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UCLA’s defense, the biggest unknown on the team a year ago, is facing even more questions. A slew of players moved on to the NFL. No full-time starters return. Success will depend on several players with promising pedigrees but limited college production becoming playmakers. As he stepped off a team bus Wednesday afternoon in Costa…

Los Angeles just can’t get a break. The latest embarrassment is LA28 chair Casey Wasserman, the man tasked with making sure the 2028 Summer Olympics are a massive success. At a news conference this week announcing that President Trump will head a federal Olympics task force, Wasserman offered L.A. a giant whoopie cushion. With Wasserman…

Only one player in the last 110 years has tried to do what the Dodgers’ Shohei Ohtani is doing this season, which is to pitch and hit successfully at the big-league level. Babe Ruth twice won more than 20 games and led the American League in ERA and starts before the Red Sox, then the…

Surfer dudes. Football dudes. That’s the best way to describe identical twins Liam and Luke Meeker, football players at Mira Costa High. Liam is the quarterback and Luke the receiver. They’ve been teaming up their whole life. “Twin telepathy,” they joke. Their father, George, who was a member of Edison’s surf team during his high…

Already the home of Shohei Ohtani, Los Angeles is now also the home of South Korea’s Shohei Ohtani. Like Ohtani, Son Heung-min has been the most popular athlete in his home country by a wide margin for close to a decade. Like Ohtani, Son has a pleasant disposition that has endeared him to people from…

A woman will umpire a major league game for the first time Saturday when Jen Pawol works the bases during Saturday’s doubleheader between the Atlanta Braves and visiting Miami Marlins at Truist Park. For Dodgers manager Dave Roberts, that announcement Wednesday brought one response: It’s about time. “That’s great. I’ll be watching,” he said of…

A former Miami Heat security officer has been accused in federal court of stealing millions of dollars worth of team memorabilia — including a game-worn LeBron James jersey from the 2013 NBA Finals — and selling them to online brokers. Appearing Wednesday at U.S. Superior Court for the Southern District of Florida, retired Miami police…

Panorama High‘s flag football team won the Valley Mission League last season, and there’s even more excitement when the season begins this month because the passing duo of quarterback Yadhira Hermenegildo and receiver Livier Andrade returns. Hermenegildo passed for 47 touchdowns as a sophomore. Andrade caught 25 touchdowns. Panorama opens its season Aug. 20 at…

Lourdes Gurriel Jr. took his time. The Arizona Diamondbacks designated hitter didn’t swing at the first two pitches he saw from San Diego Padres reliever Mason Miller — a fastball that registered at 102 miles per hour for a ball and an 89-mph slider — with two outs in the bottom of the eighth inning…

Parking at Petco Park, home of the San Diego Padres, is a distinctly different experience than parking at Dodger Stadium. It’s about to be similar, however, when it comes to price. City crews installed about 400 signs in downtown San Diego last week to let drivers know about new street parking-meter rates taking effect Sept….