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Matthew Stafford didn’t participate in the Rams’ joint practice with the New Orleans Saints on Thursday in Carson, but the team hopes he can take meaningful steps this weekend toward a return from injury. Stafford, who has missed the entirety of training camp because of an aggravated disc in his back, is scheduled to work…

As LeBron James enters his record-setting 23rd NBA season and superstar Luka Doncic returns for his first full season in L.A., the Lakers are tied with the NBA champion Oklahoma City Thunder, the Golden State Warriors and the New York Knicks for the most nationally televised games in the league. The NBA announced the regular…

The Pierce College cross-country course in Woodland Hills, used by thousands of runners since the 1960s, has been closed and will be unavailable to host the City Section finals and other high school meets this fall. At a meeting last week attended by officials from the City Section and West Valley Eagles youth organization, Pierce…

James Harden, Kawhi Leonard, Ivica Zubac and Chris Paul are poised to lead the Clippers through a 2025-26 schedule that opens on the road but closes with four of its final six games at the Intuit Dome. 2025-26 Clippers schedule OCTOBER 22: at Utah, 6; 24: vs. Phoenix, 7:30; 26: vs. Portland, 6; 28: at…

The announcement could not have been more unfortunately timed. On the morning after the Dodgers had been swept by the Angels and fallen out of first place in the National League West for the first time in 108 days, the email to media members started this way: “Ever wonder how a player like Mookie Betts…

More than 40 years after L.A. produced the most financially successful Olympic Games in history, the 2028 Olympics will feature a new advertising revenue path for the Games. In an Olympic first, venues used for the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics will be allowed to have corporate sponsor names after LA28 and the International Olympic Committee…

Shohei Ohtani’s name is in headlines again. And, for the second time in two years, not for baseball reasons. News emerged this week that Ohtani, the Dodgers’ two-way star and reigning National League MVP, was being sued along with his agent in Hawaii by a real estate investor and broker. The claim: That Ohtani and…

Local officials and advocates for the homeless are fearful that President Trump will take draconian action against homeless people, including pushing them into detention camps, when Los Angeles hosts the Olympic Games in 2028. In recent weeks, Trump has appointed himself head of an Olympics task force and has seized control of local policing in…

Kwazi Gilmer, yearning to do something no other UCLA wide receiver has managed, unveiled a new play after practice Wednesday. Call it the go-for-it route. “I want to go win the Biletnikoff,” Gilmer announced, “so I’m coming for all the receivers out there.” Those are bold words for someone from a program whose closest association…

Third in a series of stories profiling top high school football players by position. Today, Madden Williams, St. John Bosco receiver. If blockers are a quarterback’s best friends, what are receivers? “It’s our job to make the quarterback look good,” St. John Bosco’s Madden Williams said. Few teams in Southern California start the 2025 season…