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Sports year in review: 2020 was a year of unbridled joy and incomprehensible sorrow

The parade filled up both sides of Figueroa, hundreds of thousands of blue caps and fresh tears, Clayton Kershaw and Mookie Betts...

Bill Plaschke - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

A muffled UCLA-USC rivalry game might be best for Chip Kelly and Clay Helton

An empty Rose Bowl might be preferable to the alternative for the coaches who will walk the sidelines Saturday afternoon.It will...

Ben Bolch - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

As COVID-19 cases mount throughout the Pac-12, USC's season appears in jeopardy

Before a coronavirus outbreak led to the cancellation of USC's game against Colorado on Saturday and the second...

Ryan Kartje - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports Soccer

Diego Maradona, gifted Argentine soccer legend, dies at 60

Diego Armando Maradona, the mop-haired boy from a Buenos Aires slum who dribbled and dazzled his way to world fame, becoming...

Hector Tobar - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

How Doc Rivers and other legendary coaches influenced Tyronn Lue

Tyronn Lue was six years into his NBA career when his coach with the Orlando Magic told Lue to consider his retirement...

Andrew Greif - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

College towns are the losers this football season. 'This year is the year of survival'

During the summer, Campus Gear owner David Haghnaji bought about 200 boxes of sweaters, T-shirts and knickknacks emblazoned with Northwestern...

Abdel Jimenez - Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Sports Baseball

How the Dodgers and Rays match up position by position in the World Series

The Los Angeles Dodgers had the best regular-season record in baseball at 43-17 and are 9-3 in the postseason after...

Mike DiGiovanna - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Special Feature

Elation, confusion and guilt: Reflecting on L.A.’s last big sports weekend before COVID

Along the 26.2-mile journey from Dodger Stadium to the Santa Monica Pier, signs hinted at a coming menace.One L.A. Marathon spectator...

J. Brady McCollough - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

No Mamba moment, but Lakers got a uniform win over Heat

The game began with a guarantee.That the Miami Heat would be playing Friday without two of their best players did not dissuade...

Bill Plaschke - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Heat vs. Lakers position-by-position matchups — or is it just about LeBron?

A look at the key elements of Miami Heat-Los Angeles Lakers, with the best-of-seven NBA Finals opening Wednesday at 9 p.m. at...

Ira Winderman - Sun Sentinel (TNS)

Sports Special Feature

Heart injury after COVID-19 spurs call to screen college athletes

Doctors recommend cardiac screening tests for competitive athletes who have recovered from COVID-19 after a small study found...

Jason Gale and Angelica LaVito - Bloomberg News (TNS)

Sports Blog

Lakers, AEG to make Staples Center a voting center for L.A.

Staples Center will serve as a polling place where Los Angeles voters can cast ballots for the 2020 presidential election from...

Tania Ganguli - LA Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

Life without football will trounce America’s college towns

It’s hard to overstate the importance of football to America’s college towns.So far, two of America’s so-called...

Michael Sasso, Reade Pickert - Bloomberg News (TNS)

Sports College Football

UM keeping COVID-19 contained for now; what happens as classes begin and games are played?

Since the University of Miami football team returned to campus in mid-June, the Hurricanes have done well in keeping COVID-19...

David Furones - Sun Sentinel (TNS)

Sports Commentary

The Big Ten put the health of student-athletes first. It was the right decision

Last week the NCAA’s Big Ten Conference, of which our universities are members, announced it is canceling the fall sports...

Boris D. Lushniak, Perry N. Halkitis and Brian C. Castrucci - The Baltimore Sun (TNS)

Sports Special Feature

College athletes may have more leverage than ever — but how will they sustain that momentum

Within an hour of leaving a rapidly organized, late-night video conference call with other football players early this month...

Shannon Ryan - Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Sports Football

There’s so much more that Rams’ Jalen Ramsey can do, and so much more money to make

On a late-January evening in Miami Beach, Fla., two days before the Super Bowl, Jalen Ramsey owned the spotlight.The Rams’...

Gary Klein - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

UConn made right move by canceling its football season, setting example that should be followed

How nice to see Connecticut’s flagship university acting as a leader with sane priorities instead of falling in line as...

Mike Anthony - The Hartford Courant (TNS)

Sports Baseball

Dodgers outslug Padres to win high-scoring affair

The Los Angeles Dodgers took the field Wednesday without Mookie Betts, the star right fielder they’ve committed to paying...

Jorge Castillo - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Football

Rams’ Jalen Ramsey perturbed by repeated questions about impending contract extension

An impending contract extension expected to make him the highest-paid player at his position in NFL history is not on Jalen Ramsey’s...

Gary Klein - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Baseball

Dodgers overcome sluggish start to come back and beat Padres

The Los Angeles Dodgers entered the sixth inning Tuesday without a hit. By the end of the seventh, they had overturned a two-run...

Jack Harris - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

The lesson for TCU’s Gary Patterson (or any coach) after incident involving racial slur

A high school football coach once called to report that he’d visited a TCU practice and found it a wholly unedifying experience....

Kevin Sherrington - The Dallas Morning News (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Clippers’ Montrezl Harrell continues to work through grief away from team

Ever since Los Angeles Clippers center Montrezl Harrell left the NBA’s Disney World campus to be close to an ailing grandmother...

Andrew Greif - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Bubble life couldn’t diminish the passion of Lakers-Clippers rivalry

The bubble could not insulate the intensity.Patrick Beverley was still whining, LeBron James was still barking and, by the end...

Bill Plaschke - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Baseball

Roberts reacts to Kelly suspension as Dodgers down Dbacks

Dave Roberts knew he had a hard case to make.Between the fastball that right-hander Joe Kelly threw behind the head of the Houston...

Jack Harris - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

NBA restart preview: Team-by-team capsules of what you need to know

The 2019-20 season resumes Thursday with a pair of games, including the Lakers vs. the Clippers in the nightcap.Here is a team-by-team...

Dan Woike - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Edwin Ríos’ two-run home run in 13th inning lifts Dodgers over Astros

There was one question looming over Wednesday’s finale of a two-game series between the Los Angeles Dodgers and Houston...

Jorge Castillo - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Clippers’ Landry Shamet eases back into fold for the long haul

As NBA players reported for workouts July 1, the league’s restart plan was close to becoming reality. The first teams were...

Andrew Greif - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Lakers’ LeBron James tries to get body back in playoff rhythm

LeBron James sat on the edge of a practice court at the Coronado Springs resort ballroom with ice taped to each of his knees...

Tania Ganguli - LA Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

LeBron James and Anthony Davis are NBA’s top duo, but is that enough?

The question posed to NBA coaches, scouts and player personnel executives caused most of them to pause rather than give an immediate...

Broderick Turner - L.A. Times (TNS)