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Year 2 of the DeShaun Foster era began at UCLA late Saturday night with tarped seats, yawning fans and a frightening question. What if this guy really can’t coach? Having endured Foster’s numerous growing pains in a 5-7 debut season, the Bruin faithful were hopeful this second go-around would reveal him as the inspirational leader…

A look at the top performers from high school football across the Southland during Week 1. RUSHING • Moyo Odebunmi, Cleveland: Rushed for 303 yards and five touchdowns, including a 99-yard kickoff return, in win over Arleta. • Demanie Bell, Westlake: Rushed for 229 yards and two touchdowns in win over Agoura. • AJ McBean,…

Moyo Odebunmi, a junior running back at Cleveland High and native of Nigeria who had never played varsity football until this season, is quickly adjusting to the speed of the game. On Thursday night against Arleta, his first three carries resulted in touchdown runs of 68, 85 and 59 yards. He also caught a touchdown…

High school football scores from across the Southland on Friday, Aug. 29.

Frank McCourt will have to pursue his proposed Dodger Stadium gondola without legislation that would have limited potential legal challenges to the project. After The Times reported on the legislation, Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass and the City Council publicly opposed it, asking a state Assembly committee to strip the language that would have benefited…

Crespi High remains the only football team in San Fernando Valley history to win a Southern Section Division 1 championship. It happened in 1986 when a sophomore running back named Russell White lifted the Celts to victory in the championship game over St. john Bosco. Crespi coach Brad Vonnahme was hired in December 2022 after…

Slide over, Steve Garvey. It appears another former Major League Baseball slugger with Southland ties will run for political office. Mark Teixeira, who batted a robust .358 in a two-month stint with the Angels in 2008 before signing a longterm lucrative contract with the New York Yankees, announced his campaign for Texas’ 21st Congressional District…

Kansas City Chiefs fans sure are excited about the upcoming season. Fanatics, the official online sportswear retailer for the NFL, reports that sales of Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce jerseys jumped a whopping 200% on Tuesday. Clearly, fans were doing some early packing for the team’s season opener against the Chargers in São Paulo, Brazil,…

In the waning days of the 1960s, when Don Sutton was starting his Hall of Fame career and Don Drysdale was finishing his, kids all over the Southland could turn on Channel 9 and catch a block of cartoons. Speed Racer came on first, followed by Ultraman. In the lore: “A 130-foot tall red and…

Gilbert Arenas and Skip Bayless have made news lately for reasons they would rather forget. Now, they will attempt to put an entertaining spin on NFL news in a digital program launching Tuesday and airing three times a week. Arenas, a Van Nuys Grant High product who played 11 seasons in the NBA, will rebrand…