- Angel CityThe Sports Report: One mistake turned her whole season around, for the better
- LakersLuka Doncic's remarkable scoring streak gives Lakers a new challenge
- SparksWay too early Unrivaled power rankings after 2027 roster reveal
- DodgersTarik Skubal Rumors: Mets, Dodgers, Cubs
- RamsSienna Betts helps lead No. 11 UCLA women to victory over UC Irvine
- DucksOilers’ Podkolzin given only fighting major in scrap against Ducks
- KingsLiam Lefebvre continues to defy the numbers, with bigger goals yet to come for the LA Kings prospect
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Exactly one year after the suicide of former Sacramento Kings player Ricky Berry, joy, pain and frustration remain vivid among those the athlete touched most poignantly.
About eight blocks from where I grew up there was a big country club with high walls.
Baseball Commissioner Fay Vincent was the keynote speaker Thursday at the Associated Press Sports Editors convention in Boston.
Africa will get a third berth in the 1994 World Cup, at the expense of Europe, the head of soccer's ruling body said Wednesday.
Theirs is a union of circumstance and fate, a marriage celebrated on a diamond instead of with one.
The Woodbridge High School boys' and girls' teams won titles at the Pacific Coast League track and field finals Friday at Irvine High School.
Watching Moorpark College's No. 1 doubles team play is sort of like seeing those old soap commercials--look at their backhands and decide which player is the mother and which is the daughter.
St. Bernard 3, Bosco Tech 0--Because of traffic, St.
As usual, it was a nickname born of necessity, if not ignorance.
Heading down to the track after the $212,000 Santa Barbara Handicap Saturday at Santa Anita, owner Suzanne Pashayan was pessimistic.
For some players on the PGA Tour, the AT&T; Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is an event to be avoided.
James (Buster) Douglas, who was two rounds away from a piece of the heavyweight championship three years ago, gets another chance Sunday (tonight), this time against Mike Tyson in the Tokyo Dome.
In other Avocado League games: Ramona 79, San Marcos 64--Host Ramona led at halftime, 45-27, and was never in danger.
Five-time New York Yankee manager Billy Martin died early Monday night in an alcohol-related crash when the pickup truck in which he was a passenger skidded off an icy road near his upstate New...
Fernando Martin, who played for the Portland Trail Blazers in 1986, was killed in an auto accident Sunday.
Los Angeles Lakers owner Jerry Buss says he's "in the market for a baseball team" and will see about buying the San Diego Padres following owner Joan Kroc's announcement that she is selling the club.
When Mario Mattison was a seventh-grader in Detroit, he was coming home from a boys club one day and was jumped by toughs.
Brandie Burton won all there was to win in national junior girls' golf this summer and very nearly did the same on the women's tour.
There were several U.S. and world age-group records set at the second day of the TAC/USA Masters National Track and Field Championships at San Diego State Friday, but perhaps none was as...
Yugoslav basketball star Drazen Petrovic, considered the best guard in Europe, said he might join the Portland Trail Blazers.
Jesse Roach handles his new-found celebrity with aplomb.
The meeting with Jack Kent Cooke and Jerry Buss had gone well.
A 57-year-old man apologized today for lunging at Princess Diana as she shook hands with well-wishers at a center for the mentally handicapped.
Picture a half-crazed man in a hotel room. Middle-aged. Frazzled eyes. Frizzied hair.
The 1988 Summer Olympic Games in Seoul made a record profit of $479 million, more than double that of the 1984 Los Angeles Olympics, organizers said today.
World Boxing Council middleweight champion Iran Barkley weighed in at 159 pounds this morning, one pound under the limit, for his title defense against Roberto Duran tonight.
There was a time three years ago that Cypress High School center Erika Manning was not an exemplary role model.
Dana Kirk, former Memphis State basketball coach, was sentenced to a year in prison and fined $20,000 Friday for income tax evasion and obstruction of justice.
In their first defense pleas in the Heysel trial, lawyers for the British supporters claimed today that they were not the direct cause of death and asked for their acquittal.
The Buffalo Bills hired undercover detectives to follow all-pro defensive end Bruce Smith for 3 weeks last November because of concerns about Smith's association with a suspected drug dealer,...
Eric McArthur made 4 of 4 free throws in the final 1 1/2 minutes as UC Santa Barbara defeated Arizona State, 84-80, in the championship game of the Sun Devils' tournament Thursday night at Tempe,...
It could have been a white Christmas in Colorado for Deon Figures, but instead he got it just the way he would have liked it--a Christmas, albeit a wet one, at home in California.
As Reseda football Coach Joel Schaeffer walked out of Westchester High on Wednesday night, a Reseda booster handed Schaeffer a videotape of the just-concluded Reseda-Westchester game.
When the Chicago Bulls entered the National Basketball Assn. in 1966 as the first expansion team of the modern era, the team paid a $1.2-million franchise fee.
Ernie Shelton was supposed to be the world's first 7-foot high jumper.
Top-seeded Stefan Edberg of Sweden opened defense of his $617,500 Japan Indoor tennis title Wednesday with a 6-2, 6-2 victory over Todd Nelson at Tokyo.
Actress Robin Givens, who said last week on national television that living with her husband of eight months, heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, was "pure hell," announced today she is divorcing him.
In the Year of the Pitcher, only a bad-hop single with two out in the ninth inning prevented an unprecedented two no-hitters on the same day.
Angel center fielder Devon White hopes he doesn't make "This Week in Baseball."
Neither Mike Tyson nor Michael Spinks needs money, but they will have to make do as financial heavyweights after they reap millions for their championship fight June 27 in Atlantic City.
Brian Baronet died after being in a coma for three days after he was knocked out by an American fighter.
Ashley Selman, a senior at Foothill High School, is not the best-known track and field athlete in Orange County.
Larry Brown was packing. The plane was waiting to take him back to UCLA.
Gail Devers of UCLA broke a Stanford Stadium record while winning the women's 100-meter hurdles in 13.18 seconds and anchored the Bruins' shuttle hurdles relay team to victory on the first day of...
When the question is raised, "Why can't women be equals or better than men in athletic competition?"
Several months ago, Thomas Henderson got a phone call at his Costa Mesa home from trucking magnate Robert Briscoe of Sundown, Texas.
Two months after he resigned under pressure from his coaching job at North Carolina, Dick Crum was named Tuesday as head football coach at Kent State.
Ivan Lendl, who has been the world's No. 1 tennis player for more than two years, ended weeks of speculation Monday by announcing, as predicted, that he will form his own management firm.