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Chandler Jones, San José football standout, dies at 33 in collision
Chandler “the Jet” Jones, a local football legend who set records as a wide receiver at Bishop Montgomery High School in Torrance and San José State University, died at age 33 in a freeway accident in Los Angeles on Sunday, according to the L.A. County medical examiner. Jones was hit by a Toyota RAV4 near…
Why Ben Howland remains grateful long after leaving UCLA
Ben Howland planned it like this. Of course he did. This was a coach so engrossed in details that he would grumble about the room temperature at news conferences and call a timeout when his team was in the middle of a big run just so that he could set up his defense. So it…
Why do coaches coach? Commander of USS Abraham Lincoln gives reason
Dan Keeler, the new captain of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, called up his football coaches from his days at Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High earlier this week, along with his English teacher, to give them a salute for the impact they made on a teenager now in charge of one of the Navy’s…
Fever coach eviscerates WNBA refs again after foul on Caitlin Clark, multiple ejections
While the Indiana Fever advanced to the Commissioner’s Cup title game on Tuesday with a win over the Connecticut Sun, the talking point from the game had little to do with their impending title matchup with the Minnesota Lynx. Multiple scuffles between the Fever and Sun, with the first involving Caitlin Clark, culminated in a…
Why UCLA is the team to watch at the Men’s College World Series
OMAHA, Neb. — An NCAA communications official apologized to UCLA baseball coach John Savage before he could join two of his players on the stage for Thursday’s news conference. They hadn’t printed all the nameplates for the coaches yet. The coach then sat next to star shortstop Roch Cholowsky and outfielder Dean West at the microphone, finished…
Rashawn Slater returns to Chargers minicamp amid contract talks
He wasn’t under the watchful eye of Chargers executive director of player performance Ben Herbert this offseason. He didn’t train in the team’s El Segundo practice facility. But it doesn’t mean Rashawn Slater wasn’t working this offseason. Making his first offseason appearance at the Chargers’ facility this week as the team started mandatory minicamp, Slater…
The Knicks want Jason Kidd as head coach, but Mavs hold all the cards
The New York Knicks’ head coaching search always felt like it was going to get weird after firing Tom Thibodeau following the franchise’s longest playoff run in 25 years. Whispers about Jay Wright and Jeff Van Gundy never really passed the smell test, and hiring a first-timer like former assistant Johnnie Bryant would require enormous…
Matthew Stafford, Sean McVay like idea of flag football in Olympics
Tutu Atwell played quarterback. He played receiver, and he also played on defense. Years before diminutive and speedy Atwell matured into an NFL prospect, the Rams receiver played flag football. Could anybody stop him? “Nah, nah,” Atwell said, chuckling. So Atwell, a 2021 second-round draft pick who will earn $10 million this season, said he…
Cheryl Reeve isn’t saying if she’ll continue as the Team USA coach as 2028 Olympics loom
MINNEAPOLIS — When Sue Bird was appointed as the Managing Director for the U.S. women’s national basketball team earlier this month, Cheryl Reeve reached out to congratulate her. Reeve, the 58-year-old longtime coach of the WNBA’s Minnesota Lynx, coached Team USA to its 10th Olympic gold medal last summer in Paris, France. “I was thrilled…
High school football will never be the same in era of transfers, NIL money
When Charles Dickens began his 1859 novel “A Tale of Two Cities” with the legendary line, “It was the best of times, it was the worst of times,” who knew that it would aptly describe the state of amateur football in 2025? From college athletics to high school athletics, if you’re a parent, coach, athlete…