The workday has seemingly become endless as the Lakers spent the last month both watching pre-draft workouts and evaluating scouting reports. But the sentiment around the league suggests a foregone conclusion. The Lakers will select Duke forward Brandon Ingram with the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA d...

Drew Doughty has often been seen as the best defenseman in this era to have never won the Norris Trophy but that all changed Wednesday night. Doughty was honored as the league’s top defenseman for the 2015-16 season while fellow Kings star Anze Kopitar claimed the Frank J. Selke Trophy as its top de...

The workday has seemingly become endless as the Lakers spent the last month both watching pre-draft workouts and evaluating scouting reports. But the sentiment around the league suggests a foregone conclusion. The Lakers will select Duke forward Brandon Ingram with the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA d...

LOS ANGELES >> An apparent game-ending double-play ball wound up to be the biggest hit for the Dodgers on Wednesday night. The Dodgers’ Yasiel Puig hit a grounder up the middle with one out in the ninth i ing and with the Washington Nationals leading, 3-2. The Nationals were playing a third-base shi...

CHICAGO >> Charles Aranguiz and Jose Pedro Feunzalida scored in the first half and defending champion Chile retu ed to the Copa America championship with a soggy 2-0 victory over Colombia on Wednesday night. Led by Claudio Bravo’s stellar effort in goal, Chile ea ed its fourth straight win since a 2...

It seems inevitable Mitch Kupchak’s phone will ring and vibrate constantly on Thursday, filled with multiple trade proposals. It symbolizes the job description the Lakers’ general manager has on the day of the NBA Draft. Ever since the ping-pong balls bounced the Lakers’ way last month, however, tho...

The workday has seemingly become endless as the Lakers spent the last month both watching pre-draft workouts and evaluating scouting reports. But the sentiment around the league suggests a foregone conclusion. The Lakers will select Duke forward Brandon Ingram with the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA d...

Athlete of the Year: Thomas Heib, Los Alamitos, Senior The allure of a chest tattoo served as Thomas Heib’s motivation to qualify for the CIF State meet in the 800 meters last year. This year the Los Alamitos High School senior wanted redemption from that seventh-place finish. Heib responded with a ...

What defines a major championship? Inertia, mostly. We’re told there are four of them in golf: the Masters. U.S. Open, British Open and PGA, and that is that. Dustin Johnson is better today than he was last week because he is now a major wi er. When he does it again, he’ll be as good as Jordan Spiet...

It was Jan. 23 at Staples Center. Dominic Breazeale of Alhambra was tangling with Amir Mansour, who could crack, but was 43 years old. Down went Breazeale in the third round. It appeared that Breazeale’s dream of becoming heavyweight world champion after not do ing the gloves until he was 23 was cru...

What defines a major championship? Inertia, mostly. We’re told there are four of them in golf: the Masters. U.S. Open, British Open and PGA, and that is that. Dustin Johnson is better today than he was last week because he is now a major wi er. When he does it again, he’ll be as good as Jordan Spiet...

HOUSTON >> Lately, the Angels are a different team when Matt Shoemaker pitches. Not a better team. But different. The Angels lost, 3-2, to the Houston Astros on Wednesday, the latest in a string of games in which Shoemaker has pitched well but not gotten enough run support. The Angels were swept by ...

Athlete of the Year: Thomas Heib, Los Alamitos, Senior The allure of a chest tattoo served as Thomas Heib’s motivation to qualify for the CIF State meet in the 800 meters last year. This year the Los Alamitos High School senior wanted redemption from that seventh-place finish. Heib responded with a ...

Athlete of the Year: Thomas Heib, Los Alamitos, Senior The allure of a chest tattoo served as Thomas Heib’s motivation to qualify for the CIF State meet in the 800 meters last year. This year the Los Alamitos High School senior wanted redemption from that seventh-place finish. Heib responded with a ...

It’s time to climb on the high-flying Welsh, um, dragon if you’re not there already at Euro 2016 in the wake of the U.S. and Mexico exits at Copa America. One of the European Championship’s most welcome and unlikely participants is now an even more surprising contender as much for its entertaining, ...

It was Jan. 23 at Staples Center. Dominic Breazeale of Alhambra was tangling with Amir Mansour, who could crack, but was 43 years old. Down went Breazeale in the third round. It appeared that Breazeale’s dream of becoming heavyweight world champion after not do ing the gloves until he was 23 was cru...

The workday has seemingly become endless as the Lakers spent the last month both watching pre-draft workouts and evaluating scouting reports. But the sentiment around the league suggests a foregone conclusion. The Lakers will select Duke forward Brandon Ingram with the No. 2 pick in Thursday’s NBA d...

Los Angeles Lakers The Lakers have the No. 2 pick in the NBA Draft Thursday for a second consecutive year. In 2015, the Lakers drafted D’Angelo Russell. The Philadelphia 76ers appear likely to take Ben Simmons with the No. 1 pick. In the second round, the Lakers hold the No. 32 pick. Here’s what you...

HOUSTON >> Baseball being a game of inches, the Angels are inching their way right into oblivion. Huston Street lamented a couple pitches that barely missed, a call he didn’t get, a ball that hit a base instead of a glove. It all added up to a blown save and a 3-2 Angels loss to the Houston Astros o...

LOS ANGELES >> Kenley Jansen went into the bullpen kicking and screaming and contemplating retirement. Eric Gagne went into the bullpen jumping for joy. They ultimately wound up sharing the record for most career saves in Dodger history until Monday, when Jansen collected the 162nd save of his caree...