An eye-watering, cough-inducing thick stench of burning plastic permeated Dodger Stadium on Sunday morning. The smoke from a Boyle Heights warehouse fire had spread into every crevice and corner of the facility, inescapable despite the masks handed out to staff. “It’s a little dark out there, little Gotham City when I was driving up,” Dodgers…

The second in an occasional series of profiles on Southern California athletes who have flourished in their post-playing careers. The expansion Los Angeles Angels were just 5 months old in September 1961 when the team called up three minor leaguers who would come to define the fledgling franchise’s early years. Jim Fregosi, a teenage shortstop,…

Jackson Olson made no secret of his desire to compete on “Dancing with the Stars.” He plays second base for the lively Savannah Bananas, so dancing is already part of his job description. He is also a social media influencer with 2.1 million TikTok followers and hasn’t been shy about using the platform to campaign…

You can say you are building a ballpark, but the anticipation accelerates when the community sees what the ballpark might look like. For the city of Ontario and its architects, the rendering of its minor league ballpark included a team name. A placeholder, that is. The new team owners did not yet own the team….

If anyone needs a definition for what grinding means in sports, sophomore Carlos Acuna’s performance on Wednesday at Cal State Northridge provided the answer. In six of seven innings, the Birmingham High pitcher saw Carson get the leadoff man on base. That’s usually something that leads to disaster. But Acuna kept coming up with key…