Coliseum

It was 1947, and it was not much more than 30 minutes after Notre Dame beat USC 38-7 in the Coliseum before a typical ND-USC crowd of 104,593. Notre Dame entered the game unbeaten and No. 1…

Los Angeles Times readers share their favorite Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum memories ahead of the 100th anniversary of the L.A.’s iconic stadium. After the Dodgers won the Series in 1959,…

(Photos by Associated Press; photo illustration by Tim Hubbard / Los Angeles Times) Oct. 1, 1935: Franklin D. Roosevelt speech. In President Roosevelt’s first visit to Los…

Rock concerts and auto races. Community festivals. Motocross championships that require an army of dump trucks hauling dirt. Every time something other than football or soccer comes to the…

Saturday, July 28, 1984, date of the opening ceremony of the Los Angeles Olympic Games, was a huge day in the history of sports. It transcended athletics.In the next day’s Los…

All hail the glorious Coliseum, all praise the centennial birthday of the Los Angeles landmark that has hosted a century’s worth of world-renowned athletes. Like, strippers in an…

Bombers droned across the night sky as soldiers scrambled onto the beachhead, taking cover behind huts and clusters of palm trees. The darkness soon erupted with machine-gun fire,…

Martin Truex Jr. needed a little more than two hours to weave through 371/2 miles of traffic Sunday. Along the way he endured tailgaters, slowed to avoid more than a dozen accidents and…

JENNA FRYER Associated Press LOS ANGELES — Martin Truex Jr. won NASCAR's return to the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum for its season-opening exhibition…

NASCAR is in the midst of its most serious transformation since its top drivers went from moonshiners racing from the law to athletes racing for prizes. Gone are the days when running bumper…