Sondheimer: Plenty to blame in Marine League football fiasco
In one of the strangest occurrences in state high school football history, the City Section’s No. 1-ranked team, Narbonne, is set to go seven weeks…
Playoffs ‘strange’ for Olivier Giroud, but he wants MLS Cup title
Olivier Giroud has played in two World Cup finals, won both a Champions League and Europa League title and scored more goals for France than…
Southern Section high school volleyball playoff scores, schedules
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALLSouthern Section playoffsThursday’s ResultsFirst Round DIVISION 3Royal d. Rosary Academy, 16-25, 25-20, 19-25, 25-22, 16-14Torrance d. Downey, 3-1DIVISION 4 Dos Pueblos d.…
Southern Section high school volleyball playoff scores and schedule
HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS VOLLEYBALLSouthern Section playoffsWednesday’s ResultsDIVISION 1 Pool A — First RoundSierra Canyon d. Temecula Valley, 25-16, 25-13, 25-23Marymount d. Mira Costa, 23-25, 25-23,…
High school flag football playoff scores and schedule
HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALLSouthern Section playoffsTuesday’s ResultsFirst RoundDIVISION 2Long Beach Poly 20, Los Altos 0Redondo Union 13, Corona 6Esperanza 27, Corona Santiago 14Newbury Park 21,…
High school girls’ volleyball: City Section playoff pairings
CITY SECTION PLAYOFFS(All matches at 4 p.m. unless noted)OPEN DIVISIONQuarterfinalsWednesday, Oct. 30#8 Marshall at #1 Taft#5 Cleveland at #4 Granada Hills#6 El Camino Real at…
Wales hammer Serbia to reach Euro play-off final in coach Kear’s illness absence
Wales captain Elliott Kear, Ant Walker, Ashton Robinson and Connor Davies also went over in a dominant first-half display.Moxon saw Mike Butt and Huw Worthington…
Orange Lutheran seeks redemption in flag football playoffs
The inaugural Southern Section flag football playoff seedings were released Saturday morning and a total of 144 teams qualified across five divisions for the single-elimination…
High school girls’ volleyball: Southern Section playoff pairings
SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFSDIVISION 1Wednesday, 6 p.m.Pool A — First RoundNo. 8 Temecula Valley (Southwestern No. 1) at No. 1 Sierra Canyon (Mission No. 1)No. 5…
High school flag football: Southern Section playoff pairings
SOUTHERN SECTION PLAYOFFSFirst Round(All games Tuesday at 5 p.m.)DIVISION 1Eastvale Roosevelt (Big VIII No. 1) at Orange Lutheran (Trinity T-No. 1)Corona del Mar (Sunset No.…
Northern Ireland: Demi Vance and Marissa Callaghan left out of squad for Euro 2025 play-off
Nottingham Forest defender Nat Johnson is named in a first squad since qualifying for Euro 2022, while Birmingham City's Ellie Mason, London City Lionesses' Connie…
Shohei Ohtani trying to rectify ‘bad habits’ amid playoff struggles
NEW YORK — Sometimes, Dodgers manager Dave Roberts said, all it takes one bad matchup, or one crafty pitcher, for a hitter to “trigger bad habits”…
Why the Dodgers have confidence in Walker Buehler vs. the Mets
The quality of pitches and the results this season have not been vintage Walker Bueher, not after a second Tommy John surgery sapped him of…
Inside the new mindset fueling the Dodgers’ playoff run
On the darkest night of their season last week, the Dodgers didn’t linger in their hushed home clubhouse.The team had just been blown out in…
USC’s playoff hopes fade in overtime loss to No. 4 Penn State
The chances had been there all afternoon for USC as it tried to put No. 4 Penn State away. But once again Lincoln Riley’s Trojans…
Nine concerns for the Dodgers facing the Mets in the NLCS
In the postgame clubhouse following Game 5 of the National League Division Series, the expletives flowed as freely as showers of beer and champagne. Actually,…
Dodgers’ Kiké Hernández renews reputation for playoff heroics
Reggie Jackson will always be “Mr. October” in the minds of baseball fans, but around these parts, that moniker could be attached to a lesser-known…
Playoff demons gone! Dodgers outlast Padres to advance to NLCS
This time, they didn’t choke.This time, they did the choking.On a glorious night amid a roiling sea of joyful blue, the Dodgers wrapped their weathered…
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snaps 65-race winless streak at Talladega
TALLADEGA — Ricky Stenhouse Jr. snapped a 65-race losing streak by winning in overtime at Talladega Superspeedway after a late crash collected more than half the…
Angel City beats Seattle to stay in NWSL playoff contention
M.A. Vignola‘s first-half goal was all Angel City FC needed to earn a 1-0 road win over the Seattle Reign at Lumen Field.Alyssa Thompson did…