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NFL draft: League gives top picks prized mementos

2013-04-26 08:22:00

NEW YORK -- If you watched the first round of the NFL draft Thursday night, you might have wondered how the league had ready-made No. 1 jerseys with the players’ names across the shoulders. Were they Velcro nameplates? Were the picks made far in...

Tuesday's TV Highlights: 'Golden Boy' on CBS

2013-04-22 20:00:00

Customized TV Listings are available here: www.latimes.com/tvtimes Click here to download TV listings for the week of April 21 -27, 2013 in PDF format This week's TV Movies � � -------------------- SERIES 30 for 30 The sports-documentary...

New York Knicks' J.R. Smith is NBA's top sixth man

2013-04-22 22:43:00

J.R. Smith won the NBA's Sixth Man of the Year Award on Monday after turning a role he didn't want into one of the strengths of the New York Knicks' first division championship team in nearly two decades. Smith received 484 points, including 72 first-...

USC's Matt Barkley says he could've done a few things differently

2013-04-22 09:00:00

Matt Barkley is looking ahead to this week's NFL draft, but the former USC quarterback also looked back during an interview with Michael Silver of Yahoo! Sports. Barkley told Silver that he could have "done a few things differently" during his final...

Herb Wesson 'guardedly optimistic' about NFL and Farmers Field

2013-03-26 11:22:00

The president of the Los Angeles City Council is “guardedly optimistic” that AEG’s Farmers Field project still has a heartbeat and that a downtown stadium will ultimately be the home of an NFL team. “I still feel that it’...

Why wouldn't Dodgers be talking to NFL about a stadium?

2013-03-23 15:44:00

Sometimes people really mean what they say, sometimes it’s a flat-out lie, and sometimes it’s just very carefully worded to avoid providing a definitive answer. The latter is normally the domain of politicians and lawyers, but big-business...

Phil Anschutz a game-changer in Los Angeles' bid for NFL

2013-03-15 18:40:00

How sweet it is. Let the church bells ring. A suggestion for NFL fans in Los Angeles. Tonight over dinner, clink your cocktail glasses in toast to Phil Anschutz. We have just witnessed the most significant good-news story about the NFL and Los Angeles...

NFL may have met its match in AEG owner Phil Anschutz

2013-03-15 20:24:00

National Football League, meet your worst nightmare: a potential team owner who can call his own shots. Or wasn't that the signal flashed last week by Phil Anschutz, 100% owner of AEG and master of the downtown football stadium site that the league...

NFL chief: Phil Anschutz's 'reengaging' a positive for L.A. effort

2013-03-18 18:24:00

PHOENIX — Philip Anschutz says he's ready to talk to the NFL about a stadium in downtown Los Angeles. The NFL says it's ready to talk to Anschutz. Question is, will all that talking amount to anything real? "I think it is a positive that Phil...

Is Dodger Stadium a possibility for the NFL to return to L.A.?

2013-02-25 11:18:00

Is Dodger Stadium in play for the NFL? Dan Kaplan of Sports Business Daily reported Monday that the league has had direct talks with Dodgers owner Guggenheim Partners about the possibility of a football stadium at Chavez Ravine, a concept that has...

NFLPA chief says players don't trust Commissioner Roger Goodell

2013-02-20 07:58:00

NFL Players' Assn. President Domonique Foxworth says NFL players don't trust Commissioner Roger Goodell because of the Saints bounty case. "It's pretty obvious that there's a gap in what would be a reasonable amount of trust," Foxworth said in a...

NCAA says Miami assistants violated 'principles of ethical conduct'

2013-02-20 11:42:00

The NCAA believes former Miami assistant coaches Clint Hurtt, Aubrey Hill and Jorge Fernandez provided false or misleading information during the probe into the Hurricanes' athletic department. The NCAA said all three violated “principles of...

NFL commissioner Roger Goodell talks during the first round of the NFL draft Thursday.

2013-04-26 08:09:00

NFL Commissioner Roger Goodell (front row C) poses for a group photo with the 2013 NFL Draft Class prior to the start of the first round of the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall on April 25, 2013 in New York City. (Photo by Al Bello/Getty Images)

2013-04-25 23:52:56

Tavon Austin (West Virginia) is introduced by NFL commissioner Roger Goodell as the number eight overall pick to the St. Louis Rams during the 2013 NFL Draft at Radio City Music Hall.

2013-04-25 00:00:00