DALLAS — The Lakers are as shorthanded as they can be, their dynamic starting backcourt of Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out with injuries at a pivotal time of the season. They’re the offensive engines for a Lakers team battling for the No. 3 playoff seeding in a competitive Western Conference. The 41-year-old LeBron James is now…
A look at The Times’ top 25 high school baseball rankings for the Southland after the seventh week of the season: Rk. School (Rec.); Comment; ranking last week 1. ST. JOHN BOSCO (11-3): Pitcher Julian Garcia showed he’s healthy and in dominant form; 2 2. ORANGE LUTHERAN (8-3): Senior catcher Brady Murrietta is tough, strong…
Satisfied is perhaps the best word to describe how Norco High pitcher Coral Williams felt after tossing a three-hit shutout in the Gold Bracket championship game of the Michelle Carew Softball Classic. Williams recorded five strikeouts, Angelina Gonzales hit a pair of home runs and the Cougars blanked Fullerton 7-0 to capture their sixth tournament…
PHOENIX — If Dawn Staley and South Carolina beat UCLA in the national title game Sunday, she would become the fourth coach to win four championships. UCLA coach Cori Close is looking for her first. After 15 years of building the Bruins to a program that could get to the Final Four, and a year later, the…
It was Brady Murrietta’s silence rounding the bases, then his Darth Vader-like stare directed at St. John Bosco pitcher Jack Champlin after touching third base on Thursday and slowly jogging toward home plate that sent a clear message: Don’t poke the bear. His two-run home run in the bottom of the sixth inning broke a…
OKLAHOMA CITY — In the aftermath of their worst loss of the season, few Lakers players or coaches had spoken to Luka Doncic after he limped off the court in the third quarter Thursday against the Oklahoma City Thunder. Austin Reaves didn’t know the extent of Doncic’s hamstring injury, but he knew how the Lakers superstar would…
OKLAHOMA CITY — The score wasn’t the only thing that made this the Lakers’ worst loss of the season. Even more concerning than the Lakers’ 139-96 blowout loss to the Oklahoma City Thunder on Thursday was watching superstar guard Luka Doncic hobble off the court with a left hamstring injury in the third quarter. Doncic went straight…
Hip-hop star J. Cole is taking his basketball dreams overseas — again. When ESPN reported Wednesday that the two-time Grammy winner has signed to play for the Nanjing Monkey Kings in the Chinese Basketball Assn., it might have sounded like an April Fool’s Day prank. But it’s no joke. Cole’s longtime manager and business partner…
Every football program needs a Jessie Christensen on their staff. She’s the MacGyver of St. John Bosco High‘s program. Before colleges had general managers or people in charge of operations, St. John Bosco hired Christensen in 2013 to be director of football operations. That means everything and anything is within her purview, from travel arrangements…
Umpire C.B. Bucknor’s difficult week continued on Wednesday when he left a game between the Tampa Bay Rays and Milwaukee Brewers after a foul ball hit him flush in the face mask. Tampa Bay’s Nick Fortes fouled a 100-mph fastball from Milwaukee’s Jacob Misiorowski straight back. The ball struck Bucknor, who immediately turned and dropped…
