Author name: Carmen Wilkins

Don’t ever underestimate Etiwanda and girls’ basketball coach Stan Delus. The two-time defending state champions started the season a little wobbly with a three-game losing streak in November. The first Southern Section rankings had the Eagles at No. 17, which got lots of laughs. The Eagles (16-4) are now on a 12-game winning streak after […]

Angelina Anderson was sure the call would never come. After playing every minute in goal for the U.S. in the U-17 women’s World Cup in 2018, she thought maybe the senior national team would call. It didn’t. After pitching a shutout in her NWSL debut, helping Angel City to its only playoff appearance in 2023,

The Clippers are in the middle of their most arduous part of the regular season, playing six games in nine days — a stretch that threatens to push them to their limits. Making matters worse, injuries are proving difficult to avoid. With Kawhi Leonard and Ivica Zubac out, the Clippers saw their four-game winning streak

Brandon McCoy Jr. was back on the court for St. John Bosco on Monday night, and that changes everything in Southern Section basketball. Sidelined since Nov. 30 when he sustained a lower leg injury, McCoy returned to score 10 points in the Braves’ 64-62 Trinity League win over JSerra. “I’m happy to be back,” McCoy

Cooper Kupp established himself as an important part of the Rams’ offense from the day general manager Les Snead selected him in the third round of the 2017 NFL draft. But the receiver who won NFL offensive player of the year and Super Bowl most valuable player awards began the offseason on Monday with his

It was Friday night for brothers Casey and Jimmy Clausen, so why not have their second-grade sons begin playing flag football and introduce the next generation of Clausen quarterbacks. Casey Jr. and Jett had their first flag football games. The fathers were there to help with questions, suggestions and smiles. Casey was a standout quarterback

It has become a predictable talking point around baseball the last couple of offseasons, amplified every time the Dodgers sign a star on what has become an increasingly common contract for the club. Nine times in the last five years, the Dodgers agreed to deals with significant amounts of deferred money — large portions of

JJ Redick, on multiple occasions this season, has spoken about his belief in being process-oriented. It’s a necessary tool for any athlete, and especially one who earned his NBA fortune as a shooter while missing more threes than he made. If, Redick has said, he knew he was putting in the right kind of work,

In keeping with what has been a standard operating procedure since Kawhi Leonard has returned, the Clippers didn’t play their All-Star forward in the fourth quarter Sunday night against the Lakers. Even when the Clippers’ 26-point lead in the third quarter was sliced to 15 by the end of the quarter and to 11 early