In some of his first public comments since the Jan. 3 death of his beloved wife, Sandi, Scully answered a recent phone call from @BillPlaschke with both resignation and hope.
What ensued was a 30-minute conversation that revealed the human side of a Los Angeles sports deity, the city’s most trusted voice lowering his tone to share the anguish of his loss, the path toward his recovery, and the wisdom gained on the journey.
International health officials have expressed doubt about whether the Games can be held safely as the Delta variant makes its way around the globe, and IOC executive director Christophe Dubi conceded “there is no such thing as zero risk.”
Some players might bring a book on the road to occupy their spare time. Marsh brings some of his “Magic: The Gathering” decks — a strategic, turn-based fantasy card game.
Marsh founded Cash Cards Unlimited with business manager Nick Nugwynne.
The Westlake Village shop is an upscale haven for the trading card fan, with Marsh and a doting staff waiting to engage customers in a magical world he's loved since childhood.
@LATimesWharton on how these Games have already been affected by COVID and what the IOC and organizers are doing to avoid a superspreader event in Tokyo
Every time a Dodgers starting pitcher is sidelined because of injury or idiocy, the same name is flagged as a potential replacement: Is Josiah Gray ready?
For Game 2 against the Giants tonight, the answer appears to be yes.
Barring a last-minute change of heart, the Dodgers’ consensus top prospect will follow an opener — a pitcher who will try to get through one or two innings — and attempt to carry the load into the late innings.
Your soon-to-be favorite Olympic event features humans scaling a 50-foot competition wall, scurrying from one small climbing hold to the next and tapping the buzzer - all in about six seconds
Here's everything you need to know about speed climbing.
When sport climbing was added for the Tokyo Olympics, its international federation decided to combine the results of three events into one final score.
The first two, bouldering and lead, involve problem-solving, with action that tends to be deliberate.
With Tokyo under a state of emergency because of a fourth wave of the COVID-19 pandemic, these Games will be contested against the backdrop of unprecedented skepticism about the existential purpose of the Olympic movement, @dylanohernandez writes.
The Japanese government wants to recover whatever it can of the tens of billions of dollars it has sunk into these Games, even though medical resources will have to be redirected from the pandemic and less than 20% of the population is fully vaccinated.