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USC athletic director Mike Bohn suddenly resigned from his position Friday, effectively immediately. Bohn over the last four years has helped lead a turnaround for the Trojans, hiring head football coach Lincoln Riley and negotiating the program's move from the Pac-12 to Big Ten beginning July 1, 2024. Though Bohn cited health concerns as part of his departure, four former or current USC employees recently raised concerns about Bohn's management during a recent top-to-bottom review of the...
Bill McGovern, a highly decorated college football player and successful defensive football coach possessing almost 40 years of college and NFL experience, passed away Tuesday morning at his California home surrounded by family, following a battle with cancer. He was 60. McGovern joined Chip Kelly's coaching staff as UCLA's defensive coordinator in February 2022. An All-America selection at defensive back as a collegian at Holy Cross, McGovern spent eight of the previous nine years prior to comi...
May 28, 2023 | By Paul Kelly, Indianapolis Motor Speedway The agonizing wait and nagging questions finally are over for Josef Newgarden. Two-time NTT INDYCAR SERIES champion Newgarden passed reigning Indianapolis 500 by Gainbridge winner Marcus Ericsson on the last lap to snare his first career victory in "The Greatest Spectacle in Racing" on Sunday at a packed Indianapolis Motor Speedway. Newgarden, from Nashville, Tennessee, earned his spot on the Borg-Warner Trophy and in racing immortality...
of the Denver Nuggets proved to be too much for LeBron James and his Laker teammates after they were swept out of the NBA playoffs. Can the Lakers come back to this standard next season remains to be seen. It all depends on what happens in the off season. The one thing we did learn after watching the Lakers and Nuggets is Nikola Jokic is the best play in the NBA right now. PHOTO BY JEVONE MOORE...
Culver City high school girls lacrosse team was knocked out of the CIF playoffs last week by Palos Verdes by the score of 18-9. The Lady Centaurs finished their season with an overall record 6-8 and their record was 4-2 in league play...
NASCAR issued an L3-level penalty, the most severe punishment under the sanctioning body's deterrence system, to Stewart-Haas Racing after the discovery of a counterfeit part in the team's No. 14 Ford. As a result, the No. 14 team has been docked 120 points in both the owner standings and driver standings for Chase Briscoe; an additional loss of 25 playoff points should Briscoe and the team qualify for the postseason; and a $250,000 fine and suspension in the next six points races to crew chief...
It's time to put the icing on the cake. Two weeks ago, the Lady Centaurs won the CIF Division 2 title by scoring a monstrous 62 points. This weekend they will try to duplicate that accomplishment on the California State level when they compete on Friday and Saturday at Buchanan High School in Clovis. Friday is the day the runners qualify for the finals on Saturday. There are 3,892 high schools in California, 3,160 public schools and 730 private schools and Culver City will be sending four girls...
On Saturday at Moorpark high school Culver City high school girls will try to run their way into the history books when they try to win the school's first CIF Championship in track and field. The boys will also be represented but it's the girls' team that has a chance to walk away with the top trophy. The Centaurs will put it all on the line Saturday in the Division 2 CIF Track and Field Finals. "Our athletes have been training and working so hard," said the boys head track and field coach...
NASCAR has announced that the NASCAR Xfinity Series race at Charlotte Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 27, will now start at noon ET – advancing one hour from the original 1 p.m. ET start time – due to the forecasted inclement weather. The broadcast networks for the Alsco Uniforms 300 remain unchanged – FS1, PRN and SiriusXM NASCAR Radio. For tickets to Saturday's Alsco Uniforms 300, visit CharlotteMotorSpeedway.com. Grandstand gates open at 10 a.m. ET. The NASCAR Xfinity Series garage will...
By Mykell Mathieu The WNBA season is officially back and the Sparks are hoping that this season is the spark that leads this organization back into prominence. The Sparks, are now led by the former coach of the Connecticut Sun, Curt Miller, and some key new veteran additions (Jasmine Thomas, Dearica Hamby, Layshia Clarendon & Azura Stevens) along with the return of five players from last year's team including the Ogwumike sisters (Nneka & Chiney). The team also drafted the University of South...
For the first time in school history the Culver City high school girls track and field team is on top of the CIF Southern Section Division 2 track and field world. The Centaurs scored 62 points last Saturday at Moorpark high school to capture the crown. The second-place team, Golden Valley scored 51 points and JW North placed third with 50 points. It's been a 12-year process under former coach Rayfield M. Beaton and current coach LaShinda Demus. Beaton set the table by winning many league...
The 2023 Pac-12 Track & Field Championships were held this past weekend at historic Hilmer Lodge Stadium, on the campus of Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut, California. The USC Trojans finished a strong second to the Washington Huskies on the men's side, 151 to 137 and second on the women's side to the Oregon Ducks, 158.5 to 127 points. USC had the most total points with 264 between both the men's and women's track team. USC won six events on the final day, and a total of nine events over the...
