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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.
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.
The meeting with Jack Kent Cooke and Jerry Buss had gone well.
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.
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.
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,...
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.
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.
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...
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.
Nathan Meade, one of Australia's premier divers, was killed when he apparently misjudged a dive during practice and smashed into the concrete diving platform Thursday at Brisbane, Australia.
Any hopes Locke High School had of getting off to a fast start were dashed by a horrendous finish Friday.
While his boyhood friends in Falls Church, Va., dreamed of becoming baseball, basketball or football stars, John Kerr yearned to play professional soccer in "the greatest league in the world."
Teams listed in predicted order of finish by Times staff writers.
Dave Ashley of Riverside, who had never before led a single lap on the eight-stop Mickey Thompson Off-Road Gran Prix circuit, was a surprise start-to-finish winner Saturday night in the Grand...
Paul Gonzales performed a quick self-evaluation on the way to the dressing room.
"This is terrible to say, but I don't know anything about the Gulls."
Step right up, professional baseball scouts, and check out this year's bargain baby--Chapman College outfielder Darren Nelson.
As with most things, the cost of expansion teams in the National Basketball Assn. has gone up.
The Kings, who have won only one of their last nine games, begin a 10-day, six-game trip here tonight against the Washington Capitals.
Linda Smith, the daughter of multimillionaire San Diego Padres owner Joan B.
When you have a legitimate superstar--as the Fairfax High basketball team does in 6-8 Sean Higgins--it usually means the rest of the players attract as much attention as a pair of designer jeans...
Bob Foster, a former boxing champion and now a deputy sheriff in New Mexico, has been put on administrative leave with pay because of allegations of improper investigative procedures.
Lewis Lloyd and Mitchell Wiggins of the Houston Rockets on Tuesday became the third and fourth National Basketball Assn. players to be banned from the league for using cocaine.
The giant killers are back at it again in the 15th Tournament of Champions.
These have been trying times for A.
With sophomore Eddie Lavelle leading the way, the Corona del Mar boys' cross-country team scored an impressive 60 points to win Division II at the Dana Hills Invitational at Dana Hills High School...
Louis Skertich of Culver City, star pitcher for Loyola High School last season, was a member of a U.S. all-star team that completed a playing tour of Japan and China in August.
The Houston Rockets get their first crack at revenge against the champion Boston Celtics as part of the NBA's 89-game exhibition season schedule released Wednesday by the league.
In the investigation of Maryland basketball star Len Bias' death, people in dark glasses go in and out of a small-town courthouse, friends become suspects, mystery women appear and disappear, a...
National Basketball Assn. If there is suspicion of drug use, a third party evaluates evidence.
Back and head problems kept Brian Capp from having the kind of season he wanted at Glendale College this year.
Kelly Jones led Pepperdine University to a 7-2 nonconference tennis victory over UC Irvine Tuesday at Malibu.
Joe Robinson of Riverside, a PGA golf professional for 51 years, and the late Olin Dutra, a former U.S.
Boston Celtic forward Kevin McHale has been fined an undisclosed amount by Coach K.C.