He has covered 27 World Series, 19 Wimbledons and many other major events, including the Super Bowl, World Cup soccer, NBA Finals, four major golf tournaments and U.S. Open tennis championships. He graduated from Santa Monica High School in 1966 and UC Berkeley with a B.A. in journalistic studies in 1971.

That the basketball icon Kobe Bryant’s brilliant and complicated life came to an end in a fiery crash on a hillside in the Santa Monica Mountains on Sunday seemed to only underscore the ubiquity of the helicopter in this sprawling and traffic-choked metropolis. “Traffic started getting really, really bad,” he once explained.

Glendale Community College 80, Santa Monica College 57: Glendale won its state-high 19th straight game of the season, winning a Western State Conference South Division road contest Saturday. The Vaqueros are 19-1, 6-0 in conference. Santa Monica College 109, Glendale Community College 73: The visiting Vaqueros suffered a Western State ...

The Southern California soccer player grew up adoring Kobe Bryant, collecting jerseys and sneakers bearing his name, and credited a chance encounter with the NBA star for changing his life. Former Minnesota United midfielder Miguel Ibarra met his childhood idol Kobe Bryant in a chance encounter in a training room when Ibarra attended college in California.

Two spots for each of the men’s and women’s team (as well as the replacement athlete) will now be determined by the USATT Olympic Trials, which are to be held from February 27th to March 1st in Santa Monica College, California. One spot for each of the men’s and women’s team will be awarded to the USATT athlete with the highest world ...

It crashed in the Santa Monica foothills on the outskirts of Calabasas, about 40 miles northwest of downtown Los Angeles. The pilot and all eight passengers, including Bryant, 41, and his 13-year-old daughter, Gianna, perished in the fiery wreck. They were on their way to a girl's basketball tournament at a sports academy where Bryant was to ...

Bryant, 41, was traveling with his 13-year-old daughter to his youth basketball academy when they and seven other people perished in the crash. The helicopter had been given special approval to fly around Burbank in foggy weather.

Overcast skies and fog reported at the scene of the helicopter wreck that killed Los Angeles basketball great Kobe Bryant, his daughter and seven others figured prominently on Monday in the first full day of federal aviation experts' crash investigation.

Both late-night hosts emotionally paid tribute to the basketball legend, who tragically passed away Sunday morning, on their Monday shows.

The weather was good when the helicopter with nine passengers left Orange County. But as they flew north, it quickly grew worse. CALABASAS, Calif. — The helicopter carrying the basketball legend Kobe Bryant on Sunday morning circled over a golf course in Los Angeles’s Griffith Park,