For thus lengthy, the largest query surrounding Shohei Ohtani’s future as a pitcher was easy. When, after a second profession Tommy John surgical procedure, would he lastly get again on the mound? When, after a 12 months and a half of completely hitting, would he have the ability to resume two-way duties? This previous week, that reply lastly arrived. Twice in seven days, Ohtani climbed the bump because the Dodgers’ starter, throwing one inning in every outing in his long-awaited return to...

Darrell Doucette didn’t imply any disrespect. All of the U.S. flag soccer star needed to do in an interview that went extra viral than any of his quite a few highlights was to struggle for his sport. So when he instructed TMZ in 2024 that he’s “better than Patrick Mahomes” at flag soccer for his IQ of the game, the commonly soft-spoken Doucette wasn’t making an attempt to problem any challenges. Watch the two-time world champion throw touchdowns, catch them, snap the ball and play...

For Thieb Delaporte-Richard, the Parisian cafe inside strolling distance of his house in Santa Monica was the perfect spot for an early-morning chat. Whereas standing in line, the aroma of baking croissants wafted, and the buzzing of espresso machines reverberated off the skeletal stays of an previous church that now homes the café. “This kind of feels like home, to be honest, and I think that’s the reason I like this place,” Delaporte-Richard mentioned of each the cafe and Santa Monica....

Shaquille O’Neal was a dominant pressure within the NBA, a 7-foot-1 mild large who shattered boards, racked up 4 titles and left an indelible mark as top-of-the-line facilities in basketball historical past. However since his retirement in 2011, Shaq has proven that his affect goes far past sports activities. Now, within the enterprise world, from places of work and boardrooms, Shaq is concentrated on remaining essentially the most dominant ever. Past his spectacular top, certainly one of...

Effectively earlier than followers stream into Crypto.com Enviornment for the Sparks’ rematch in opposition to the Phoenix Mercury, Sarah Ashlee Barker is on the courtroom two and a half hours early. The primary out of the tunnel, as she’s been all season, she fires off bounce photographs with a stone-faced expression. Thrown unexpectedly right into a beginning function as a rookie, Barker’s rise within the WNBA has outpaced even her personal expectations. Amid a season riddled with...

Raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement have sparked worry, protests and the cancellation of a number of public occasions all through the Los Angeles space. Amid the tense local weather, greater than 100 folks just lately gathered on the Maywood Boxing Membership to observe Julio César Chávez Jr. prepare as he prepares to face Jake Paul on June 28 on the Honda Heart in Anaheim. Chávez, visibly shocked by the turnout, confessed that he didn’t count on to see so many individuals...

Upstaging Shohei Ohtani, particularly on a day he pitches, is not any straightforward feat. However at Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, teammate Max Muncy did it twice — hitting two house runs and matching a profession excessive with seven RBIs to raise the Dodgers to 13-7 defeat of the Washington Nationals, and make Ohtani extra of the sideshow in his second pitching begin of the season. Regardless of two strikeouts over a scoreless first inning from Ohtani to start the day, Dodger...

WAILUKU, Hawaii — The Rams returned to Southern California almost a decade in the past intent on capturing the guts of NFL followers in Los Angeles. Now, with two Tremendous Bowl appearances, one championship and a nonetheless glistening-like SoFi Stadium, they’ve their eyes set on a bigger territory: the world. The Rams’ journey to Maui final week for a minicamp was their newest foray into constructing a world model. “In the journey to growing your brand globally, there’s never an...

Ben Howland deliberate it like this. After all he did. So it ought to come as no shock that earlier than his 10-year run as UCLA’s basketball coach led to 2013, Howland had schemed for his dream retirement. In 2011, he purchased a four-bedroom, ranch-style home in his native Santa Barbara near so many elderly family and friends, realizing the total transform job would take years. The Howlands moved in three years in the past, after the coach’s ultimate season at Mississippi State. The house...

Dodger Stadium is the proud proprietor of essentially the most dwelling runs in baseball this season. The long-ball pattern won’t be an anomaly. On Saturday evening, the Dodgers and Washington Nationals mixed for eight dwelling runs, essentially the most in a Dodgers recreation this season, however solely three got here off L.A. bats. Dodgers right-hander Dustin Might gave up three of these dwelling runs, all solo pictures, in a 7-3 loss to the Nationals. Andy Pages, Will Smith and...

p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> The present incarnation of Dodger possession isn’t your grandfather’s Dodgers. In lieu of personal, household possession, you’ve got one behemoth company, the Guggenheim Group, predicated on maximizing revenue potential, and never giving a twit relating to social or ethical imperatives. Doing the “right thing” would possibly threaten their backside line. In any case, of their mind-set, the enterprise of America is enterprise.”...

It’s laborious to not rely because the strikeouts go by. Clayton Kershaw’s first strikeout Friday evening got here on his “Cooperstown curveball” — a pitch that’s dazzled since its first look at Dodger Stadium on Could 25, 2008. Two strikeouts on sliders that dove into the filth like paper airplanes curbing within the wind introduced his chase to single digits. The milestone is inevitable. Kershaw will all however definitely attain the three,000-strikeout mark, etching his identify on an...

Dan Keeler, the brand new captain of the plane provider USS Abraham Lincoln, known as up his soccer coaches from his days at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame Excessive earlier this week, alongside along with his English trainer, to provide them a salute for the influence they made on an adolescent now in control of one of many Navy’s strongest ships. Share through Shut additional sharing choices Capt. Dan Keeler...

Dodgers supervisor Dave Roberts will serve a one-game suspension Friday night time in opposition to the Nationals after Thursday’s benches-clearing altercation in opposition to the San Diego Padres. Along with the suspension, Main League Baseball introduced Roberts was fined an undisclosed quantity. Padres supervisor Mike Shildt additionally was suspended one sport and fined, and Padres right-handed pitcher Robert Suarez was suspended three video games and fined for “intentionally hitting”...

Greater than 50 neighborhood and spiritual leaders from round Los Angeles signed a petition Friday that known as on the Dodgers “to take a public stand against the indiscriminate ICE raids which are causing immense terror in our communities, hurting businesses, and separating families.” “This is the moment for the Dodgers to stand with the families whom masked agents are tearing apart,” learn the letter, which was signed by non secular officers, labor leaders and immigrant-rights activists,...

Lloyd Lake, the San Diego man on the heart of the Reggie Bush additional advantages saga, scored a significant authorized victory this week over the previous USC working again after a Van Nuys decide upheld an arbitrator’s resolution to award Lake almost $1.4 million in his defamation go well with towards Bush. Lake filed the go well with towards Bush again in February 2023 — alongside along with his mother and father, Roy and Barbara Gunner — alleging that Bush publicly disparaged and...