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Tennis: Swiss teen finally succumbs, 7-5, 6-3, setting up a Graf-Seles championship match.
Golf: At 14, she was the state women's Amateur champion. At 22, she's making remarkable strides on the LPGA tour.
It's been 20 years, measured by some hearts at 20 minutes.
Sports figures were involved in 252 nationally reported police incidents, court appearances or other developments in 1995, for alleged offenses that ranged in gravity from shoplifting to murder, a...
It took 10 minutes for Georgetown's new high-octane offense to get into gear.
Everything about the U.S. Open in June turned out well for NBC.
George Foreman has decided to relinquish his International Boxing Federation heavyweight championship and not give Axel Schulz a rematch, The Times has learned.
They sailed along through six innings Thursday night in Toronto, the Blue Jays holding a three-run lead, and then the bottom dropped out.
These might be questions only trivia fanatics can answer, but they say a lot about the state of the Angel bullpen over the years: Which Angel reliever has the record for lowest earned-run average...
Goals? Who needs goals? Not the World Cup game between South Korea and Bolivia on Thursday.
We had to find something in common because while we're talking about John Starks, they're talking about John Harkes.
You'll have to excuse Charley Hoffman if he wasn't doing back flips after winning the CIF-Southern California Golf Assn. boys' title Monday at Redlands Country Club.
Keep thinking, Phil, it's what you're good at.
Jason Smith, one of the top reserves on the Cal Lutheran men's basketball team that compiled a 25-3 record this season, said Wednesday he plans to play elsewhere next season.
Paul Goldenberg--the guy who modestly proclaims himself "The King of Big Screen"--sold so many humongous TV sets last week that he extended the hours of his La Habra store until midnight and...
It was this kind of day for UCLA in a 9-3 loss to Arizona State on Saturday at the Rose Bowl: Third quarter, second and two on the Sun Devil 31.
Rancho Park bent Saturday, but the cream of the Los Angeles city golf courses didn't break.
Surgeons on Thursday performed a highly delicate procedure aimed at destroying a cancerous tumor at the top of golfer Heather Farr's spinal cord.
Jim Pierce, the controversial father of French tennis player Mary Pierce, was removed by security guards from a court where his daughter was playing her match Friday at the French Open, and will...
Fullerton forced a three-way tie for the lead in the Orange Empire Conference softball race by beating Cypress, 5-2, Wednesday.
Hurt would be the best word to describe Raider Coach Art Shell on Tuesday.
It wasn't only the new stadium that inspired Cal State Fullerton Saturday night; it was the 8,279 fans in it, a crowd that gave the Titans something they haven't experienced in years--a home-field...
Mario Lemieux never thought his comeback could be this good.
Rancho Santiago was upset by Orange Coast, 95-91, in overtime Saturday, but the Dons still clinched the Orange Empire Conference men's basketball title.
The Southern Section boys' basketball playoffs will begin Tuesday without at least one entrant--Anaheim High School.
With an announcement that stunned the nation, Earvin (Magic) Johnson, the brilliant guard who was the marquee name for the Lakers and the National Basketball Assn. for 12 years, retired Thursday,...
The marketers of Bo Jackson made us believe he could master a sport at a moment's notice.
Watch Ivan Lendl play tennis and you will see a man of precision, a man in control.
They were friends and teammates for years, forming one of Orange County's most prolific high school pass/catch combinations in football and a potent one-two punch in baseball.
Singer Donny Osmond and former Indianapolis 500 winner Parnelli Jones were winners in the pro-celebrity race Saturday at the Toyota Grand Prix of Long Beach.
Even the most successful junior players can be a bit intimidated when they start playing tennis with the Division I big boys as freshmen in college.
There had been relief in his voice and few regrets in his words.
Pittsburgh Athletic Director Ed Bozik, whose department is the subject of investigations into booster funds and recruiting practices, will retire on July 1.
Most of the Indianapolis Colts have accepted Eric Dickerson's return to the team.
A week after absorbing its annual spanking by Loyola High, Crespi's football team was looking to mete out some corporal punishment of its own when it took on Torrance Bishop Montgomery in the...
George Lee McCallister, co-owner of Studio City Golf & Tennis Club and a former professional golfer, has died in Los Angeles.
"I took football on as a job. Football was like a third parent to me. It taught me a lot about life.
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.
For some players on the PGA Tour, the AT&T; Pebble Beach National Pro-Am is an event to be avoided.
In other Avocado League games: Ramona 79, San Marcos 64--Host Ramona led at halftime, 45-27, and was never in danger.
Fernando Martin, who played for the Portland Trail Blazers in 1986, was killed in an auto accident Sunday.