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Michael Conforto shows signs of life in Dodgers’ win over Rockies
DENVER — When Major League Baseball’s trade deadline arrives next month, the Dodgers will almost certainly be on the lookout for help in the bullpen. If their injury-plagued rotation takes any more hits, they might reluctantly have to explore the starting pitching market, as well. But, when discussing the team’s deadline plans recently with The Times’ Bill…
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…
OKC’s Alex Caruso jokes about second NBA ring: ‘Now I got a real one’
Alex Caruso is an NBA champion! Of course, Caruso already had a ring before he and the Oklahoma City Thunder closed out the Indiana Pacers in Game 7 of the NBA Finals on Sunday night. His first one came with the Lakers after the slightly shortened 2020 season and a postseason played entirely in the…
3 WNBA teams have surpassed expectations this season (so far)
It’s no shock that last year’s WNBA Finals teams — the Minnesota Lynx and New York Liberty — are once again having dominant seasons. At 12-1, the Lynx have been the best team in the league, and the Liberty (10-3) are shortly behind them. The Phoenix Mercury (11-4), who acquired Alyssa Thomas and Satou Sabally,…
An inside look at how 3 Sparks rookies are adapting to WNBA life
Well before fans stream into Crypto.com Arena for the Sparks’ rematch against the Phoenix Mercury, Sarah Ashlee Barker is on the court two and a half hours early. The first out of the tunnel, as she’s been all season, she fires off jump shots with a stone-faced expression. Thrown unexpectedly into a starting role as…
Max Muncy drives in seven runs off two homers in Dodgers’ win
Upstaging Shohei Ohtani, especially on a day he pitches, is no easy feat. But at Dodger Stadium on Sunday afternoon, teammate Max Muncy did it twice — hitting two home runs and matching a career high with seven RBIs to lift the Dodgers to a 13-7 defeat of the Washington Nationals, and make Ohtani more…
Dodgers pitchers give up five home runs in loss to Nationals
Dodger Stadium is the proud owner of the most home runs in baseball this season. The long-ball trend might not be an anomaly. On Saturday night, the Dodgers and Washington Nationals combined for eight home runs, the most in a Dodgers game this season, but only three came off L.A. bats. Dodgers right-hander Dustin May…
Former NBA great Vlade Divac breaks hip in motorcycle accident
Basketball Hall of Famer and former Lakers fan favorite Vlade Divac broke his hip Thursday when he fell from his motorcycle while riding near the Adriatic Sea coast in Montenegro. On Friday, a spokesperson for a hospital in Risan said the 57-year-old Serbian basketball legend now has an artificial hip after emergency surgery. “During the…
Four things to know about Mark Walter’s Dodgers ownership
p]:text-cms-story-body-color-text clearfix”> When Walter’s Guggenheim Baseball group bought the Dodgers in 2012, the once-proud franchise was mired in embarrassment and mediocrity. Under Frank McCourt’s ownership, the team was in bankruptcy. It had not fielded a top-10 MLB payroll three years running. And it had only won the National League West three times since the turn…
NFL’s 15 most interesting figures for the 2025 season
With training camps starting in the NFL in just over a month, let’s take a look at 15 figures in the league that are in the most interesting situations to monitor going in the 2025 season, presented in alphabetical order: Josh Allen: The Buffalo Bills’ quarterback just turned 29 and he is clearly early in…