Andrew Friedman opted not to acquire a closer ahead of the MLB trade deadline and that decision is proving costly for a ...

Dylan Hernández is a Sports columnist with the Los Angeles Times. Before that, he was the Dodgers beat writer. Hernandez grew ...

Andrew Friedman and Dodgers are in desperate need of a closer, but their failure to acquire one before the MLB trade deadline ...

USC is no longer one of the top programs in college football, and Lincoln Riley is a big reason why the Trojans have remained mired in mediocrity.

Plaschke grew up in Louisville and graduated from Southern Illinois-Edwardsville. His first full-time journalism job was at the Fort Lauderdale News, where he covered a mix of senior and youth sports.

Bill Plaschke: ariza plays defense, easy to intergrate him. bynum might not be totally sound for rest of season ,so they’ll go slow with him. but they’re doing just fine without him right now ...

Bill Plaschke, a Los Angeles Times columnist since 1996, wins for column writing among papers with circulations of more than 175,000. It is the fifth time he has won the award.