Новости за 16.04.2018

California native Alexander Rossi came up big at the 44th running of the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday, becoming the first driver to win from the pole in 11 years.

Al Horford had 24 points and 12 rebounds and the Boston Celtics overcame Khris Middleton's long 3 that beat the fourth-quarter buzzer, topping the Milwaukee Bucks 113-107 in overtime Sunday to open their playoff matchup.

So much for the “white people stage.”

That’s how Vince Staples, the deeply skeptical Long Beach rapper, referred to the main stage of the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival as he found himself performing — with one eyebrow cocked in surprise — on just that platform Friday night.

And he was...

Al Horford had 24 points and 12 rebounds and the Boston Celtics overcame Khris Middleton's long 3 that beat the fourth-quarter buzzer, topping the Milwaukee Bucks 113-107 in overtime Sunday to open their playoff matchup.

Six more Major League Baseball games were wiped out Sunday, running this season’s total number of postponements to 21 in only 2 1/2 weeks. It's baseball's highest number through the end of April since it had 26 in 2007, and there are still a couple weeks to go this month.

“There is something intriguing,” Esa-Pekka Salonen writes in the notes for his solemnly captivating new orchestral piece, “Pollux,” “about [a] famed beauty having a penchant for large water birds.”

R. Lee Ermey, a retired Marine who made a career in Hollywood playing hard-nosed military men like Gunnery Sgt. Hartman in Stanley Kubrick's “Full Metal Jacket,” has died.

The Supreme Court is set to hear a seemingly minor case later this month on the status of administrative judges at the Securities and Exchange Commission, an issue that normally might only draw the interest of those accused of stock fraud.

On a clear day, drivers commuting into Damascus can glimpse the pulverized neighborhoods of the Ghouta area on the eastern flank of the Syrian capital.

President Trump's reelection campaign spent more than $1 out of every $5 on attorney’s fees this year as the president contended with the ongoing special counsel investigation and a new legal challenge from an adult film star.

The Dodgers’ clubhouse Sunday morning was perfectly ordinary. Matt Kemp, Kenley Jansen and Justin Turner were swapping some smack talk. The televisions were tuned to the big game — the Boston Celtics, in the NBA playoffs.

The Ducks have been here before.

They stared down the barrel of a 2-0 series deficit after consecutive defeats to the Edmonton Oilers last season. Those second-round losses also came at home, and they set out on the road with a formidable task ahead. Slowly but surely, the victories came, and the...

Alexander Rossi pulled away after a late restart to win the Grand Prix of Long Beach on Sunday, completing a dominant weekend by holding off Will Power for his third career IndyCar victory.

Steve Johnson shrugged off numerous missed opportunities to beat first-time ATP Tour finalist Tennys Sandgren 7-6 (2), 2-6, 6-4 on Sunday to become the first player to successfully defend the U.S. Men's Clay Court title in 16 years.

Al Horford had 24 points and 12 rebounds and the Boston Celtics overcame Khris Middleton's long 3 that beat the fourth-quarter buzzer, topping the Milwaukee Bucks 113-107 in overtime Sunday to open their playoff matchup.

A look at the top 25 high school baseball teams in the Southland:

Rk. SCHOOL (Record) Comment (last ranking)

1. HUNTINGTON BEACH (19-3) Takes on Marina in two-game series (1)

2. ARCADIA (16-0) An unbeaten regular season is very possible (2)

3. HARVARD-WESTLAKE (14-3) Completed three-game sweep...

Kyle Larson will have to wait another day to try to capture his first NASCAR Cup Series victory of the season.

Sidney Crosby had a goal and three assists and Matt Murray stopped 26 shots to help the Pittsburgh Penguins silence a raucous Philadelphia crowd and beat the Flyers 5-1 on Sunday to take a 2-1 lead in the first-round playoff series.

Satoshi Kodaira closed with a 5-under 66 to rally from six shots behind, and then made a 25-foot birdie putt on the third playoff hole to defeat Si Woo Kim and win the RBC Heritage on Sunday.

Former FBI Director James B. Comey and the president who fired him lobbed rhetorical bombs at each other Sunday, keeping up a verbal war that has ratcheted up the tension in the White House even as it has contributed mightily to the advance sales of Comey’s new book.

Thirty years ago, Scott Sharts set a Southern Section home run record at Simi Valley High with 32 for his career. His nephew, Owen, got a chance to pitch to Uncle Scott during the alumni baseball game in January.