The Mexico national team will be back in Southern California in June for its second group-stage game in Copa América. And there’s a chance some of the players coach Jaime Lozano used in Saturday’s 3-2 loss to Colombia will make that trip. That would have been a risky bet before Saturday. But Mexico’s not-ready-for-prime-time players,…

CNN interviewed Serena Williams when she was 9. Here’s what she said Already being called a sports prodigy, Serena Williams spoke to CNN about her tennis ambitions when she was just 9 years old. Here’s what she had to say about her goal to be #1.

The Chargers announced that they completed their first outside interview for their general manager job Thursday, meeting with Brandon Brown. For the last two seasons, Brown has served as assistant general manager of the New York Giants. He spent five years with Philadelphia before that, working in personnel and scouting. Brown, 35, whose time in…

Nick Saban, who is widely considered the greatest college football coach because of his run guiding storied programs against the fiercest possible competition, is retiring after a 17-year stint at Alabama in which he delivered six national championships, he announced Wednesday night. Saban called the university “a very special place” to him and his wife…

American tennis legend and ESPN commentator John McEnroe predicted Monday that Rafael Nadal could step away from the sport if another injury issue befalls him at the French Open in May.  McEnroe made his comments a day after Nadal withdrew from the Australian Open due to a small tear in a hip muscle.  “I think…

Comment on this storyComment Add to your saved stories Save Chelsea striker Sam Kerr ruptured her ACL and is expected to be sidelined “for an extended period,” the national team in her native Australia announced on social media Sunday. Kerr is the latest in a string of well-known women’s soccer players to have suffered an…