Los Angeles Times

The Pac-12 suffered a dip in total revenue during the 2017-18 school year and continued to lag behind other major conferences in monies distributed to member universities, according to tax documents made public Monday. Conference schools received about $31 million each, which put them in last place...

Lakers owner Jeanie Buss is a pro wrestling fan. Actually, more than a fan. She co-owns Women of Wrestling (WOW) with David McLane, who previously founded Gorgeous Ladies of Wrestling before GLOW became a popular Netflix series. Buss hasn’t talked publicly since Magic Johnson abruptly resigned...

Dodgers pitcher Julio Urias is expected to be reinstated from paid administrative leave and activated Tuesday, according to two people with knowledge of the situation, eight days after he was arrested on suspicion of domestic battery. The people requested anonymity because they were not authorized...

What was supposed to be Frank Vogel’s introductory news conference became a referendum on the dysfunctional Lakers. The new coach spent the better part of a question-and-answer session Monday quietly glancing over at general manager Rob Pelinka, who clumsily tried to refute accusations by Magic...

Magic Johnson went on national television Monday morning to make public his criticism of Lakers general manager Rob Pelinka and to set the record straight while bringing to light problems that need to be addressed within the Lakers’ organization. The Lakers’ former president of basketball operations,...

The Lakers are holding a press conference, scheduled to start at 11 a.m., to introduce new coach Frank Vogel. Vogel was hired by the Lakers earlier this month, following an extensive search and after the team couldn’t come to terms with first choice Tyronn Lue. Hours before the scheduled news conference...

Magic Johnson has once again performed the seemingly impossible. He has just made the Lakers messier. In an interview on ESPN’s “First Take” talk show Monday — mere hours before the Lakers were scheduled to hold a news conference to introduce new coach Frank Vogel — Johnson took a verbal leaf blower...

Magic Johnson said Monday he stepped down as Lakers president of basketball operations last month because he felt betrayed by general manager Rob Pelinka and that he didn’t have the decision-making power he thought he’d have in the role. Johnson said on ESPN’s “First Take” that controlling owner...

When the Minnesota Timberwolves’ request to interview Clippers general manager Michael Winger was granted on April 16, it was an unseasonably warm 68 degrees in Minneapolis. For all Winger could tell, it might well have been another frigid day in the far north. In the hours after news broke he...

Hello everyone. My name is Houston Mitchell and I think all horse races should be run without jockeys. Watching Bodexpress run around without a jockey was the most fun anyone had this weekend. Golf Brooks Koepka won the PGA Championship, and Tod Leonard was there to record what happened: “In beating...

With the season on the line in the NCAA softball regionals Sunday, UCLA rallied the same way it has all season — with a dance party. In the locker room, the Bruins blasted music, shouted the lyrics and then returned to the field. The tactic worked immediately. After falling to Missouri in the first...

Zack Cozart’s name was in the lineup for the first time in a week Sunday, the lengthy gap a stark reminder of the struggling infielder’s reduced role. Cozart, who missed two weeks because of a neck strain and a left-forearm bruise, is batting .131 with a .338 on-base-plus-slugging percentage, no...

Another major, another impressive finish for Patrick Cantlay. The former UCLA standout finished in a tie for third with Jordan Spieth and Matt Wallace at two-under-par 278, a month after a tie for ninth in the Masters. It was Cantlay’s seventh top-10 finish of the year, tying his career-best seven...

Before the Dodgers opened their three-game series against the Cincinnati Reds, Dave Roberts and Kenley Jansen met in the manager’s office Friday to discuss what prompted mix-ups between Jansen and his catcher in his two ninth-inning outings against the San Diego Padres earlier in the week. Jansen...

Tyler Skaggs’ mastery of the Kansas City Royals ended during a laborious third inning in which the Angels left-hander threw 34 pitches and was tagged for three runs, the low point of Sunday’s 5-1 loss before an announced crowd of 43,329 in Angel Stadium. Skaggs entered with a 2-1 record and 0.35...