Новости за 30.12.2016

Backup center Tarik Black, mostly recovered after suffering a sprained ankle Dec. 5, has been available to the Lakers for a few games. 

Freshman guard Sha-morie Ponds scored 26 points, including four free throws in the final 9.1 seconds, and St. John’s upset No. 13 Butler, 76-73, on Thursday night in the Big East opener for both teams at Carnesecca Arena. 

Mason Rudolph passed for 314 yards and three touchdowns and No. 13 Oklahoma State's defense smothered No. 11 Colorado in a 38-8 Alamo Bowl victory Thursday night that gave the Cowboys their fifth 10-win season in seven years. 

Double-digit leads and the Lakers have been a volatile mix in the final days of December. Every time the Lakers get what appears to be a comfortable cushion, it seems to blow up in their face.

Court and spark: Serena Williams is tying the knot. 

The tennis great announced her engagement to Alexis Ohanian on Thursday, posting a poem on Reddit that she accepted the proposal of the social news website's co-founder. 

Williams' agent, Jill Smoller, confirmed the engagement in an email to...

State parole officials Thursday postponed a decision on setting free Patricia Krenwinkel, a follower of Charles Manson and convicted killer, after the woman’s attorney made new claims that she had been abused by Manson or another person.

Jerod Evans threw for 243 yards and two touchdowns and ran for two scores and No. 18 Virginia Tech pulled off the largest comeback in its 124-year history, erasing a 24-point halftime deficit to beat Arkansas 35-24 on Thursday night in the Belk Bowl. 

Quinton Flowers ran for three touchdowns and threw for two more to lead No. 25 South Florida past South Carolina, 46-39 in overtime Thursday in the Birmingham Bowl. 

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Humans This critically acclaimed adaptation of a Swedish sci-fi drama encores its first season in a daylong marathon. William Hurt stars. 9 a.m. AMC

As the NFL heads into its final weekend of the regular season, a look at some of the strengths and weaknesses of teams that are either in the playoffs or on the verge of getting in:

Business and the investment markets, it is often said, hate uncertainty. If that’s true, they’re going to absolutely abhor 2017.

Adoree’ Jackson was still practicing with the track and field team this summer when USC’s defensive tackle transfer, Stevie Tu’ikolovatu, first showed up on campus.

The gravity-defying habit came naturally to Saquon Barkley.

Long before the sophomore running back at Penn State became a fixture of YouTube highlight videos — during the last two weeks a quarter-million people have watched the latest one — he sized up a cornerback four years ago during a game...

Going from unbeaten overall to winless in the Pac-12 Conference has changed the dynamic for UCLA. A midseason game against middling Oregon State on Friday night at Gill Coliseum has taken on new meaning.

There's a saying around combat sports that every fighter has a screw loose.

Tyler Higbee heard the play call in the huddle and sensed opportunity.

Donald Trump gave himself kudos for the creation of 8,000 U.S. jobs by a Japanese tech mogul, saying it was proof of “the spirit and the hope” stirred by his victory in the presidential election.

A small electrical fire is having a big impact on the availability of hotel rooms in Las Vegas just two days before Sin City’s giant New Year’s Eve party.

Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band navigated “The River” 35th anniversary tour all the way to the bank in 2016, pulling in $268.3 million globally to score the top-grossing concert trek of the year worldwide, according to Pollstar, the concert industry-tracking publication.

For food shoppers, 2016 was a back-to-the-future experience, with retail prices deflating for the first time since Lyndon Johnson was president.

Contract talks between cable giant Charter Communications and NBCUniversal hit an impasse Thursday. If the two companies fail to hammer out a new carriage deal before the current pact expires this weekend, it could lead to a blackout of NBC channels for Charter customers.

The fight over a proposed 20-story residential tower near the Beverly Center spilled over into the Los Angeles election campaign on Thursday, with one candidate saying the project is too tall and offers too few units of housing for lower-income residents.

A man who urged an end to violence in Oakland after gunfire killed his son and grandson as they slept three years ago became a victim himself this week as he drove near a street memorial for his slain family.

UFC 207: Live updates from Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes weigh-in Dec. 29, 2016, 3:26 p.m. Follow along for live updates from UFC 207 in Las Vegas where Ronda Rousey will face champion Amanda Nunes, ending her long layoff after a loss in late 2015 against Holly Holm. Join the Los Angeles Times'...

UFC 207: Live updates from Ronda Rousey and Amanda Nunes weigh-in Dec. 29, 2016, 3:26 p.m. Follow along for live updates from UFC 207 in Las Vegas where Ronda Rousey will face champion Amanda Nunes, ending her long layoff after a loss in late 2015 against Holly Holm. Join the Los Angeles Times'...