Category: Sports

Saturday’s Results BASEBALLCity SectionEnvironmental Charter 7, University 6Fremont 9, King/Drew 4Granada Hills 7, Palisades 0Marshall 1, Hamilton 0Rancho Dominguez 15,...

ARLINGTON, Texas — Shohei Ohtani announced the birth of his first child on Saturday, posting on Instagram that he and his wife,...

FRIDAY’S RESULTSBASEBALLCity SectionBravo 17, Jordan 0Fremont 8, Sotomayor 7King/Drew 3, Marquez 2Mendez 4, Gardena 3Southern SectionAAE 10, ACE 5Adelanto 7,...

The Lakers have given Rob Pelinka a contract extension and a new title: president of basketball operations. Terms of the...

THURSDAY’S RESULTS BASEBALLCity SectionSan Fernando 8, Legacy 2San Pedro 2, Bell 1Sylmar 10, Marshall 5Verdugo Hills 1, Palisades 0Southern SectionApple...

Shohei Ohtani is not publicly known, nor personally sees himself, as a quick starter at the plate.“Overall, in my career,”...

One year and three weeks ago, Bobby Miller was at the peak of his young major league career.After a promising...

The one-year experiment of Tajh Ariza playing for his father’s alm mater, Westchester High, has ended. The 6-foot-9 junior has...

BASEBALLCity SectionCentral City Value 12, CNDLC 2Granada Hills 2, Bell 0Kennedy 7, South Gate 3Palisades 13, Taft 2Poly 2, Banning...

This week’s top 20 high school softball rankings of Southland teams from CalHiSports.com.Rk. School, Record1. Norco, 19-22. Rosary, 18-2-13. Orange...

MONDAY’S RESULTSBASEBALLCity SectionCleveland 8, North Hollywood 2Fremont 10, Gardena 5Hamilton 6, Chavez 1Kerman 10, Carson 1King/Drew 5, Bravo 0Marquez 15,...

Season Series: 2-2 Oct. 22, 2024, in Los Angeles Lakers 110, Timberwolves 103 The Lakers won their season opener as...

It’s too early, the Dodgers say, to sound any alarm bells. Their lineup is too talented, they believe, for the...

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland after Week 8.Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking...

Diego Fagúndez scored a goal on Saturday night, helping the short-handed Galaxy tie the Houston Dynamo 1-1.The Galaxy’s Mathias Jogensen,...

Westlake High’s baseball players are running out of ways to celebrate after six consecutive walk-off victories. They’ve been charging out...

FRIDAY’S RESULTSBASEBALLCity SectionAngelou 8, Los Angeles 4Animo Leadership 17, Animo Venice 5CALS Early College 11, Downtown Magnets 8Carson 5, Banning...

Corona and Huntington Beach, the top two high school baseball teams in California, were beaten on Friday morning in the...

The Kings moved two points closer to clinching home ice for the first round of the playoffs Thursday, riding two...

WASHINGTON — Andy Pages shook his head with a grin, raised his clasped hands to the sky, then gave thanks with a...

HIGH SCHOOL SCORESWednesday’s Results BASEBALLCity SectionBanning 3, Carson 1Birmingham 7, Taft 2Chavez 7, Grant 2Collins Family 25, Downtown Magnets 7Contreras...

The L.A. Olympics will be the first Games in history that will feature more women than men, the International Olympic...

HIGH SCHOOL SCORESTuesday’s Results BASEBALLCity SectionAnimo De La Hoya 18, Animo Bunche 4Southern SectionAnaheim 5, Orange 0Animo Leadership 30, Compton...

MONDAY’S RESULTSBASEBALLCity SectionBell 4, South Gate 0Bert Corona 13, Lakeview Charter 6Garfield 4, Legacy 2Jordan 21, Dymally 6King/Drew 5, Fremont...

Gianna Bryant was a basketball prodigy who was “hell-bent” on one day playing basketball at Connecticut. That’s what her father,...

