It took till August, however the beginning rotation the Dodgers envisioned in spring coaching is undamaged and delivering. Vowing to not revisit the predicament they discovered themselves in final postseason, when solely two true starters and a stacked bullpen in some way patched collectively sufficient innings to win a World Collection, the Dodgers added two-time Cy Younger award winner Blake Snell to a rotation that already boasted 4 potential aces and several other different candidates...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> Rams working again Blake Corum carries the ball within the first half towards the Cowboys on Saturday. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Instances) With Kyren Williams carrying the ball 316 instances final season, Corum received solely restricted alternative as a rookie. The previous Michigan star may assist shoulder extra of the load if the Rams need to hold Williams — their newly minted $23-million funding —...

Harm have hit the Chargers arduous in coaching camp. From minor setbacks sidelining Mekhi Becton and Ladd McConkey for a number of practices, to the extreme, with Najee Harris’ return date nonetheless a thriller and Rashawn Slater out for the season. Out of an abundance of warning, coach Jim Harbaugh as soon as once more mentioned veteran starters received’t play Sunday in opposition to the New Orleans Saints at SoFi Stadium. For rookies reminiscent of KeAndre Lambert-Smith and Nikko Reed,...

Doug Bledsoe has made the rounds as a highschool soccer coach. He’s been head coach at North Hollywood, Dorsey, Pasadena and College. He says his newest teaching place might be his final till his 3-year-old grandson reaches highschool. It’s going to be his most difficult, making an attempt to rebuild a Narbonne program that after once more had an exodus of gamers and coaches after rule violations brought about the Metropolis Part to impose a three-year playoff ban and make this system...

They’ve performed 18 respective big-league seasons. They’ve mixed for almost 6,500 strikeouts and 435 profession wins. They every have two World Sequence titles, and three Cy Younger Awards. And at some point, they’ll share immortal plaques in Cooperstown, future first-ballot Corridor of Famers who outlined their technology of pitchers. For Clayton Kershaw and Max Scherzer, there’s nothing left to show. That doesn’t imply, nevertheless, that there’s nothing left to play for. On Friday night...

On the finish of the 2019 minor-league season, Alex Name checked out his hitting numbers, then appeared himself within the mirror. A former third-round draft decide who had already modified organizations as soon as, he knew he had simply had the sort of yr that sometimes portends a brief skilled profession. As a 24-year-old outfielder on the double-A degree within the Cleveland Guardians group, Name had taken 325 plate appearances that yr with the Akron RubberDucks. In 93 of them — a fee of...

Quarterbacks within the Marmonte League, beware. At Friday’s soccer media day, it was identified that Simi Valley’s Izak Simpson and St. Bonaventure’s Matthew Perez are getting ready to make their senior years much more memorable in sacking quarterbacks. Simpson is available in with 29 profession sacks the final two seasons. Perez had 15 sacks as a sophomore and 10 as a junior. That’s a mixed 54 sacks. Simpson’s story is kind of inspiring. As a freshman, he didn’t play soccer. He was...

With a digicam trailing his each transfer, Nathan Chen glides throughout the ice on the identical coaching heart that fueled his Olympic desires. 4 years after profitable Olympic gold, Chen continues to be the image of energy and artistry as he picks up velocity to spherical a flip and circles an arm round his head. “Is this a comeback?” Jean-Luc Baker, a 2022 Olympic ice dancer, playfully asks. The reigning Olympic champion has not skated competitively since Feb. 10, 2022, when Chen landed...

When John Beck first watched Jayden Maiava throw a soccer up shut this summer season, he may see fairly rapidly why USC would possibly grasp its hopes on Maiava’s rocket proper arm. “He spins the ball really well,” Beck mentioned. “The talent is there. The ability is there.” Few are as certified as Beck to make that evaluation. A former NFL quarterback and personal quarterbacks coach for 3DQB, he has helped effective tune a few of the greatest passers within the sport, from Tom Brady and Drew...

When Julie Vanloo drew her second touring violation earlier than halftime, the group’s disapproval rose in unison. On the ground, with tempers simmering on the Sparks’ bench, a delay-of-game whistle drew one other spherical of jeers from the Crypto.com Area crowd. The calls weren’t the one sources of frustration for the Sparks — the crew additionally was trailing the last-place Connecticut Solar by 10 factors. Nonetheless, the flare-up might need been what the Sparks wanted to rally to a...

The Little League group from Honolulu has an opportunity to develop into a three-time world champion. Winners of the Little League World Collection in 2018 and 2022, the group from Hawaii earned a spot on this yr’s World Collection on Thursday night time with a 4-1 win over Fullerton Golden Hill in San Bernardino. They’ll journey to Williamsport, Pa., the place the World Collection begins on Wednesday. Golden Hill’s solely two losses got here from Honolulu, together with a 1-0 loss to...

When 6-foot-5, 315-pound all-league offensive sort out Jorge Gonzalez of Santa Paula Excessive needed to take a compulsory two-week break this summer season below the Southern Part useless interval guidelines, he didn’t simply sit at dwelling. He went to the wheat fields of Santa Barbara and earned cash utilizing a weed whacker eight hours a day so he might purchase a automobile. “My uniform turned green,” he stated of his every day work within the fields. The Santa Paula neighborhood is...

Los Angeles simply can’t get a break. With Wasserman at his left facet, Trump vowed to convey L.A. “back stronger than ever.” On Trump’s proper was a rash of L.A. haters, a few of whom performed a distinguished position in Southern California’s summer time of deportations, together with Vice President JD Vance and Division of Homeland Safety head Kristi Noem. Not current, however hailed by Trump in the course of the presser as an “MVP candidate,” was Deputy Chief of Workers Stephen Miller,...

Just one participant within the final 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit efficiently on the big-league degree. Babe Ruth twice received greater than 20 video games and led the American League in ERA and begins earlier than the Pink Sox, then the Yankees, determined pitching was distracting from Ruth’s hitting and put him out to pasture in proper subject. Over the subsequent three seasons, Ruth broke the foremost league...

Surfer dudes. Soccer dudes. That’s one of the best ways to explain an identical twins Liam and Luke Meeker, soccer gamers at Mira Costa Excessive. Liam is the quarterback and Luke the receiver. They’ve been teaming up their entire life. “Twin telepathy,” they joke. Their father, George, who was a member of Edison’s surf crew throughout his highschool days, taught them to surf once they have been 9. Luke claims to be the most effective, however it’s soccer the place they’re making...

Already the house of Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles is now additionally the house of South Korea’s Shohei Ohtani. Like Ohtani, Son Heung-min has been the preferred athlete in his dwelling nation by a large margin for near a decade. Like Ohtani, Son has a nice disposition that has endeared him to folks from a variety of backgrounds. He got here throughout as honest. He was heat. He was humorous. “I’m here to win,” Son mentioned. “I will perform and definitely show you some exciting … “Are we...