Battling illness, Mookie Betts questionable for Tokyo Series games
TOKYO — Dodgers shortstop Mookie Betts arrived in Japan this week battling an illness, and is questionable to be ready for the club’s regular-season openers on Tuesday…
Dodgers’ Tokyo Series trip confirms the team’s ‘amazing’ hold on Japan
TOKYO — For much of the last two years, the Dodgers have felt like Major League Baseball’s Team of Japan.They signed Shohei Ohtani, Yoshinobu Yamamoto and Roki…
Six Nations: Wales set to give centre Joe Roberts wing role against England
Wales are considering naming Scarlets centre Joe Roberts on the wing for the Six Nations finale against England on Saturday.There are expected to be minimal…
Dave Roberts is Dodgers’ real MVP? New contract removes all doubt
Nearly a decade ago, I was tipped off that an outlier had interviewed for the vacant Dodger managerial job.It was the first time anybody had…
Dave Roberts agrees to four-year contract extension with Dodgers
PHOENIX — The season will mark one full decade for Dave Roberts as manager of the Dodgers, a decorated run in which Roberts has led the team…
Dave Roberts and Dodgers making progress on contract extension
PHOENIX — Dave Roberts and the Dodgers are making progress on a new contract, according to multiple people with knowledge of the situation not authorized to speak…
Jack Dreyer is Dodgers’ Rubik’s Cube master, and potential bullpen arm
PHOENIX — It took some four hours of work, roughly 1,200 Rubik’s Cubes, and years’ worth of knowledge with the six-side, 54-panel puzzle.Ever since high school, minor-league…
Millwall fans applaud goalkeeper Liam Roberts after red card against Crystal Palace
Millwall fans showed their support for goalkeeper Liam Roberts by holding a minute's applause during the Championship defeat by Bristol City.Roberts was sent off in…
Roki Sasaki’s first official Dodgers outing is a rousing success
PHOENIX — It all came as advertised.The 99-mph heat. The late-diving, hard-biting splitter. The overwhelming, if still raw, stuff that many expect will make him a future…
Supreme Court pauses judge’s order to spend $2 billion in foreign funds
WASHINGTON — Supreme Court Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. on Wednesday evening issued an order pausing a judge’s deadline requiring the Trump administration to send out…
Why Dodgers are considering options for Hyeseong Kim’s development
PHOENIX — Could Hyeseong Kim start the season in the minor leagues?Dodgers manager Dave Roberts took the long route to get to his answer Tuesday.When asked about…
How Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki are acclimating with the Dodgers
PHOENIX — As free-agent acquisitions go, Blake Snell and Roki Sasaki generated similar hype upon joining the Dodgers this offseason.Snell, a two-time Cy Young Award winner, was…
Tyler Glasnow has familiar goal with Dodgers: ‘Just to stay healthy’
GOODYEAR, Ariz. — In his first year with the team last season, the Dodgers got the full Tyler Glasnow experience.In the first half of the campaign, the…
Dodgers’ Tony Gonsolin shows encouraging signs in return to the mound
MESA, Ariz. — Tony Gonsolin took one small step in his return from Tommy John surgery on Friday, but at least it was in the right direction,…
Dodgers’ Roki Sasaki announces marriage; Bobby Miller feeling better
PHOENIX — The announcement came out of nowhere, so much so that Dodgers manager Dave Roberts didn’t even know about it before his daily address with reporters…
Trump’s lawyers ask Supreme Court to fast-track approval of firings
WASHINGTON — President Trump’s lawyers alerted the Supreme Court over the weekend to what they called “an unprecedented assault on the separation of powers that warrants immediate…
How Blake Snell is helping Bobby Miller in Dodgers camp
PHOENIX — Wherever Bobby Miller has gone so far during Dodgers spring training, Blake Snell has usually been nearby.Over the first week of camp at Camelback Ranch,…
Tony Roberts dead: Stage and film actor often starred in Woody Allen movies
Tony Roberts, a versatile, Tony Award-nominated theater performer at home in plays and musicals and who appeared in several Woody Allen movies — often as…
How Dave Roberts and Rich Aurilia turned bond over wine into business
A great wine is pleasurable and smooth, with a long, satisfying finish. It makes you wonder where it’s been all your life.In other words, it’s…
With a David Hockney show in Palm Springs, we visit the artist’s L.A. haunts
Artist David Hockney was a driver: after visiting and then moving to Los Angeles in 1964, he zipped around the Hollywood Hills in his red…