It was wall-to-wall red shirts inside Village Christian’s gym on Thursday night and student section chants were bouncing from floor to ceiling. Harvard-Westlake volleyball was dealt a road match with a tough environment in the first round of playoffs.

Welcome the penultimate week of the regular season. Taking a look around the South Bay and there are big games everywhere: Lawndale faces North Torrance in a key Pioneer League clash, Palos Verdes heads to Culver City,

Catch a storied high school football rivalry. Celebrate modern and ancient cultural traditions at the OC Japan Fair. Attend the Nuart Fest. Or go vintage at a Printers’ Fair or an Archives Bazaar.

Breeze rankings for Week 9 of the high school football season. (The CalPreps CIF-SS and L.A. City Section rankings, as of Oct. 17, have been included for each team.) It didn’t take the Sentinels long to show that they’re still the top dog in the Ocean League Friday.

Timothee Chalamet is officially a West Coast homeowner after buying model Kate Upton and Houston Astros baseball player Justin Verlander’s Beverly Hills home, located deep in the Santa Monica Mountains.

Santa Monica-based sports metaverse platform LootMogul announced an agreement for Hoop Culture Inc., a basketball lifestyle brand, to acquire the naming rights for a digital sports arena in “Orlando.” The company has several metaverse arenas named as if they are in real-world cities.

I thought the guys did great,” Mira Costa coach Don Morrow said. “They played hard and made some big plays when they had to.” The game was decided early as the Mustangs took advantage of some early Vikings’ miscues to jump out to a 21-0 lead.

The Panthers showed a lot of heart and fight in their rally against Culver City, but eventually suffered the loss

The brunette bombshell, 24, completed her look with the same “2024” baseball cap she wore during the pair’s first public outing together on Saturday night.

Saturday high school football recap takes a look at Serra’s win over Bishop Amat and other happenings around the South Bay.