The NFL released their 2023 schedule this past week, and the Los Angeles Chargers have a favorable schedule for the 2023 season. The 17-game regular season schedule will include nine home games, with the Chargers opening at home at SoFi Stadium against the Miami Dolphins and closing out the season against the Kansas City Chiefs at SoFi Stadium. The Chiefs have won seven consecutive AFC West division titles, have made eight consecutive playoff appearances, and just won their 2nd Super bowl title...
The Los Angeles Sparks announced today that Karlie Samuelson and Rae Burrell have been waived. Samuelson's most recent WNBA season was in 2022 with the Phoenix Mercury on a hardship contract. In 2021, she played with the Los Angeles Sparks where she started in three of 11 games played. She averaged 3.8 points, 2.3 rebounds, and shot 47.8% from three-point range. She has played in 42 total WNBA games for the Los Angeles Sparks, Seattle Storm, Dallas Wings, and Phoenix Mercury. Burrell was...
UCLA senior Natalie Ramirez's best flight in the shot putt was 15.43m (50'-7.50") on 3/25 earlier this season. She broke her own record in her final meet at Drake Stadium on the UCLA campus when she launched a throw 16.95m (55'-7.25") to win the competition against USC. Unfortunately USC women beat the Bruins 88-75 but the UCLA men beat the Trojans 88-70 in the annual dual meet last Sunday....
On Saturday at Moorpark high school Culver City high school girls will try to run their way into the history books when they try to win the school's first CIF Championship in track and field. The boys will also be represented but it's the girls' team that has a chance to walk away with the top trophy. The Centaurs will put it all on the line Saturday in the Division 2 CIF Track and Field Finals. "Our athletes have been training and working so hard," said the boys head track and field coach...
The Los Angeles Sparks selected Zia Cooke out of South Carolina with the 10th overall pick in the 2023 WNBA Draft presented by State Farm. “We are thrilled to add Zia to a growing list of quality players on and off the court,” said Sparks CAO and GM Karen Bryant. “In evaluating Zia, there are so many aspects of her game coupled with intangibles that made her an obvious choice with the 10th pick.” The 5-9, Toledo native played in 137 games (all starts) for the Gamecocks, holding averages of 13.5 points, 2.5 rebounds, 1.9 assists and 0.9 steal...
The Los Angeles Football Club (LAFC) advanced to the final of the Concacaf Champions League with a 3-0 victory over the Philadelphia Union on Tuesday night at BMO Stadium. LAFC won the series 4-1 on aggregate, having played to a 1-1 draw in the first leg last week in Philadelphia. Knowing that a win would see the club through to the Champions League Final for the second time in the last four years, LAFC took the lead in the 13th minute when Timothy Tillman scored his first-ever goal in the...
PASADENA, Calif. (April 13, 2023) – The Pasadena Tournament of Roses® Association has selected eight high school seniors as the 2023 ROSE Scholars. This year, the program awarded $20,000 in scholarships to eight graduating seniors from the Pasadena Unified School District (PUSD). ROSE Scholars, presented by Citizens Business Bank, is a program designed to help students in our community thrive and to foster their potential. 2023 ROSE Scholars: Arleth Angeles – Marshall Fundamental Sec...
The Culver City high school girls softball team won their at-large play-in game last Tuesday on the road against Rancho Cucamonga 5-4. Their next first round game in the CIF Division 3 Playoffs is Thursday (Today 5/4) on the road again against Norwalk at 3:15 p.m. Norwalk is 22-5 overall and 14-0 in the Suburban league while the Centaurs are 15-10 overall and 6-4 in the Bay league. Looking at the schedules it appears that Culver City played in a much tougher league. Hopefully that will put the...
The 2023 NFL draft was held from last Thursday, April 27th through Saturday, April 29th in Kansas City, Missouri. The Los Angeles Chargers had seven picks in this year's seven round NFL draft. Below is a review of the Chargers seven selections: Round 1 - Quentin Johnson, Wide Receiver, TCU – 6-foot-3, 208 pounds. The Chargers like big wide receivers and Johnson will fit in well. Johnson is big, strong and long. He had a vertical leap of 40.5" at the NFL combine. He ran a 4.49 forty on his pro d...
LeBron James of the Lakers drives to the basket while teammate Anthony Davis #3 gets ready to rebound against Minnesota during the play-in game a few weeks ago. The Minnesota players from left to right are Karl-Anthony Towns, Anthony Edwards and Kyle Anderson. The Lakers beat the Memphis Grizzlies in the first round and they won their first second round game against the Warriors last Tuesday. Their next game is Saturday at home at 5:30 p.m. and Monday at home at 7 p.m....
Although the USC men loss their dual meet against UCLA last Sunday at UCLA, USC's Johnnie Blockburger was the star of the show. He won the 400 meters in 45.68 and anchored both winning relay teams....
Some high schools are fortunate to send four or five student athletes to the CIF Track and Field preliminaries but when you send 16, that's quite an accomplishment. That's how many the Centaurs will be sending to the Division 2 prelims on Saturday, at Ventura high school. Leading the way for the girls' team will be one of the fastest runners in the nation, Joelle Trepagnier, and the boys' team is led by Kaiden Whitt. Both athletes will be competing in multiple events. Make no mistake, both...
