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Sports in Los Angeles

Dodger Stadium (in Chavez Ravine) is the home of the Los Angeles Dodgers. The Freeway Series is the Major League Baseball (MLB) interleague rivalry played between the Los Angeles Dodgers and the Los Angeles Angels.
The Crypto.com Arena in Downtown Los Angeles hosts the Los Angeles Lakers, Los Angeles Kings, and Los Angeles Sparks. The arena also formerly hosted the Los Angeles Clippers until 2024.
Billie Jean King in 1978. With 39 Grand Slam titles to her name, including a record 20 titles at Wimbledon, Billie Jean King is one of the greatest tennis players of all time

The Greater Los Angeles area is home to many professional and collegiate sports teams and has hosted many national and international sporting events. The metropolitan area has twelve major league professional teams: the Los Angeles Dodgers, the Los Angeles Lakers, the Los Angeles Rams, the Los Angeles Angels, the Los Angeles Chargers, the Los Angeles Clippers, Los Angeles FC, the LA Galaxy, the Los Angeles Kings, the Anaheim Ducks, the Los Angeles Sparks, and Angel City FC of the National Women's Soccer League. The Los Angeles metropolitan area is home to nine universities whose teams compete in various NCAA Division I level sports, most notably the UCLA Bruins and USC Trojans. Between them, these Los Angeles area sports teams have won a combined 105 championship titles. Los Angeles area colleges have produced upwards of 200 national championship teams.[1][2]

Los Angeles is home to a variety of sporting venues including the two National Historic Landmarks, the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum and the Rose Bowl, the multi-purpose arenas, Crypto.com Arena and Intuit Dome, and the roof-covered SoFi Stadium. Los Angeles hosted the 1932 and 1984 Summer Olympics. In 2028, the city will host the Olympics for a third time. Los Angeles also hosted games of the 1994 FIFA World Cup including the final match,[3] and is scheduled to host matches during the 2026 FIFA World Cup. Los Angeles recently hosted both the MLB All-Star Game and the MLS All-Star Game in 2021 and 2022 respectively.[4] Los Angeles also hosted the College Football Playoff National Championship in 2023 and Super Bowl LVI in 2022, the eighth such event in Los Angeles. The United States Golf Association brought the U.S. Open back to Los Angeles in 2023, with the Los Angeles Country Club as host.[5] The geography and weather of Los Angeles also make Los Angeles a hub for surfing and beach volleyball. When the Rams won Super Bowl LVI, the city of Los Angeles became the second city in the 21st century (the first was Boston) to have at least one championship in the four major pro sports and the second to ever have championships in four major professional leagues within a ten-year span, accomplishing this feat in a span of seven years, and eight months (from the Kings' championship win on June 13, 2014, to the Rams' Championship win on February 13, 2022).[6]

  1. ^ "USC's National Championships". usctrojans.com. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  2. ^ "119 NCAA Championships". uclabruins.com. Retrieved August 12, 2022.
  3. ^ FIFA.com. "1994 FIFA World Cup USA ™ – Matches". FIFA.com. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
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  5. ^ "L.A. Country Club to host 2023 U.S. Open". Los Angeles Times. July 22, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2019.
  6. ^ Spector, Jesse. "City of Angels is City of Titles". Dead Spin.

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