Houston Astros manager Dusty Baker has gone from hoping aloud that fallout from his new team’s sign-stealing scandal would go away quickly to accepting that the back-and-forth is lingering. “You realize it’s going to take a while to move on. You don’t just move on, just ’cause you say, ‘Move on.’ We d...

The NBA’s All-Star Most Valuable Player trophy will be named after Kobe Bryant, who won the award four times, Commissioner Adam Silver announced Saturday in Chicago. Bryant, who was an 18-time NBA All-Star in his 20-year career, is tied for the record of most All-Star Game MVP awards with Hall of Famer Bob Pettit. Bryant, along with his daugh...

Shohei Ohtani doesn’t just drive the ball anymore. The Los Angeles Angels’ two-way star says he got his California driver’s license in the offseason, putting the 25-year-old behind the wheel of a car for the first time. “I’m enjoying it,” Ohtani said through his interpreter Saturday after rolling up to the Angels’ spring tra...

The excitement was palpable inside the International Ballroom at the historic Beverly Hilton Hotel on Thursday night in Los Angeles for the 15th annual L.A. Sports Awards. The annual event is produced by the Los Angeles Sports Council and recognizes the best athletes, coaches, and executives within the LA sports landscape. Located within the same s...

An Olympic wrestler is accusing a University of Michigan doctor of touching him inappropriately during medical exams at the school

The Asian Football Confederation says China’s scheduled home match against South Korea in the final round of qualifying for the Tokyo Olympics will be held in Sydney due to concern over the China virus.

From Los Angeles to Italy, Asia and Beyond, Kobe Bryant was bigger than just a basketball player. He was the sport’s global ambassador. It was a role that Bryant began studying for at an early age during his seven-year childhood tour of Italy while his father played pro basketball in the country. Italian coach Ettore Messina says “he was......

NFL owners voted to accept the negotiated terms for a new collective bargaining agreement

The Los Angeles Rams are about to make a groundbreaking promotion. The team is expected to promote current manager of business and executive operations, Sophie Luoto, to director of football operations, a source has told NBC LA. Once the promotion is official, Luoto, 31, will become one of the highest-ranking female executives in the NFL. San Franc...

Tokyo Olympic organizers say a test event scheduled for later this month is being revamped because of the fear of the spreading virus from China.

Troy and Andrew Chauppetta, 24-year-olds with Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy, qualified to play power soccer with Team USA in the 2021 World Cup in Australia.

Dallas Cowboys wide receiver Amari Cooper took to Instagram Wednesday to let people know he was OK after a now-deleted tweet falsely reported he’d been shot. Cooper responded to a tweet that said he was shot in a Dallas parking garage, NBC News reported. “That was fake news y’all, everything good over here,” Cooper wrote on ...

Ryan Newman has been released from a Florida hospital two days after a frightening crash on the final lap of the Daytona 500