Los Angeles Dodgers News

Tony La Russa has no plans to retire after his latest World Series win and the Cardinals manager said he’s satisfied with how he handled the Kenny Rogers smudgegate incident in Game 2. La Russa, 62, is under contract through next season and said after joining Sparky Anderson as the only managers to win a [...]

Quick with a joke or a smile, Joe Niekro was the life of the Houston Astros’ clubhouse for more than a decade. He also became their most successful pitcher, earning a franchise-record 144 victories in 11 seasons. Niekro died Friday in Florida from a brain aneurysm at age 61. Astros president Tal Smith, the general [...]

Former San Francisco Giants trainer Stan Conte was hired Friday by the Los Angeles Dodgers as director of medical services and head athletic trainer. Stan Johnston, who spent the last seven seasons as the Dodgers’ head athletic trainer, will remain with the organization’s training staff and work directly with Conte on all club medical issues.

In the dog days of summer a few years back, pitching for the Texas Rangers in a game that meant little at the time, Kenny Rogers was so wicked through six innings that he was flirting with a perfect game. The Cleveland Indians thought they knew why. They were collecting the evidence in the [...]

Nelson de la Rosa, a 2-foot-4 actor and ubiquitous good-luck charm for the Boston Red Sox during their 2004 World Series run, has died. He was 38. De la Rosa, believed to be one of the world’s smallest men, died of unknown causes in a Providence, R.I., hospital early Sunday, said his agent, Andres Duran.

Dodgers outfielder Jason Repko underwent a high-frequency ultrasound Friday to promote healing of the plantar fascia in his left foot. Dr. Kenneth Jung performed the procedure at the Kerlan/Jobe Clinic and said it went well. Repko will wear a walking boot for the next two weeks, Jung said, and then begin physical therapy.

Many crazed baseball fans have said they would die for a championship. But are they willing to take that devotion to the grave? Major League Baseball and a company that makes funeral products will soon find out just how many fans want to be decked out for all eternity in tribute to their team. Starting [...]

Fired Fox announcer Steve Lyons got backing on two fronts Tuesday: He can keep his part-time broadcasting job with the Los Angeles Dodgers if he completes diversity training, and Lou Piniella came to his defense. Lyons was fired over the weekend for making a racially insensitive comment while on the air with Piniella during the [...]

The Los Angeles Dodgers’ season came to a most appropriate end — with two streaks. The first was a winning one that got them into the playoffs. The second was a losing one that knocked them out. And another year passes without success in the postseason. “I wasn’t ready to go home,” veteran second baseman [...]