SALT LAKE CITY — LeBron James sat at the end of the Lakers’ bench with a hoodie covering his head, pain in his left ankle not allowing him to play against the Utah Jazz on Saturday, just the fourth game he has missed this season. It meant the struggling Lakers had to push forward against a…
SAN DIEGO — In the shadow of Petco Park, Steve Garvey was greeted as a Padres hero who played alongside baseball legend Tony Gwynn and helped the team to its first World Series appearance. In Los Angeles, voters lit up as they posed for photos with the former all-star Dodgers first baseman who anchored the team’s…
Alex Wood was preparing for his first full season with the Dodgers in 2016 when then-general manager Andrew Friedman approached him in the team’s spring-training clubhouse and handed him a three-page analysis of his pitching patterns. “The gist of it was that I was one of the best in baseball at getting to two strikes…
CIF City Section and Southern Section high school boys’ and girls’ basketball scores for Saturday: BOYS Adelanto 51, Viewpoint 37 AGBU 69, Rancho Mirage 66 Aquinas 49, Great Oak 43 Arcadia 80, Carson 42 Archbishop Wood (PA) 73, Corona Centennial 71 Arlington 69, Riverside King 58 Beverly Hills 48, Artesia 46 Brentwood 66, LA Hamilton…
A look at the Los Angeles Times’ top 25 high school boys’ basketball teams in the Southland after Week 7 of the 2023-24 season. Rk. SCHOOL; Comment; last rank 1. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (19-1); Most challenging week of the season takes place this week; 1 2. SANTA ANA MATER DEI (19-1); Sophomore Brannon Martinsen has become consistent…
The Chargers continued their search for a head coach Sunday by interviewing Leslie Frazier. With 17 years of NFL experience, Frazier was head coach for Minnesota for three-plus seasons beginning in 2010, compiling a record of 21-32-1. He was out of the league this year after spending six seasons with Buffalo as defensive coordinator. Frazier,…
Finally, JuJu Watkins could exhale. When Kayla Padilla drew a foul with 14.3 seconds left and USC up by six against UCLA, Watkins, USC’s star freshman, raised her arms toward the Galen Center crowd and flashed an exhausted, relieved smile. The sold-out crowd responded to its newest hometown hero by rising to its collective feet….
From the day he started at UCLA, Mick Cronin said he spelled fun W-I-N. Over the last two months, as one loss followed another, his team encountered M-I-S-E-R-Y, leaving a segment of the fan base feeling H-O-P-E-L-E-S-S. So it was invigorating Sunday afternoon for the Bruins to see what transpired inside Pauley Pavilion. Players on…
DETROIT — It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Rapper Eminem, a Detroit native, said last week that Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford owed him a favor for performing in the Super Bowl LVI halftime show at SoFi Stadium, where Stafford starred in the Rams’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. “I rapped for you Stafford,” Eminem said in a…
DETROIT — It was a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. Rapper Eminem, a Detroit native, said last week that Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford owed him a favor for performing in the Super Bowl LVI halftime show at SoFi Stadium, where Stafford starred in the Rams’ victory over the Cincinnati Bengals. “I rapped for you Stafford,” Eminem said in a…
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