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Last Friday, Joe "Hoss" Janik, the strength and conditioning coach for Ventura fighter Victor Ortiz, picked up the phone and found Ortiz's manager Rolando Arellano on the other end screaming, "He tested positive for steroids!!"

The crowd was dozens deep and hundreds wide, screaming and chanting and surrounding the Los Angeles Kings' cars as they drove home after writing another improbable chapter in the big, mostly empty book that holds their franchise history.

Simi Valley's Tyler Sundeen is excited about this weekend's California Cup and the future of field hockey for the under-21 USA Eagles. "It's going to be cool," Sundeen, 18, said of the USA Junior National team. "Our goal is top ...

The Ventura County Fusion has plenty of experience playing the biggest clubs in the country and world, but it has yet to do so in a competitive match. Until next Tuesday.

As the USC men's tennis team was closing in on its fourth consecutive Division I championship, it's a fairly good guess many of the nation's other top programs were probably comforted to know at least the Trojans won't have their ...

Water temperature has been on the rise and with it surface fishing has heated up nicely, according to Mike Thompson at Ventura Sportfishing.

The sailboat racing season's biggest turnout experienced slow going in Saturday's Hardway Race. The race, co-hosted by Pierpont Bay Yacht Club and Santa Barbara Sailing Club, attracted 26 boats. Six of them failed to complete their respective courses.

Area teams are going to have to make like the Los Angeles Kings to thrive in the next round of postseason: That is, play like road warriors. Seven teams remain alive in the playoffs, and six hit the road for ...

Westlake High attacker Luke Hegeman was named MVP of the 101 Coast League.

There are three amateur teams left in the U.S. Open Cup. Two of them hail from Ventura County. Earl Edwards saved a penalty kick with eight minutes left in regulation and Frankie Lopez and Travis Bowen scored in extra time ...

Dustin Penner scored 17:42 into overtime and the Los Angeles Kings are headed to the Stanley Cup finals for the second time as a franchise after beating the Phoenix Coyotes with a 4-3 win in Game 5 of the Western ...

Albert Pujols and the Los Angeles Angels will outspend the Oakland Athletics any day. So far this season, that's about all the Angels can do better than their AL West rival. Tommy Milone scattered five hits over seven innings and ...