Southern Section football playoffs get serious
The Southern Section Division 1 and 2 football playoff matchups on Friday are outstanding. Six of the eight teams in Division 1 have had two…
Sondheimer: Prep football storylines for 2024 playoffs
High school football playoffs begin Thursday and Friday in the City Section and Southern Section. Here are some story lines to follow.Unbeaten Newbury Park gets…
Prep Rally: Football playoffs primed for plenty of revenge games
Hi, and welcome to another edition of Prep Rally. My name is Eric Sondheimer. The high school football playoff pairings are out. There were no…
MLS playoffs: Vancouver stuns LAFC to set up decisive third game
VANCOUVER, Canada — Vancouver got an early goal from a red-hot Ryan Gauld and two own goals from Western Conference top seed LAFC, Yohei Takaoka posted…
Division 1 football playoffs could be year of rematches
There once was a rule you couldn’t play a league opponent in the first round of the football playoffs and everything should be done to…
Sherman Oaks CES enters 8-man football playoffs unbeaten
At the intersection of Yolanda and Victory avenues sits a rundown field with just as much dirt as green grass peeking out from above the…
Narbonne seeded No. 1 for City Section Open Division playoffs
Narbonne High, the football team that hasn’t played since Sept. 27 because four coaches in the Marine League decided to forfeit games against the Gauchos,…
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…
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…
Centennial gears up for playoffs with win over Murrieta Valley
Corona Centennial has been content to let everyone forget about its football team. A baffling loss to Santa Margarita on Aug. 30 helped fuel skepticism…
Can the young Ducks finally make NHL playoffs this season?
Three games into the NHL season, hope and optimism reign and every team believes it is a Stanley Cup contender. Even the repackaged Anaheim Ducks,…