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CIF City and Southern Section football scores from across the Southland on Friday, Sept. 26.

Shane Tamura, the gunman who killed four people and himself in a New York City office building in July, had CTE, a degenerative brain disease linked to head injuries sustained in football and other contact sports. The New York medical examiner “found unambiguous diagnostic evidence of Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, also known as CTE, in the…

Jackson Reach of Mira Costa High is headed to Clemson on a football scholarship. He’s a long snapper. “It’s crazy,” he said. You know that saying that Dad knows best? Well, it was Reach’s father who suggested he start practicing as a long snapper several years ago to make himself more versatile since he also…

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS CITY SECTION East College Prep 19, Hollywood 6 East Valley 36, AMIT 0 Granada Hills Kennedy 12, Sylmar 6 L.A. Wilson 25, Bernstein 0 L.A. Wilson 28, Sotomayor 0 Panorama 32, Granada Hills Kennedy 7 Simon Tech 7, Brio College Prep 0 Sun Valley Poly 26, Grant 8 Sun Valley Poly 13, Grant…

During his commissioner’s address on Thursday in Long Beach at the Southern Section Council meeting, Mike West said his office has become “very adept at identifying” fraudulent transfer information submitted by parents and schools in a message explaining why there has been an increase in declaring athletes ineligible for a two-year period for violation of…

Sam Farmer makes his picks and predictions for NFL Week 4, with the Ravens defeating the Chiefs, the Rams beating the Colts and the Eagles going to 4-0.

No reset necessary. No reason to make more of some rare misfires. After 16-plus seasons, Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford knows how to put less-than-efficient performances behind. So the passes he missed in last Sunday’s defeat by the Philadelphia Eagles are not cause for concern as he prepares for Sunday’s game against the unbeaten Indianapolis Colts…

Cleveland Guardians designated hitter David Fry was hit in the face by a 99-mph fastball thrown Tuesday by Detroit Tigers pitcher Tarik Skubal at Ohio’s Progressive Field. During a sixth-inning at-bat, Fry was attempting to bunt when the ball missed the bat completely and hit him in the nose and mouth area. He fell to…

High school girls’ flag football results for Monday and Tuesday.

The successor to Bob Costas as play-by-play voice on TNT’s Major League Baseball postseason games will be the same broadcaster who replaced the legendary Bob Miller in 2017 after Miller retired following a 44-year Hall of Fame career with the Los Angeles Kings of the NHL. Yes, Alex Faust has experience replacing a titan of…