IRVINE, Calif. -- On the night before the Los Angeles Rams first public practice of training camp, coach Jeff Fisher warned his players to be prepared for a crazy welcome.The Rams still were impressed Saturday when thousands of screaming, chanting fans showed up to herald the start of a new era.I didnt know it was going to be like that, running back Todd Gurley said. It was pretty cool to have everybody come out.The Rams went through a long workout in front of fans who gathered hours early at UC Irvine and hung out until the late afternoon in the breezy Orange County heat.The school and the Rams counted 10,112 fans in attendance. They filled three large bleachers and a stretch of upscale tents surrounding the teams two practice fields, and others walked through a small fair behind the stands featuring food, games and merchandise in both the Rams current colors and the traditional LA blue and yellow-gold.Southern California has regained its appetite for the NFL after a 21-year absence, and the Rams fans showed up in force for the latest in a series of welcome-home moments culminating in the home opener at the Coliseum on Sept. 18.It was great, Fisher said. We gathered (the players) up right before we got started, just to calm them down. When the atmosphere is the way it was, and the environment and the fans and the support, theres a tendency to go a little bit quicker earlier than you should in practice. We wanted to make sure they got warmed up.While fans came from all over the Southland for the first of many open practices, Orange County has particularly deep ties to the Rams. The team moved from the Coliseum in 1980 to play its final 15 seasons at Angel Stadium in Anaheim, with Eric Dickerson setting the NFLs single-season rushing record there on Dec. 9, 1984.The Rams trained at UC Irvine for three of their final four seasons in Anaheim, including their final camp in 1994 before the move to St. Louis. They used the same fields and the same locker room as the current Rams, who will be on campus for five weeks while their permanent in-season training complex is completed in Thousand Oaks.Fisher was the Rams defensive coordinator in 1991 when they held camp in Irvine.Personally, Im excited to be back, Fisher said. Its 1991 since I was on this campus. Trees are much taller. Things look different, but its certainly great to be back.While they have thousands of fans who never left them, the Rams also have a novelty factor that has long since evaporated in St. Louis.Los Angeles fans havent been worn down by the Rams 11-year playoff drought and 12 consecutive non-winning seasons. They didnt see Marc Bulger, Sam Bradford, Nick Foles and all of the other quarterbacks who tried and failed to coax consistent success out of the club.But with No. 1 draft pick Jared Goff taking snaps under the California sun, the Rams looked and felt renewed.There were a lot of people out there, Goff said. The music was bumping, and people were excited. Were starting the real season now, so youve got to get the jitters out and get comfortable.Game notes Tre Mason was placed on the Did Not Report list, and Fisher revealed that the backup running back has refused to speak with him or the Rams during an offseason of legal troubles. Mason, who rushed for 207 yards last season, was arrested in Florida in March on suspicion of reckless driving, marijuana possession and other charges. I havent personally spoken with Tre since the season ended, Fisher said. I tried numerous times to reach him. Tre has made a decision not to communicate with us, not to talk. Not talking to his teammates. Right now were more concerned about Tre Masons well-being than we are his football career. ... S T.J. McDonald rejoined the Rams after missing much of their offseason workouts. The USC product was arrested in May in Woodland Hills on suspicion of driving under the influence of a substance other than alcohol. He didnt provide an update on his legal status, calling his incident an accident. ... Its something that Ive put behind me. Im definitely in a good place right now. ... Promising RT Rob Havenstein is on the physically unable to perform list with a foot injury. 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SEOUL, South Korea -- The South Korean womens professional basketball league has permanently banned a star American player who prosecutors say forged birth documents to qualify to play in the domestic competition.Womens Korean Basketball League will also permanently remove the career statistics of Chelsey Lee, who played a major role in helping KEB Hana Banks run to the playoffs in the 2015-16 season, league spokesman Kim Ilku said on Wednesday.The league also said it would annul the teams records for the season and scrap the rule allowing teams to sign extra foreign players if they have a Korean parent or grandparent.The Miami-born Lee won the leagues rookie of the year honor for 2015-16 after averaging 15.2 points and 10.4 rebounds for KEB Hana Bank, which entered the playoffs with the second-best regular-season record and lost to Woori Bank in three games in the best-of-five finals.Lee later signed with the Washington Mystics in the WNBA but was waived shortly later. She has not returned to South Korea.South Korean prosecutors said last month they concluded that Lee used fake documents to fraudulently claim a South Korean heritage before signing with KEB Hana Bank.dddddddddddd They said the man listed as Lees father doesnt exist and the daughter of a dead South Korean woman listed in the papers as Lees grandmother confirmed she didnt have other children.The league had originally planned to await a court ruling before determining the punishments for Lee and her former team. Kim said the leagues board members decided to proceed faster, because they were confident about the prosecutions investigation results.The Ministry of Justice asked prosecutors to investigate Lees documents after the Korean Olympic Committee in April pushed for Lees naturalization so she could represent South Korea in international events.WKBL teams can each have two foreign players who face limitations in playing minutes in each game. And previously, teams also were able to sign up to two extra foreign players if they had a parent or grandparent who was a South Korean national. ' ' '