Month: August 2019

2:02 PM ET With undisputed women’s middleweight world champion Claressa Shields back in training after a knee injury, her fight against Ivana Habazin for a vacant junior middleweight title has been rescheduled, Salita Promotions and Showtime announced on Tuesday. Shields, bidding for world title in a third weight division as she moves down to 154
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8:00 PM ET Junior welterweight world titlist Regis Prograis has pulled out of the World Boxing Super Series tournament final. Prograis and Lou DiBella, his promoter, also filed suit against tournament organizer Comosa AG, a Swiss company, in U.S. federal court for the district of New Jersey on Friday. They accused Comosa AG of refusing
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8:23 PM ET Associated Press JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Dustin Johnson has missed nine birdie chances from 10 feet or closer at Liberty National, which ordinarily might annoy him. He’s hitting it so well that he still leads The Northern Trust Open. Johnson birdied three of his last six holes Friday, finishing with an approach
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7:32 PM ET JERSEY CITY, N.J. — Rory McIlroy had a two-stroke penalty rescinded at the Northern Trust on Friday after PGA Tour rules officials conferred with the United States Golf Association and determined there was no intent by the player to improve his lie in a bunker. McIlroy went to remove what he thought
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7:07 PM ET Aspen Ladd will need to do some work before fighting at bantamweight in her next bout. The California State Athletic Commission has suspended Ladd’s license to compete at bantamweight, pending documentation from physicians, CSAC executive officer Andy Foster confirmed Friday with ESPN. Ladd looked ill weighing in the day before UFC Sacramento
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7:41 PM ET Associated Press BROOKLYN, Mich. — Brad Keselowski will be joined by family and friends during the NASCAR Cup race Sunday at Michigan International Speedway. And for the first time, Keselowski hopes to be able to celebrate a victory with them at the track about 70 miles away from his hometown in suburban
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6:19 PM ET Associated Press TORONTO — Serena Williams advanced to the Rogers Cup semifinals Friday night, beating soon-to-be-top-ranked Naomi Osaka of Japan 6-3, 6-4 at breezy York University. Playing her first event since losing the Wimbledon final, Williams faced Osaka for the first time since losing to her last year in the U.S. Open
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6:27 PM ET Associated Press MONTREAL — Top-seeded Rafael Nadal rallied to reach the Rogers Cup semifinals Friday night, beating No. 7 Fabio Fognini of Italy 2-6, 6-1, 6-2. The winner last year in Toronto for his fourth title in the event, Nadal won his 380th ATP Masters 1000 match, a day after breaking a
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5:17 PM ET TUSCALOOSA, Ala. — Alabama coach Nick Saban would like to see schools from Power 5 conferences play at least 10 games a year against Power 5 foes and/or Notre Dame in the regular season, and he said his program is working to make that happen on future schedules. “I’ve always said, ‘Let’s
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