OKLAHOMA CITY — The postseason road the Lakers want to take probably will roll through Oklahoma City at some point, the unquestioned...

PHILADELPHIA — The Dodgers placed starting pitcher Blake Snell on the injured list Sunday, in what was the first blow to their...

They all realize what’s at stake and that having a healthy Kawhi Leonard gives the Clippers their best chance to...

HIGH SCHOOL SCORESFriday’s Results BASEBALLCity SectionAnimo Robinson 10, Animo Venice 5Arleta 1, Monroe 0Banning 1, San Pedro 0Birmingham 5, Cleveland...

Simply put, the Clippers’ goal is to “make the playoffs,” coach Tyronn Lue said, and not be a play-in team.The...

Turns out two-time Cy Young Award winner Blake Snell had more on his mind than the lineup of the visiting...

THURSDAY’S RESULTSBASEBALLCity SectionChatsworth 7, Taft 0Fremont 21, Dorsey 1King/Drew 11, Harbor Teacher 7Legacy 9, South East 2Narbonne 8, Bell 2Poly...

The focus rightly was on the immediate. Stephen Curry scored 52 points Tuesday in a 134-125 win over the Memphis...

A sold-out crowd braved chilly skies and a late-night kickoff to watch Lionel Messi, a soccer legend, play Wednesday night...

Having covered high school sports in Southern California since 1976, when there’s a Hall of Fame induction ceremony, it makes...

Dustin May closed his eyes, took a breath and held his head suspended toward the heavens.For a brief moment, shortly...

MSNBC viewers have seen the last of Steve Kornacki’s big board. The popular data maven has signed a deal with...

The Lakers have “recognized the magnitude” of every game they have to play as the season winds down, their coach...

As Evan Phillips stood in front of his locker before the Dodgers’ home opener Thursday, answering questions about the team’s...

The Dodgers could be excused for thinking they dodged a torpedo. Good thing for them that in last year’s World...

Nick Garcia is like a horse whisperer, but for shotputters. He’s trained 18 Southern Section champions at Sherman Oaks Notre...

Roki Sasaki chose right when he signed with the Dodgers.Never mind not being ready to lead the rotation of another...

I’m watching Blake Snell, who started the Dodgers’ home opener, and later Tanner Scott, who pitched the eighth inning, and...

Another night that began with a ceremony for the Dodgers’ World Series championship culminated in a win.And this time, not...

Corona High’s 10-0 baseball team team is filled with stars, so it’s hard for any unsung players to break through....

Jeremy Dent-Smith scored 33 points and Adam Afifi and Jordan Hilstock each added 15 to lead the Cal State Dominguez...

ESPN’s “SportsCenter” is leaving L.A.The Walt Disney Co. unit’s flagship sports highlights program will have its last edition from the...

The No. 1-ranked Corona High baseball team has started the season with eight shutouts in nine games. And that’s no...

A tectonic shift in the format of the BIG3 will bring the three-on-three basketball circuit founded by Ice Cube to...

The Boras Classic began Tuesday with No. 1 Corona, No. 2 Huntington Beach and No. 4 La Mirada all coming...

Puka Nacua already knows when he wants to retire.It’s not anytime soon, but it’s probably a lot sooner than Rams...

The crowd sat in hushed disbelief, struggling to process a scene that seemed ripped straight out of their worst nightmares:...

2024 | 80-82, 4th in West Last year in playoffs | 2021 Under the new front office leadership of former...

Facing the NBA’s top team and one of the league’s elite players, the Clippers needed to be at their best...

There’s no doubt who was the best high school basketball player in California this season.From start to finish, Brayden Burries...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — Given all the similarities in defense and toughness, the prevailing narrative about UCLA facing Tennessee was that it would...

After two games in Japan, Shohei Ohtani is off to a great start, with a home run and a .375...

Dan Maye, in his 36th season as baseball coach at Royal High, picked up win No. 595 on Friday, and...

Thursday’s Results BASEBALLCity SectionAnimo De La Hoya 6, Maywood Academy 1Bell 8, South East 7Garfield 9, South Gate 8King/Drew 1,...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — UCLA was trying to maintain a double-digit lead early in the second half when it suffered what looked like...

