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Portland Timbers begin training in Los Angeles
The Timbers will open preseason play with a game against defending MLS Cup champions Los Angeles Feb. 7.

Second Los Angeles teacher accused of lewd acts
Another teacher has been arrested at Miramonte Elementary School in Los Angeles on allegations of lewd acts on young pupils, authorities said Friday.

Second teacher removed amid Los Angeles sex abuse probe
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - A second teacher has been removed from a Los Angeles-area elementary school where one instructor is accused of having taken bondage-style photos of students with cockroaches on their faces, school and police officials said on Friday. The second teacher was removed from the classroom on Thursday after school officials received "allegations of possible inappropriate ...

Parents rally outside L.A. school at center of child abuse cases
Parents and community leaders protested Monday outside a Los Angeles elementary school at the center of two child abuse cases and called for the teachers allegedly involved to be fired.

"Civic Center Slapper" strikes again in Los Angeles
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - An elusive assailant known as the "Civic Center Slapper" -- or possibly a copycat -- has struck again in Los Angeles, punching a federal prosecutor in the jaw, police said on Thursday. The bold attacker struck his latest victim as he walked near a federal courthouse in downtown Los Angeles on Friday evening, knocking his head into the side of the building, a police ...

Next at NBC Sports: The Olympics...And Baseball?
As the network looks to add content, NBC Sports chief Mark Lazarus calls baseball a premiere...

Egypt Football Riots a Reminder that Sport Isn't Life
Football isn't life. No sport is life. Nothing is life except, of course, life . 74 people are dead, and that number may very well go up sooner than later, after the post-match violence that occurred in a football stadium located in Port Said, Egypt.

From heaven to hell, Greek sport in freefall
ATHENS (Reuters) - Peeling paint flakes from Athens' Olympic park. Its entrances locked, this once sparkling edifice to sporting greatness lies rotting and largely unused -- maintenance costs too high for near-bankrupt Greece to operate. The rate of decay and dilapidation in just eight years provides a visual clue to the Greek scenario, one as effective as any economist's report or politician's ...

U.S. runners have tough road at Olympics
The 2012 Summer Olympic Games , officially known as the Games of the XXX Olympiad, are set to begin July 27 in London, England. The Games, which will run until Aug. 12, will be held in the United Kingdom's largest city for an unprecedented third time. Lon

Historic Venues of the 2012 Olympics
London has evolved from a rich, historic background, to a modern city. Likewise, the Olympics now combine both old and new sporting traditions. The London 2012 Olympics will make use of some of the city's oldest buildings and grounds as venues for international competition.