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Few people outside of the skateboarding world knew of Jeff Grosso before his death a year ago of a drug overdose. Yet few led as influential a life.
Lawyers representing high school athletes in San Diego County have reached a settlement that would allow all sports to resume statewide.
Overtraining 3 years ago caused a stress fracture in Chris Rodriguez’s spine and he’s pitched just 9⅓ innings since. Now he appears healthy.
Playing for the first time this season without LeBron James, Dennis Schroder, Montrezl Harrell and Kyle Kuzma get close, but can’t lift Lakers past Kings.
USC cruised to a 79-42 victory over Stanford on Wednesday at Galen Center to keep faint Pac-12 title hopes alive.
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Maxfield, the best horse few have heard of, is a welcome entry in Saturday’s Santa Anita Handicap, which has fallen on hard times.
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Cleveland Browns quarterback Baker Mayfield decided to go to Twitter to report a UFO observation he made over central Texas on Wednesday.
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It’s 31 degrees on the snow-filled field at Rim of the World High School as the football team prepares for its season, which begins March 19.
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The Kings give up three goals in less than four minutes during the second period in a 3-2 loss to the Arizona Coyotes.
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The St. Louis Blues scored on all three of their power plays in a 3-2 victory over the skidding Anaheim Ducks.
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UCLA gives up a nine-point lead in the second half and struggles with turnovers in an 82-74 loss to Oregon that complicates the Pac-12 race for first.
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Times Voices
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Chiney Ogwumike is returning to the Sparks this season to restart her basketball career, which has allowed her to expand her horizons and help others.
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Boxer Claressa Shields adds to her legacy on March 5, when she will take on Marie-Eve Dicaire in the main event of an all-female pay-per-view card.
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The Clippers are capable of beating the NBA’s best teams, but against Giannis Antetokounmpo and the Milwaukee Bucks they showed some of their weaknesses.
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For columnist Dylan Hernández, it’s easy to see why UCLA gymnastics, and its push for social equality, is so popular with his 10-year-old daughter.
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Sean McVay is acutely aware of the Rams’ shortcomings. With Jared Goff and Todd Gurley gone, it’s up to the Rams coach to correct the team’s direction.
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As the Lakers flounder through meaningless midseason games with LeBron James playing too many minutes, he needs to tell himself it’s time to rest.
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Golfing legend Ben Hogan excelled after coming back from a horrific car crash in 1949. Fans hope Tiger Woods will be able to do the same after his crash.
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Fernando Tatís Jr. signed a 14-year contract with the Padres, and Mariners president Kevin Mather resigned in disgrace. What’s the connection?
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If AC Milan’s Zlatan Ibrahimovic believes Lakers star LeBron James should stick to sports and avoid politics, how can he say Muhammad Ali is his idol?
Lakers and Clippers
Paul George calls Clippers’ first-half finale a “must-win” game before All-Star break, but will Kawhi Leonard be healthy enough to play?
Five takeaways from the Lakers-Suns game on Tuesday night at Staples Center.
Lakers star LeBron James will miss his first game of the season Wednesday after staying in L.A. when the team traveled Tuesday night to Sacramento.
The Lakers were without Marc Gasol and Anthony Davis in the team’s 114-104 loss to the Phoenix Suns on Tuesday at Staples Center.
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UCLA and USC
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USC defeated Arizona State 71-65 on the first day of the Pac-12 women’s basketball tournament. The Trojans will play Stanford on Thursday in the quarterfinals.
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UCLA will open the 2021 season by hosting Hawaii on Aug. 28 in a game that gives Chip Kelly another chance to win his first nonconference game with the Bruins.
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UCLA’s road to the Pac-12 championship goes through Oregon because conference officials say they want equity in crowning the regular-season champion.
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Dakota Joshua scored in his NHL debut and Zach Sanford got two goals in the St. Louis Blues’ 5-4 victory over the Anaheim Ducks.
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William Karlsson scores two goals, including the winning tally in overtime, to send the Ducks to a 3-2 loss. The Ducks are winless in their last six games.
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Julio Urías makes a quick exit after struggling to get outs for the Dodgers in a 4-4 draw with the Cincinnati Reds in MLB spring training on Wednesday.
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The Dodgers and San Francisco Giants played to a 1-1 tie in seven innings on Tuesday in a spring training game.
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Matt Davidson reported to Dodgers camp as a right-handed-hitting corner infielder with some pop. But he can also pitch, which interests Dave Roberts.
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The $5-billion SoFi Stadium in Inglewood will serve as a vaccination site for L.A. Unified School District teachers and staff starting on Monday.
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Rams coach Sean McVay admits he made some mistakes handling Jared Goff over the years, but would rather focus on the success they had together.
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The Rams lost seven coaching assistants this offseason, but after some hires and promotions coach Sean McVay has completed his staff for the 2021 season.
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Readers vote Cody Bellinger’s catch in Game 2 of the 2020 NLDS as the 22nd greatest moment in Dodger history.
