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Dodgers fans pay up, in significant numbers and in significant amounts, to watch their team on SportsNet LA: Home team, home channel. Not on Friday, though, when Clayton Kershaw takes the mound for what might well be the final time at Dodger Stadium. The exclusive broadcast rights for the game belong to Apple TV+, as…

WEDNESDAY’S RESULTS CITY SECTION Annenberg 20, Rise Kohyang 6 Crenshaw 18, Bernstein 13 New Designs University Park 26, Locke 0 Orthopaedic 12, Collins Family 6 South East 34, Maywood Academy 6 South East 33, Marquez 0 South Gate 18, LA Jordan 0 Sotomayor 6, Huntington Park 0 Stern 38, Camino Nuevo 0 Sun Valley Magnet…

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….

It’s Viva Las Vegas for the top girls volleyball teams in Southern California. They’ll be in Las Vegas this weekend for the 30th Durango Classic that will be played at four sites beginning Friday. Seven of MaxPreps’ top 10 teams nationally are scheduled to compete, including Sierra Canyon, Mater Dei, Redondo Union, Marymount and Mira…

Dave Roberts started out of the dugout with a walk. Once Blake Snell caught his gaze, it turned into a trot. With two out in the seventh inning, and Snell trying to put the finishing touches on his best performance in a Dodgers uniform, Roberts appeared to be coming to the mound after a pair…

LAS VEGAS — A couple of years ago, while covering Saúl “Canelo” Álvarez’s return to Guadalajara, I visited the gym where he began a brilliant two-decade career that made him the undisputed super middleweight champion and champion in four different divisions. There, Chepo Reynoso, the trainer who took him in at age 14, spoke to me about…

Dave Roberts described it as an easy decision. If only it hadn’t come with such disastrous consequences. In the middle of the fifth inning Tuesday night, Shohei Ohtani returned to the Dodgers’ dugout in the midst of his best pitching performance all season.. Waiting for him at the top step was manager Dave Roberts, wanting…

The Fresno State football players wanted to be heard after so much frustration, so much uncertainty. A season that had started with their coach leaving the job because of health problems, only to deteriorate further with four losses in six games during a maddening midseason stretch, was now back firmly on the upswing. Their temporary…

Those who deliver the news can’t always break the news, even when it concerns themselves. Molly Qerim discovered that firsthand when it was reported that she would be leaving the ESPN morning staple “First Take” after serving as host since 2015. She acknowledged as much Tuesday, writing on Instagram, “Now that the news came out…

Philadelphia came to Los Angeles having already clinched a playoff berth. With Monday’s 6–5 extra-inning win over the Dodgers they added a division title to that collection, one they celebrated in the center of the Dodger Stadium infield, then with champagne in the tiny visitors’ clubhouse. The Dodgers are zeroing in on a playoff berth…