With the Los Angeles Dodgers’ season opener at home against the rival San Francisco Giants is officially one week, KHTS Sports is highlighting several rule changes that have been put in place for the shortened 2020 regular season. After weeks of negotiating between the Major League Baseball (MLB) front offices and the Major League Baseball Players Association (MLBPA), an agreement ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers announced an opportunity for fans to purchase a cardboard cutout of themselves to be displayed during Dodgers home games in the 2020 MLB season. With fans unable to attend MLB games in person in California for the foreseeable future, teams have been on the lookout for opportunities to liven up the atmosphere in the stadium for ...

The Los Angeles Dodgers will see the field this year as Major League Baseball (MLB) commissioner Rob Manfred announced a deal had been reached to move forward with the 2020 regular season. A handful of details accompanied the announcement, as teams and league officials hammer out the final details of the return to play. “Major League Baseball is thrilled to ...

CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) commissioner Rob Wigod spoke with KHTS Sports Director Wyatt Smith Monday morning to discuss a number of topics related to the ongoing impact of the coronavirus on high school sports. The message at the CIF-SS office is clear as officials there continue to prepare for all the potential scenarios for high school sports to return: “all ...

Graduating senior Cameron Lutges was named Saugus High School’s Male Athlete of the Year during the school’s virtual Centurion Academy Pupil Recognition (CAPR) Awards ceremony Tuesday night after swimming for the Centurion Swim & Dive program for four years despite being a double above-the-knee amputee. When the Centurion Swim & Dive men’s program’s coach Jim Klipfel first met Lutges during ...

Saugus grad Mariah Castillo was voted California’s top girls distance runner of the decade in a poll by MileSplit CA, a website covering high school track and field. The website conducted their poll tournament style, with 32 runners progressively matching up resumes over three weeks. Each athlete was required to have competed at California high schools sometime from 2010-2019. Castillo ...

The possibility of one final athletic contest for seniors over the summer was floated in a letter to principals and athletic directors of the CIF Southern Section (CIF-SS) from Commissioner of Athletics Rob Wigwood on Wednesday. With spring sports officially canceled, athletic programs in CIF-SS now move to the “Summertime Rules” bylaws. Under these bylaws, summer athletic programs fall under ...

While the coronavirus has put a halt to sports across the nation, the College of the Canyons football team is finding creative ways to stay connected, continue tradition and stay fit while California’s “Safer At Home” order remains in effect. Canyons Head Coach Ted Iacenda shared the challenge via Twitter, where he asked players to record and share a video ...

Golden Valley High School and our Santa Clarita Valley community are experiencing tremendous loss. Eric Harris, 10th grade Social Studies and History teacher and Grizzlies varsity football assistant coach, passed away due to a rare form of toxic shock syndrome that forced his organs to fail. He was 38 years old. Eric Harris, an All-City football player, graduated from Chatsworth ...

William S. Hart Union School District Superintendent Mike Kuhlman released a statement Thursday night outlining the measures the district would implement to combat the spread of coronavirus, including the suspension of all Foothill League sports through at least April 30. The announcement came in the wake of similar sports cancelations that impacted several Santa Clarita teams. Those earlier cancellations particularly ...