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Birmingham quarterback Jessica Rose avoids a San Pedro defender during the first half of the Patriots’ 14-6 win in the City Section Open Division girls’ flag football championship game Saturday. (Steve Galluzzo / For The Times) HIGH SCHOOL FLAG FOOTBALL MONDAY’S RESULTS City Section Crenshaw 19, GALA 13 Eagle Rock 31, Sylmar 6 Foshay 20, … Read more

Oleksandr Usyk was briefly detained in a Polish airport (Picture: Getty) Oleksandr Usyk’s promoter has explained the reasoning behind the Ukrainian heavyweight champion’s brief arrest in a Polish airport. Footage on social media emerged late on Tuesday evening showing Usyk being detained by uniformed officers before being led away with his hands cuffed behind his … Read more

WNBA commissioner Cathy Engelbert, shown speaking to the media before the league held its draft in April, said that with the addition of a team in Portland, Ore., the league has “the Pacific Northwest kind of locked in now.” (Adam Hunger / Associated Press) The WNBA is headed back to Portland with the Oregon city … Read more

Phoenix Mercury veteran Brittney Griner and Los Angeles Sparks rookie forward Rickea Jackson had to be separated before halftime of Tuesday’s matchup. Both players received double technicals, which resulted in automatic ejections, late in the second quarter of the Phoenix’s 85-81 win over Los Angeles. With less than 20 seconds to play in the second … Read more

Getty Images Two games into the season, we’ve seen some things we expected from this Jets team and some that have been unexpected. The Jets are 1-1 and there are issues to clean up, but overall there have been plenty of positive signs. The offense has shown glimpses of what it can be as it … Read more

Domonique Foxworth couldn’t help himself from referencing the NSFW Instagram Live video that emerged on social media from fellow ESPN on-air host Shannon Sharpe. The topic du jour was Bryce Young after the Panthers benched the second-year quarterback this week. “If you give me three months, Stephen A., and my hips hold up, I might … Read more

Here’s a new baseball adage: Don’t attempt to steal home on a 3-0 count with the bases loaded against a pitcher who can’t find the strike zone. The Mariners’ Victor Robles entered a late entry into the “Most Boneheaded Play of the Year” competition Tuesday night when he bailed out Yankees starter Luis Gil by … Read more

When Anthony Duclair was a 15-year-old in Pointe-Claire, Quebec, he thought his path lay through college — and he held no bones about telling interested teams in the Quebec Maritimes Junior Hockey League just that. Patrick Roy, then the coach and general manager of the Quebec Remparts, wasn’t so easy to blow off. “Pat still … Read more

AP Imagine the outrage, the criticism, the old-fashioned bewilderment if the Giants had completed the first two games of their season and Malik Nabers was not a central figure in their passing attack. Imagine the cries of, “Why the heck did you draft him if you weren’t going to use him?’’ if Nabers had registered … Read more

(Getty Images) THURSDAY CITY SECTION Eastern LeagueBell at Garfield, 7 p.m. SOUTHERN SECTION Golden LeagueHighland at Knight, 7 p.m. NonleagueBarstow vs. Summit at Miller, 7:30 p.m.Riverside Notre Dame at Citrus Hill, 7:30 p.m.Winchester Liberty at Hesperia, 7 p.m.Newbury Park at Ventura, 7 p.m.Nordhoff vs. Trinity Classical Academy at College of Canyons, 7:30 p.m.Corona Santiago at … Read more