With 12 home runs Sunday, the American League established a major league record of 2,087 for a single season, breaking the mark of 2,080 set in 1982.
Simi Valley High baseball coach Mike Scyphers said he had a preconceived notion about Wednesday's Marmonte League game at Camarillo.
Hello, hello, is there anybody from the Inland Conference out there? Montclair Prep calling.
The Commodity Credit Corp. ran out of money to pay farm subsidies Wednesday, and an emergency $5-billion infusion of cash was blocked by an increasingly bitter Senate stalemate over separate farm legislation.
In the summer of 1953, when Don Williams was 14, his sweetheart of the time inadvertently set him on a course he's been pursuing for 32 years.
Newman allowed only two hits and struck out 10 in seven innings Monday to lead the University of San Diego to a 9-1 victory over Claremont in a nonconference baseball game at USD.
So you think you work with a bunch of clowns? You think your job is a bear? Consider John Tobin.
A man who literally took the money and ran Friday is sought by police in Huntington Beach and Garden Grove for robbing bank customers in both cities within a two-hour period.
It didn't count in the standings, but UCLA played an exhibition game Friday night at Pauley against the Norwegian National team.
Small cities, big transit agencies and organized labor teamed up with a skeptical state Senate committee chairman on Tuesday to block action on legislation to reorganize Los Angeles County's public transit system.
Sparky Anderson, never one to shy away from hyperbole, is effusive in his praise of Bo Jackson, who has played in 39 major league games.
A little more than five minutes showed on the clock and a victory was slipping away from Temple City.
Those who like looking for omens could have found one Sunday afternoon outside trainer Jack Van Berg's barn at Santa Anita.
At game's end, it was cold and raining, but Andy Iacenda wasn't bothered. It was his kind of night.
Zola Budd, after running in a 10K at Rosemont, Ill., on Nov. 23, will compete in a 10K at San Diego
Olympics, will compete in a 10-kilometer road race Dec. 1, officials of the Holiday Bowl/Heart of San Diego Marathon and 10K said.
Rex Wilson of New Zealand won Auckland's shore-to-shore 10-kilometer road race Sunday in 28 minutes 24 seconds.
Mary Decker Slaney set a course record in winning the women's division of the American Continental 10K at Phoenix.
United States March 2 in Phoenix in the third annual Continental Homes 10K.
Yobes Ondieki of Kenya qualified for the Olympic trials in 1984, but a car accident in Ames, Iowa, denied him the chance to compete for a position on the Kenyan team.