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CARSON - It would make sense if the Galaxy looked at the final eight matches of the regular season and saw all those home games looming.
All but one of those games are at Home Depot Center. Read Full Artice...
SEATTLE - Hideki Matsui hit a two-out, two-run homer in the seventh inning, barely eluding the glove of Seattle's Ichiro Suzuki, and the Angels rallied for a 4-2 victory over the Mariners on Wednesday night. Read Full Artice...
HONOLULU - Excitement usually greets the start of a USC football season, especially when the setting is an island paradise where fantasies come true, like scoring at least 60 points in each of the Trojans' past two meetings in Hawaii.
But if No. Read Full Artice...
When Lane Kiffin was USC's offensive coordinator, he would barely speak during pre-game warm-ups and appeared uptight next to his carefree boss, Pete Carroll.
"I wasn't nervous," Kiffin said. Read Full Artice...
Dodgers pitcher Clayton Kershaw was up to the challenge of facing Philadelphia Phillies pitcher Roy Oswalt on Wednesday at Dodger Stadium.
The offense wasn't. Read Full Artice...
NEW YORK - The scene was simply scary: Victoria Azarenka, a 21-year-old on the rise in the WTA rankings, paused about a half hour into her second-round match Wednesday at the U.S. Open, then staggered, stumbled and collapsed to the court. Read Full Artice...
TUKWILA, Wash. - Nate Jaqua scored twice, Fredy Montero scored a goal and the defending U.S. Open Cup champion Seattle Sounders advanced to the title game with a 3-1 victory over Chivas USA on Wednesday night. Read Full Artice...
LOS ANGELES - UCLA is two days from kicking off its season against Kansas State, but it's still unclear if All-American Kai Forbath will do the kicking. Read Full Artice...
PHILADELPHIA - Ryan Newman is about out of time to make the Chase field.
Newman is 15th in the standings, 118 points behind Clint Bowyer for the final spot with two races left to qualify for the 12-driver, 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup championship. Read Full Artice...
WHITTIER - Rio Hondo College's men's soccer team turned in a solid effort Wednesday in the second game of its regular season, defeating Los Angeles Mission College 2-0 in a home nonconference game. Read Full Artice...
CARSON - It would make sense if the Galaxy looked at the final eight matches of the regular season and saw all those home games looming.
All but one of those games are at Home Depot Center. That looks like a sure cure for a slump. Read Full Artice...
IRWINDALE - All Derek Thorn could do was sit - anxiously - work and wait.
Last year, for the first time in 16 years, the 24-year-old from Bakersfield didn't have a regular ride. Read Full Artice...
About the only way the Pasadena City College women's volleyball team can top its 2009 season is advance to the CCCAA state championship match.
The Lancers won the South Coast Conference for the first time with a remarkable undefeated season. Read Full Artice...
WASHINGTON - The NFL players' union is looking into whether trades made by four teams this week are attempts to avoid paying money into a rookie pool, a person familiar with the situation told The Associated Press on Wednesday. Read Full Artice...
With the final month of baseball's regular season about to start, Dodgers manager Joe Torre was asked an all-too-familiar question Tuesday. Read Full Artice...
If there was a contrast to the pitching gem the Dodgers' Hiroki Kuroda turned in Monday against Philadelphia, this had to be it.
The Phillies managed to get one hit against the Dodgers in Monday's loss. Read Full Artice...
There is a process to this thing, Rick Neuheisel wants you to know, and it cannot be altered in sunshine or rain, in good times or bad, even if a bowl appearance in Year 2 means optimism and even if a host of injuries dampens that optimism. Read Full Artice...
LOS ANGELES - Frank McCourt testified Tuesday in his divorce trial that a now-contested postnuptial agreement was his wife's idea to protect her assets from his creditors. Read Full Artice...
SEATTLE - Adam Moore's broken-bat RBI single highlighted a three-run rally in the eighth inning to give the Seattle Mariners a 3-1 victory over the Angels on Tuesday night. Read Full Artice...
LOS ANGELES - If there was a contrast to the gem Dodgers pitcher Hiroki Kuroda turned in against the Philadelphia Phillies on Monday night, this had to be it.
The Phillies managed to get one hit against the Dodgers in Monday's loss. Read Full Artice...
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