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Few people outside of the skateboarding world knew of Jeff Grosso before his death a year ago of a drug overdose. Yet few led as influential a life.
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Gov. Gavin Newsom said fans could be allowed at MLB games — including Dodger Stadium and Angel Stadium — as soon as opening day in April.
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Lawyers representing high school athletes in San Diego County have reached a settlement that would allow all sports to resume statewide.
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The L.A. Unified School District is allowing sports competitions and games to be held outdoors for the first time since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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USC cruised to a 79-42 victory over Stanford on Wednesday at Galen Center to keep faint Pac-12 title hopes alive.
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The Los Angeles Unified School District is allowing interscholastic sports to resume following a yearlong COVID-19 shutdown. Here is what you need to know.
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Quarterback Lucas Lenhoff and two of his friends, after leaving Cathedral High in Los Angeles, make their North Carolina high school football debuts.
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Case rates for COVID-19 drop below 14.0 per 100,000 in Riverside, San Bernardino and Ventura counties, where outdoor high school sports can resume.
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The late Jim Bonds and Joe Wood are still on the minds of football players at St. Francis and San Clemente high schools.
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‘Let’s go’ is the attitude of players and coaches from several Orange County high schools excited about a spring football season.
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Event organizers say they are actively planning for both the Rose Parade’s return and the playing of the Rose Bowl game in Pasadena.
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A study published in JAMA Cardiology suggests that heart inflammation is uncommon in pro athletes who’ve had mild COVID-19 and most don’t need to be sidelined.
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With new contract in hand, All-Star forward Nneka Ogwumike says she likes being in Sparks’ leadership role as team retools for WNBA season.
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Shohei Ohtani crushed his first Cactus League home run, a two-run shot that traveled 468 feet to spearhead the Angels’ 6-2 win over the Texas Rangers.
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Carmelo Anthony passes the ‘Melo’ torch to LaMelo Ball while Kevin Durant teases rapper Kash Doll over the KD nickname.
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Angels manager Joe Maddon is looking for a scrappy mentality from his team this season, and leadoff batter David Fletcher could set the tone.
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New York Jets general manager Joe Douglas says he’d be willing to listen to trade offers for former USC quarterback Sam Darnold.
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During a discussion of the pick-and-roll on TNT, WNBA star Candace Parker made NBA legend Shaquille O’Neal look like he was stuck in another era.
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Yankees manager Aaron Boone, 47, who had open-heart surgery in 2009, is having a pacemaker implanted and expects to be back at work in a few days.
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Terry Bradshaw was admitted to a hospital under the name “Thomas Brady” in 1983. You may have heard of another QB by that name. He was 5 at the time.
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Without Marc Gasol, Anthony Davis and Kyle Kuzma, the Lakers were short-handed in loss to Phoenix.
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Top pitching prospects Chris Rodriguez and Reid Detmers looked sharp, but the Angels lost for the first time this spring, 7-5 to the Cincinnati Reds.
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The Galaxy and LAFC are hopeful that at least a limited number of fans will be allowed into their stadiums when the MLS season opens next month.
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‘Ted Lasso’ is a show about a coach providing optimism and hope to his beleaguered soccer club. That message carries over perfectly to 2021.
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After the shortest season in history due to the COVID-19 pandemic, MLS is ready to kickoff its 26th season on Monday with 27 teams.
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Jorge Villafaña’s long soccer journey has included many ups and downs, and will now take him back home but with the Galaxy this time.
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The Chargers want to keep free agent tight end Hunter Henry, and he’s interested in staying. But the team would take a significant financial hit.
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Vincent Jackson, a standout wide receiver for the San Diego Chargers and a three-time Pro Bowl selection, was found dead in a Florida hotel room Monday.
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Mike Pouncey, the veteran center who played a key role in the Chargers’ 12-4 season in 2018, announced his retirement from the NFL on Friday.
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Since quarterbacks coach Pep Hamilton has left the Chargers after a successful season with Justin Herbert, Shane Day has been given the task of developing the young signal-caller.
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Health and safety precautions are enforced, so attending a Dodgers or Angels Cactus League game this spring looks to be an enjoyable experience.
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Mickey Callaway says he had consensual extramarital affairs, according to a report by the Athletic that details how the Cleveland Indians were informed.
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Despite Alex Cobb’s recent struggles, he still reminds Angels manager Joe Maddon of the pitcher who had a 3.21 ERA from 2011 to 2014 with the Rays.
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The Angels tied a scheduled five-inning exhibition against the Chicago White Sox 4-4 but several Angels hitters had quality at-bats.
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Federal agents searched the home of Klete Keller, the Olympic medalist swimmer from USC charged in the Capitol riot, in Colorado Springs on Jan. 14.
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Mikaela Shiffrin became the first American to win six world championship skiing titles with her gold in the combined on Monday.
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It has been 60 years since the entire U.S figure skating team died in a plane crash in Belgium. For those who knew the skaters best, the loss remains vivid.
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The IOC called comments by Tokyo 2020 leader Yoshiro Mori ‘completely inappropriate,’ but he seems determined to stay on the job.
