Ventura Sports

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!!"

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.

If ever there was a reason for the CIF-Southern Section to institute a mercy rule for the playoffs, the Buena High softball team provided it on Tuesday afternoon. Buena scored the first 21 runs of its Division 4 second-round game ...

Youth signups for May 22, 2012

It was another record-shattering Saturday for the Ventura County Youth Track and Field Conference Championships at Moorpark High.

Kyle Smith earned his first Sprint Car feature victory Saturday night at Ventura Raceway. Smith was in front of the pack for all 30 laps. Clark Templemann III finished second and Tom Hendricks was third. Justin Kierce was fourth and ...

YOUTH LACROSSE

With the one-and-done nature of CIF playoffs, a fortuitous bounce can make the difference between a first-round exit and an extended playoff run. The St. Bonaventure High baseball team was the beneficiary Thursday in a 5-3 win over visiting San ...

Star striker Gyasi Zardes will play his first game this season as the Ventura County Fusion host the Ogden Outlaws tonight at 7 p.m. at the VC Sportsplex.

Early on in his professional career, unbeaten featherweight Miguel Angel Garcia of Oxnard would fight in front of a few hundred people in large arenas.

The Ventura Racing Association Sprints Cars and IMCA Modifieds will be roaring into action Saturday night at Ventura Raceway. Troy Rutherford, the 2010 Sprint Car champion, leads the field after three races with 715 points. He has one win and ...

Brett Davis is a third-generation Hueneme High football coach after accepting the position last Friday.

Jarek York picked the perfect time to hit the Ventura High baseball team's first home run of the season. York belted a three-run home run over the right-field fence in the bottom of the seventh inning to beat visiting Burroughs, ...

If the game started in the second inning, the Buena High baseball team would still be alive in the CIF-Southern Section playoffs. But the Bulldogs will have several months to ponder what might have been if not for a disastrous ...