LEXINGTON, Ky. — On the eve of UCLA’s biggest game of the season, there was a fluid situation in the locker room.The...

Phelan Bucknor of Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High had a career day at the plate on Wednesday. He had six...

TOKYO — It lasted just three innings. It included a grand total of 56 pitches. And it was nowhere near a flawless...

The storybook senior season for pitcher Jackson Eisenhauer of Crespi continued on Tuesday. For the fourth consecutive game, he threw...

TOKYO — For all the memorable cultural experiences they’d enjoyed off the field, and all the eye-opening revelations they’d made about the...

Next week, top-ranked Corona baseball begins the Boras Classic in Orange County. This week, the Panthers are playing Norco in...

TOKYO — It was the overriding theme of last October, an intangible factor that yielded triumphant results.During their run to last year’s...

The Clippers are trending in the right direction, and on top of it, they are becoming whole with leading scorer...

April 6 is the day the newest class of City Section Hall of Fame sports selections will be inducted during...

SACRAMENTO — Clutching a folded white towel to wipe away sweat, coach Stan Delus of Etiwanda takes it personally whenever his girls...

DENVER — Inside a locker room, geography matters and Friday night in Denver, Austin Reaves was in the big seat.Using the space...

Mahamadou Diop, a 6-foot-11 sophomore center at San Gabriel Academy who came here from Mali, is someone basketball fans in...

The biggest obstacle to a long playoff run for the Kings may be the airport.Provided the Kings make the playoffs,...

MILWAUKEE — When the Lakers were playing their best basketball in February, they were fueled by the energizing power of belief, the...

Shohei Ohtani is coming home as a World Series champion, and demand for tickets to the Dodgers’ season-opening series in...

It was time for Chatsworth’s volleyball team to deploy its “secret weapon” Wednesday in a key West Valley League match...

HIGH SCHOOL SCORESTuesday’s Results BASEBALLSouthern SectionBeckman 14, Irvine 4Bell Gardens 10, San Gabriel 0 ‘Bishop Amat 1, Gardena Serra 0Brentwood...

PHOENIX — The Dodgers will board their charter flight for Japan early Wednesday but as of Tuesday night, they hadn’t released a...

For four seasons, Samuel Lopez, the baseball coach at Summit High in Fontana, has been coaching son Sammy, the starting...

NEW YORK — The frustration was evident early. And it was hard to tell what was bothering the Lakers more on Monday...

The Los Angeles Times sports staff ranked among the best in the nation, receiving a best-in-show designation in the Associated...

PHOENIX — Right-hander Michael Grove won’t pitch for the Dodgers this year after undergoing season-ending surgery last week to repair his right...

“Are you gonna wear those?”Eric Musselman stares down at a pair of beat-up, brown boat shoes with his eyebrows raised....

INDIANAPOLIS — One saying that’s repeated this time of year in college basketball is that it’s hard to beat the same team...

Let’s hope coaches saved some plays, fans didn’t brag too much and players understand how tough it is trying to...

Birmingham’s Matt Mowry has won five City Section championships and zero West Valley League championships in 19 seasons as head...

How fun has it been for a father to be introducing his son as the public-address announcer and the son...

Allen Olmos struck out 14 batters in Birmingham’s 6-0 win over Sylmar on Thursday, a breakthrough performance that can certainly...

One of the best boys’ volleyball tournaments of the season is set for Friday and Saturday at Poway High in...

Now that the Rams have completed what Les Snead described as “a renewal of vows” with quarterback Matthew Stafford, the...

“The Jack Stadlman Story” could be coming to a theater near you. The screenplay is being written each time he...

PHOENIX — As Tanner Scott walked off the plane, Evan Phillips was waiting to board.This was late June 2019, when Scott and...

When freshman Jorden Wells of Servite High ran the 100 meters in 10.64 seconds last month, it was a warning...

