Take a look at the big plays and exciting moments from the CIF-SS and L.A. City playoff games Friday.

CLEVELAND (AP) The floor and ball both looked different. Not the Cleveland Cavaliers, who remained unchanged and unblemished.They continued their perfect start, improving to 14-0 on Friday night with a 144-126 win over the Ch...

ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) The Philadelphia 76ers have been waiting 3 1/2 weeks to get a full 33 minutes out of Joel Embiid.They finally got it Friday night, but it came in a 98-86 loss to the Orlando Magic that dropped the 76ers to 2-10.Usually with me it takes two or three or four games to get to myself. Today was a big step in the right direction, Embiid said after finis...

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The 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles may still be three years away, but the International Olympic Committee spent three days in the city this week. They visited LA28 venues and assessed the citys preparedness for the event.  

A Los Angeles man with a lengthy criminal record, including ties to Florida, has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison for attempting to smuggle 46 kilograms of methamphetamine through Charlotte Douglas International Airport. Officials announced the sentencing of 47-year-old Rashad Jamal Blanchard, a member of the Inglewood Family Gangster Bloods, on Friday. Blanchards ...

A supercut aired on CNN showed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) flip-flopping on calls for the House Ethics Committee to release a report about D...

A supercut aired on CNN showed Speaker of the House Mike Johnson (R-LA) flip-flopping on calls for the House Ethics Committee to release a report about D...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) When All-America center Zach Edey left for the NBA after sweeping the last two national player of the year awards, some wondered how Purdue would cope.Turns out, the plan post-Edey doesnt appear to have changed much. It still centers around a hefty dose of feeding the ball into the middle as Alabama coach Nate Oats learned again the hard way Frida...

OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 28 points and the Oklahoma City Thunder beat the short-handed Phoenix Suns 99-83 on Friday night in an NBA Cup game.Lu Dort had 15 points and nine rebounds, Jalen Williams added 14 points and eight rebounds and Isaiah Joe scored 11 points to help Oklahoma City improve to 11-2.Oklahoma City led by 25 points in the second ha...

ATLANTA (AP) Silas Demary Jr. scored 14 of his 18 points in the second half, Asa Newell had 14 points and Georgia beat Georgia Tech 77-69 on Friday night in the 200th series meeting that dates to 1906. Georgia beat Georgia Tech for the seventh time in the last nine meetings. The teams combined to score 46 points in the first half before each scored 50 after halftime. Newell made Georgias...

HOUSTON (AP) Jabari Smith Jr. had a season-high 28 points with five 3-pointers and the Houston Rockets never trailed in a 125-104 rout of the Los Angeles Clippers on Friday night in their NBA Cup opener.It was Houstons season-high fourth straight victory and the teams second straight over the Clippers after getting a

A beloved Los Angeles Dodgers veteran underwent offseason surgery to repair his right shoulder and is expected to return in the second half of the 2025 season.

CLEVELAND (AP) Donovan Mitchell scored a season-high 37 points, Darius Garland had 29 and the Cleveland Cavaliers continued one of the best starts in league history, improving to 14-0 with a 144-126 win over the Chicago Bulls on Friday night in an NBA Cup game.The Cavs are the sixth team to go 14-0 and first since the Golden State Warriors opened 24-0 in 2015-16.Cleveland...

ATLANTA (AP) Dyson Daniels continued his scoring surge with 25 points and the Atlanta Hawks beat the Washington Wizards 129-117 on Friday night to improve to 2-0 in the NBA Cup.Kyle Kuzma led Washington with 24 points. Jordan Poole had 22 and rookie Alex Sarr added a career-high 20 points. Despite the trio’s scoring leadership, the Wizards’ NBA Cup opener was their se...

Los Angeles Times owner Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong sat for a rare interview Thursday on the Fox News Channels Fox News @ Night to double down on his push to bring balance to the struggling, liberal newspaper and respond to the editorial board members who quit when he ordered the paper to not offer an endorsement in the 2024 presidential campaign.In a report setting up the interview, our friend a...

PHILADELPHIA Now in his fourth season, the Eagles Nick Sirianni is 42-19 as a head coach in the NFL. Thats a better record than Don Shula, George Halas, Paul Brown, Tony Dungy, George Siefert, Andy Reid, Curly Lambeau or Bill Belichick had when any of them started out as a head coach in this league. Sirianni has taken the team to the playoffs every year, is on track to do so again, and w...

PHILADELPHIA Now in his fourth season, the Eagles Nick Sirianni is 42-19 as a head coach in the NFL. Thats a better record than Don Shula, George Halas, Paul Brown, Tony Dungy, George Siefert, Andy Reid, Curly Lambeau or Bill Belichick had when any of them started out as a head coach in this league. Sirianni has taken the team to the playoffs every year, is on track to do so again, and w...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. (AP) Trey Kaufman-Renn scored a career-high 26 points and grabbed eight rebounds, and freshman C.J. Cox scored nine of his 11 points during a game-turning 13-0 run midway through the second half to help No. 13 Purdue get past No. 2 Alabama 87-78 on Friday night.The Boilermakers (4-0) have won 21 consecu...

LAS VEGAS (AP) Election certification meetings on Friday in Nevada’s two most populous counties were roiled by voting conspiracies while local officials in the state’s rural counties quietly approved election results that favored President-elect Donald Trump.Friday was the deadline for counties in the battleground state to finalize election results. All 17 counties me...