✨ An early look at our @latimes.com Dodgers preview cover spanning the front and back pages of the sports section ✨ 🎨 Illustration: Alex Ali Gonzalez (alex_ali_gonzalez on IG) 📰 Art direction: @hnalbandyan.bsky.social 💻 Headline: @realnickleyva.bsky.social ✍🏻 Words: Maddie Lee + Bill Plaschke

In late-January, early February, my reporter and I began having discussions about her going to Salt Lake City to interview Taylor Frankie Paul, the new 'Bachelorette' and star of 'Mormon Wives.' Little did we know what would come next. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

“The fact that we were able to stop their best player is good for us, but that's also credit to her the fact that our whole focus was on Cambridge.” UCLA is going to the Big Ten championship | @latimes.com www.latimes.com/sports/ucla/...

“Send us wherever. You usually get what you earn.” USC lost its Big Ten tournament opener and now Jazzy Davidson might be hurt too | @latimes.com www.latimes.com/sports/usc/s...

USC freshman Jazzy Davidson tells me she is getting an MRI tomorrow on her right shoulder

Here’s my latest columna — read what I, a human being, wrote, not what some AI pendejada garbled! Share, por favor! www.latimes.com/california/s...

Jim Harbaugh asked his team to respond. They did. The Chargers deliver the biggest win of a young Harbaugh era: www.latimes.com/sports/charg...

“I feel like time is an illusion." Short on prep time but with everything at stake, how the Chargers attacked a short week for Thursday Night Football www.latimes.com/sports/charg...

Turns out the expanded College Football Playoff will not kill bowl games. It feels like the opening of the transfer portal is going to suck a lot of the fun out of the non-CFP games. 😒

An early look at the Sunday L.A. Times sports cover featuring the L.A. Galaxy winning their sixth #MLS Cup. 📰Design: @hnalbandyan.bsky.social 💻Headline: Nick Leyva 📷Photos: Allen Schaben ✍🏼Words: @kbaxter11.bsky.social and @dylanohernandez.bsky.social Read more at: latimes.com/sports

Trying to follow everyone back and get the new social space situated in between everything else

NEW for @latimes.com: Writing about the game is fun. Writing about the people — well, that’s why I do it. Newbury Park coach Joe Smigiel and his son, Florida State commit, quarterback Brady Smigiel shared a new memory: a D2 quarterfinal comeback win. Read here: www.latimes.com/sports/highs...

A bad year... The Chicago White Sox had a bad year. For Boxer Ryan Garcia, things have risen to a whole other level of self-destruction.

A look at the Friday @sports-LATimes.flipboard.com.ap.brid.gy cover. It's a mega busy sports Friday, so look out for the latest updates at latimes.com/sports.

Just learning that Justin Herbert can run? Don't be surprised. This dual-threat quarterback has been hiding in plain sight for years www.latimes.com/sports/charg...

If you like high school sports, you can receive weekly newsletter on Monday morning via email. Free. www.latimes.com/sports/highs...

I will be covering Corona Centennial football at Mission Viejo football on Friday. Public school showdown.

LeBron James eased his way into season 21. Well, THAT process is over. (Also a kickass Wally Skalij photo) www.latimes.com/sports/laker...