Author name: Irene Church

It was hard knocks meets Hollywood. It was football grit bathed in California dreaming. It was perfect, is what it was, a Chargers victory march streaking across a cold February drizzle like a startling fresh rainbow. Jim Harbaugh showed up Thursday at Inglewood’s YouTube Theatre for his official introduction as the new Chargers head coach, […]

This much is certain, 2024 edition: Death, taxes, and the Dodgers leading the major leagues in attendance. The last time the Dodgers failed to lead the majors, they started the season in bankruptcy court. That was a dozen years ago. For all the glorious summers since then, and for all the not-so-glorious traffic jams in

DJ Rodman had the type of emphatic block that would typically be met with loud cheers in front of a home crowd. Instead, the half-full Galen Center crowd sat silent with USC on the way to another loss. In this season, USC hasn’t given its fans much to cheer about. Once ranked among the top

No, he’s not Tyger Campbell. He doesn’t need to be. His name is Dylan Andrews, and he’s starting to fully unleash his own array of talents. Criticized for much of the season for not making shots, not leading his team and not even being a real point guard, Andrews is showing all the ways he

The Baseline League title in high school basketball came down to a championship game Thursday night between Etiwanda and host Damien. And the difference turned out to be 7-foot center Nate Garcia of Damien. He scored 28 points to help the Spartans (24-4, 9-1) defeat Etiwanda 61-49 to win the Baseline League title. Etiwanda dropped

BOSTON —  If you walked into the TD Garden on Thursday, you wouldn’t expect to see Rui Hachimura tongue-wagging, Austin Reaves confidently firing from 40 feet, Jaxson Hayes owning the area above the rim and D’Angelo Russell flying around on both sides of the court. Because if you hadn’t already heard that the Lakers would be

More often than not, the Spanos family is described in unflattering terms. Cheap. Timid. Without vision. At the news conference introducing him as the Chargers’ new coach, Jim Harbaugh offered an entirely different portrayal of the family that owns the team. Harbaugh spoke of owner Dean Spanos’ hunger for victory. “You’re about it,” Harbaugh said.

Without warning, the lights went down inside YouTube Theater. The main feature was about to begin, the promise of a happier future about to be delivered. In a brief video that touched on the stars and high points of their history, from the days of Air Coryell and Dan Fouts and LaDainian Tomlinson to the

Sean McVay is breaking from tradition. For the first time since he became the Rams’ coach in 2017, McVay is staying in house and promoting a defensive coordinator from within. McVay is hiring longtime assistant Chris Shula to succeed Raheem Morris, a person with knowledge of the situation said Thursday. Shula, 37, this past season