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Jerome Brown, star defensive lineman for the Philadelphia Eagles, was killed Thursday when the sports car he was driving skidded out of control after leaving a car dealership in his Florida...
BETTER YEAR: San Juan Capistrano's Roberto Guerrero, above, has caused much of the excitement leading up to today's Indy 500 race when his 232-m.p.h. time trial won him the pole position.
The New York Mets, their image already tarnished by rape allegations against three of their players, were hit hard again Thursday when three women named Met pitcher David Cone in an $8.1-million...
Darrell Alderman, two-time National Hot Rod Assn. pro stock drag racing champion from Morehead, Ky., faces a possible ban from racing after his plea of guilty to federal charges of conspiracy to...
Carroll Shelby knew he had only weeks to live, maybe days. Only 14% of his heart function was left.
It was not so much what lay ahead that haunted Erik Breukink in Saturday's Tour de France individual time trial as who was behind him.
The deepest, most competitive amateur boxing tournament in California since the 1988 Olympic trials will begin today at Loyola Marymount.
A man drove a pickup truck into the Indianapolis Motor Speedway on Wednesday and completed several fast laps before being killed when he crashed into a vehicle parked on the track to stop him.
It may not rank up there with a star on Hollywood Boulevard, but Gene Autry will take it just the same.
When previous Los Angeles Open winners get together at the Riviera Country Club, as Dave Stockton and Fred Couples did recently, you would expect that they'd talk about the tournament.
Maybe the Sockers should play all of their games on the road.
The Camp Kilpatrick football coach likes to tell his players that sports are a microcosm of life, that teamwork begets success. . . . about the importance of structure, execution and playing by...
Camarillo High senior David Harbour said Tuesday that he has orally committed to play basketball at Stanford next fall and will sign a letter of intent Nov. 14, the first day of the early signing...
Carl Ekern, a former Pro Bowl linebacker with the Rams, was killed early Wednesday morning in a one-vehicle accident in the Mojave Desert.
Allan Leavell of Tulsa was suspended for two seasons by the Continental Basketball Assn., and teammate Dexter Shouse was suspended for one year for an altercation with officials in a playoff game.
Steve and Vickie Desomer have given new meaning to the term coupled interest at Los Alamitos this season.
Mabel Glenn, 86, gripped her 6-foot cue stick with grim determination and gazed, steely-eyed, at the triangular-shaped box at the far end of the court.
A top official of the Texas Racing Commission, his wife and their two children were found shot to death in their home hours after the commission said it might revoke the license of the only horse...
Robert Hager, athletic director and football coach at West Hills College in Coalinga, has been named head football coach at West Los Angeles College, announced Jim Raack , WLAC athletic director.
Despite having one of its top runners drop out midway through the race, the La Jolla High School girls' cross-country team won the Division II title Saturday at the state championships at Woodward...
Recently I attributed the imperishable line "I should of stood in bed" to Joe Jacobs, who, I said, was also the author of "We wuz robbed."
Cynthia Garvey, the ex-wife of former Dodger Steve Garvey, was ordered to county jail for five days Monday for violating a child visitation order.
The season is almost a month old and Walt Ker, coach of the Cal State Northridge women's volleyball team, still does not have a set lineup.
Hesperia 12, Quartz Hill 3--Hesperia held Quartz Hill (2-1) to minus-14 yards rushing and upset the host Rebels.
The first time Noboru Watanabe played Riviera Country Club, he knew he had to belong.
As he thunders down the practice field these days with a football tucked under his arm, Paul Oates often finds his mind wandering back to baseball.
Certain things thrive in the arid expanse of southern New Mexico: chiles, pecans, a missile range.
Tony Holiday was four for five with a home run and six runs batted in to lead Reseda to a 17-4 win over Newhall-Saugus in an elimination game of the Conejo Classic baseball tournament at Thousand...
Now that the youngest of the six has grown up, all of their childhoods, which had been rich with competition, companionship and endless containers of milk, have been completed.
"There's more exciting Pacific Coast League action tomorrow when the Dukes and Stars play at 7 p.m.
In light of the restructured City Section 4-A Division playoff structure, whereby teams played three games in three days this week, it figured that pitchers would be pushed to the limit.
The Milwaukee Bucks traded forward Terry Cummings, their leading scorer each of the last five seasons, to the San Antonio Spurs Sunday for guard Alvin Robertson, forward Greg Anderson and future...
Erik Kramer could face a short but significant hurdle in his hopes to succeed in professional football.
As possessor of the Heisman Trophy, Oklahoma State's Barry Sanders is generally considered the best college football player in the land.
Deion Sanders, Florida State All-American cornerback, was arrested on charges of battery on a police officer and disorderly conduct Saturday after a shopping mall dispute over the purchase of...
As if it hasn't been enough this winter to spread new stars throughout their lineup, the Padres appear ready to open their wallets and make room for one in the broadcast booth.
Who was Orange County's best high school quarterback of the past 20 years?
Kurt Rambis, who has mostly played a starting role on three Laker championship teams, said his most recent role isn't going to change in their final series with the Detroit Pistons.
Jeff Taggart, a junior basketball player for Canisius who would have turned 21 Tuesday, died Saturday night after collapsing during a game against Niagara.
Ray Malavasi, 57, died last month of a heart attack on the seventh floor of an Orange County federal court building, the last place on Earth he wanted to be.
Pete Maravich, in a 1974 interview with the Beaver County Times, said: "I don't want to play 10 years in the NBA and die of a heart attack at age 40."
San Fernando Coach Dick Crowell must have felt like slam dunking guard Joe Mauldin last week during the Hart tournament.
Kevin Floyd finally stopped his momentum and spun around to see if it had been worth the effort.
Robert Hyatt (Red) McDaniel, the winningest trainer in the United States through the first five years of the 1950s, was hydrophobic.
The Utah Jazz beefed up its front line with centers Darryl Dawkins and Mel Turpin in a seven-player trade Thursday that also involved the Cleveland Cavaliers and the New Jersey Nets.
The paths of John McEnroe and Boris Becker have crossed just three times, yet they have produced two outstanding tennis matches.
Loyola Marymount University's women's volleyball team, off its stunning upset of UCLA in the NCAA Tournament's opening round, will play Stanford at 5 p.m. at Brigham Young University in Provo,...
The Los Angeles County Coroner's Office planned an autopsy to determine the cause of the death of Jeff Chai, the 16-year-old Hawthorne High School senior who collapsed with 32 seconds left in...
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