When he lived in Los Angeles before, Chad Bowden worked at one point as a telemarketer. He was 18 at...

Henry Aslikyan of Birmingham keeps making history in high school wrestling.He became the first City Section athlete to be a...

HIGH SCHOOL BASKETBALLSOUTHERN CALIFORNIA REGIONAL PAIRINGSFirst Round(All games at 7 p.m. unless noted)BOYSOpen Division Wednesday#1 Eastvale Roosevelt, bye#5 St. John...

PHOENIX — On June 8 last year, during the Dodgers’ highly anticipated midseason series at Yankee Stadium, Will Smith ran hard trying...

Austin Reaves will not miss significant time after testing on his sore calf revealed no significant problems, a person with...

It couldn’t have worked out any better for high school basketball fans in Southern California.The Southern Section Open Division championships...

PHOENIX — The longer Max Muncy was out injured last year, the more the dark thoughts started to creep into his head.Early...

More than 30 schools are expected to participate in the Tara Davis Invitational track meet on Saturday at Agoura High.Tara...

PHOENIX — He might have only been knocking the rust off. But Freddie Freeman was still less than thrilled.Facing live pitching for...

Given one statistic about Aday Mara’s value, UCLA coach Mick Cronin matched it with one of his own.When a reporter...

About halfway through the first quarter of Tuesday night’s game, Anthony Davis looked up at the video board inside Crypto.com...

For one shining moment, let’s go back in time, when kids went to neighborhood schools and fans came out to...

PHOENIX — As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype upon joining the Dodgers this offseason.Snell, a two-time...

It’s already time to get excited about a freshman baseball player.Pitcher Jordan Ayla of Norco High made a sensational debut...

GOODYEAR, Ariz. — In his first year with the team last season, the Dodgers got the full Tyler Glasnow experience.In the first...

If freshman guard Charlie Adams of St. Bonaventure High shows off a competitive streak during basketball games, it shouldn’t come...

PHOENIX — Dustin May screamed into his cap after blowing a 95-mph fastball by Oscar Gonzalez for an inning-ending strikeout on Sunday,...

The attention that comes with being one of the top high school recruits in the nation at their position can...

LAFC headed into its eighth MLS season Saturday with more questions than answers, few of which were solved in its...

The first time Darcy Kuemper played for the Kings, he played well. He just didn’t play often.As the backup to...

MESA, Ariz. — Tony Gonsolin took one small step in his return from Tommy John surgery on Friday, but at least it...

Doug Bledsoe, a former head football coach at Dorsey, University, North Hollywood and Pasadena, was asked why he wanted to...

PHOENIX — The Dodgers’ first spring game of 2025 began with a reminder of 2024.“Now taking the field,” the public address announcer...

On a team with seven sophomores and two freshmen, senior guard Davon Jones has been a leader and big-time scorer...

After years of showcasing its football team at the end of every spring, USC will not host a spring game,...

Taking the 60 freeway from Los Angeles to Ontario, exit at Mountain Avenue and don’t worry about finding somewhere to...

PHOENIX — During the monotony of spring training, live batting practice sessions are usually structured like boxing matches.One main event with a...

LAFC is the only MLS team to play in two CONCACAF Champions League finals this century. It is also the...

PHOENIX — Wherever Bobby Miller has gone so far during Dodgers spring training, Blake Snell has usually been nearby.Over the first week...

SAN FRANCISCO — LeBron James, set to start in the NBA All-Star Game for the 21st consecutive season, removed himself before the...

INDIO — San Diego FC had yet to play an MLS opponent when the team’s players filed onto one of the manicured...

USC’s game against Minnesota on Saturday carried more emotional weight than a typical matchup for Trojans coach Eric Musselman. He...

Bell High’s baseball team will be hard-pressed to top last season’s historic achievement winning the school’s first City Section Open...

PHOENIX — Last year was supposed to go differently for Dodgers pitcher Dustin May.After being out since the middle of 2023 following...

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams as the 2025 season is set to begin:Rk; Team; Comment1;...

