When it comes to throwing a football, perhaps no girl in the Southland can do it with more accuracy and distance than Makena Cook. The Orange Lutheran sophomore is relishing the quarterback role and has led the Lancers’ flag team to a 14-0 start and the No. 1 ranking in the country by MaxPreps. As … Read more
“The Jeffersons” was a hit TV sitcom on CBS from 1975 to 1985, with its famous theme song, “Movin’ On Up.” There’s another hit Jeffersons show playing out on the football field at Cathedral High, where coach Vince Jefferson, younger brother and offensive coordinator Jabari Jefferson, and Jabari’s son, quarterback Jaden Jefferson, have the Phantoms … Read more
When the Downey High football team has the ball and is trailing, coach Jack Williams holds his trust in one student: 17-year-old quarterback Oscar Rios. “They left too much time,” Williams said Rios told him after Long Beach Millikan took a six-point lead with less than three minutes to go on Sept. 6. And when … Read more
BOSTON – Boston’s Triston Casas homered in his first three at-bats on Sunday in the opener of a split doubleheader against the Minnesota Twins. The 24-year-old Casas has driven in seven runs. The Red Sox lead the Twins 8-1 in the seventh inning. The record for homers in a game is four, and its been … Read more
ARLINGTON, Texas – Max Scherzer is going home and into free agency after what the three-time Cy Young Award winner considers the most frustrating of his 17 seasons in the big leagues. Still at age 40, and finishing a year with the Texas Rangers in which he made his fewest starts since being a rookie, … Read more
At midseason in high school football, with some teams having played five of their scheduled 10 regular-season games, the most obvious trend involves linebackers. They form what has become the strongest position group in Southern California football. It starts with Mater Dei’s duo of Nasir Wyatt (Oregon commit) and Abduall Sanders (Alabama) and continues with … Read more
MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. – Eugene “Mercury” Morris, who starred for the unbeaten 1972 Miami Dolphins as part of a star-studded backfield and helped the team win two Super Bowl titles, has died, the team said Sunday. Morris, a three-time Pro Bowl selection, was 77. In a statement, his family said his “talent and passion left … Read more
Tennessee moved up to No. 5 in The Associated Press college football poll Sunday as the Volunteers continued to surge up the rankings, and No. 25 Boise State returned to the AP Top 25 for the first time in four years. Texas was No. 1 for the second straight week, receiving 44 of 62 first-place … Read more
VIRGINIA WATER – Billy Horschel became the first American golfer to win the BMW PGA Championship twice when he holed a brilliant eagle to beat four-time major winner Rory McIlroy in a playoff on Sunday. Horschel showed no sign of nerves when he sank a long putt from near the edge of the green on … Read more
PA Wire Nottingham Forest’s Morgan Gibbs-White, second right, protests after being shown a red card by referee Robert Jones, during the English Premier League soccer match between Brighton and Nottingham Forest, at the American Express Stadium, in Brighton and Hove, England, Sunday, Sept. 22, 2024. (Gareth Fuller/PA via AP) Brighton manager Fabian Hurzeler and Nottingham … Read more