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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)

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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)

Sports Baseball

Dodgers struggle to reach home again in series-splitting loss to Giants

The Los Angeles Dodgers spent the last three-plus weeks adjusting to the oddities Major League Baseball deemed necessary to stage...

Jorge Castillo - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

LeBron James and Lakers get taste of new NBA in loss to Dallas

LeBron James grabbed the rebound and raced up the court, past every member of the Dallas Mavericks. He elevated to the right...

Tania Ganguli - LA Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

Teddy Greenstein: College football is ‘hanging by a thread.’

This was the day my smart-aleck colleagues and I would have asked Jim Harbaugh about the progress Michigan has made against Ohio...

Teddy Greenstein - Chicago Tribune (TNS)

Sports Baseball

Dodgers nearing a long-term extension with outfielder Mookie Betts

The Dodgers and Mookie Betts are nearing a contract extension Wednesday that could keep Betts in Los Angeles for another decade,...

Jorge Castillo - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports Basketball

Time off has been a big help to Clippers’ Joakim Noah

When the Los Angeles Clippers signed veteran center Joakim Noah in March, there was an acknowledgment that the influence of the...

Andrew Greif - L.A. Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

College Football Season Delayed Until Spring of '21?

COVID Cases Climbing Puts Season at RiskRumors are circulating that college students living in off-campus housing outside the...

Campus Circle Staff

Sports Football

Mahomes’ new deal is a record, and the Chiefs have been right about him at every step

Twelve years ago, Chiefs coach Herm Edwards was deciding between Brodie Croyle, Damon Huard and Tyler Thigpen as his quarterback.Twelve...

Sam Mellinger - The Kansas City Star (TNS)

Sports Basketball

James Harden returns as NBA looks at creating home-court advantage

James Harden’s quarantine beard is, well, his normal beard.The Houston Rockets guard, one of the NBA’s toughest defensive...

Dan Woike - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports College Basketball

Stan Johnson hopes to put LMU basketball on map with a long stay in L.A.

Stan Johnson was a child when he faced the wrong end of a rifle during political upheaval that tore apart his homeland, the West...

Helene Elliott - Los Angeles Times (TNS)

Sports College Football

Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby says ‘it’s too early’ to make call on fall sports season

The Big 12 will continue to assess COVID-19 developments before making a call on the fall sports season, Commissioner Bob Bowlsby...

Chuck Carlton - The Dallas Morning News (TNS)