The towering oak tree next to the Augusta National clubhouse creates a shady town square at the Masters, and by-invitation viewing spot for some of the most powerful, influential and famous people in the sports world and beyond. Players, caddies, coaches, agents and credentialed media stand or mill about under the tree. So do celebrities […]
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At the dawn of a new day for USC men’s basketball, a white horse awaited inside the doors of Galen Center. It was an unusual sight — the school’s live mascot, Traveler, on display for an entirely indoor news conference — but on a Friday morning intended to inject passion and pageantry, fire and hope
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A new, 16-team tournament is coming to the postseason college basketball calendar in 2025, with major conference partnerships, backing from Fox Sports and AEG and its sights set on being the top alternative to the NCAA tournament and NIT. The College Basketball Crown will unfold over a week in Las Vegas next April, featuring two
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For a moment, it were as if nothing had changed. UCLA athletic director Martin Jarmond walked onto the practice field Tuesday morning and found his new football coach in a familiar spot. “He caught me over there by the running backs,” DeShaun Foster said with a smile after the Bruins’ second spring practice and first
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When Austin Hicks was in third grade, he lost interest in playing baseball. His mother signed him up for lacrosse camp. “I found my calling,” he said. He soon joined a recreation league and remembers seeing his coach demonstrating how to put the ball into the goal with the stick. “The coach was doing a
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As soon as Dodgers third base coach Dino Ebel descended the dugout steps at the end of the first inning Thursday afternoon, Shohei Ohtani and Will Ireton were waiting for him. Ireton, Ohtani’s acting interpreter, told Ebel that the two-way star wanted to discuss what had just happened on the bases — when Ohtani was
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ALBANY, N.Y. — This isn’t just a basketball game, it’s a reckoning. Picking sides goes well beyond school allegiance. Do you prefer America’s sweethearts or its dirty debutantes? Milk and cookies or Louisiana hot sauce? The team that wants to grow women’s basketball or the one seemingly hellbent on dividing it? The coach who embraces reporters
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Caitlin Clark’s women’s college basketball career isn’t even over yet, but the Iowa star has already received a lucrative offer to play for a professional league. And it’s not the WNBA. Ice Cube confirmed Wednesday on social media that his BIG3 three-on-three men’s basketball league offered Clark $5 million to become its first female player.
Tom Harp has been coaching high school sports for so long (47 years) that no one probably remembers he used to be one of the best football coaches in the City Section. He and co-coach Darryl Stroh pulled off the monumental upset of 1987, winning a City title when Granada Hills stunned Carson, which was
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Seven weeks ago, 15-year-old Demare Dezeurn of Bishop Alemany High sprinted into the history books by setting a national freshman record of 6.72 seconds in the 60-meter dash at the California Winter Track & Field Championships at Arcadia High. On April 6, he will return to the site of that head-turning performance to compete in
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