BOSTON - Houston Astros manager A.J. Hinch sat on a dais in front of a sparse crowd of reporters on Sunday afternoon at Fenway Park and called Boston Red Sox slugger Mookie Betts a ticking time bomb. Betts, the presumptive American League most valuab

FRISCO, Texas - The CONCACAF Women's Championship will end Wednesday exactly as everyone knew it would when the tournament kicked off 10 days ago - with the U.S. playing Canada. Both easily won their semifinal games Sunday, with Canada blasting Panam

If you have problems with unpaid taxes and the Internal Revenue Service is involved, you have troubles enough, so no need to pile on. But if you're thinking of taking a vacation to regroup or you need to travel abroad for business, your woes may not

BERKELEY, Calif. - Defensive lineman Atonio Mafi pointed toward the throng of blue and smiled. Kicker J.J. Molson flapped his arms, urging everyone to sustain the decibel level. Tight end Caleb Wilson flung his white gloves to a fan perched above a r

BOSTON - Long before being ejected in the fifth inning for arguing a called strike, Boston Red Sox's first-year manager Alex Cora had a different problem to solve Saturday night at Fenway Park. He'd tabbed ace Chris Sale to start Game 1 of the Americ

BOSTON - Long before being ejected in the fifth inning for arguing a called strike, Boston Red Sox's first-year manager Alex Cora had a different problem to solve Saturday night at Fenway Park. He'd tabbed ace Chris Sale to start Game 1 of the Americ

Rankings for hard-cover books sold in Southern California, as reported by selected book stores: ___ Fiction 1."Lethal White," by Robert Galbraith (Mulholland Books: $29) Private eye Cormoran Strike and Robin Ellacott undertake a case that stretches f

Two days before Californians vote next month, as clocks and watches will be reset, the central question of Proposition 7 will be clear: Wouldn't it be nice if we didn't have to change the time twice a year? Maybe the end of daylight saving time on No

LOS ANGELES_Thursday night, the USC athletic department's official Twitter account attempted to set the stage for the weekend: "Coming out of the bye," @USC - Athletics said, "the Trojans have 7 games remaining this season, starting with Saturday's s

LOS ANGELES_Late in the first half of last week's game at Seattle, Los Angeles Rams receiver Brandin Cooks lay prone on the turf at CenturyLink Field after catching a pass and absorbing a violent hit. A few plays later, receiver Cooper Kupp's head hi

BOSTON - If he ever felt any apprehension joining the Houston Astros in the middle of a postseason run as he did this summer, former Angels catcher Martin Maldonado long ago dispelled it. He said on Friday evening at Fenway Park, where the Astros and

SAN JOSE, Calif. - Maybe the equilibrium of the state of California depends on it, but the Los Angeles Lakers and Golden State Warriors are typically at opposite ends of the NBA spectrum. When the Lakers had championship caliber teams, the Warriors w

About 100,000 current and former Walmart cashiers in California might soon be eligible to receive slices of a $65-million settlement that the retailer has agreed to pay after being accused of failing to provide suitable seating for workers who want i

The Los Angeles Times' NFL writer, Sam Farmer, examines this week's matchups. Lines according to Pregame.com (O/U = over/under). Last week's record 9-6 (.600); season 45-31-2 (.592). Using point spreads with the scores Farmer predicted, the record ag

LOS ANGELES_While overseeing one of the best defenses in NFL history, Wade Phillips won a Super Bowl with the Denver Broncos during the 2015 season. So the Los Angeles Rams' defensive coordinator has a soft spot for Broncos players such as linebacker

MONTREAL - Even in the most depressing times of his career, Jack Campbell reserved a space in the back of his mind for nights like this. When he put his game under a microscope in Texas and Idaho it was difficult to see much light, but Campbell never

LOS ANGELES_A teacher who recounted how a senior aide to President Donald Trump ate glue as a third-grader is in trouble with her employers. The Santa Monica-Malibu Unified School District has placed veteran teacher Nikki Fiske on "home assignment" w

On Thursday morning, Karen Pomer and I returned to Virginia Avenue in Santa Monica, a place that held many traumatic memories for her. It was on this block in October 1995 that Karen was raped in her car by a man who had abducted her at gunpoint as s

ANAHEIM, Calif. - Ryan Kesler hacked at the bouncing puck, and then he hacked some more. He hung around the net in his season debut and kept chopping until the puck popped past Antti Ranta, the first goal of the Anaheim Ducks' 3-2 shootout loss to th

President Trump may have been unaware of this, but there's a reason that smart presidents steer clear of boasting about stock market returns during their tenures: It's because the stock market has a way of biting braggarts in their most tender spots.

A federal judge in Manhattan has sentenced Fyre Festival founder Billy McFarland to six years in prison on multiple counts of fraud in connection to the event, which promised music and opulence but instead went viral over its sensational collapse. "T

WINNIPEG - The game started out with the beaming smile from a 35-year-old who celebrated his 418th career goal like it was his first. Ilya Kovalchuk's face lit up as Drew Doughty and teammates joined him in the corner for Kovalchuk's first goal with

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