplaned during wet conditions while he was driving in his native Clearwater, Fla. He was in an accident and did sustain whiplash, postponing his scheduled March 12 welterweight title defense against Shawn Porter. Thurma...

EL SEGUNDO >> At some point we’ll understand the science of it all, but on Thursday night, the NBA draft was art. Whether it’s Mona Lisa or Dogs Playing Poker, it’s all in the beholder’s eye. In such a fact-free and opinion-rich zone, all questions and answers are equal. Including these: -- Is Brand...

PLAYA VISTA >> Prior to the start of the NBA Draft on Thursday, coach and president of basketball operations Doc Rivers hinted that there “might” be a scenario where the team ended up with three picks instead of two. And, it tu ed out, that scenario came to fruition. The team selected North Carolina...

The Los Angeles Lakers added to its youth movement with the selection of Duke forward Brandon Ingram with the second overall pick in the 2016 NBA Draft. Ingram is the third consecutive Top 10 player drafted by the Lakers, joining D’Angelo Russell and Julius Randle. For a complete recap of the 2016 d...

In a move that carried less drama than a bland Hollywood script, the Lakers selected a player in the NBA draft on Thursday that many expected would wear a purple and gold uniform. The Lakers drafted Duke forward Brandon Ingram with their No. 2 pick, providing an immediate replacement at the small fo...