John Newcombe

About 15 miles west from here, Tom Shaw is whipping the latest batch of college football standouts into shape as they prepare to enter the first phase of their NFL dream. Here at the Orange Tree Country Club in Dr. Phillips, 17-year-old Stephen Watson...

Debbie Tinkham was installed president of the La Cañada Flintridge Trails Council during the organization’s Oct. 2 meeting. Serving with her on the board are Darrell Tinkham, John Newcombe, Marietta Kruells, Cookie Kulper, Caroline Craven, Stephanie...

Trent Jackson only had enough time to answer his phone before his plane took off from Dallas on Thursday night. The coach and players from his boys' team, the Balboa Bay Volleyball Club 14 Hurley, couldn't talk. It was understandable, and they really...

FOUNTAIN VALLEY — As two high school freshmen, much may not be expected of Corona del Mar High's Henry Gordon and Newport Harbor's Reese Stalder in the boys' 18 doubles division of the 110th Annual Southern California Junior Sectional tennis...

Feel-good stories are hard to come by in this day of Twitter-obsessed egomaniacs. We’ve got a good one tonight though. The Tennis Channel is premiering a documentary called “Who's Next” featuring local rising tennis star. Stephen Watson....

REPORTING FROM MELBOURNE, AUSTRALIA - There wasn't much to choose between Roger Federer's elegant, airy tennis -- silently played with all the angles calculated and covered -- and Rafael Nadal's elemental tennis, the grunting, noisy, spinning, whooshing...