As college football barrels toward a 24-team playoff, who’s paying for this, and how much?
The Big Ten is pushing to double the size of the CFP, but concerns remain about how much networks will pay for games involving less popular teams and a larger…
Orange County scores and player stats for Wednesday, May 20
Scores and stats from Orange County games on Wednesday, May 20
Dodgers’ Tommy Edman reaching final stages of recovery from ankle surgery
Edman has been taking batting practice with the team, fielding ground balls and Wednesday he ran the bases. The veteran utility man should be ready to start a minor-league rehabilitation…
Shohei Ohtani leads Dodgers past Padres with leadoff homer, 5 scoreless innings
Only one player in major-league history has hit a leadoff home run in a game he started as pitcher – and Ohtani has done it twice. The Dodgers take two…
Angels manager Kurt Suzuki expresses confidence in Reid Detmers as a starter
Suzuki says Detmers’ peripheral numbers suggest that he’s pitched better than his results so far. Detmers has a 5.07 ERA, but stats that measure the quality of contact he’s allowed…
San Clemente softball rallies to beat Huntington Beach in the quarterfinals
San Clemente overcomes a five-run deficit in the fifth, with the key blow a three-run homer from Peyton Stokes in the CIF-SS Division 2 playoffs.
JSerra softball defeats Pacifica with one hit in the Division 1 quarterfinals
Annabel Raftery’s leadoff home run in the first and Liliana Escobar’s pitching carry JSerra to victory and a spot in the semifinals.
La Habra softball outslugs Orange Lutheran in CIF Division 1 quarterfinals
Georgia Rickenbacker goes 3 for 4 with a home run and Samantha Cervantes earns the victory in relief to lead the Highlanders.
Owner of ‘Peanuts’ music sues 3 companies and US government alleging illegal use of its catchy tunes
The defendants include the U.S. Department of the Interior.
Girl hit with metal bottle at Reseda high school died of naturally caused hemorrhage, medical examiner says
According to the medical examiner, her cause of death was a "spontaneously ruptured cerebellar arteriovenous malformation" — ruptured blood vessels from a congenital abnormality — and the death was deemed…