A day after the U.S. Department of Education announced it is opening a Title IX investigation into the California Interscholastic...

Marlon Burt spent years coaching football at Reseda High, his alma mater, until head coach Alonso Arreola retired. Then he...

PHOENIX — Which Los Angeles newcomer will have a better season, Roki Sasaki or Luka Doncic?“Being biased,” Dave Roberts said with a...

When Diego Ayala-Martinez was a 14-year-old at Loyola High, he tried out for the freshman soccer team. He’ll never forget...

Ben Simmons has yet to take the court for the Clippers, but after his first full practice with the team,...

When former Narbonne star Marcus Adams left Brigham Young for Cal State Northridge, he made sure his brother Maximo would...

President Trump was on hand Sunday at the Superdome in New Orleans as the Philadelphia Eagles defeated the Kansas City...

When the Lakers traded for Luka Doncic more than a week ago, they did more than acquire a star player....

The Aaron Rodgers era appears to be over for the New York Jets. Fox Sports reporter Jay Glazer reported Sunday...

A great wine is pleasurable and smooth, with a long, satisfying finish. It makes you wonder where it’s been all...

Just because it wasn’t the moment everyone expected, it was still a moment nonetheless. A basketball season is 82 chances...

As the texts started flying in last Saturday night regarding the Anthony Davis for Luka Doncic trade (was it real?),...

Dana Stubblefield has been granted his release from custody more than four years after the former NFL star was convicted...

Last year’s audience of 123.4 million has already drove this year’s game to an all-time high for the price of...

NEW ORLEANS — Kyren Williams was glad to hear it.Rams coach Sean McVay and general manager Les Snead have said publicly that...

The Eagles’ Nolan Smith has four sacks in three playoff games, including this one on Commanders quarterback Jayden Daniels (5)...

Chad Bowden and Notre Dame head coach Marcus Freeman worked together to build a program that led the Fighting Irish...

Tyronn Lue sat with his arms crossed, his voice steady and his message clear about his displeasure with how the...

He’s fat. He’s lazy. He can’t stay healthy.“It’s a motive,” said Luka Doncic. “I know it’s not true. I know....

NEW ORLEANS — Police cars are lined up in the narrow streets. Officers toting large firearms stand at alert. Barriers block many...

It’s a tiny corner bar in a gritty South Philadelphia neighborhood, a hangout no bigger than the row houses that...

The second step of virtually every 12-step recovery program states that “we came to believe that a power greater than...

No, they didn’t.Yes, they did.They did! They did! They did!In making the boldest move in franchise history Saturday night, the...

SAN DIEGO — In 2009, as the couple that owned the Dodgers announced their separation, the attorney for Frank McCourt said he...

Former Fox Sports anchor and reporter Julie Stewart-Binks has accused one of her ex-bosses at the network of sexually assaulting...

The Dodgers held their fifth introductory news conference of the offseason Friday. For the fourth time, it was to welcome...

Janelle McDonald remembers settling into the arena as a young gymnast in Washington, watching the Huskies and the now-defunct Seattle...

Eric Musselman knew well before he took the reins at USC that recruiting the Southland and its wellspring of hoops...

There’s no slowing Cleveland High’s rise in the City Section basketball hierarchy this season.The Cavaliers are 17-4 and 4-0 in...

PHILADELPHIA —  The pressure, intended or not, is on.Anthony Davis, in an interview taped with ESPN the day after the Lakers...

There are five types of commonly used travel documents for athletes entering the U.S. — B1/B2, F1, P-1A and O-1A...

Despite support from his fellow Mission League baseball coaches, Bishop Alemany coach Randy Thompson said Tuesday his son, Brody, a...

Saint Thomas wiped his hands, tossing away the towel as he stepped to the free-throw line. Ninety-six seconds remained in...

The boys’ and girls’ teams were announced on Monday for the April 1 McDonald’s All-American basketball games in Brooklyn, N.Y.,...

KANSAS CITY, Mo.  —  Before they broke out the celebratory beverages in the locker room, the Kansas City Chiefs sipped...

