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DEL MAR — The only thing missing from Bob Baffert’s big weekend was Bob Baffert. While the Hall of Fame trainer was away in Kentucky, scouting the next wave of juvenile talent at the Keeneland Yearling Sales, 1-9 favorite Brant finished a length ahead of Desert Gate to give Baffert a 1-2 finish in the Del Mar Futurity on the 31st and final day of Del Mar’s 86th summer meeting. It’s good to be King. Brant’s win was Baffert’s fifth straight in the Futurity and 19th in the 30 editions of the 7-furlong Del Mar championship for 2-year-olds since Baffert…
Pierce Clarkson, a redshirt sophomore backup quarterback on the UCLA football team, was arrested Friday afternoon on unspecified felony charges, according to Los Angeles Sheriff’s Department records Clarkson, who transferred to UCLA from Ole Miss in the spring after spending his previous two seasons at Louisville, was indefinitely suspended from the football team following his arrest. “We are aware of the charges against Pierce Clarkson,” a UCLA Athletics spokesperson said in a statement to the Southern California News Group on Sunday evening. “He has been indefinitely suspended from all team activity pending the outcome of the legal process. This situation will…
INGLEWOOD — As the Texans’ plane descended upon Los Angeles ahead of their Week 1 game against the Rams, C.J. Stroud’s eyes gazed downward. Landmarks that signified his childhood, fields he competed at throughout high school, caught his eye, he said. Stroud is forever indebted to the area that raised him. “I love where I’m from,” the Rancho Cucamonga native said in the hollows of SoFi Stadium after his first NFL game in LA. “California has really backed me in a lot of ways.” For better or worse, Stroud’s local upbringing shaped him into a jaded 23-year-old, a third-year quarterback…
Kane Richardson passed for 148 yards and a touchdown and added 48 yards and another score on the ground as San Bernardino Valley College thumped LA Valley College 33-0 on Saturday in a nonconference game in Valley Glen. The result was the program’s first win since Sept. 9, 2023. The Wolverines had lost 11 straight games on the field and also forfeited the final eight games of the 2024 season. Jonathan Coar ran for 75 yards and a touchdown on 13 carries for SBVC (1-1). The Wolverines host Compton College in a nonconference game Saturday at 1 p.m. RCC FALLS…
Rams quarterback Matthew Stafford throws down field to receiver Puka Nacua during the first half at SoFi Stadium in Inglewood on Sunday, Sep. 7, 2025. The Los Angeles Rams host the visiting Houston Texans in a season opening National Football League (NFL) game. (Photo by Will Lester, Inland Valley Daily Bulletin/SCNG) INGLEWOOD — If there were really any doubts that Matthew Stafford would be ready for the Rams’ opening day, I suspect he didn’t share them. For much of training camp and the preseason, Stafford’s back was the most important topic, and when he was supposed to begin throwing but…
INGLEWOOD — Puka Nacua spun off of one hit that dislodged his chin strap, but, still on his feet, turned upfield. That’s when Texans linebacker Henry To’oTo’o’s helmet crashed into the Rams receiver’s, and Nacua felt hot blood trickling down his face. “Tried to come back in here [to the locker room] and make sure I could count to 10 on my hands,” Nacua said after the game. “Coming back in here, I felt like my face was on my facemask and I was standing up and it was all the way down here to the left.” And yet, as…
TEMECULA — A man was killed after being assaulted in the roadway and then being struck by a vehicle south of Temecula, the Riverside County Sheriff’s Department announced Sunday. A deputy from the Southwest Sheriff’s Station was conducting a routine patrol of Pechanga Parkway and Wolf Valley Road at 11:50 p.m. Saturday when he noticed an unresponsive man in the roadway on Pechanga Parkway. The deputy rendered medical aid to the man, who had traumatic injuries that appeared consistent with being struck by a vehicle. Additional deputies and medical personnel responded and performed life-saving measures, but the man succumbed to…
INGLEWOOD — On Wednesday, Nate Landman called his shot. The linebacker, whom the Rams signed as a free agent this spring, told his teammates he was going to get the first forced fumble of the season. It was a move they had become deeply familiar with, watching him punch balls out all of training camp. But they could not have predicted the magnitude of the moment Sunday when Landman’s promise would come true. Leading the Houston Texans by five in their season opener on Sunday, the Rams found themselves on their heels. The Texans were driving, at the Rams 25…
NORWALK — An investigation was underway today after an 86-year-old man attacked by two Rottweiler dogs while on a walk in a Norwalk neighborhood died in a hospital. The man was walking about 6:45 a.m. Saturday in a neighborhood on 166th Street at Graystone Avenue when the two dogs attacked him, causing severe bleeding from an artery in his left arm, Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department homicide Lieutenant Steve DeJong told City News Service. The dogs were unleashed. Two passersby fought off the dogs and tried to render aid to the injured man, DeJong said. Los Angeles County Fire Department…
LOS ANGELES — With the season on the line, the Sparks started the fourth quarter on a 16-0 run to secure a 91-77 victory over the Dallas Wings at Crypto.com Arena Sunday, to avoid being eliminated from playoff contention for a fifth straight season. The Sparks, who had six players in double figures in the scoring column, improved to 20-22 and were led by guard Julie Allemand with a career-high 21 points and five steals. Dearica Hamby scored 15 points. Rae Burrell scored 13 points in the fourth quarter. Azurá Stevens had a double-double with 13 points and 11 rebounds,…