Month: April 2019

10:52 PM ET Associated Press NEW YORK — Big deals for Bryce Harper, Mike Trout and others that included large signing bonuses masked an otherwise flat market for the second straight offseason that caused Major League Baseball’s Opening Day payrolls to drop by $43 million for 2019. Payrolls, however, rose by $131 million when using
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10:49 PM ET Texas A&M coach Jimbo Fisher says he has no plans to leave the school following athletic director Scott Woodward’s departure last week to LSU. Fisher, who won one national championship and three ACC titles during his eight seasons at Florida State, signed a 10-year, $75 million contract with Texas A&M last offseason.
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9:26 PM ET Featherweight Ruben Villa, one of the top prospects in boxing, will face Luis Alberto Lopez on May 10 at Omega Products International in Corona, California, co-promoters Thompson Boxing and Banner Promotions announced on Tuesday. The fight will headline a tripleheader on “ShoBox: The New Generation” (Showtime, 10:30 p.m. ET/PT). Villa (15-0, 5
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7:36 PM ET Associated Press Captain Tiger Woods and part of his U.S. team can expect to be bleary-eyed at the Presidents Cup this year. Woods announced Tuesday that his Hero World Challenge will return to the Bahamas in December and end on Saturday (Dec. 7) instead of Sunday to give him and some of
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7:25 PM ET Junior welterweight contender Amir Imam has filed a lawsuit against promoter Don King and manager Roosevelt “Stacey” McKinley for breach of contract and for violations of the federal Muhammad Ali Reform Act. Imam, who filed the suit in the 11th Circuit Court for Broward County, Florida, on April 16, is seeking an
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7:13 PM ET Three current UFC fighters, including a former champion, plus a former fighter, were recently suspended by the United States Anti-Doping Agency for testing positive for the same banned substance. Former UFC women’s flyweight champion Nicco Montano, Sean O’Malley, Marvin Vettori and Augusto Mendes all failed random, out-of-competition drug tests for ostarine. After
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5:43 PM ET NEW YORK — The key government witness in the FBI’s college basketball corruption trial began his testimony Tuesday by turning the conversation to football, and discussing multiple payments he had made to players at major programs, including at least once at a coach’s direction. Former financial advisor Marty Blazer said that from
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