SEATTLE —  Alaska Airlines Arena had mostly cleared out late Friday night, a few fans lingering to take photos with players...

The Clippers knew their top-notch defense would be stretched by a Milwaukee Bucks team led by NBA All-Star Giannis Antetokounmpo....

Artist Chris Carlson lives in Denver. He is a Nuggets fan. He may not have been the most obvious choice...

SEATTLE —  The big guy did it again.Three days after his breakout game, Aday Mara made sure UCLA didn’t falter with...

After nearly two weeks of weighing options because of the wildfires in Los Angeles, the PGA Tour will move the...

He was happy that his team basically was back to being completely healthy, but Clippers coach Tyronn Lue was not...

If you have a player blessed with rare traits who can take over a game on both ends of the...

After not playing for more than a week, Westchester’s boys’ basketball team was expected to have bouts of inconsistency in...

Roki Sasaki was shown Tuesday night on the Crypto.com Arena video screen during the first half of the Lakers’ game...

Two days after the Lakers were saying it almost never would be easy, almost never came to town.The Washington Wizards,...

Ichiro Suzuki is a first-ballot Hall of Famer.That has long been the assumption among baseball fans regarding the Japanese outfielder...

The Clippers are in the middle of the most arduous part of their season, playing six games in nine days...

It was Friday night for brothers Casey and Jimmy Clausen, so why not have their second-grade sons begin playing flag...

JJ Redick, on multiple occasions this season, has spoken about his belief in being process-oriented. It’s a necessary tool for...

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 9.Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking...

After not playing for 13 days because the Palisades fire closed its campus and disrupted dozens of school families, Brentwood’s...

With its rising star defensive coordinator secured, USC filled the final vacancy on its defensive staff Saturday, naming a longtime...

The time had come, the Lakers decided, to make a choice.Since trading for D’Angelo Russell and playing him with Austin...

Lakers coach JJ Redick talks to reporters about his family losing their rental house in the Palisades fire Jan. 10...

Mission League basketball has started with a series of lopsided games as Harvard-Westlake, Sherman Oaks Notre Dame and Sierra Canyon...

LeBron James made a young Lakers fan’s night Wednesday at Crypto.com Arena. And then for good measure, he did it...

The Clippers began on Wednesday night a slew of games in which their fortitude was expected to be tested.They are...

Nelson Rodriguez has rooted for the Clippers his entire life, but the fandom of the Santa Ana resident was out...

At the end of a long, emotional week, USC’s men’s basketball staff emerged one by one from the Galen Center...

The California Interscholastic Federation is preparing this week to send out a form to the 10 section commissioners that would...

Most of the time, NBA teams do whatever they can to fight off distractions. Monday, the Lakers couldn’t have been...

Los Angeles sports teams committed $8 million toward wildfire relief and announced three events to provide supplies to those affected...

The USC women’s basketball game against Penn State at Galen Center on Sunday night provided a much-needed escape for the...

A look at The Times’ top 25 boys’ basketball rankings for the Southland after Week 8.Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking...

After 19 consecutive victories to start the high school basketball season, Mira Costa finally faced a team that proved to...

Jan. 11, 2025 12:20 PM PT CHAMPAIGN, Ill. —  Desmond Claude scored a season-high 31 points to lead USC to an...

Kaiden Bailey made a halfcourt shot at the end of the third quarter Friday night, capping a surge for Santa...

Gary Hall Jr. didn’t think anything of the small, off-colored cloud he saw from inside the kitchen of his Pacific...

Rams receiver Demarcus Robinson, who was arrested in November, has been charged with one misdemeanor count of driving under the...

Two years ago, Diego Cartaya was the crown jewel of the Dodgers’ highly touted farm system.On Thursday, he quietly departed...

A second safety went on injured reserve in as many weeks. The Chargers were calling on practice squad players who...

Defensive tackle Kobie Turner said the Rams’ long but joyful regular season primed them for what’s next.On Monday night, the...